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From floridas capital. so, what are these provisions in the bill that are under consideration? >> reporter: hi, fred. well, the bill the senate is planning to vote on tomorrow would do several things. it would raise the age to purchase a firearm to 21 from 18 years old. it would require a three-day waiting period for gun purchases, with some exceptions. it would ban the sale or possession of bump fire stocks, that accessory that can make a semiautomatic weapon fire like an automatic weapon. it w...

An automatic weapon. there are 2.5 million ar-fifteens in this country already and unless youre going to go in and get rid of those, we need to be talking whole listally about school safety. we need to require every school to have a plan. we need them to assess what they need and give them grants to give them help for what they need. we need to address guns, i believe that. we need to look at our gun policies and figure out what we can get done. theres a bipartisan bill in the senate from senato...

You cant start messing with our constitutionally protected right. >> there are interpretations of what the forefathers had. youre not allowed to have an automatic weapon. >> i know why you want them. they make a lot of noise, shoot a lot of bullets, match cho guns, cool looking. i understand why you want one. no one can tell me why you need it. >> we dont have to need it. its a constitutionally protected right. >> those kids had a right to li live. >> you have the right to self-defense. its not ...

>> im hoping the president can think back to that couple weeks ago and look at this where he really has a chance to do something that absolutely nobody else has been able to do, no president before him has been able to get this across the goal line, whether it be republican or democratic. hes the one that can do it. i want to work with him. he ear going to do something common sense, gun sense. >> #winning. that will appeal to the president. hes probably watching right now. senator, thank you. >>...

Issu issue. >> its an accessory. its not considered an automatic weapon. how many times has bump stock -- >> why are you defending them? >> because i think it should be available. its not an issue of the gun itself or the weapon itself. its an issue of the individual behind it. >> which individual would want -- >> a crazed individual. >> why not ban them? >> it keeps those 58 people alive. >> once you start doing that, whats the next accessory? >> lets go through what the solutions are. presiden...

Disaster that is the broward county sheriffs department? they received doesens of does df warnings about the stoneman douglas shooter. nothing happened. people heard something, said something and they never stopped this guy. bureaucracy is not the solution. taking away peoples second amendment rights not the solution. when sadly, they werent pushing big government solutions. the democrats at todays meeting were proposing limits on the second amendment. dont believe me? listen to them in their ow...

Bureaucracy. in this case, the fbi, the disaster that is the broward county sheriffs department, they received dozens of prior warnings about the stoneman douglas shooter. nothing happened. people heard something, said something, and they never stopped this guy. bureaucracy is not the solution. taking away people second amendment rights, not the solution, when, sadly, they were pushing for government solutione for the democrats were proposing limits on the second amendment. dont believe me? list...

And so im so grateful to hear that senator toomey and senator manchins bill not might be -- i would suggest must be part of the universal background checks. there are so many things we can do right now. the only thing i would add you started by pointing out there would be differences of opinion. please know that there are great differences of opinion on the question of whether having teachers armed with guns firing back at a potential mass shooter is the answer. i dont think it is. many others d...

Suggest must be a part of this. theres so many things that we can do right now. the only thing i would add, you started mr. president by pointing out there would be differences of opinion. please know that our great differences of opinion on the question of whether having teachers armed with guns firing back at a potential mass shooter is the answer? i dont think it is. many others dont. please also know that there are -- the majority of this people in the country now understand that there are l...

We should not be surprised. i heard your run-ups mention the two-step shuffle. we need real solutions in a common sense way. i hope we do. i tried to bring the voice of teachers and parents and law enforcement into the white house yesterday. >> lets talk about the first -- its an established pattern. he did it with daca. he said im all for it, love these kids. cherish them. next thing you know he dropped the whole thing. the assault rifle is, a semi-automatic looks like an automatic weapon. its ...