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0 feel about this country in other parts of the world if that s the kind of person that is out there representing us on something called the intelligence committee? well, i just don t know how anybody could come to the conclusion that the country is a lot safer with michele bachmann having access to intel information. that s right. and will there be enough public support that could change her, that could remove her from the intel committee? probably not. i think boehner is so weakened, i don t think he would have the courage to do something like that, because i think we can t risk angering the far right wing. and there should be, ed. because as you point out, again, this is a woman who has already proven she can t be trusted with sensitive information, that she has no problem using it for her own political purposes, and she has no problem just talking off the cuff and saying all kinds of crazy things. karen finney, always a pleasure to have you the ed show. that is the ed ....
0 voluntarily? that is an exercise in shark jumping. this is the sort of thing that might make sense internally to the nra when they talk about this amongst themselves, but the rest of the country are not picking a fight, but looking for problem solving, nonconfrontational ways to help each other out. trying to block the voluntary tucson gun buyback program does not make sense. the whole reason gun policy is supposed to be seen as so intractable, so unreformable, so politically untouchable and not in america is that the national rifle association has created a mystique about themselves, a mystique about their own power that is supposed to caution anyone who might want to reform gun laws that it just cannot be done. no matter who we are, no matter where we live, no matter how or why we might want to reform our gun laws, no matter what happens in our country to make us think about these things, yes supposed to be so intimidated by the raw power of the nra, that we cannot even take a firs ....
i m ed schultz. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. good evening. thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. in politics, the concept of low hanging fruit is something that ought to be politically attainable, even if nothing else can be done, right? something that we probably all can agree on, even if we agree on nothing else about some particular policy. so on what is supposedly the most intractable political issue of our time on the issue of guns in america, the lowest of the low-hanging fruit has probably been this. it s not even a law, it s a thing. buybacks, gun buybacks, sponsored by local law enforcement officials, maybe a local church group. gun buybacks are a simple idea. if you have a gun you don t want, a buyback program gives you a chance to get rid of it in a way that is safe and orderly and legal and calm. that gun in your life that you have not known what to do with, that you have been worried about, your friendly local buyb ....