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Anything about it saying its about anything else other than easy legal access to assault weaponry. >> and sports teams and figures have in the past been very powerful helping to enact social change and are once again using their platform to try to make a difference. >> thanks, andy for that. coming up, the texas governor declares he was misled and is now livid after police admit major mistakes while responding to the texas school massacre. more on that, plus reaction from texas congressman joa...

Responses from those in power who refuse to do anything about it, saying its about anything else other than easy legal access to assault weaponry. >> and sports teams and figures have in the past been very powerful, helping to enact social change. and theyre once again using their platform to try to make a difference. >> and if you would like to offer your support for those affected by the texas school shooting, just go to cnn.com/impact. and thanks for spending part of your day with me. im mich...

Something to be done. >> we cannot give up. we cannot give up as a society, and we cannot give up on giving our two cents at keeping the pressure on those in power, who do nothing about it. children murdered in their classroom! murdered. in their classroom. and youre already seeing the responses from those in power, who refused to do anything about it, saying, its about anything else, other than easy legal access to assault weaponry. >> sports teams and figures -- powerful to unacceptable change...

Classroom. murdered in their classroom. and you are already seeing the responses from those in power who refuse to do anything about it saying its about anything else other than easy legal access to assault weaponry. its about video games or im seeing, you know, senator mike lee from utah its about fatherlessness and ted cruz is talking about doorways being unlocked. anything about anything other than doing the right thing on common sense laws. i dont care if youve got a gun in your house, peopl...

Literature and the text, they see their communities as actually having a buildup of the kind of weapons that would help them deal with any kind of uprising or clash with the government itself. and so they do want assault weaponry. they do want anything really big. they sometimes talk about the ar-15 as a quality weapon, because you can put a grenade launcher appendage on to it. thats the people, thats the face of the nra today. >> mark, this one world government thing, do these people actually s...

Growth is the election of president barack obama. >> right, i think the problem for a lot of the people who talk about common sense or reasonable gun control, when you look at this context of these patriot and hate groups and the election of obama, is that -- and this is difficult, i think, to say, but it has to be said -- that a lot of these groups arent interested in self-defense weaponry. they actually see themselves, if you look at some of the literature and the text, they see their communit...

Or both. >> heather: is this a distraction from other issues leading up to the election? we have a poll well talk about later a. poll that shows 74% of people say the economy is their top issue. is this a distraction? >> it is a distraction, but dont you think an investigation needs to happen here? just because we are so concerned about the economy, just because we need to get millions of americans back working again and the president has yet to set forth any real policies to have done that, d...

You dont need strips, drips, and drums of that high capacity to go out and hunt. theres no justification on earth for us to be able to retain this kind of assault weaponry in defense of our second amendment right and ostensibly for the purposes of hunting. youve put on the table some conservative republicans and some democrats that have been receiving great grades from the nra have are come to their senses. the nra must not be allowed to be a shadow government. weve allowed them to be able to ga...

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