Insuring that the senate will consider legislation that addresses gun violence and other aspects of violence in our Society Early this year. The success of the president s proposals, especially a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, rests largely in the hands of the upper chamber. Dan gross, the president of the Brady Campaign, says nothing will happen in either chamber without public pressure. Theres an extraordinary disconnect between what the American Public wants, including gun owners and nra members, and what our elected officials are doing about it. It is going to be up to us, the American Public, to close that disconnect. Republicans seem intent on digging in their heels while president obama is back to the strategy of enlisting the American People to move policy. At least the deja vu is happening on both sides of the aisle. Glen thrush, animal of washington, denizan of the beltway. Actually not actually. As is usual, you have a really interesting piece in politic
of immigrants entering the united states. joining the panel now is the new yorker s nick baumgartem. i read the names of those scintillating sim posa, and i wonder as we talk about the gop 2.0 or 7.0 or whatever it rags you choose to believe this is, are you convinced that this is anything more than rhetoric? i really don t mean to be baiting the witness. do you believe that the gop wants to change, can change, will change? it really does sound like some cross between davos in detox. i think it probably is just that. you use the word rehab, and like davos or rehab, it will have as much chance of working as either of those two things. i think they re just going to talk and talk and talk. no matter how much they talk, they re not going to change the essential way they go about business. if they make a promise to behave
0 the country that have consealed carry permits, you know. to push something that would really be dramatic is just a huge policy haul. i think reid s interest in trying to get something going has to do more with the something than the broader politics. i m confused. it might have more to do with the something than the actual thing. yeah. with that kind of comparative modesty of the actual proposals. this is why we have you on the show because you draw phrases like comparative modesty. meagan, to go back to this sort of argument here i thought one of the most marked remarks is his reappropriation around the language of the constitution and our rights, and jill lawrence in a piece in the national journal points out that he appropriated he brought back to the democratic fold, if you will, the bill of rights. . he brought back the declaration of independence. that most fundamental set of rights to life, and liberty in the pursuit of happiness and gettysburg along with our freedom
are played on cable v, we should all look inward and try to examine what s in our own hearts. we should all make more of an effort to discuss with one another in a truthful and mature and responsible way the divides that still exist. the discrimination that s still out there, the prejudices that still hold us back. a discussion that needs to take place not on cable tv, not just through a bunch of academics sim posa or fancy commissions or panels, not through political posturing, but around kitchen tables and water coolers and church basements and in our schools and with our kids all across the country. joining me now is the president of the urban league,