preposterous. not a lot of criminals going to gun shows. i m giving you the last word though so 30 seconds, go. close the loopholes, laura. most of the guns are not coming across the united states border. they are coming from adjacent states. in chicago they are coming from iowa, indiana, states with lax gun laws. same thing on the east coast and virginia. second thing is get guns that are sold with trigger locks with fingerprints so bad guys get it they can t use it finally, i would say limit purchases of guns so that the people who traffic in guns can t buy it in bulk and sell them. not that would have effected this case, juan. do you think this guy was going to be have a trigger lock on his gun? you have got to be kidding me. it wouldn t couldn t have fired. the kid couldn t have fired it. we have imported a lot of these problems. that s a fact. take a deep breath, juan. there are already 300 million guns in the country with no locks or technology on them. they are alw
preposterous. not a lot of criminals going to gun shows. i m giving you the last word though so 30 seconds, go. close the loopholes, laura. most of the guns are not coming across the united states border. they are coming from adjacent states. in chicago they are coming from iowa, indiana, states with lax gun laws. same thing on the east coast and virginia. second thing is get guns that are sold with trigger locks with fingerprints so bad guys get it they can t use it finally, i would say limit purchases of guns so that the people who traffic in guns can t buy it in bulk and sell them. not that wou effected this case, juan. do you think this guy was going to be have a trigger lock on his gun? you have got to be kidding me. it wouldn t couldn t have fired. the kid couldn t have fired it. we have imported a lot of these problems. that s a fact. take a deep breath, juan. there are already 300 million guns in the country with no locks or technology on them. they are always goi
all right. thank you. time now for the news nation gut check. an arizona man will soon give shotguns to people in a troubled tucson neighborhood. the real estate agent is part of the armed citizens prong that is a national campaign to give shotguns to single women and homeowners. arizona gun supporters have donated more than $12,000 to fund the giveaway. participants will get training on how to use, handle and store the guns, as well as trigger locks. city officials say they have no recourse to shut down the program because it looks like it is legal. what does your gut tell you? do you think the campaign to give away free shotguns in tucson will make violence in certain neighborhoods better? or worse? go to facebook.com/newsnation to vote. and take a quick look here about what the news nation is saying about yesterday s gut check. time magazine issued two covers this week.
care act. i want to go back to this organizing point. the town hall meetings that happened that july 2009 on the affordable care act, the polling for health care reform was at 60%. right. and literally, the polls drops precipitously during that three-month period, down as a result of that. because public opinion was not a firm thing on the affordable care act, you know what i mean. people were firm about they should have that and the government should do something about that. i think the final concept we have not really addressed here today is not just public opinion as a linear kind of phenomenon, but the intensity of public opinion. yes. we all know the stories about gun control. 90% of americans, even like 85% of nra members who want certain gun safety measures like trigger locks or what have you. but the intensity, until there s
assault weapons ban? joining me is paul hemky former president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and eugene robinson. how far do you see how far vice president task force will go and how far the president will go? i doubt they will go as far as i would like. i think they should deal with a comprehensive plan, deal with background checks and deal with military-style weapons and deal with trafficking and deal with special protections the gun industry gets now and put all those trigger locks and all those things in a comprehensive bill. tough to get through. the problem with doing a single bill by single bill, everyone says that wouldn t stop that shooting or stop this shooting. if you ve got a comprehensive bill, and then you ve got to negotiate to keep the high