very powerful political force. when they say that they re going to score a member of congress, that is rate him according to his votes, the most ridiculous pieces of legislation pass automatically. there was an amendment passed in the house with over 300 votes that is in the case of bankruptcy, individuals may keep $3,000 worth of guns protected from any creditor. really, guns become the priority of the national rifle association. and they scare the bejesus out of members of congress and threaten them with primary elections and with defeating them with ads, they have spent over $7 million on elections in the last cycle. and they re prepared to do it again. i think most americans, if you ask the question, aren t there some reasonable gun safety legislation that you would support? i think they would say yes. right. well, the accuracy of your account there is more chilling
why is it even in your own party, however, your pleas for some kind of rational process here falls on deaf ears, even on those in your own party? it s very clear that the national rifle association is a very powerful political force. when they say that they re going to score a member of congress, that is rate him according to his votes, the most ridiculous pieces of legislation pass automatically. there was an amendment passed in the house with over 300 votes that said in the case of bankruptcy, individuals may keep $3,000 worth of guns protected from any creditor. i mean, really, guns become the priority of the national rifle association and they scare the bejesus out of members of congress and threaten them with primary elections and with defeating them with ads.
goes to political activity and pushing out the vote and those sorts of things. the calculations that we have done has showed that the national education association is which is the larmtest teacher s union. save or create $100 million in dues, and the aft. the american federation of teachers is about $35 million. so clearly there is a huge incentive for the unions to see this type of legislation pass. kyle olson, founder of eagle news.com. thank you very much for joining us. very quickly, you are now joining in the wounded warriors fund? that s right. to get me to do it for $2,000, we re up to $400. and kyle, you have something you want to say? sure, i had a couple friends do the tough mudder in vermont a couple weeks ago. and i saw doocy do it yesterday. so i want to give $500 if clayton will do that this morning. thank you very much, kyle. $900 now. see if the rest of our guests will be so generous.
house tea party people who said it resonates in primaries. we don t know if it s going to resonate in a presidential year. but they won 40 seats in the house. in a med term election. but there is an angry electorate. that brings me to wisconsin. we always think we live in the most historic time at any point in time. i remember the atmosphere during the impeeachment. it was toxic. i think there s been such a shift in how people are viewing washington that they want cowboys to go into washington to take washington back. there is a zero sum game. i feel like i see it now. but they re psychotic on it in a way because they want cowboys to come in but they also want stuff to get done. so congress approval rating is in the single digits. all these people are obstructions that are there and won t let any legislation pass. but there s a real message
but ali, listen, there are studies and you re right it s not science like breast cancer, that s a good argument. but i m sorry i m going to have to agree with our other guest rachel sklar. i think studies are important and, yeah, we have studies to show how dangerous having, say, a pool in your backyard is. there are things that we can do, like put gun locks and lock away guns. there s a lot of things that we can learn. but this country, we are so obsessed with our guns and so afraid that somebody is going to take them away, ali velshi, i know a guy who knows a guy who owns 150,000 bullets. that s right. i don t need them. i ve got these. but i do like the studies. i think they matter. and the gun lobby and the nra, they re in the top ten of interest groups in terms of lobbying congress. you can t get any legislation pass. rachel, that takes us to the larger issue, which is this is aat that pooh subject to alo