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momentum, told them to walk away from the deal and they did. and now they voted against their own bill several times. so left with no other choice. the president has to take action at this point. and i think what s so disappointing about is republicans sort of fury about this issue and outrage about this issue is completely disingenuous. why would they go ahead and vote and pass the bill? they ve instead left jeopardize the safety of the country in these communities all over the nation to suck up, to donald trump is if republicans would have voted for that bipartisan bill, it would have passed, the president would have signed it into law. and a lot of these debates that are going on right now how would not be taking place? i ve spent a lot of my career on capitol hill working very unsuccessfully. i would say on immigration reform. and this bill that was brought up a bipartite producing bill for to conservative, very conservative republican from oklahoma. this is a bill that we wouldn
democrats were essentially forced to add on a section that was on the border and border security, which which was struggling down today, it didn t pass. so the fact that the three sections that democrats, we re really trying to push through, do you see that as a win for democrats? well i guess i wouldn t frame it that way. i think this is a real win for the country. this is the congress. finally you know, rededicating itself to the proposition that the united states is a beacon of hope for all freedom, love, people, especially ukrainians right now we finally reaffirmed that commitment today. i also think it s a big win, frankly for president biden essentially a republican majority controlled congress in the house, ratified his initial request for aid to ukraine, israel, taiwan, and
80% mental health checks, red flag laws. those don t seem like unreasonable intrusions on the constitutional right. if it was really money in politics or the impact of the gun lobby the reality is democrats had control of the house and senate and the white house last congress. it didn t pass, gun control legislation didn t pass. it is not so easy as we want to portray it. i also think the reality is that this year there have been 13,000 deaths by gun violence. the vast majority, 95% of them, are inner cities. we have some of the strictest control laws in the country. we are not being tough on crime in general. i think we can have a much stronger impact if we get serious about getting tough on crime in inner cities. last congress we did pass a once in a generation safer communities bill to combat this. i personally cosponsored eight different pieces of common sense gun control legislation that has the majority of americans backing it and republicans refuse to bring it to the floor.
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.