you know the left, the progressive community hasn t made that much of a stink about the assault weapons ban. that might be because they recognize the political difficulties, but my sense is they recognize the assault weapon is using a very small actual number of violent crimes, violent gun crimes. they think there s studies that suggest it s down to about 2%. they recognize the bill would have a much bigger impact on reducing gun violence. so when i talk to progressives, they don t get caught up over it. the high-capacity magazine issue is a whole other thing. i haven t heard a constructive argument in defense of i ll give you one. how would you like to be a police officer up against a semiautomatic. i wouldn t. i don t know why you re asking me that question. i wouldn t want to be that person at all. they re not going to waste their political capital on the assault weapons ban. and keep in mind, it polls at 9 on%. what else polls at 90%.
he can put the pressure on the house. that s true. that s certainly to me a pretty tough position to be in. if you re boehner, this has passed the upper house, i don t think the members should get a vote on it. cynthia, if sam s reporting is right, and he is a first-rate reporter, and we have a bill that includes background checks, does 2 including the ban? does it include the magazine or whatever, does it have something worth while in it? chris, i would like to know more about the details of the background check bill, because one of the fights between democrats and republicans has been over recordkeeping. democrats say if you don t require private sellers to keep any report of a background check, how do we even know that the background check was down? republicans have been say no records of any kind because of course the gun lobby insists that any recordkeeping will lead
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