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Found was we were having over, just this month, hundred and 67 were being stolen, 4000 in the last year, and it s all by minor. and they all had guns on them. they were all as young as 12 years of age, so i asked, how is this possible. how is this possible. they said because we have no regulations to stop them. what they can do is, the police told me, if a child has a gun, the only way they can do anything is if they brandished it and brandished it with intent to use. and that is very difficult to come by if you are a police officer. and if you don t have a camera on you to show that a gun was being brandished and pointed that you, then you actually could get in trouble as the police officer. so they said, if you could do anything for us, make a lot where miners are not allowed without an adult to be on public property with any type of a firearm, and that is what i did. and it didn t pass, because ....
I thought with all the momentum after the shooting. with all the public polling that showed people wanted background checks. i received a very hard and devastating lesson on politics. the gun lobby was able to influence legislators. because when the polls were done. passing that universal background check bill at the federal level. was polling higher than ice cream in baseball. over 90% of americans wanted that. and it didn t pass. it felt like a failure. i went out of the chamber and said mark. i was sorry, i was. i wasn t going to give up. and mark look at me and he said something along lines of, i m not an advocate for four months, i m an advocate for 40 years, right, this is my child. i m never giving up. ....
What to do, are concerned about their own political futures. members from swing districts trying to save their political hides, concerned about the direction that people on the left are going. she has been able to keep the caucuses keep caucus together through much of her time. this past congress has been a real challenge for that. they had a difficult time trying to get the build back better bill through, for instance. but they did pass that version of that in the house. it didn t pass in the senate. they ended up passing the inflation reduction act, which is also a significant achievement in and of itself. but that has been the one reason why so many democrats including joe biden today, jerry nadler, the house judiciary committee chairman told me the same thing today, that they want her to stay, it s hard to imagine a democratic caucus without her. but that s also the reason why a lot of democrats want something new. some of the younger ones want a new fresh leadership, a different ....
It is interesting because the democrat pushed back, obviously, the republican pushback it is hard when you are trying to paraphrase everybody. but the pushback is that, you know, democrats don t want to list a number and they don t want to associate a time frame. john: they don t want to say 2024, no restrictions. gillian: this is a toe in the water for the republicans to coalesce. i think lindsey graham s plan that 15 weeks at least gives republicans to say to democrats, would you support this and where s your number, where s your line? to force them to give articulation where there places. they tried to pass quantification of roe v. wade. it didn t pass but republican said, there were no limits. it is basically saying up to nine months, there are no limits when you can stop abortion. so lindsay, this measure is supposed to be a counter to that, but this is an issue republicans don t want to talk about it. the more they talk about it the better it is for democrats. ....
Says, oh, no, no, no, no, we re not going to do that, and secretary yellen sent a memo to the irs saying you can t do this, you know, when you get this money, fact of the matter is there s going to be a lot of small businesses, a lot of taxpayers of moderate are means who are going to be audited. and i have to say this is only one impact, you know, tax impact of this bill, david. if you look at the taxes on big corporations, this is going to have a downstream impact on many small businesses and small business suppliers. so this is a tax increase on all america. david: and, you know, it was tried back in december before manchin gave with it the go ahead, and it didn t pass. first of all, a sixfold increase in the irs is just enormous when americans are trying to tighten their belts because of the stagflation. but the joint tags sayings committee taxation committee, found that up to to 90 percent ....