schools, that s a totally different i. scenario. but to call on an administrator or a teacher to be armed is absolutely outrageous. great to have you with us tonight. share your thoughts with us on twitter at ed show and facebook. coming up, mie mayor michael bloomberg, his organization, mark glaze about bloomberg s call to action on gun control. later, i m getting a lot of reaction from my commentary on friday night about gun activists hiding behind the second amendment. i ll respond to my detractors tonight. stay with us. we ll be right back. nope. am i on this one? no, no, no, no, no. i am on this one. [ male announcer ] for every 2 pounds you lose through diet and exercise alli can help you lose one more
social security. welcome back to the ed show. every time a horrific event takes place, their main argument is arm more civilians. that will stop mass shootings. so, now, after the sandy hook shooting, republicans are calling for guns, guns in schools. look no further than your sunday talk shows. i m not so sure, and i m sure i ll get mail from this, i m not so sure i wouldn t want one person in a school armed. ready for this kind of thing. the principal lunged at this guy. the school psychologist lunged at the guy. it has to be someone who s trained. it has to be someone who s responsible. but, my god, if you can prevent this kind of thing texas congressman louis gomer took it a step further. he said the principal of the school should have had an m-4 assault rifle. and hearing the heroic sto
suggest retiring gun control and replacing it with every reference and for all of us to train ourselves to say over and over again in a disciplined way, we are talking about common sense gun safety. common sense gun safety. who can be against that? if we start to redefine the terms and build a movement, that will include a lot of local organizing by the same people who reelected barack obama and then this can start to make progress in a legislative way. some over the conservative side have played the religious card. here s mike huckabee blamie inie shooting on a lack of god in schools. we asked why there s violence in schools, but we ve systematically removed god from our schools.
sitting right there that they cling onto and they won t move, which makes it politically dangerous to come up with any kind of gun legislation. where is this all going? well, the thing is that there has to be a message to rural folks and to gun owners across the country. look, we understand that you may be a hunter, you may be a gun collector, you may have just grown up in a family where guns are always a part of your life. you can continue to do that, the second amendment will protect you on that. but you need to separate yourself from these maniacs who are running around with automatic weapons and walking into theaters and into schools. you need to have a certain self respect and say, look, my gun rights, my gun engagement, if you will, is completely different there these maniacs. as a result, we need to say to these folks you can be on the
the nation to heel unless you really look at this holistically. we just have to call out mike huckabee on this. this is really shameful. he s saying that those children wouldn t have died if there would have been prayer in the schools? and that the gunman had gone to the school withhe s saying? that s exactly what he s saying. he s saying if we had taken god out of the schools and it has affected society so much that now we have people who go around and shoolt t up schools. so how does he explain people going around shooting up churches? they will expand the boundaries of conversation to fit themselves. well, at a certain point, you know, not everybody can be taken seriously as, you know, there are gun advocates who deserve to be heard in this debate. but if somebody says something as obama scene as that, they how oldn t be taken seriously in any