we could laugh more at their ignorance but here s the problem laura. their ignorance causes them to write bills that will cover law abiden citizens. they wrote a bill a couple weeks ago and pass it to cover gun traffickers but i pointed out to them it would cover victims of domestic violence if they merely borrowed a gun from their neighbor. in the same bill that they passed last week that cicilline was talking about, they re trying to ban bump stocks but it will cover a mechanism that lightens the trigger pull, makes your gun easier to fire. time and time again they re over legislating i would say because of their ignorance. so i m torn. do you educate them or let them flop around. the problem is when they flop around they ban everything. laura: tonight on nbc, merrick garland the attorney general, congressman issued a warning. watch this. these very cheap devices that can be made at home, that can
you know, when it comes to violent crime, listen i was at uvalde last week the day after the shooting. i was there with the local officials and with law enforcement and with family members. what happened in texas is horrific. and anyone with any heartbeat is horrified that 19 little boys and girls were murdered, that two teachers were murdered. and what does joe biden and the democrats do? they don t come back and say let s unite behind law enforcement to stop criminals, to keep our kids safe. nope. they immediately denigog and say the solution is to take away your medicine and disarm law abiden citizens and you played a portion of joe biden s speech where he said it is unconscionable that republicans won t allow debate. in 2019 he was president of the senate vice-president of the united states when the democrats filibustered my legislation that would have directed the department of justice to from
violent criminals who tried illegally by guns, that would have directed the department of justice to audit federal convictions to make sure in the background check system, that could have stopped the horrific shooting in sutherland springs texas. the church shooting because the obama air force never reported that shooters conviction to the database but also part of the legislation, the grassley cruz legislation was $300,000 for school safety which could have prevented this crime in uvalde and joe biden and the democrats filibustered that legislation, 52 senators voted for it, nine democrats voted for it, we had beep agreement and the democrats sinically said, if we can t disarm law abiden citizens, we, the democrats, are not willing to do anything to secure schools just this week joe biden says he doesn t believe in hardening schools and making them safer. well, that is cynical and it s
office i think mental illness is one we could, most of these people are mentally ill. but we have to make sures the records are turned over. we have hipaa rules, a lot of things stand in our way we have to get past these barriers for the sake of this society. what s the main art from the other side for example, the nra supporters who didn t like what you were trying to do? i went all over the state of west virginia. i talked to my friends and they said this is a good by joe. i said i know it is. why wouldn t you support it? they just don t trust government. they don t think they would stop they they would take more of their rights and liberties. this treated a law-abiding gun owner with the respect they should be treated. we ve got a lot of rules overturned but on the other hand we had to be responsible. all the law-abiden gun owners i know are response but they don t trust government. will you make another push?
bush administration has done. that has been a criticism. a lot of these original round of concerns were addressed in the patriot act. this is deeply complex. privacy concerns are one of the real urgent issues of our time, as is cyber security and the reality that we can t wait for a digital pearl harbor to take these seriously. it s the right of law abiden citizens to protect privacy. i think that it does make sense to keep the role of government up to the pace of change, but we need to be vigilant that whenever government asks for more power. is the government up to the pace of this? i was on the train several months back, i read that george tenet is doing a ton of work in this field now, advising corporations on cyber security and his take was that the government was asleep at the switch. i talked to a democrat who was plugged into this debate on