sentences that stiff, the previous stiffest sentence was five years, and they re asking for 15 years, and we can see how that15 operates strategically, terms of the justice department trying to get people to plead guilty and cooperate with them in their own ongoing investigation, of the people who physically attacked the capitol. this is also just a good reminder about how much leeway prosecutors have, how much of their own discretion the justice department and prosecutors can bring to bear in pursuing and punishing crimes like this through the courts. right? this is not, this is not just math. it s not just an automatic process. it is like x crime happens, thai produces y prosecution, and that produces z sentence. these are human processes. these are humans making strategic decisions for good and for m bad. and sometimes you know, they ll get it rirkts sometimes they won t. but right now we re at an inflection point, a crucial moment in americanbu history,
they know. if you know you can be facing sentences, that stuff, again, the previous s toughest sentence was five years. they re asking for 15. and we can see how that operates strategically in terms of the justice department, trying to get people to plead guilty and cooperate with them in their own ongoing investigation of the people who physically attacked the capitol. this is also just a quick reminder about how much leeway prosecutors have, how much of their own discretion, the justice department and prosecutors, can bring to bear in pursuing and punishing crimes like this through the courts, right? this is not just math. it s not just an automatic process. it s not like, you know, ex crime happens, that produces why prosecution, and that produces the sentence. these are human processes. these are humans making strategic decisions for good and for bad. and sometimes, you know, they ll get it right, sometimes they won t. but right now, we are in an inflection point, we are in this cr
0 , so his son was 18, his daughter is 16. and on christmas eve, 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the like a month and a haf after th christmas eve 2020, his 18-year-old son went online to the fbi website to tips.fbi.gov and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do some things violent, that his dad was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials, the son told the fbi when he submitted that online tip that he believed his plan, his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself he told the fbi his father was planning to quot that was christmas eve 2020. when that young man submitted that tip to0. the fbi. i didn t hear back initially. it took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building, then the fbi decided.s that maybe that tip deserved some follow-up. by the time the fbi got in touch with the son, the son s father had not only trav
supporters but we understand the second amendment was written in 1791 and here we are in 2018 and weave to adapt and a adjust. and this you agree with, scott. you re a gun owner and i would imagine you agree with everything he just said? yes, there are a number of things that can be done that don t trample on people s rights and property. fixing the background check system would have probably prevented this guy from buying a weapon in florida. i think there are also human processes we have to look at here. the fbi failed, the sheriff s department failed, i go back to the shooting at texas at the church. that guy had been discharged from the air force and should have been on the no buy registry. they forgot. that was a human failure. all these things can be fixed and dealt with and not one of them would trample on anyone s gun rights at all. and yet it doesn t happen. it doesn t happen. i think people have points to make about the gun lobby or the influence they have over
you re going to end up with a political fight that s going to motivate the second amendment folks very strongly. they re organized, they re voting, and they re of age to vote for the most part. so there s a sort of political calculus you ll see play out beyond just the financial questions of the nra. scott, we talked about republican problems in the suburbs. a lack of action on the part of republicans, do you think that could make things even worse? well, i do think that republicans could do things that rick said to clean this issue up that would have no impact whatsoever on people that believe strongly in the second amendment. he listed some of the things that could be done from a policy nature. there are other issues that deal with human processes that have failed here that have caused some of these mass shootings to occur in schools and other places that could be dealt with as well. i was looking at some polling recently from quinnipiac, i think, and the least likely age cohort