one of them said no girl is going to break up with me. at the time all the media coverage was what could make this happen? it must be the rap music or violent video games. and nowhere in that discussion was it must be what they said it was, which was this entitlement to female attention, this entitlement to female bodies. it must be sexism. and i wrote at the time, i wrote if media and in particular journalists weren t going to investigate and name this as a gender-based hate crime, they weren t going to tell the public what the warning signs are, media would be continuingly complicit in more crimes. then the amish shootings, the virginia tech shootings. at the time i kept saying this is a man who stalked women on campus, this is a man a female teacher said she didn t feel safe with, and still the
and should it keep people from being able to purchase a gun? the short answer is yes. i long answer is is i left last week almost depressed. i almost don t want to see you on the show. i love seeing you, we re friends, but i thought here we go again. this is going to be another blame issue of, oh, mental i illness caused it and it s this diagnosed mental illness that caused it. i think we ve shifted this conversation from the individual pathology of an individual shooter into a broader conversation about what the shooter represented in a way, which was men who mistake conquest for intimacy and respond with violence when they don t get what they want. in a way i think gender has been the kind of white elephant in the room of a lot of these mass shootings and we ve been too slow to recognize the role of gender and i almost felt encouraged that in a way what we ve seen as a response to this
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this problem. going after the hearts and the mindser and for bloomberg, it is a new umbrella lobbying organization, and new lobby for banning guns and with a particular eye to get women and mothers to join the push. and joining us is collin abbott who is now part of bloomberg s every gun for every town group, and he is also a survivor of the virginia tech shootings. thank you for being with us. thank you. and i am aware that this is the 7th anniversary of the shooting. there was columbine before your s and aurora and yours to name a few, and no major reforms, and help us to set the stage for somebody who is affected by this and who is working in the gun fight. what is going on and where are we in terms of it and the nra? well, i think that this effort for common sense gun safety legislation is at a strongest point it has been at since the jim and sarah brady
happened on the margins of the issue. obama has taken 23 executive actions. vice president biden announced a $100 million mental health initiative, a handful of states have installed background checks or bans on high-capacity guns, but more than a dozen states have actually loosened laws. i still have three bullets with me today and a metal rod in my left leg. reporter: colin goddard was injured in the virginia tech shootings. despite the setbacks he feels a lot has been accomplished. we have more records getting in the background check system to make it work properly. we have research again from the cdc studying how people are killed with firearms. reporter: but colin and other gun control advocates are frustrated by congress inaction on universal background checks. we have to start making calculations about saving lives rather than calculations about people s political future. but 90% of people believe in background checks. reporter: at the white house there is no new pu