reason is there is grass roots support. how is that different in america? australia has great huchbnting hurt, outdoors. but america seems almost unique. yeah. i think you re right. and certainly part of that is based on our history. this idea that a lot of americans believe we need guns because we need to be able to protect ourselves from tyranny. i guess the irony here is the biggest threat being posed these days is not the government coming into your house and terrorizing your family. it s sending your kids to school, going to work, going to a movie theater, going to church, going to a night club, and then being faced with this threat of public mass shooters. so the tyranny is really being perpetrated by the public mass shooters, and other countries take a frankly a much more practical position.
so the tierney is being perpetrated by the public mass shooters and other countries take frankly a much more practi practical position. what are the simple things that could be done that, in your view, are incontro vert ably constitutional and will pass muster pretty easily? well, the first thing to realize is that people who seem so pro second amendment don t seem particularly supportive of the first amendment so we have to lift the ban on doing research. congress has made it pretty clear that if you work for the cdc or the nih you can t do research and we can t formulate more targeted and effective policies unless we can gather data and analyze the data. the first thing we need to do is to allow people do research on gun violence. i mean, clearly there s nothing in the second amendment that prevents that. wee need to despite people saying that we should just enforce the laws on the books, we have to fund the atf and allow it to use the most recent technologies.