In today s letters, writers endorse Republican Matt Mowers and Democrat Chris Papps in the NH-CD1 race, continue debate over failure to cap insulin costs, endorse Michele Meyer for Maine State Rep and complain that former president Trump is being judged without the benefit of due process.
close the loopholes but do each one one at a time and get everybody on the record. if you do it as major reform, it will get derailed. dana: matt, last word to you. the issue is sometimes it s about the terminology that is used, like assault weapon or assault rifle. that s where things usually end up getting bogged down. right. when you talk about expanded background checks, what does that mean? are you talking about private sales? loans between family members? does that apply to gun shows, which are often secondary sellers? i think when you really start breaking down the issue, that 90% that mary anne cited really starts splintering, depending on the specific issue. dana: it s a fascinating issue and one that s going to get a lot more attention. as reports show, the president is allowing people in his administration to talk about this with members of congress and when they get back from recess, we ll hear more. thanks for being here.
have, both in the form of executive action and also form of legislation, one of them is to put more resources into the atf to take the licenses of gun dealers who violate the law. dana: mary anne, if the president puts his shoulder behind some sort of legislation that would maybe not get all the way to where democrats want to go on gun control, but he does something, is the democratic party in the mood to help meet him there and get those things done, even if it isn t everything they want? i think the best way to tackle this is to do everything individually, have a yes and no, up and down vote. do universal background checks. who in america agrees on 90% of anything? but they do on this. same with assault weapons. matt talked about being in new sham shaoeur and hunters. a hunter doesn t need an assault weapon to kill anybody. that s what the mayor of philadelphia is talking about. their police officers are being outgunned. so they want something done. do the red flag law i don t
neighborhoods, our work places, everywhere. this has to stop. now i m quite proud to introduce our united states senator, bob casey. bob. [ applause ] dana: you ve been watching the press conference in philadelphia with the mayor, the police chief and the governor, all talking about what happened overnight starting yesterday afternoon through the evening and finally ending in the suspect s surrender today. let s bring in mary anne marsh, and matt mower, former battleground states director for the trump/pence campaign. i thought those public servants were being just as genuine and as responsible and impressive as they could be, especially the police chief, i would just point to him and his leadership. matt, let s get a sense from you about whether you think it is possible that, as tom wolf was saying, he wants to go back to harrisburg. he wants legislation to get