joe can talk about this too because post-newtown joe manchin and it s interesting he won in west virginia, has fought hard for gun safety laws. we ll go live to the scene. morning joe is coming right back.
anywhere. right. he has an opportunity to do a grand bargain on gun control that maybe only he could do, or at least make that argument. if you re john kelly and you should be making that argument, but i don t have any confidence that he is because i think kelly is politically out of his step. i want to add steve schmidt into the conversation. steve, i want you to speak to i watch these students all day long and this doesn t look like the gun debate in america. this doesn t look like post-columbine. this tragically doesn t look like post-newtown. this looks like the me too movement. this looks like the women s march. this looks like something bigger, and these activists, these are television and twitter savvy warriors, these student activists fighting for common sense gun reforms. i think donald trump and the nra have met their match. am i watching too much tv? no, i think it s a significant movement, nicolle. i think so for this reason.
that stronghold. democrats can t do that. do you buy that, melissa, progressive activists care about the gun issue? do they care enough that it becomes they force democrats to own it even more? part of the problem is, what is the gun issue? this goes back to steve s point, post-newtown, we think, this is the moment when it will all that s the uncommon version of gun violence, right? gun violence is actually quite different than that. the majority of gunshot wound deaths self inflicted, suicides. right? then next you have the ordinary violence we think of as occurring in communities that are racked with it. and none of what we talk about when we talk about mental health tends to get to that. i will pause it there. that s all we have for today. lots of stuff in this show, that s for sure. we ll be back next week because if it s sunday it s meet the press.
done, a conservative to break that stronghold. democrats can t do that. do you buy that, melissa, progressive activists care about the gun issue? do they care enough that it becomes they force democrats to own it even more? part of the problem is, what is the gun issue? this goes back to steve s point, post-newtown, we think, this is the moment when it will all happen. n newtown and even this horrible tragedy in virginia, gun violence is quite different than that. the majority of gunshot wound deaths, self-inflicted, suicides. then the next you have the kind of ordinary violence we think of as occurring in communities that are racked with it. none of what we talk about, when we talk about mental health, tends to get to that. i will pause it there. that s all the we have for today. lots of stuff in this show, that s for sure. we ll be back next week because if it s sunday, it s meet the press.
democrats can t do that. do you buy that, melissa, progressive activists care about the gun issue? do they care enough that it becomes they force democrats to own it even more? part of the problem is, what is the gun issue? this goes back to steve s point, post-newtown, we think, this is the moment when it will all happen. newtown and even this horrible tragedy in virginia, gun violence is quite different than that. this is the uncommon version. the majority of gunshot wound deaths, self-inflicted, suicides. then the next you have the kind of ordinary violence we think of as occurring in communities that are racked with it. none of what we talk about, when we talk about mental health, tends to get to that. i will pause it there. that s all the we have for today. lots of stuff in this show, that s for sure. we ll be back next week because if it s sunday, it s meet the press.