As possible, to do as much damage using bullets often designed to inflict maximum damage and thats what allowed the gunmen in aurora wrote to shoot 70 people. 70 people, killing 12, in a matter of minutes. Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater. The majority of americans realize that. By the way, so did Ronald Reagan, one of the staunchest defenders of the Second Amendment who wrote to congress in 1994 urging them this is Ronald Reagan speaking urging them to listen to the public and to Law Enforcement community to support a ban on the further manufacture of military style assault weapons. [applause] finally, Congress Needs to help rather than hinder Law Enforcement as it does its job. We should get tougher on people who buy guns with the express purpose of turning around and selling them to criminals. We should severely punish anyone who helps them do this. Since congress has not confirmed a director of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms in
Mr. Leahy mr. President , earlier this week i spoke about the need for the senate to consider legislation to help increase americas safety by reducing gun violence. I came on the floor of the senate and i urged my yellow senators to abandon efforts to filibuster proceeding to this bill. The senate should not have to overcome a filibuster to respond to the call for action to response to the gun violence theyre experiencing. Mr. President , i have the privilege of being the longest serving member of this body, and ive watched debate on so many issues. If there was ever an issue where all 100 of us should vote yes or no, its here. I was encouraged by the comments of a number of Senate Republicans that they are prepared to debate this matter and will not support this wrongheaded filibuster. Even the wall street journal he wouldized against a filibuster yesterday. In a lead editorial titled the g. O. P. s gun control misfire. I dont agree with much, but i would quote this if conservatives w
Thank you. It is a pleasure to be here this evening. Plentyout and see that are still worried about their grades and seeking extra credit. Thank you to the professor for that lovely introduction. Larger part of the campus intellectual project to gauge with Michelle Alexanders ant, which has gotten enormous amount of critical praise over the years, that has restarted conversations that activists and scholars have been having often in more silo the spaces. Hassuccess of the book provided more spaces for Public Discourse around these questions. Me, one of the great challenges of the book as well as of so much activism, particularly within African American communities around incarceration is the unnamed and almost always unnamed assumption that this is primarily a mans problem, a problem of male bodies being stopped and frisked by Police Officers instead of assumptions about male gendered norms associated with black men and notions of violence and the idea that the problems of incarceratio
The sort of political side of what first ladies are supposed to do. Marlin . Hello . Your question, sir . I was doing the campaign of hoover and al smith. The biggest thing was repealing the 18th amendment. I grew up in a community and all of them conservative, very religious. Everybody voted for hoover. Also, the market crash in 29, the banks busted at the same time. I was 7 years old then and i wanted to go down and collect my money when the banks broke. The hoover dam was named for him. The draw started when the dust storms started all the way from north dakota all the way from nebraska down to oklahoma. Ive got to jump in. Youve given us a Good Opportunity to ask the last what should her legacy be and how should we view the Hoover Administration in hindsight . Whats your thesis going to be . My thesis is she has not been succeeded by a woman who served for 13 years. We would remember a lot more of lou hoover now. Her activism and a lot of her nonpolitical agenda in working with the
I came to this work because i was working against violence against women. Stories are these really about violence against women. They are about incarceration, police brutality, but they are also about violence against women. Particularly violence against black women which is the target of the prison nation. I am humbled to be here. I so appreciate the work that you have done. I look forward to your leadership because you are organizing a world that i want to live in. Thank you. [applause] we will pick up there. I have 493 questions or something. We will get to do four or five of them probably. I want to leave some room for the audience. I want to start where beth ended. The notion of violinist against black women violence against black women. I cant think about much of anything without thinking of it through the lens of 12 years a slave. If you have not yet seen it, you must. Theres a lot of discourse publicly about it at this moment, but for me, perhaps one of the most useful aspects