Its wholly inadequate, but i know everyone is thinking about your community right now and the horror and terror they experienced and still must be experiencing as we discussed. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. Joining our conversation gun safety advocate, our dear friend Fred Guttenbering who has helped us talk through so many news cycle like this one, so many tragic moments when an entire community made up of familyings like his is changed in an instant. His daughter jamie was murdered in the Mass Shooting in parkland, florida. Also joining our conversation former fbi Counter Intelligence agent pete struck. Fred, the details are being logged in every parent and tragally a lot of kids brains today, right . This happened at a Bowling Alley. This happened on youth night. So add to school, add to the baseball field, add to the walmart, the Bowling Alley on youth night as a place that is no longer safe in the United States of america in 2023. Nicolle, i thought the evolution
ferguson. happy new year to both of you, gentlemen. an interesting pairing on this topic, because let s start with the common ground. you actually come from similar positions in terms of your families use guns. you re from hunting families. you both know how to use guns you shoot guns yet you re on different sides of the gun control issue. charles, start with you. what do you think lawmakers plan to do about gun control in the coming year? i don t think they re necessarily is a plan and i don t think there s necessarily going to be a lot of progress. right? because what ends up happening is that this debate runs up against kind of constitutional structure of the country. the gun ownership and the gun debate overlaps quite significantly with the kind of wide open spaces in this country, and people who want more regulations are generally in the clustered urban spaces, but because of the way the senate is structured, every state, no matter how wide open, how few people are in that
women, one at a time, like mothers against drunk driving try to bring a movement through mothers. well, that was really the move a year ago, it would have been the move, to get third party groups with a conservative women. yeah, with political effectiveness. whose family you know, had to come from hunting families. people that understand guns and understand the gun culture. embrace the gun culture, but think that a background check is not a bad thing. basically takes the same position that ronald reagan and george w. bush took on guns. the big difference is there s no advocacy group as your drunk driving. and he s also confronting what you have to feel say level of paranoia in the country that the nra has fed quite successfully. no matter whenever you talk