as possible, to do as much damage using bullets often designed to inflict maximum damage and that s what allowed the gunmen in aurora wrote to shoot 70 people. 70 people, killing 12, in a matter of minutes. weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater. the majority of americans realize that. by the way, so did ronald reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the second amendment who wrote to congress in 1994 urging them this is ronald reagan speaking urging them to listen to the public and to law enforcement community to support a ban on the further manufacture of military style assault weapons. [applause] finally, congress needs to help rather than hinder law- enforcement as it does its job. we should get tougher on people who buy guns with the express purpose of turning around and selling them to criminals. we should severely punish anyone who helps them do this. since congress has not confirmed a director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco,
the sort of political side of what first ladies are supposed to do. marlin? > hello? your question, sir? i was doing the campaign of hoover and al smith. the biggest thing was repealing the 18th amendment. i grew up in a community and all of them conservative, very religious. everybody voted for hoover. also, the market crash in 29, the banks busted at the same time. i was 7 years old then and i wanted to go down and collect my money when the banks broke. the hoover dam was named for him. the draw started when the dust storms started all the way from north dakota all the way from nebraska down to oklahoma. i ve got to jump in. you ve given us a good opportunity to ask the last what should her legacy be and how should we view the hoover administration in hindsight? what s your thesis going to be? my thesis is she has not been succeeded by a woman who served for 13 years. we would remember a lot more of lou hoover now. her activism and a lot of her nonpolitical age
government, they do not have the available. part of it was, there is great history there. even more secularized groups found it easier to collaborate in those ways. some of the changes were called forth by the african- american pastors that would be the first door and knocked on what somebody was released or in need of service. i remember tony evans meeting in the office with the president and td jakes and others of the frontline. they may not have some the sophistication of these established charities but they have capacity. why would they be excluded? my question is this, there are differences. dr. diiulio wrote a textbook you would transfer. i want to know basically would it have stayed the same system since there are so many differences? what do you as a director pass on to the next? headaches. [laughter] horrors. messes to clean up. you cannot possibly look back. i said at the outset, what unites us is a lot bigger that divide us. the desire to put them on a level
thank you. it is a pleasure to be here this evening. plentyout and see that are still worried about their grades and seeking extra credit. thank you to the professor for that lovely introduction. larger part of the campus intellectual project to gauge with michelle alexander s ant, which has gotten enormous amount of critical praise over the years, that has restarted conversations that activists and scholars have been having often in more silo the spaces. hassuccess of the book provided more spaces for public discourse around these questions. me, one of the great challenges of the book as well as of so much activism, particularly within african- american communities around incarceration is the unnamed and almost always unnamed assumption that this is primarily a man s problem, a problem of male bodies being stopped and frisked by police officers instead of assumptions about male gendered norms associated with black men and notions of violence and the idea that the problems
a drink or two during your pregnancy @vicderbyshire on instagram and twitter or email victoria@bbc.co.uk and postponed physical check ups on babies born during lockdown could mean that many cases of a condition called hip dysplasia have been missed, warns a charity we ll explain exactly what hip dysplasia is in half an hour. the government says it will announce details in the next few days of how it will limit access to coronavirus tests, as the system struggles to cope with the surge in demand. staff and patients in the nhs and social care sector will be given priority after the health secretary, matt hancock, said it might be weeks before the problems are resolved. another cabinet minister, robert buckland, acknowledged the government is facing real challenges and insisted it will do whatever it takes to increase laboratory capacity. greg mckenzie reports. the signs are clear, the testing system is struggling to cope, with reports that some in desperation are turnin