checks. one other thing, too, as far as protecting your house, i don t really want to get into a gun safety course here or a course on defending people s homes. anybody unless you live in like a massive mansion or something like that, even then ar-15s aren t as good shotguns defending a house. nothing is better in close quarters inside a home than a shotgun. a basic shotgun. so people who say, i need my ar-15 to defend my house, anybody that knows anything about guns will tell you, that s just not accurate w. so to the senators who say, oh, all those guns are already out there, wouldn t what to do about them? there is something that can be done. we ll talk about that. and to the senators that say that it s important to have the need to blow up prairie dogs and pigs and little varmints. raccoons. coming up, we ll play matthew
over again, these mass shootings. high profile mass shootings. they use the same weapon of choice. and they re saying yeah, well, we have a constitutional right to have these guns to kill varmints and ferrell pigs. who could be against raising the age for a kid getting a weapon of war from 18 to 21 when we don t let americans rent cars from avis or hertz or national until they re 25. we don t let them get a beer. they can t get a pbr in texas until they re 21.
ukraine and lend their symbolic support, go to uvalde. meet with the detectives who are gathering the evidence, taking pictures. maybe sit with aiate s parents. hold her shoes and look at the pictures of this shattered child s body who was unrecognizable because of the result of an ar-15 held by 18-year-old who bought it on his birthday. sit with her parents. and look at the evidence. go to the front lines here in america and actually show that you have some bravery. i have another word but i won t use it. yeah. because you don t. you think those guns need to be used for prairie dogs and varmints? i need you to go to you value uvalde and look at the video and evidence and bodies of the children. show that you actually care but also take it in.
pieces with a gun that is so violent, that is so lethal, that a lot of those little children couldn t be recognized. we heard the same thing in sandy hook. parents had trouble recognizing their first graders when they went in at the bloody scene because it was a war zone. and you have a senator going, well, people in my state, they like to shoot ferrell pigs with an ar-15, so just because somebody guns down 19 people, kills 19 little kids basically what he s saying, why shouldn t my constituents still be able to use that gun to shoot a pig or varmints, i guess, varmints, prairie dogs give me a break. prairie dog would disintegrate. and raccoons in colorado. these are not serious people.
national political reporter sahil kapur, anna palmer of punch bowl news and juanita toliver, msnbc political analyst. juanita, i want to stay on that for a while. we hear from people like dr. guerrero about the damage done to kids and then some republicans are claiming that these assault weapons are necessary, so i want to play what the argument is on the other side. it is something that a lot of people for purposes of going out, target shooting, in my state, they use them to shoot prairie dogs and other types of varmints. in you re colorado, an ar-15 is a gun of choice for killing raccoons before they get to our chickens. it is a gun of choice for killing a fox. why does someone need an ar-15? if you talk to the people that own it, killing ferel pigs, they wonder why would you take it away from them?