there has been some movement. the major chiefs association. there s a bill now before congress, a concealed carry bill. a reciprocity act. if you have a permit in one state, you have to only had it in all other states. and we know about the varance in gun laws. the problem is it just falls on deaf ears. all of society needs to be able to get engaged. i m not anti-gun but we have to stop this nonsense. this will continue. we have to put ourselves in a position where we re trying and right now we re not even trying. that s the shame. look at the trauma these kids are going through. when you interview the young person, you can hear it in their voice. how do you deal with that? and get beyond the excuse? think about the youngsters and the trauma they go through. if we don t care about ourselves as adults, at least care about
weapons continues to go up. americans support gun safety at higher numbers than ever before and so much of it came out of that, and yet, how does congress answer this just a week ago? well, a week ago the house of representatives in the united states congress passed a bill called a concealed to carry reciprocity act of 2017. that allows you if you have a conceal/carr conceal/carry permit, to bring your gun to that other state and walk down a main street in that other state with your concealed weapon. you know, all of us have lived a lifetime where certain event have occurred and we think, well, this is it. the assassinations of a president, of a civil rights leader, of senators, of mass shootings in las vegas and elsewhere. we think well, this is it.
is not the direction we want to head. doesn t make sense. republican members of the house, we are seeing mass shootings, and epidemic around the nation rather than trying to find ways off of the registries that allow people to not be able to purchase a gun and have mental health issues going in the direction of getting more people to carry more guns. the republican party has become the party of donald trump, roy moore and guns and that is not where this country is heading. rob: we are not talking serious weapons that have done a lot of damage in this country, the ak-47s but handguns. is this overblown? handguns is what we are talking about. the national reciprocity act, information spread by bloomberg funded action and every town, the fact of the matter it is
i only ask because i know you are, in fact, a fan of legislation, especially when it comes to guns. you were first elected to congress just two years ago and yet, you ve already co-sponsored at least four pieces of legislation on guns. number one, house bill 3814, which would prevent gun dealers from informing law enforcement about individuals making multiple gun purchases. number two, the national right to carry reciprocity act of 2011 which would make it possible for people to carry concealed firearms in almost every state. number three, protecting gun owners in bankruptcy act of 2011 because people filing bankruptcy should be able to exempt $3,000 from their property list for their guns, according to you. and number four, the second amendment enforcement act that, if passed, would take away the ability from washington, d.c. to determine its own gun laws. perhaps it should be no surprise you, the card carrying member of the nra who rode to victory with
educate our children. you need to dramatically shrink the federal department of education. if you care about your children, you ll get the federal government out of the business of educating our kids. what i would do as president of the united states is pass a mother of all repeal bill. then i would go over to the department of education, i would turn out the lights, i would lock the door. on wednesday, there was a sudden vote fast, as the house voted 272 to 152 in favor of the national right to carry reciprocity act, a bill that would force states to automatically recognize each other s permits that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons. so now, on the issue of concealed weapons, the vast majority of republicans are suddenly in favorite of the federal government. they don t want national standards for education, but they do want the federal government to rule on permits for concealed weapons. interesting, suspect it? according to a public interest law firm, the legal commu