there are other areas, where i come as someone who prides myself and working in a bipartisan way, we developed a leadership model and in 16 months were able to pass the best g.i. bill in history, and on this issue, there are other areas where we need to be working together a list, and i would be grateful and honored to be working with your organization in the future to make sure that we can look at these issues in a continuously creative way, in order to enable our law enforcement officials to do their jobs, and at the bottom of this, to work toward the harmony and the respect that we need in our communities. with that, i m happy john, if you want to sit down and spend the rest of this time and discussion. thank you very much. [applause] i m sitting here, but you can sit there if you want. you re on the right, i m on the left. [laughter] it really is a pleasure to have you here. as you know, c-span has reached out, using a multitude of its viewers. this is a great opportuni
federalist society we re hosting today s forum. i want to thank the federalist society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. i also want to welcome those who are seeing us through c-span and our live streaming audience as well. we re here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the permission society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the goldwater institute s tim sandefur. subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. this book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after presumption for government, with individuals having to obtain permission from government officials before being able to act. property owners have long experienced this reversal of course. today they often find before they
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i see the challenges that the issue of gun violence presents us in this country and how hard it is to solve that issue particularly i know living in the beltway for five, six years, you do develop a beltway mentality and think it s always about fighting here, and you don t realize there are a lot of opportunities, should be a lot of opportunities to find common ground on many issues, including gun violence. so that s kind of the perspective i m coming from too. identify talked to elected officials, gun owners, friends and others in the state and, hopefully, have a few ideas that might be interesting here today. i just want to acknowledge real quickly my old friend martin chavez, the former mayor of albuquerque, good to see you. as well ascare line brewer caroline brewer. and we have a couple representatives from moms demand action for common sense i can t remember the official title, but moms demand action to end violence in this country, so than
join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. next, a discussion and debate on the history of the second amendment, the right to keep and bear arms with michael waldman, president of the brennan center for justice and duke university school of law, and attorney alan gura. it s about one hour. thank you so much ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the national constitution center. it s such a pleasure to see you here. i am jeffrey rosen, the president of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center. as those of you been here before no is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u.s. constitution on a nonpartisan basis. and that means that would bring together the best thinkers and scholars and commentators from all sides of the constitutional debate that transfixed the nation and let you that people make up your own mind. we re doing this on a range of media platforms, and want you to