agassault weapons. guns a topic today. also, not lost on democratic candidates. i think we ve got a lot of work to do right now on the bakes, universal background checks, red flag laws, a ban on new sales of assault weapons and high capacity magazines, things that the majority in many cases the vast majority of americans support that still haven t gotten done. i don t think we should be living in a world where a family can t go to walmart to do their back to school shopping. i don t think we want to live in a world where young children are learning shelter in place drills opposed to math drills. that s the truth of where we are. also strong views on the president s role in the wake of shootings in el paso and dayton. 52% of americans disapprove of his handling of the mass shootings. 54% think the president s language has either a great deal or good amount of responsibility for those attacks. let s go to chris pallone, the gun control rally in new york