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Forefathers were thinking about and we cant dig them up you and ask them but if we could i would be willing to bet they would be automatic what, magazine clips what? >> sean: would you like me to quote some of them? >> we are talking about that making sure that the law enforcement officials have access to better weapons than the criminals. >> they do. automatic weapons are banned. >> we just had a guns for food drive here in los angeles. are two rocket launchers were walked in. how do people get...

Forefathers were thinking about and we cant dig them up you and ask them but if we could i would be willing to bet they would be automatic what, magazine clips what? >> sean: would you like me to quote some of them? >> we are talking about that making sure that the law enforcement officials have access to better weapons than the criminals. >> they do. automatic weapons are banned. >> we just had a guns for food drive here in los angeles. are two rocket launchers were walked in. how do people get...

Forefathers were thinking about and we cant dig them up you and ask them but if we could i would be willing to bet they would be automatic what, magazine clips what? >> sean: would you like me to quote some of them? >> we are talking about that making sure that the law enforcement officials have access to better weapons than the criminals. >> they do. automatic weapons are banned. >> we just had a guns for food drive here in los angeles. are two rocket launchers were walked in. how do people get...

>> school safety is a complex issue with no simple, single solution. but i believe trained, qualified armed security is one key component among many that could provide the first line of difference as well as the last line of defense. >> reporter: the debate over semi out automatic weapons has raged since friday sandy hook, and used rounds of ammo to murder 20 children and six women. and increasing police presence at schools would be effective and a third said somewhat effective and 12% said not ...

Hearing over and over again. am bif lent. were am bif lent about this issue. when it comes to, you know, gun bans, we dont know that its going to help, but at the same time we have kids, too. so when i say he am bif lent, i know a lot of people arent am bif lent about the horrors they say. it broke their heart and shattered them. as far as are they going to stand up and draw the line in the sand and put their lives on the line and the career on the line and the networks on the line and their new...

Sitting right there that they cling onto and they wont move, which makes it politically dangerous to come up with any kind of gun legislation. where is this all going? >> well, the thing is that there has to be a message to rural folks and to gun owners across the country. look, we understand that you may be a hunter, you may be a gun collector, you may have just grown up in a family where guns are always a part of your life. you can continue to do that, the second amendment will protect you on ...

And 06 of course, we love hearing from our vi in the af jo taking away all guns. but thats not what im saying. i would just think that the founding fathers could have foreseen automatic weapons se second amendm and we are back. president obama has made a counter offer to house speaker john boehner to fiscal negotiations. $400,000 as the new dividing line on taxes, meaning tax rates would return to clinton-era rates for those making $400,000 >> well, the thing is, there has to be a message to r...

>> what do you mean? >> what i said is their use of guns, shooting guns, is not necessary. >> because their whole rule is to cover and evacuate. thats what they do. >> okay. >> get the president out of there. >> so possibly we need to think of strategies like that in schools. >> lets go in another direction here. what theyre called assault rifles, theyre semiautomatic, right. >> we have outlawed automatic weapons since the days of machine gun kelly. whats wrong with making the same rule effectiv...

The tragedy in sandy hook elementary has changed the gun control debate. a new reuters poll showed that 50% now favor strong regulation for gun ownership. up 8 points from before the shooting. 84% support background checks. thats up 7%. and 60% support limits on automatic weapons, up 6%. this tragedy is different. and its changing how americans feel about this issue. but we must also remember the terrible truth. little kids die from guns every day. since 1979, more than 116,000 children and teen...

Pressure on and have teachers and parents from all over the country and psychologists, ultimately grass roots support will trump the power of the nra, however alewis ri it may be. thats why we cant let these things just go away. joe and i are good friends and my heart goes out to all the people in connecticut who are agonizing over this. but their agony is being shared, ill guarantee you. we had literally hundreds of phone calls and letters in my office before noon today asking the congress to d...