right now. we don t ridicule anybody. i am a gun owner. we try to reach across that aisle if you want to call it that between some people that are advocating for responsible gun laws and the people that are gun guys, often rural, have a lot of firearms. i have stood on tables in the atomic cafe in bismarck, north dakota and talked to these people, what could keep communities safer things like background checks, gun trafficking legislation, these don t affect them individually but they have been told by a corporate interest that this is affecting their right. the argument becomes this, every policy government, i feel lying the gun control lobby i know the word lobby makes people angry but on the gun control advocates it s always legislation. immediately the right is able to
if i get everything i want on gun control, things like background checks, gun trafficking legislation, domestic violence legislation and other things, it s not a violation of anybody s second amendment rights. just think about background checks, some of those candidates were referring that criminals don t follow the law. we do background checks now, it s very effective. the problem is, we don t know how many of them get the gun over the internet or at a gun show. i m a gun owner, a strong supporter of the second amendment. we can save a lot of lives without violating people s second amendment rights. you heard it from the republican candidates, all pivoted to that issue, and saying, that should be at the forefront. can you separate the two issues? l i mean, mental illness,
i think that s right. this is the beginning, now you have this force. this gun control force, that is starting, i think to match the nra and push back the nra to where they were in the 1990s. backing some sort of gun control legislation. it s worth çremembering, th democratic party essentially abandoned this issue for 12 years. so it s not like there have been two sides fighting this battle. that s not true any more. if you look at states led by democratic governors, my own maryland has some of the strongest gun control laws now in the country. so do new york. so does colorado. the next rising generation of democratic leaders takes this very seriously, as does the emerging coalition of democrats. josh, real quick, where is the gun trafficking legislation? will that be part of the, ha goes to the floor? i don t know at this point haas going to be going to the floor and what s not going to be going to the floor. toomey and manchin said we don t know. open debate, breaking news
capacity magazines, passing real universal background checks, gun trafficking legislation will allow the police the opportunity to be able to deal more rationally with straw sales, those sales where people go in and buy multiple guns and sell them to the bad guys. mental health a significant commitment to mental health and school safety. one of the reasons why the mayor has been so successful in this town is not only his innovation but you have a whole hell of a lot of cops. that s the reason the cops matter. so-called biden crime book put the cops on the street. there s 30,000 badges sitting in a drawer today because of the economic difficulty of localities as a consequence of the recession. we propose adding back another 1,500 of them. doesn t move at all excuse me 15,000 of them, but cops matter. they matter. so there s no one thing we can
passing a real universal background checks. gun trafficking legislation will allow the police the opportunity to be able to deal more rationally with straw sales. those, those sales where people go in, buy multiple guns and then sell them to the bad guys. mental health, a significant commitment to mental health. and school safety. one of the reasons why the mayor has been so successful this time is not only his innovation, but you have a whole hell of a lot of cops. that s the reason. the cops matter. so-called biden crime will put 130 cops in the street. there s 30,000 badges sitting in a drawer today because of the economic difficulty of localities as a consequence of the recession. we propose adding back another 1,500 of them. it doesn t move at all. i mean excuse me, 15,000 of them. but cops matter. they matter. it impacts. so there s no one thing we can do for them absolutely confident