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president obama praised the efforts of your city. how did you do it? how were you able to impact the youth violence in minneapolis? the minneapolis model for reducing gun violence was really especially about young people. we focused on at the whole community together, 32-point plan that was really tied to surrounding young people with trusted adults and intervening at the first sign of at-risk behavior. and we worked the plan and worked the plan and worked the plan. 40% decrease in juvenile crime is a huge impact. but one of the reasons the president was here was to say that was good work. but one of the reasons we wanted him here was to say it s not enough. we need common sense laws. because i ve been at too many homicides with a mom and a kid who is dead and trying to explain where did that gun come from. and there are laws that the police and the federal officials can t share information there are laws that say mental health records can t be computer sized. change those laws. fix
press is. there has to be a sense of an accountability media. and i think too often, and it comes from the top too when we face corporations where the news enterprise is a small cog in the system, that you re witnessing sometimes the obliteration of the line between news and entertainment. that s why there was more attention to beyonce was she lip-synching or not than to perhaps some of the issues and policies in the president s inaugural address or kim kardashian s baby bump. those kinds of issues take too much of our time when we should be talking about the crises facing our country. and too often the beltway media follows power, doesn t raise the tough questions that people in a democracy deserve to hear. we need to learn more about what is going on with the gun debate. and, by the way, the president going to minneapolis i think is very important because he needs to get outside of d.c. and press his message, as he did in las vegas with immigration, as he did today in minneapolis.
that s up to 76 percent below online providers and only at officemax stores! welcome back to the ed show. today president obama pushed for solutions to gun violence by taking his ideas for common sense measures to minneapolis, which has had huge success on the issue. this city came together. you launched a series of youth initiatives that have reduced the number of young people injured by guns by 40%. this week, then, we learned of another high profile senseless killing.
universal. it s never going to be universal. the criminals aren t going to comply with it. they could care less. you re not going to computerize you ve seen you re got stopgap to computerize the mental health records. so we re is what is going to happen. we ought to quit calling it right now universal check. the real title ought to be the check on law-abiding people all over this country. al know lapierre fully supported background checks in 1999. let s talk what is reasonable and what is not. we think it s reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. no loopholes anywhere for anyone. the solutions for these tragedies aren t always simple, but it doesn t mean we should be giving up. joining me now is r.t. rybak, mayor of minneapolis. great to have you with us tonight, r.t. i appreciate you coming in on this subject. it s so vitally important. i m thrilled you re covering it, ed. you bet.