it is just, i just, it is just hard to believe that this is happening and mayor eric adams has been on the hot seat with a lot of this because he came in with a lot of hope that he could turn things around for the crime situation and also the reputation and morale of our police officers. here he is discussing this incident but really putting it in the context of the need for more gun control versus what a lot of people are talking about which is so many of the social justice reforms like bail reform that many people believe are making this a soft on crime city. take a listen. i m going to continue to roll out some of the initiatives that we talked about putting in place, to zero in on those small number of people who are creating a large number of
a valid point. but some of the measures we talked about i believe would have had an impact on some of the other incidents we ve seen over the last several years. it strikes me that the conversation is so distorted when people are waiting eight and nine hours to vote and yet we re saying people can t be asked to wait five days for a gun and i think a lot of people don t realize that once you have that background check, those records are destroyed after 24 hours. but also as we re getting further and further away from the newtown tragedy, i hope people don t lose their sense of what it means to that community and what the impact has been on that community. we re going to have these sausage making conversations about common sense gun safety versus gun control versus the nra. i hope we keep the national tragedies in mind as we have those conversations so we can have the kind of compassion that helps us to understand, wait a second, asking for background chekts to purchase firearms acro
can think back almost 20 years ago, there was the massacre on the long island railroad, 1993. the day after that, bill clinton went before the press and said we need to do more than sympathize. we need to take this and enact gun control. you had the assault weapons ban in 1994, the brady bill. two significant things have changed that brought about what the obama white house is now saying. one gets to what bloomberg said, gun control versus crime control. this was seen as a crime control issue because there was a sense among independent suburban voters that crime was out of control. you had a poll in 93 that said the top issue in the country was crime. violent crime has come so far down the last 20 years that there s that urgency, that popular urgency behind we need to do something on crime is gone. the second thing is, democrats in 2000 decided after al gore lost to george w. bush, they decided they lost because blue collar white voters in places
it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that s one a day men s 50+ healthy advantage. vice president joe biden spoke in the last hour to the national association of police organizations in west palm beach, florida. he discussed the acts of heroism during the shooting in colorado but there was no talk of new gun control measures. earlier today on morning joe mayor bloomberg said it s time for politicians from both parties to put the issue at the center of the political debate. we don t have to break new ground here. all we ve got to do is follow the promises that were made by the elected officials back when they were pandering and said we re going to fix this problem. to those who say this is about gun control, it isn t. it s about crime control. this isn t about somebody else.
know they thing of this, so the issue is, how do you talk about it? how do you make sense of it? a common sense discussion. even the debate you just had before, about gun control versus other issues like that, that is important to talk about with your kids because this is something they all feel strongly. talk about the 24 hour news cycle. we have to cover it. is it possible that the constant images desensitize people from the feelings that people feel there in aurora? guest: it could be possible, but if you talking about kids and teenagers it can desensitize them. but, i think, though, the actually important thing for all of us to do whatever our point of view, whether we are a parent or not have to have a conversation and get our feelings. this is a big deal. that is why national events are covered in the 24/7 news cycle,