a republican congressman who owns a gun store. why does the house move against these regulations? that is a great question. i m a mother of four kids, and after we see mass shooting after mass shooting, when we see our kids being gunned down not just in their schools but in their neighborhoods, in cars, to think that we cannot act in this country to at a minimum take care of our children is really reprehensible. the gun industry is making millions off of these pistol braces. that might be one reason why you see such a lobbying effort by the nra to keep this in place. but really, to see that almost no republicans voted against this is still astounding to me, and they know it s wrong because i ll tell you they took the markup down in the wake of the nashville shooting, which resulted in 9-year-olds being killed by somebody with a pistol brace. so they know this is something that is killing our children,
please if you could answer the question i asked you at the beginning of the interview. isn t this blood on your hands? i m not the one that pulled the trigger and neither are the members of the national rifle association. i think buffalo is a great example where the alarms were going off in new york and all the officials did was hit the snooze button. he could have been processed through care and treatment action. he was a danger to himself or others. he already threatened mass shooting prior and nobody did anything. well, if he s a troubled young man if he s a troubled young man should he be able to go out and buy an ar-15 assault rifle or style assault rifle which is what happened in buffalo, which is what happened in uvalde? your group is holding its convention in houston where you are right now just a few days after the massacre in uvalde. we saw donald trump dancing on stage at the end of his remarks. he was not. i was there.
weapon legally. judge, thank you for being with us. for years your group has blocked new gun safety laws and pushed for the most relaxed rules on firearms. isn t some of this blood on the nra s hands? let me first say, jim, thanks for having me on the show. i don t believe the supposition of your question is accurate. i know while i m not a spokesperson for anybody, i followed the issue closely and the nra and other organizations, even myself as a state senator in kansas have worked to tighten the laws. i think it s important to understand no, no, no, sir i hope you understand i m going to have to cut you off when you start saying things that just aren t true. the nri has not worked to tighten rules. that s just not the case. the nra for years, for decades, has pushed for the most relaxed rules possible in this country and that s why we have mass shooting after mass shooting.
shootings. that sir, is not true. in 1966 the first known school shooting/modern day mass shooting took place in texas the at university of texas. that shooting that took place in the tower, so why do you suppose the government why the governor is continuing to use that talking point which is disproved by texas history? listen, this governor lives in some alternative world and that s the reality. the fact is we no longer use .22 rifles. you know, you don t need people are out there. they hunt with squirrel guns. that s not what we ear talking about. we ear talking about ar-15s. we re talking about highly militarized weaponry and we need to have a change there. how in the world are we going to let how can we live in a place where an 18-year-old can go boy thousands of rounds of ammunition, two ar-15s within two days and no one says anything n.2019 i filed a red flag bill that went nowhere because the republicans didn t even let it out of committee.
bulletproof doors and looking classroom doors. ultimately as we all know what stops armed bad guys is armed good guys. ted, that clearly did not happen in uvalde, and is that really how you want texans to live? is that how they want to live sending their kids to schools that look like prisons? we re also learning firsthand from the children who survived the slaughter of their friends, classmates and teachers, images that will be horrifically burned into their memories forever. whenever he started shooting, we hid behind my teacher s desk. the cop said help if you need help and then it got one of my persons in the class that helped. guy overheard and he came in and shot her and he said it s time to diet. i was hiding hard and i was telling my friend not to talk.