a mall. three people killed there. so the context is just so alarming. senator feinstien, we talk about guns. it often overshadows the debate about mental illness. but in the vein of gun control in this country and presidential leadership, you heard from mayor bloomberg. this is how the washington post described the president s leadership back in july. i m not going to take away your guns, obama promised in september of 2008. however, he advocated closing a loophole that allows for gun purchases without background checks at gun shows and for reinstating the assault weapons ban. obama kept his promises to gun owners but not to gun control advocates. the president signed bills allowing guns in national parks and on amtrak. he has not pushed for the restatement of the assault weapons ban nor closed the gun show loophole. has the president failed to lead? i m not going to comment on that. he will have a bill to lead on because i m going to introduce the bill in the senate and the same
and the number of victims going back to columbine in 1999 all the way to portland, oregon, at a mall. three people killed there. so the context is just so alarming. senator feinstien, we talk about guns. it often overshadows the debate about mental illness. but in the vein of gun control in this country and presidential leadership, you heard from mayor bloomberg. this is how the washington post described the president s leadership back in july. i m not going to take away your guns, obama promised in september of 2008. however, he advocated closing a loophole that allows for gun purchases without background checks at gun shows and for reinstating the assault weapons ban. obama kept his promises to gun owners but not to gun control advocates. the president signed bills allowing guns in national parks and on amtrak. he has not pushed for the restatement of the assault weapons ban nor closed the gun show loophole. has the president failed to lead? i m not going to comment on
here is the recent history of school shootings in this country, public rampages. not all at schools. and the number of victims going back to columbine in 1999 all the way to portland, oregon, at a mall. three people killed there. so the context is just so alarming. senator feinstien, we talk about guns. it often overshadows the debate about mental illness. but vain of gun control in this country and presidential leadership, you heard from mayor bloomberg. this is how the washington post described the president s leadership back in july. i m not going to take away your guns, obama promised in september of 2008. however, he advocated closing a loophole that allows for gun purchases without background checks at gun shows and for reinstating the assault weapons ban. obama kept his promises to gun owners but not to gun control advocates. the president signed bills allowing guns in national parks and on amtrak. he has not pushed for the reinstatement of the assault
bloomberg. this is how the washington post described the president s leadership back in july. i m not going to take away your guns, obama promised in september of 2008. however, he advocated closing a loophole that allows for gun purchases without background checks at gun shows and for reinstating the assault weapons ban. obama kept his promises to gun owners but not to gun control advocates. the president signed bills allowing guns in national parks and on amtrak. he has not pushed for the restatement of the assault weapons ban nor closed the gun show loophole. has the president failed to lead? i m not going to comment on that. i can tell you that he is going to have a bill to lead on, because on the first day bill, i m going to introduce the bill in the senate and the same bill will be introduced in the house, a bill to ban assault weapons. it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation, and the possession. not retro actively, but perspectively. and it will ban the same for
what was the production of oil leases on public lands or not. the real answer is that there is nothing that can be done to lower gas prices tomorrow or even really six months or a year, so these things go up and down, and we look at them in the electoral context, but there s not a quick answer, and i don t think either of them wanted to say that. i don t think it was a good moment for president obama because the question was about energy secretary stephen chu. while the questioner didn t get into the details and didn t quote him, he alluded to the fact that stephen chu said on multiple occasions that it s not the job of the energy secretary to bring down gas prices. in fact, there might be benefits to keeping gas prices high, and stephen chu said it in september of 2008 before he was part of the obama administration, but while he was advising candidate obama. he said we need to get gas prices as high as they are in europe. that s the kind of thing i wonder if do independent voters at