We start with the president who has just wrapped up an important speech in minneapolis on the urgent need to address gun violence across the country. And its important because it was his first gun policy speech delivered to americans from outside of the echo chamber of washington, d. C. In attendance for his remarks and round table discussion were local Law Enforcement and elect ed officials as well as the lone survivor to a shooting in the area. And his message was simple. Voters must tell their members of congress that they do not believe the nras deception on gun safety and their ridiculous suggestion that the president is coming to take your guns. Tell them theres no legislation to eliminate all guns. Theres no legislation being proposed to subvert the Second Amendment. Tell them specifically what were talking about. His speech echoed a super bowl commercial that pointed out the rank hypocrisy of men like the nras Wayne Lapierre who at one time was a vocal supporter of background c
0 later lay dead on the streets of chicago. this is a vicious wake-up call for those of us who claim to be on the side of young people who are vulnerable who need our voices to raise and to rise in unison against this gun lobby and the nonsensical insistence that president obama and anybody else who is concerned about taking care of illegal guns is against the second amendment. mark, to that point, the president said we don t have to agree on everything to agree to do something. but the nra position is that they don t agree to anything if it involves changes to the law. well, the amazing thing about the nra s position, which i think people are trying to understand right now, they don t represent gun owners in the positions they re taking against universal background checks which is something basically everybody agrees on. when you re at 90% public approval, that is pretty much unanimity behind the idea that if you are a felon, if you are a domestic violence perpetrator, if you are