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mmunity change action, fellow at the roovelt institute. and also with me, rachel bedard. let me start with you, rachel, and ask you what we saw over the course of the week. the president said he was going to have a listening session at the white house, hear everybody out and make some decisions. lo and behold it didn t take him long to do that. what did we see over the course of the week when it comes to how president trump s gun policy has coales coalesced? he is responding to what a lot of members in washington feel, the need to do something. when a tragedy like this happens we want to talk about how to prevent it. that s natural. however, raising the age on gun purchases, rifle purchases isn t really going to solve the problem when the problem is the fact that we had a tremendous amount of law enforcement interest in this case before it happened and they didn t do anything. raising the age is not only probably not constitutional but it also isn t going to prevent