what we call assault weapons. and there are lots of variations on it. this entire publication is dedicated to the idea that there are lots of new what they call platforms for ar 15s. and there are ways that you can change the barrel, you can change the stock, you can change the trigger mechanism. this is the gun used in newtown? yes. and the fact of the matter is everybody talks about it as if it s one weapon. it s not. it s a lot of variations on the same weapon. they always find a way around it. and there is no more in my judgment unified constituency in america than the passionate gun owners. they are out there. and they believe so many of them believe the government is going to knock down their door and take their guns away. and i say if we get to that, we have a lot bigger problem than guns. we re in anarchy. there is a 92-page newsletter against assault weapons. yeah. we ll come back to this. i want to get a break in here. i was in kentucky over christmas
weapons ban in 1994, it passes the house by four votes. and that was a democratic house. and by the way, it had a lot of loopholes of it. i brought a copy of a magazine that i get called shotgun news. almost the entire this is for people who own guns and are gun collectors and some are gun nuts. not all of them, obviously. but the fact is, it s all about what we call assault weapons. and there are lots of variations on it. this entire publication is dedicated to the idea that there are lots of new what they call platforms for ar 15s. and there are ways that you can change the barrel, you can change the stock, you can change the trigger mechanism. this is the gun used in newtown? yes. and the fact of the matter is everybody talks about it as if it s one weapon. it s not. it s a lot of variations on the same weapon. they always find a way around it. and there is no more in my judgment unified constituency in
what we call assault weapons. and there are lots of variations on it. this entire publication is dedicated to the idea that there are lots of new what they call platforms for ar-15s. and there are ways that you can change the barrel, you can change the stock, you can change the trigger mechanism. this is the gun used in newtown? yes. and the fact of the matter is everybody talks about it as if it s one weapon. it s not. it s a lot of variations on the same weapon. they always find a way around it. and there is no more, in my judgment, unified constituency in america than the passionate gun owners. they are out there. and they believe so many of them believe the government is going to knock down their door and take their guns away. and i say if we get to that, we have a lot bigger problem than guns. we re in anarchy. there isn t an 89-page what are we up to? a 92-page newsletter against assault weapons. yeah. we ll come back to this. i want to get a break in here. i was in
they would proceed forward in terms of what the rules would be. there is ongoing negotiations but both sides seem to be staking out their position. it s not really a real effort to try to stay here is what we can do constructively. that s probably because they have to introduce each other to the other party each time they meet because they don t meet very often. this is a lame duck session, as you know. should we expect just a temporary deal that will as speaker boehner loves to say, kick the can down the road, as opposed to actually solving the problem? there will be no big grand deal in the lame duck session. what we ll have is some sort of stopgap measure, something that then kicks into 2013. the reason why, there s just not enough time. what you will see is some sort of trigger mechanism which will try to make what has to happen in 2013 actually occur. remember, we are here where we are today because of a similar trigger mechanism. indeed we are.
road. but they ll have some sort of bind to get there. john boehner, for instance, wants to do entitlement reform and tax reform in 2013 now. and he wants to have another trigger mechanism to make sure they take place. we re essentially going to have this whole thing happen all over again. the white house is precondition has always been, well, we have to do something before this december 31st. and i have just from talking to people in the white house and democrats and some republicans, it seems pretty likely you re going to see some in tax increases by the end of this year. that s going to happen. they re not going to say, yeah, we ll call it a day. the question is, then, what kind of entitlement reforms you have. and i think the political article got it. there s been pretty bright red lines set around social security. democrats don t want to touch that. gene, another battle we re having right now has to do with possibility of susan rice being nominated as secretary of state. it s go