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1930s when a law was passed imposing a tax on automatic weapons. press secretary james brady was wounded, congress passed the brady bill requiring background checks on many gun purchasers. also in the 1990s a ban on assault-style weapons was enacted. that ban expired in 2004. and it is worth noting six of the ten deadliest mass shootings in this country have occurred in the last five and a half years. garrett haake joins me now to break all of this down and to look for what we might expect in co...

But we have all kinds of laws about what you cant do. restricts on voting, you have to be registered, go to top, all kind of our restricts on our rights except for guns. >> i talked to gun advocate who said i dont care if you restrict bump stocks, which essentially turns them into more automatic weapons, but theres this idea once you start talking away one right -- >> who told them that? >> it sounds like an nr a-line quite frankly. >> next theyre going to wake us drive 45 miles an hour. no, wer...

You attitude to engage in this behavior. >> we restrict pain killer, booze, we restrict cigarettes. you cant have a cigarette. all it can do is hurz herself or his self. we have restrictions on voting. you have to keep registered and get a special thing if youre not a driver. all kinds of restrictions on our rights except for guns. >> ive been talking to gun advocates who say i dont care whether you restrict bump stocks which is the thing that makes guns essentially turns them into more automati...

If you look at the states when they adopt stricter gun control rates, crime rates go up. >> its just not true. >> a whole list of academic papers, the overwhelming number of academic papers find at. >> laura: we know chicago has tough gun laws. baltimore has horrible crime and has some of the most difficult toughest gun laws in the country. maryland and chicago. i think we can look at these polls and you make some points that are right. people here assault weapon and they have to ban it. they th...

If you look at the states when they adopt stricter gun control rates, crime rates go up. >> its just not true. >> a whole list of academic papers, the overwhelming number of academic papers find at. >> laura: we know chicago has tough gun laws. baltimore has horrible crime and has some of the most difficult toughest gun laws in the country. maryland and chicago. i think we can look at these polls and you make some points that are right. people here assault weapon and they have to ban it. they th...

Are they really afraid of their base or are they just afraid of the nra running ads against them? >> well, probably the latter. i cant agree with you more, enhancing background checks for private sales of firearms is not that controversial and is already being done in many states like mine which is a pretty pro-gun state, pennsylvania, were already doing it so to extend this to the federal level isnt a big deal. so i cant for the life of me understand why so many folks are having a hard time wit...

Into automatic weapons as was in the case there with that mass murder in the plaza in las vegas. and when the controversy -- when the crisis faded, when the tragedy faded, so did the interest of politicians in doing anything about it, and congress never acted on it. so, well see what happens over time. look, i hope that hes very sincere about that, but you know -- and the mental health issue and detecting these kinds of personalities, particularly among young people, but not exclusive to them, t...

When you advocate for common sense gun soft legislation that has been proven to save lives, those things work. and we know that to be true. so just as we -- just as having seat belts in cars doesnt prevent every single death in an automobile accident, you know, we have to to continue advocating for laws that we know are proven to work. and background checks are one of those things. people ask me about that with sandy hook all the time. all i can say is that even if it hadnt made a difference at ...

Why cant we go further to semi-automatic weapons because they can made into automatic weapons easily. >> ill just say what i said again. we know that we work our organization every town for gun safety works on priorities that we know are proven to reduce gun violence and save lives in the most effective way possible. and what we know that is the most effective way to do that is to have background checks on trey gun sale in the country which is not the law federally. that is what our organization...

The bad guys are carrying mac 10 automatic weapons. that needs to stop. we still hear it. we still hear complaints we have the militarization of the police. no, we have the militarization of the general public and the police have to go up against it almost every day of the week. we hear these situations. in excuse, its not fobl secure a school. you have outdoor hallways pfrlt means every individual classroom is an entrance and an exit from the building. so there could be 100 entrances and exits ...