this shield from legal accountability that is virtually unique to these manufacturers and retailers. and the president once said to me, if i could do one thing i would repeal the protection of lawful commerce in arms act, which gives them that immunity. and i am a trial lawyer, i was attorney general of my state. i know the importants of vindicating individual rights. the sandy hook plaintiffs were able to create an exception to the protection act and daniel defense in the recent shooting, they did the same kind of marketing and promotion tactics to young people, 18 year olds. and 21-year-olds also. we need to raise that age, also, for assault weapons sales. i agree with the president on that one. but plcaa repealed is important. once they sense that they will be held accountable, they need to change not only the marketing technique but they may also change their products, to make them safer and to
and who knows how long until the next one. too soon? my friends, what the hell are you waiting for? what we are doing here is designed to appeal to democratic primary voters. it will not make schools safer. it will hamper the rights of law-abiding citizens and it will do nothing to stop mass killings. stop saying that nothing in this legislation will change anything! that is a lie! that is not true. it will save lives. if you do not think that that is worth doing, say that. have the courage to say that none of that matters. you think that there should be as many guns available to as as many americans as possible. you want no restrictions. democrats control the major cities that have the worst murder rates! that s right. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that the answer to this is to put even more guns on the streets or to militarize our schools! perhaps most unsettling was
0 us. do something. just do something. for god s sake, do something. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time, that cannot be true. this time we must actually do something. they issue we face is one of conscience and common sense. the second amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute. it was justice scalia who wrote, and i quote, like most rights, the right of the second amendment the rights granted by the second amendment rights are not unlimited. not unlimited. they never have been. it comes to the carnage we are willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. let there be no mistake about the psychological trauma that gun violence leaves behind. imagine being that little girl that brave little girl in uvalde, who smeared blood off of her murdered friend s body, on her own face, to lie still among the corpses in her classroom to
former law clerk to supreme court justice samuel alito and also worked in the white house office for president george bush and breanne is the chief counsel for the constitutional accountability center and former log for supreme court justice stephen buyer. welcome to both of you. to you first, democrats are expressing some concerns, may be a lot of concerns about this nomination. how about you? there are a lot of reasons to be concerned. there are a number of troubling aspects to judge gorsuch s record of siding with corporate interest and corporations over individuals, trying to hold them accountable when they violate the law. attention for not respecting federal civil rights protections, once passed into law by congress and running in antipathy to the role of the court as a form for vindicating individual rights and protections guaranteed and the constitution. this nominee has a very heavy burden, the burden of showing he has mainstream views, he will put law over ideological prefe