cuts are proposed in mental health services. that, of course, makes no sense whatsoever. so you put that together as a package, that s what we should be looking at. obviously, safety and training, you have to go through more to get a car in virtually any state across the united states of america. than you do in most states including pennsylvania, to get a gun. so, trigger locks. lockers. registering the weapon. lost and stolen provisions. we passed that in philadelphia and was sued by the nra. on the 100th day in office in 08, one of the pridest moments of my entire elected krooir, lost and stolen. you have to report your car if it s stolen if you want a claim from the insurance company. you certainly have to do the same thing for a weapon. these are reasonable, rooishl, straight-forward things. new jersey has figured out how to protect the second amendment and making people safer and new york has as well. will these things fly in georgia and atlanta? first of all, i think you nee
shouldn t have their hands on a gun if you close the gun show loophole and i also voted for a lock to be sold with guns so that you have a trigger lock, $5 you can have a trigger lock and that actually might have prevented this if the mother had had trigger locks on the guns. chris: we got about a minute left. she would have been able to perhaps prevent this. what do you think of wayne lapierre s offer? it is pretty empty. that is the only answer is to put more guns in schools? look, we already have armed officers in many schools in washington, d.c. we have armed officers in schools and some of that is appropriate and perhaps we can do more. it actually doesn t cost $8 billion. we have 130,000 elementary and secondary schools in the country. if you had two officers in each that would cost $25 billion. where is that money going to come from?
from facing any liability the way cigarettemakers do. they are exempted from such liability. there are other ideas that have been put on the table like forcing manufacturers to add trigger locks, forcing them to add mechanisms that would allow a stolen gun not to be able to be fired. there are a few practical things that can be done. but what i hope the task force does is keep talking about this issue because as sad as it is, to your last question, the risk is over the course of a month that a task force is meeting, the jake tappers of the world move on to the next story and we re not talking about and looking at those little coffins anymore and after a month this issue does fade. so i think the president took a risk by not getting this done in the lame duck, not doing it right now when the politicians are the most vulnerable to public pressure. but having taken that risk, i hope his task force won t be behind closed doors. it should be very public. it has to keep this top of mind. a
failed on that campaign process. the weapons ban was allowed to expire on his watch. president george w. bush did support a number of gun control measures. things like banning the importation of large ammunition clips. banning guns within 300 yards of a school. raising the gun ownership age from 18 to 21. requiring instant background checks at gun shows. requiring trigger locks with handgun sales. george w. bush supported all of these gun control policies, which is why angry, enraged nra members picketed his public appearances while he was president for all eight years. oh, wait, that didn t happen. that didn t happen because his position on gun control was considered to be relatively mainstream and noncontroversial. mr. bush supported some what you might call common sense restrictions on what weapons americans are allowed to have. and that s how the politics of the second amendment has worked.
of the current ban. george w. bush ultimately failed on that campaign process. the weapons ban was allowed to expire on his watch. president george w. bush did support a number of gun control measures. things like banning the importation of large ammunition clips. banning guns within 300 yards of a school. raising the gun ownership age from 18 to 21. requiring instant background checks at gun shows. requiring trigger locks with handgun sales. george w. bush supported all of these gun control policies, which is why angry, enraged nra members picketed his public appearances while he was president for all eight years. oh, wait, that didn t happen. that didn t happen because his position on gun control was considered to be relatively mainstream and noncontroversial. mr. bush supported some what you might call common sense restrictions on what weapons americans are allowed to have.