TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) — The gunman who shot dead three elderly women as he prowled a New Mexico neighborhood firing at cars this week had legally purchased an assault-style
he s producing an ad that s going to be shot today to counter the nra ad going after him. we re learning his chief of staff let his own nra membership go lapse. is this a personal battle? where does the nra versus ma manchin fight go from here? it s going to be interesting to see nra versus manchin, nra versus bloomberg, if there s any possibility for anything to happen. senator manchin from a very gun-loving state, lifelong nra member, but when you talk to him, you can tell he was deeply moved by the newtown tragedy and is now very dug in, trying to get what i would think is a very reasonable piece of legislation passed. was the president too slow to act in the days after newtown? there s only so much he cab do. i think he wanted to move faster. not everyone wanted to move with him in the same direction. after the santa monica shooting, people didn t even really revisit this issue again.
the new push days after the shooting rampage ended in the campus of santa monica campus. joining me is democratic senator richard blumenthal. newtown happening six months ago. the families at the time bombarded capitol hill with their presence and appeared with president obama several times. what do you think they can accomplish this time that they weren t able to accomplish before by coming back? they were enormously impactful then and will again especially in light of the santa monica shooting. a reminder that newtown far from being an isolated incident is part of a pattern of killings in america, more than 4,000 since newtown and what they accomplish here is their faces and voices are so impactful whether it s