look at the front pages of today s new york tabloids. on the left is the new york daily fuse and look at the headline. and on the right is the new york post. look at that headline. both headlines believe it or not had the same story. an officer fired from a police officer of new york s finest. this might be as close as we ll get to justice in this case. it s a measure of our system that both sides disagree about the outcome. here s what new york police commissioner james o neil said yesterday. today s a day of reckoning but can also be a day of reconciliation. we must move forward together as one city, determined to secure safety for all new yorkers and every police officer working daily to protect all of us. and here s the daughter of the man who was killed, emerald
believers in the second amendment and i am also and we have to be very careful about that. you know, they call it the slippery slope and all of a sudden everything gets taken away. we re not going to let that happen. slippery slope is an often repeated nra talking point to explain why no gun control measures ever get accepted. the president spoke with nra chief executive wayne lapierre on the phone. and joined by fred gutenberg, father of jamie gutenberg killed in the parkland shooting, orange ribbons for jamie, father of a daughter. i can t imagine what you have been through. what do you think of this president and his move on notion that he has lost interest. it seems to be a pattern with him. i ll say the right things for a week, and fly back in the loving arms of the nra. when you listen to the totality of what he said today,
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snipes garn. eric garner was killed five years ago. it took five years for the officer to be fired. let s look at history. we all read in school about the boston massacre and the fair trial given to those british soldiers. the trial occurred because a man of conscience john adams took the case as a soldier defense attorney and the boston jury delivered a just if complicated verdict. and there we laid down the principle all including the most unpopular defends get a fair trial. i have a simple rule in these cases that are fraught so much with history and loyaltiy and race. and let s be honest real human conflict. it s to realize every case is different, the facts are different, the motives are different. the human fact always present is different. even when it comes, it is rare received with joy as in this case of eric garner s death.
i call it pathological. he used the one argument that drives me crazy today and it s the slippery slope. it is the ultimate nra talking point. slippery slope depends on where you stand. i m going to give you my version of a slippery slope. my daughter was born in 2003. in 2004, the ban on assault weapons was lifted. in 2005, the federal government put it in place, a law called p placa which removed the ability to hold gun manufacturers accountable. over the years since, you have it stand your ground laws and other laws who made it easier for those who intend to kill to have weapons and they re doing it to the point of the slippery slope getting to 40,000 victims a year. that s a slippery slope. wanting to do something about it, and wanting to defeat these people, and wanting to get wayne lapierre out of the president s ear, and back to the expensive ranch that the nra was going to buy for him is simply wanting to be responsible and fix this. what do you feel like as a