voices are extremely strong and articulate on this. you hear it from their hearts every time they talk. i just don t know how this couldn t move the meter. i don t understand where more isn t happening. i guess my question for the senator would be i mean, i think everybody agrees this is, a, a national trauma and everybody respects their rights to make their voices heard, but it really hasn t moved the meter in terms of assault weapons ban is not going to make it and magazine bans will not make it and background checks if it makes it will with lots of exemptions. it looks like i suppose begun trafficking will make it but that has been amended somewhat. how do you explain the diswhich is support for mere getting it past congress? i think having the parents of victims come to washington does matter. . mattered when they did the 9/11 health bill when the first
i wonder how you view the fact that colorado and also new york state sort of led in terms of the states in terms of passing those extended magazine bans? is what s happening in the states giving any sort of momentum to what s happens in the federal level. i think it does enhance the momentum, these kind of events which tragically and unfortunately have continued and probably will continue. and nobody wants them to continue, but they will add urgency, and the point about colorado, although we know very few of the details, but the 2500 people who have perished, who have been killed by gun violence since newtown, 2500 people, a lot of them were killed with stolen guns, illegally trafficked guns, straw purchased guns, guns that would have been stopped from purchases by background checks. these other measures can make a difference. so we should look for what is positive and important in the bill that will be presented with
marathon, not a sprint. and the assault weapons ban was always the most ambitious, the politically tough else of all these provisions. and i am going to be proud to be with dianne feinstein in supporting this measure when it s offered as an amendment and i hope that it will pass. today the news out of colorado was so shocking in terms of the death of the corrections commissioner last night, shot on the doorstep of his home. that happening just hours before the colorado governor was due to sign three new pieces of gun reform legislation into law. obviously there s no reason for us to believe that the incidents are connected other than the fact that it was a gun murder. just a remarkable confluence of hid lines though. i wonder how you view the fact that colorado and also new york state sort of lid in terms of the states in terms of passing those extended magazine bans? is what s happening in the states giving any sort of
that colorado and also new york state sort of lid in terms of the states in terms of passing those extended magazine bans? is what s happening in the states giving any sort of momentum to what s happens in the federal level. i think it does enhance the momentum, these kind of events which tragically and unfortunately have continued and probably will continue. and nobody wants them to continue, but they will add urgency, and the point about colorado, although we know very few of the details, but the 2500 people who have perished, who have been killed by gun vie rens since newtown, 2500 people, a lot of them were killed with stolen guns, illegally trafficked guns, straw purchased guns. guns that would have been stopped from purchases by background checks. these other measures can make a difference. so we should look for what is positive and important in the bill that will be presented with
gun sales, more money back to the nra supporters in congress. let s get in you on this, michael. there are conservative groups backing this gun appreciation day. yeah. but for those who think it s just republicans or conservatives who are so-called gun rights advocates that s not the case. i want to play freshman senator highcamp. she was on abc s this week, their sunday morning program. i think you need to put everything on the table but what i hear from the washington post and white house, that s way in extreme of what i think is necessary or even should be talked about. and it s not going to pass. certain things are not going to pass and the things she was referring to listed as possible proposals from the president, assault weapons, magazine bans, background check on all guns and anti-gun trafficking statute to possible see. are those things extreme, mi