they re looking for somebody with a gun. how do you, in moments of chaos like that, decipher who is supposed to have a gun and who is not? so that s interesting. to jeremy s point, kate, very quickly, with the president talking this week about banning bump stocks and curbing young people s access to guns, it drew condemnation from some gun groups who have supported him in the past. what do you think from a political perfespective this is going to have on trump s capital? this is an interesting debate to watch especially after having watched the national rifle association and other gun lobbying groups after the newtown massacre. this is a different debate, you re seeing activism out there and using social media, really taking on the nra and trying to urge boycotts of companies that are doing business with the nra and offer deals to nra members. this is really unique. this is showing that this situation is certainly rising to the forefront of voters and activists attention. and so, yo
school administrator will tell me if he thinks the president s idea will work. right now, congress is getting ready to return to d.c. after its week-long recess where pressure to pass legislation on guns is being bolstered by students who survived last week s massacre. they are now weighing in on the president s proposal to arm some teachers. here is what a student at stoneman douglas high school told me earlier. i don t think president trump has actually spoken to a teacher about this. because every teacher i ve spoken to thinks it s just a horrible idea. so many things can go wrong. first off, my mom is a teacher at the middle school next to us, and all teachers are humans and have their bad days and i know for a fact that my mom doesn t want a gun lying around with her. when the s.w.a.t. team comes into the school, who are they looking for? they re looking for someone with a gun. democratic congresswoman debbie dingel dealt with the trauma of young violence at a young age. i
masks to 21? it s far clear that the steven mixon would have stopped this. this person at age 18 or 19 can buy assault rifles and take it to a school and shoot. the age change might help you think? possibly. in 2013, there was an attempt after the newtown massacre to pass background checks and it failed. not anyone lost the re-election in 2013. this is why lawmakers are afraid of the pro-gun side. on election day it imposed punishment. you also heard the president,
i ve already, i think, called out on congress and told them this is their job, is to work for the people and they re not working for the people. the country wants gun reform and they refuse to talk about it! now is the time we would say that is not enough. we do the same thing again and again and the same thing continues to happen. we say stop it today. joining me right now, nicole honkley. her six-year-old son dillon was killed in the sandy hook shooting five years ago. good to see you again, but unfortunately, under such tragic circumstances. it seems certain that change would happen after what happened in newtown, connecticut. 26 lives lost, including 20 children, your son included between the ages of six and seven. now 17 killed in florida. is the momentum for change different right now? the momentum has been growing
should not have them. but the bottom line is we have 30 million excuse me 30,000 gun deaths in the united states because we have so many guns. you know, there s only so many ways to solve this problem. it s not like it needs a lot of study or investigation. we know how to do it, we know it has worked in the states, for instance, in connecticut after the newtown massacre there. they restricted guns quite severely, or at least for an american state they did, and gun deaths have gone down significantly in connecticut. we know it has worked in other countries. so and look, bernie sanders is a democrat who used to be pretty not very high on gun control and he has changed in the last few years, as most other democrats have. a lot of democrats used to be scared to talk about gun control. the democratic party really has changed on that. the republican party hasn t.