when it comes to pragmatism and common perception of these things, the anti-gun control lobby wins almost every time on capitol hill. recent polls show the appetite for gun control is as low as it s ever been. i m not a gun guy. i will guarantee you, mike, there are people in massachusetts, there are people in upstate new york, where this is the defining issue. i will plead ignorance on it. i had, you know, 100% rating with the nra and all that stuff. i never got the voters, when this is the one defining issue. democrats have made a mistake for years on this issue by calling it gun control. it s a marketing thing. call it gun safety. do for trigger locks, go for federal registration, gun safety, not gun control. i don t want your gun, i want you to know how to use your gun and don t want you to be able to buy 100 guns a day out of someone s car trunk. if a kid can t get into the
transported must be patrol carren down and broken down and only one gun in the house ready for fired. the rest must be broken down or have trigger locks and can only be in the inside, not in the yard, cannot in the yard or the porch. the net effect is to make it too expensive and discourages the practice of owning guns. why is this chicago s fight? primary because gun violence here is so bad. there have been 209 deaths by gun related violence so far this year. it s twice as much as l.a., three times the rate of new york city itself, coupled with the fact some have been caught on camera and splashed on the evening news, so there s pressure on chicago lawmakers to do something and the solution they came up with and come up with all the time is restrictions on gun ownership.
it restricts gun owners to have only one gun in the house ready to be fired. the rest need to be broken down or fitted with trigger locks. they re only legal in the residence, not on the porch. the yard or even the garage. the n.r.a. says they put so many hoops, so many restrictions in the path to lawful gun ownership it discourages the practice, jon. why is this chicago s fight? mostly because they have so many problems with gun violence out here. so far this year, 200 people have 209 people have been killed in shootings. particularly in the badlands around the south side. on top of that, there has been dramatic video of gun battles on the street splashed all over the evening news. therefore, there s a lot of pressure on chicago politicians to do something about it. bother to read as opposed to getting their news from the tea party times, they would understand and see there s more harm done by proliferation of