killing someone. most people who are in crisis, the mentally ill, the people who are in the margins of society aren t going to be deterred by the threat of violence or death. do you think there is any circumstance in which the death penalty is warranted? no. i don t think that, as i said, for me the death penalty is about do we deserve to kill. you know, if you focus the question on does someone deserve to die, you can come up with those scenarios. but if you turn the question to do we deserve to kill, we don t have a perfect system and the death penalty requires a perfect system. if you make a mistake, you don t have the ability to recover from that. as you know, the supreme court just halted the trump administration s effort to resume executions in federal death penalty cases after a 16-year hiatus. i think that s the right response. whenever you try to use the death penalty for some political goal, you re going to do things
government can kill, it doesn t help advance the point that no one should kill. there s a kind of illogic to the death penalty in my view. we say we re going to teach people that killing is wrong by killing someone. most people who are in crisis, the mentally ill, people who are in the margins of society aren t going to be deterred by the threat of violence or death. so do you think there is any circumstance in which the death penalty is waurnltded? no for me, it s about, do we deserve to kill? i think if you focus the question on, does someone deserve to die? you can come up with those scenarios. but if you turn the question to, do we deserve to kill, we don t have a perfect system. and the death penalty requires a perfect system. if you make a mistake you don t have the ability to recover. as you know the supreme court just halted the trump administration s effort to
amendment. that s never been contemplated by any of our free speech jurisprudence and there s a reason those cases don t make it to the supreme court. it s because they rarely happen. as i look at the history of political campaigns, to have somebody in the position where they re asking people to vote them in as the leader of the free world and to have their supporters essentially turn on a descenting voice, simply in retaliation for peacefully protesting is unprecedented. we think the court s decision reflects the idea that first amendment doesn t tolerate that kind of behavior and we as a society aren t going to tolerate that. you said you went there to peacefully protest. what do you say to those who say you were looking for trouble because you did go to a rally to protest a candidate and you were holding a sign depicting the president s head on a pig s
age where there s access to all kinds of information. and he was diabolical and demonic in this twisted sense. i think almost as a terrorist. i don t think can you go to parents and say, i m sorry, there s always going to be some crazy person. so we as a society aren t going to protect your children. you don t really mean that. and i assume the governor didn t mean that. there is always bad people and you can strangle somebody with your hands. that doesn t mean everybody should have an assault weapon. you are going from one thing to another. the bottom line is, that if you people say oh the other thing theyed after aurora was education. don t i remember that? the solution after all of this is to improve our educational system. i think that came out of both ends of pennsylvania avenue. my recollection is one of these guys was ph dd student. another one was virginia tech
there are lot of issues that need to be taken on as society and have a reasonable discussion about how we help families in trouble. how we make progress in treating folks. how we intervene. having said all of that in our particular state, we have laws that are probably more aggressive than most states. the mere presence of this kind of weapon, means that this kind of weapon can be used in the way that it s been used here or been used in other situations. governor, our thoughts and prayers are with you and with all of those families, most directly affected by this. i really appreciate your time this morning. thank you. i want it turn now to the mayor of new york city, michael bloomberg. mr. mayor, thank you for being here. thank you for having me. i wish it weren t under these circumstances. just terrible. you have been a gun control advocate for many years, never more so than this morning.