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go away. the connecticut effect, the newtown effect, are not going away. let me ask about background checks specifically. you know what the arguments against them have been. the first one that kelly ayotte talked about was it s going to lead to a registry, which we know the law actually prevents that from happening. the second one was voiced by senator john barrasso this morning on morning joe. let me play that for you. the one that we have now, they re not implementing, they re not enforcing. what makes us think they re going to enforce one that does even more checks on more people? the second argument, senator, has consistently been we don t need new laws, we need to enforce the ones that are already on the books. what would you say to that? i d say to senator barrasso exactly what i said to wayne lapierre when he testified before the judiciary committee and confronted us with that same argument, i said to him i m in favor of more prosecutions and better enforcement of exis
thanks for coming on. thank you. let me bring casey hunt back in. casey, as we were saying, standing outside where the nra is going to be meeting, the outgoing president said this to the washington times. as we are likely to win most of the legislative battles in congress, we will have to move to courts to undo the restrictions placed on gun owners rights in new york, connecticut, maryland and colorado. what is the strategy there? they re willing to fight this on multiple fronts? reporter: that s one of the differences we were talking earlier about boots on the ground for the opposition and for the nra. the nra has really focused on the state level quite a bit, even as the gun control issue hasn t been visible on the national stage. so before newtown. they ve seen a shift in that pretty dramatically in the wake of newtown. it s one that s still going on. you see there s a fight in new jersey already with newtown families going down there to urge the trenton folks there, the st
dying wish was to have someone else named as his replacement. texas congressman pete sessions saying quote, mitt romney appeared like a kid who showed up for his science project and the teacher said explain it and mitt couldn t do it. his dad, paul ryan, explained it to him but mitt didn t get it. that s why we lost the last election. rapper snoop lion, aka snoop dogg, taking a stand on gun laws he says came after newtown. the video for no guns allowed features news clips from the shootings and president obama s speech. if you read only one thing this morning, my must-read i actually thought was from the onion, the satire, but it s in vanity fair. here s the headline. if it were up to jane fonda,