i have worked as a war corresponde correspondent. there s a lot of guns in philly. not a lot of guns in new york. there s lot of guns in philly. it s a hunting state with the fifth largest city in the country around the corner. i describe in the story a case where the guy got out and ran but he had a gun, .45 tucked with a handle visible and cops say did you take a picture. judges never believe that there s a gun like right there. there was just a level of hazard in there every day encounters that surprised me. so also in the new issue of time magazine, claire mccaskill says there s one another incident she ll shotgun a beer. if hillary clinton is elected in 2016, i hope you take that page of the magazine out and bring it to claire mccaskill. in my aol talk with her yesterday, she actually showed me how. first of all, everyone on the
terrible day for the senate. and for the country. because across our state of pennsylvania, you know pennsylvania well, we ve got the second highest number of nra members, we ve got over a million hunders. despite those numbers, we have people who hunt and don t hunt who believe we can have some commonsense measures in place, all of which were not passed today. i should say none of which were passed yesterday. we have to keep going because i believe the country is moving in the direction of making sure we have these measures in place. unfortunately yesterday s vote didn t go in the direction i wanted it to. your republican senator from pennsylvania of course, pat toomey was the co-author with joe manchin of that compromise. and he also, from an nra gun-owning, hunting state, west virginia. what is the effect on pat toomey? and will you help him politically, if he is punished for his role in this?
can they say that? governor, the gun legislation you signed this week in colorado, a hunting state, has been described as one of the toughest gun laws in the country and yet you didn t include semi-assault weapons ban at all. are the politics just against it? or do you think it wouldn t do any good? i think we ve focused you know, after the shootings last summer and the movie theater, we really focused on mental health first and then universal background checks. colorado is a state where we have some of the best elk hunting, deer hunting, i mean, it s a state where we have a long tradition of a relationship with guns and hunting and that traditional approach from father to child. so we tried to look at if we wanted to tighten up a little bit things like universal background checks which clearly
we don t know where the guns came from but it doesn t matter where the assault rifle came from. citizens shouldn t have assault rifles. to your point, the assault weapons ban of course expired in 2004, was not renewed an act of cowardice by the congress. in 2005, the protection of lawful commerce and arms act gave the gun industry immunity from most tort liability and in 2009, the supreme court affirmed the rights to carry guns for self-defense, striking down washington, d.c. s ban on hand guns. margaret carlson has a question for you. so as a very successful politician from a hunting state, how did you manage to neutralize the nra and get elected so many times and get re-elected as governor? because people assume that every nra member believes in everything that the nra stands for. they don t. they don t. a lot of people do it because they want the magazine. they want the magazine.
conclusion. pennsylvania most of the people who own guns own they will to hunt. we re a huge hunting state. on the monday after thanksgiving schools are closed in most school districts in pennsylvania. why? first day of deer hunting season. first day of deer hunting season. that s why most pennsylvanians have guns. but 47% of the country is not hunting. i just think that that s 1 in every 2 americans basically. a lot more than you think, number one. and number two, yeah, people have a gun because they want to protect themselves, but that surely doesn t mean that they want guns in the hands of criminals and drug dealers. but to your sorry. i was going to say it sounds like to governor rendell s point this is an issue of communication and communication to voters and to gun owners that hunt all you want, you know, keep your rifles, keep your guns that you use for sport, we re not coming after them. as you ve stated, there is now this right to an individual ownership of guns. if