2004. so he thinks the justices should take a look at that. pete, really quickly, a follow here. i understand that the court also decided not to take up a case on gun silencers. what more can you tell us about that? very little chance the court would have taken this case. it was a challenge by two men in kansas by the federal law that says to get a silencer you have to be registered. it s not like the check system for buying a gun. you have to sometimes get authority for local law enforcement. the supreme court didn t take the case. i suppose it s a little bit topical because of the use of silencers in virginia beach. silencers mask the sound of gun fire and make it harder for the police to pin point where the shots are coming from. some of the victims in virginia
$372 billion worth of good from mexico every year. the prices on all of those goods would likely go up, consumers would feel that so would businesses. critics claim that the tariffs would slow the u.s. economy and they are likely right. over time they probably would. but we ought to impose them anyway. not every government policy is a pure economic calculation. the united states is attacked by as who till foreign power. it must strike back and make no mistake mexico is a hostile foreign power. for decades the mexican government has sent its poor north to our country. this has allow that country s criminal oligarchy to maintain power and get even richer but at great expense to us. in the united states damaged our communities, ruined our schools, burdened our heck system and fractured our national unity. it has suppressed wages for our most vulnerable. it has been a slow motion attack on this country and its effects have been deficit stating. there is not a lot of
purchase firearms under the slogan enough cameron and his classmates organized protests across the u.s. . on march twenty eighth seen hundreds of thousands of people rallied in washington cameron said what was on many people s minds. to the leaders skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and see stay silent wait your turn welcome to the revolution. to the parkland shooting american public opinion swung sharply in favor of tighter gun controls some individual states took action in florida the minimum age for purchasing weapons position in congress for a check system to cover all commercial firearm sales in the country but republicans are pushing back on his bill many say the problem is illegal immigrants crossing the mexican us border chary would not have stopped many of the circumstances i
school safety and formalizes the fix nix situation. it will an allow states to enter data in the federal check system for gun purchases. despite the last minute negotiations, no protections for dreamers are in the bill. president trump blamed democrats who he tweeted refused to take care of daca. would have been easy, but they did not care. worth noting, the white house offered to continue the program for two and a half years in exchange for $25 billion in border security. democrats as you imagine, want a permanent solution for dreamers. also omitted from the bill is health care stabilization. republican senator susan collins calling that disappointing. you will recall collins voted last year to repeal the mandate in obamacare only after the commitment lawmakers would try to stabilize health care markets. keep an eye on her and rand paul. paul won t say if he plans to hold up the spending deal.
checks to include all sales of firearms, there s also a bill dealing with what we call nics fix, that would require all federal and state agencies to make sure they transmit the appropriate data to the instant check system. i would certainly support that. i certainly also support raising the age to buy high-powered rifles from 18 to 21, to make that consistent and conform with pistols. those are the things i would support in the near term. also a fix too on the terror watch list proposal susan collins put out a couple years ago, to provide some due process rights as well to make sure people on the no fly list don t have access to firearms, particularly those who might be u.s. persons, to make sure they wouldn t be able to access those firearms. those are your position. do you see speaker ryan allowing any gun control legislation to be brought to the floor for a vote? because republicans, you do have the control. right.