that out of the norm. and if you look at what democrats said, 74% of democrats are in favor of a buyback process and 49% of independents. we look at assault weapons. you know, it s only been 15 years that americans have been able to purchase assault weapons since the 2004 ban ended. and assault weapons are only 3% of all rifles that americans own. what he s saying it s not that radical or that crazy, and it was going to rile up the democratic base. you hear the crowd erupting when he said this. of course, the republicans are going to play this over and over again. and they re going to try to rile up their base. but what o rourke has been saying there are more americans than not that are actually in favor of gun control. and that the u.s. congressmen need to stop being afraid of the nra. so, in this regard, i would disagree with what chris coons is saying. i think think what o rourke is saying is getting the base
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shootings a year. no other country comes close. so, yes, this is [ bleep ] up. what o rourke is talking about is something i have had to say too many times on this show. the odds haven t changed. i talked about those odds just hours after the deadly mass shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school last year. every single one of us is just playing the odds at this point the odds that in a country of 325 million souls, that we won t be the ones who get hit by the next bullets that start flying. we won t be the one that gets that phone call about someone you love who did. your son, your daughter, your brother, your sister, your spouse, or your parent, even a friend, anyone you know. the phone call that changes your life. but with every deadly shooting in this country, the odds get worse and worse and worse. are you really willing to keep
the wind. reporter: ali, i think that very last bit of what o rourke said there, he was talking about the gun proposal specifically. but i think it speaks pretty broadly to where this campaign is right now. time to speak clearly, throw caution to the wind. he s competing from essentially the back of the top tier, hanging onto the bottom of a debate qualification. the time is now to try something bold if you re beto o rourke and that s what i think we re going to see. garrett, thank you. coming up as we mark the 400th anniversary of the beginning of american slavery this month, our own trymaine lee joins me with perhaps the longest lasting of slavery, the deep racial wealth divide. you are watching msnbc. d treatm. trelegy. the power of 1-2-3. trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy. with trelegy and the power of 1 2 3, i m breathing better.
the outside looking in. it s still very wrong, so in light of that things that are happening tonight i congressman castro who is putting out information about donors that they are in part responsible for these things that are happening and the claimant that s been created, what do you make of that? i just made a comment about we made a decision not to turn this into politics and that s exactly what s occurring and it s frustrating to us. because we need time and we were talking about at least a couple weeks until the funerals are over but, you look at what o rourke is doing and what escobar is doing, they are making this into a political issue and are trying to enhance opportunities to make it a political issue. it s absolutely wrong and that s disappointing. we talked about that again with