that s necessary that we are able to accomplish. we need to come together eventually for real action. the white house press secretary said today that she and no one else at the white house could think of anything that could stop what happened on saturday. well, i can think of a lot of different things. for a start, we need leaders in this country to lead with love and compassion. i know it sounds cheesy in this day and age in our society, but that s what needs to happen. in fact, tomorrow at the city council meeting i will be taking a pledge to eradicate hate from my words and actions, and we need other leers to do the same. if we can t look to the president to do that, let s look to other elected leaders to do that. so that s a start. we can all take action ourselves to do that. and next, you know, sensible gun control. i know that we re not talking about that yet at the local
i know it sounds cheesy in this day and age in our society, but that s what needs to happen. in fact, tomorrow at the city council meeting i will be taking a pledge to eradicate hate from my words and actions, and we need other leers to do the same. if we can t look to the president to do that, let s look to other elected leaders to do that. so that s a start. we can all take action ourselves to do that. and next, you know, sensible gun control. i know that we re not talking about that yet at the local level, on the national level, but it s far pastime that we actually make some action here at least in the state of pennsylvania similar to what other states have done after terrible tragedies like this. those are two things that i can think of. the pittsburgh city council member erika straussburger thank you very much for your time and joining us. thank you. and when we come back the
if people won t stand for sensible gun control laws, if they won t allow us to spend more money on our mentally ill, i am talk about a year or two or three, my heart goes out to them. we want them to get better. but while they are fighting mental illness, they should not have a gun. we re with you. you re knocking on the door. you re banging on the door. there will be real change. this group of people, you re going to vote either this year or next year, become voters. and if elected officials want to run for office but they won t make decisions to make us safe, i don t know what is going to happen in the rest of the country, but they are not going
the families grieving the loss of their children, the loss of their spouse, the loss of their brother, sister and fiance, and the loss of their parent. that s where mental health matters. this is strictly a sensible gun control matter that needs to be addressed. i m all for the second amendment. i know sam is, as well. but i guarantee you, our founding fathers never, ever imagined that it would come to this. they would be rolling over in their graves, god bless them, if they knew what was occurring in the united states right now. sensible gun control. semiautomatic weapons off the streets. high capacity magazines off the streets. that s a step. the other step is, of course, safe schools. we need that tomorrow. we need that so sam can go back to school and his classmates and teachers on tuesday and be safe and not have to look over their shoulders. what does safe schools mean to you? at the meeting, the president
so the history and some of the disappointments in the past, the democratic party understands clearly that we have work to do. and when it comes to bailing out the elections, we are talking about those core things that belong in america, we feel. clearly, civil rights. my goodness, we re talking about sexual harassment. we re calling for sitting members to resign. my goodness, how can we bring in a person that we know have multiple allegations of being a sexual assaulter? in addition to that, let s talk about civil rights in the south. let s talk about education. let s talk about sensible, sensible gun control. if i could say this a million times, when you talk about gun control, i will never say take away your right to own a gun. but if we can regulate how you drive a car, you have to have a license, you have to get your license renewed and you have to