capacity ammunition magazines and give up some of the military-style weapons then you ve got trade-offs you can make. put everything on the table. i think biden vice president biden needs to do that. the president needs to do the same thing. the nra and their folks will fight everything tooth-and-nail so let s put the whole program out there, if we can. do you think we can get something more liberal out of a judiciary committee. i don t know which republican-dominated committee in the house is going to do this. let me go to gene robinson. i m not sure which committee is going to pass this out of the house either. that s a problem. you know, you can look at it from the start. i understand the point about a comprehensive bill, but you might actually be able to get bills with this piece or that piece out of committee, and maybe that would be easier than who is going to ramrod it for you, paul in the pro gun safety or gun control people, who is going to ramrod it in the house? yo
congress to block any federal ban on assault weapons in the coming year? i do not think that there s going to be a ban on so-called assault weapons passed by the congress. gee, can we go that far? did it back in the 509s? that s obviously the highest hurdle. that s the toughest thing to get through, and i my concern from the point of view of someone who would like to see legislation passed is that if that is the center piece of a big piece of legislation it begins easier to kill basically. yeah. and if perhaps if you ve got background checks and big magazines which, you know, is a red flag for some people but not for perhaps not for everybody, and also you could vote on the assault weapons ban. that goes down, maybe some of the other stuff how do you do this, paul? you seem to know how to do this. tactically, people who want to see gun control safety, the
how can he honestly believe that a president can issue an executive order confiscating guns? to be extreme in reaction to this extremism, i can hear less smart people i can imagine them listening to this and thinking there is only one way to stop this guy. david corn, joy reid, thanks for joining us. have a nice week. coming up, reality check. gun control advocates say this is the moment to pass new legislation and the gun control crowd says there s no way they will accept an assault weapons ban and president obama made it clear today the united states is accelerating its withdrawal from afghanistan and plans to leave very few troops there after next year this. much is clear. gone is the goal of nation-building and u.s. congressman phil gingrey felt two so-called rape candidates in the republican party wasn t enough. he s just come out defending aiken s legitimate rape comments and once again republicans keep it up and the story that s the
assault weapons ban? joining me is paul hemky former president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and eugene robinson. how far do you see how far vice president task force will go and how far the president will go? i doubt they will go as far as i would like. i think they should deal with a comprehensive plan, deal with background checks and deal with military-style weapons and deal with trafficking and deal with special protections the gun industry gets now and put all those trigger locks and all those things in a comprehensive bill. tough to get through. the problem with doing a single bill by single bill, everyone says that wouldn t stop that shooting or stop this shooting. if you ve got a comprehensive bill, and then you ve got to negotiate to keep the high
yesterday rubbing limbaugh said the president cannot be stopped to getting what he wants. you don t think this is going to the mainstream of the right. here s rush. let s listen. you know, obama will try anything and has, and nobody stops him, by the way. he has trumped the constitution s first amendment and religious liberty. he has trumped the constitution on immigration. he essentially granted amnesty to a million kids without benefit of legislation. he ll do anything that nobody tries to stop him from doing. of course an executive legally doesn t trump the constitution, but if he issues an executive order to try to confiscate guns or something along those lines and nobody stops him, does he not get away with it? here s the point. rush has a brain. he s a smart guy. he s a marketer and knows what he s doing. in many ways he s a showman, but