any form of gun control, any form of public policy to try to curtail gun massacre in america is impossible, the idea that it s impossible to pass any legislation regarding guns in america, i believe that idea is not true. three days out from this weekend s shooting, we are almost at the point, again, where nobody in politics can agree on anything. but left, right, and center, the diagnosis of whether or not we as a country are capable of responding to the problem of gun massacres in america, everybody agrees that that s totally impossible, right? look at this. why gun control is dead in america. that s salon today. democrats and gop agree, gun control is a non-starter in arizona following shooting, talking points memo today. arizona shootings unlikely to change federal gun laws, the miami herald today. don t expect any changes in gun laws after tucson shooting at fire dog lake today. gun control advocates resigned to few changes in wake of giffords shooting.
we are not helpless before what the universe deals us or what some wise man with an inherited title thinks is best for us. we get to solve our own problems. that s what our government is supposed to be capable of. and one of the problems we have as a country is gun massacre, mass shootings. arizona was the first one of 2011. there were at least seven of them in the last five years. some of which we listed on last night s show and we did not even list all of them. no other country in the world has the problem that america has with gun massacres. columbine, virginia tech, jonesboro, northern illinois university, ft. hood, red lake, minnesota, brookfield, wisconsin, atlanta, killeen, texas, tucson. the common wisdom right now is that this is a problem that america is powerless to solve. that our government can t be used to solve this problem. we are helpless before this.
belief that despite how the country feels right now, that any form of gun control, any form of public policy to try to curtail gun massacre in america is impossible, the idea that it s impossible to pass any legislation regarding guns in america, i believe that idea is not true. three days out from this weekend s shooting, we are almost at the point, again, where nobody in politics can agree on anything. but left, right, and center, the diagnosis of whether or not we as a country are capable of responding to the problem of gun massacres in america, everybody agrees that that s totally impossible, right? look at this. why gun control is dead in america. that s salon today. democrats and gop agree, gun control is a non-starter in arizona following shooting, talking points memo today. arizona shootings unlikely to change federal gun laws, the miami herald today. don t expect any changes in gun laws after tucson shooting at fire dog lake today.
problems that arise here. we can solve problems that arise in our country. we are not helpless before what the universe deals us or what some wise man with an inherited title thinks is best for us. we get to solve our own problems. that s what our government is supposed to be capable of. and one of the problems we have as a country is gun massacre, mass shootings. arizona was the first one of 2011. there were at least seven of them in the last five years. some of which we listed on last night s show and we did not even list all of them. no other country in the world has the problem that america has with gun massacres. columbine, virginia tech, jonesboro, northern illinois university, ft. hood, red lake, minnesota, brookfield, wisconsin, atlanta, killeen, texas, tucson. the common wiz.com right now is that this is a problem that america is powerless to solve. that our government can t be used to solve this problem. we are helpless before this.
doesn t impinge on anybody s rights to fire as many bullets as they want to. it is a way of solving gun crimes. are we so incapable of responding to gun crime that we can t even implement an idea like that? bullet coding legislation has been considered by a number of states in recent years. and that s just one example of something that seems politically possible, even now. even in america. if we want to take on the american problem of gun massacre, the uniquely american torrent of gun murders. if we want to take that on and we want to deny the common wisdom that we are powerless as a nation before this problem, what are our options? joining us now is a man who is living that challenge every day, actually doing it with some success, the mayor of newark, new jersey, my friend, cory booker. good to see you. good to see you, rachel. how are you? good. i m sorry to lead into you with chris rock, but that s the one argument about gun control that they can repeat. i think what he does,