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Minimum of 2 million people for next year. do you think getting public groundswell through the marches you re telling us about right now is the only way to get congress to act? is that a concern of yours? especially your family s revered name associated with that. is that what it will take. a groundswell of support like that? that is helpful. that is not the only thing. we have to inundate united states senators offices with calls to say, look, we want to you do this. or your job may be on the line. this is about protecting individuals jobs. not what s doing right for democracy. what you re seeing passing, 48 of which are considering these restrictive measures, what do you think is the most ....
Run down on that i believe. you mention it was very specific. and jim, the students at the school, they re very engaged on the issue of gun control and there s a big political divide in the country over this issue. an nbc/ wall street journal last fall found that 75% of republicans overall think the government will go too far to restrict gun rights. 73% of democrats think the government will not do enough to regulate access to guns. now, you said that there should be a change in gun laws, and there needs to be a groundswell. can you explain that? well, every time the gun laws have changed in america, from the 1934 national firearms act to the 1968 gun control act, to the brady bill, after james brady was shot, the 68 act was after the three assassinations of the 60s. the national firearms act in the 30s after the gangsterism of the 30s. it was the public that changed the law. the public groundswell that forced congress to change the law. so, we re fed a narrative, a fantasy th ....
Change public attitudes. worldwide outrage over the death of cecil the lion. cecil s death created a public groundswell of opinion that s been translated into real action. i eat hamburgers. that was not a hunt. that was a murder. this guy must move quite a collection of animal heads. here he is posing next to a bear he shot. he killed half of noah s arc. killing a lion for sport, we ll always be together, right? no, we won t. [ bleep ], you hunted cecil the lion. y all stop talking about it ....