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do you agree with your own bishops? i think we could have a wonderful evening and we ll talk and compare notes on your position on right to life and my position on guns, and maybe during the course of the evening, we could have a catholic to catholic come-together and decide exactly how much each of us could support the bishops. it could be a wonderful show. let s have a catholic get-together. i like the idea of that, mr. speaker. nice to talk to you. good to be with you. coming up next, remembering roger ebert. director michael moore tells me how the great ebert changed his life.
there are steps you could take, when they had an operation trigger lock in richmond and they locked up felons, they brought down the murder rate very, very fast. i think it is possible to bring down violent crime very rapidly. ironically, this makes all the pro-gun control people go crazy, but the fact is in the states that have concealed carry, you increasingly have evidence that having honest citizens have the ability to protect themselves reduces the crime rate, it doesn t increase it, and it does it by a practical common sense standard which is criminals know it s a lot more dangerous to be a criminal. so are you against universal background checks? look, i think it depends what you mean by universal. call me old-fashioned, call me naive, but i don t understand why you can t have a system in america that has this appalling record of gun violence where we all know exactly who owns the guns and when there s a gun sale, we know who sold it and to
a teacher in every one. why do the nra want to do that? because it sells another 120,000 guns. then we have our kids going to school with guns everywhere. piers, even by your standard why are you laughing? that s what it means. that is an absurd comment. first of all why? the greatest gun salesman in american history is president barack obama. nobody has led to a greater increase in gun purchases than the obama administration. just look at the last five years. you have gun manufacturers working 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet the demand. the fact is this president for some reason has spurred in the american people a desire to own a gun on a scale that the nra couldn t have dreamed of. i mean, he has been their most effective salesman. so let s be clear. they don t need to go out and hire people in order to buy guns. the question is, if you re in a world where somebody could walk in a school and kill an innocent child, shouldn t you have somebody who is decent
the thumping on the bible claim from bill o reilly. interesting that bill o reilly was saying that, saying look, these issues may not be religious masses. they need to be addressed in a different way, perhaps, by the conservatives. you know, you re always dealing with the god of the margins, you know, as compassion grows, as science grows, you just keep taking the bible less and less literally and that s good. and i think for all the sadness and all the persecution that gays have, and i know 50 years is a horrible amount of time if you re the victim, still changing these kind of views in a generation is something to celebrate and also, we have to remember that the politicians are in no way leading this. they are following. the people have accepted other people and the politicians are scrambling to catch up. and i love when the politicians are scrambling to catch up with compassion. i totally agree with you. let s turn to guns. i talked to newt gingrich earlier about this. it is a v