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Pass rm, safe gun control in the state of new york. >> some governors just cant say it. this is a leadership moment for all people in elected office in this country. we are at a crossroads. which way do we turn? its no time to change the conversation and start picking on the first amendment and say, well, its the entertainment industry. the entertainment industry has been around for a long, long time. governor christie, its the guns. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonig...

Viewers to go to the website of the mayors against illegal guns. they put forward a very responsible plan in 2009 after they saw the obstruction in terms of some common sense gun legislation. this is supported, ed, by millions of people in this country. and to call it something as drudge does is to buy into the extremism that they want to pilfer and spread. >> but there are a lot of lawmakers that simply will not move on their position. and we have seen some of them come out recently. and, of co...

Mental health, which will take on the popular culture. but other countries have violent popular culture. other countries have mental health problems. they dont have our gun homicide rates. >> the very mental health that the republicans didnt want to support and never have wanted to support. >> they cut the funding. >> okay. and of course they always use the entertainment industry. but i want to go become to the website of drudge. comparing the president of the united states to hitler and stalin,...

You could have mental health checks. you could have prosecution for illegal gun trafficking. but i would recommend to your viewers to go to the website of the mayors against illegal guns. they put forward a very responsible plan in 2009 after they saw the obstruction in terms of some common sense gun legislation. this is supported, ed, by millions of people in this country. and to call it something as drudge does is to buy into the extremism that they want to pilfer and spread. >> but there are ...

Country, people have blamed it on mental health. i think vice president biden is being very wise in trying to craft an anti-gun violence program, which will include mental health, which will take on the popular culture. but other countries have violent popular culture. other countries have mental health problems. they dont have our gun homicide rates. >> the very mental health that the republicans didnt want to support and never have wanted to support. >> they cut the funding. >> okay. and of co...

0 feel about this country in other parts of the world if thats the kind of person that is out there representing us on something called the intelligence committee? >> well, i just dont know how anybody could come to the conclusion that the country is a lot safer with michele bachmann having access to intel information. >> thats right. >> and will there be enough public support that could change her, that could remove her from the intel committee? >> probably not. i think boehner is so weakened, ...

0 voluntarily? that is an exercise in shark jumping. this is the sort of thing that might make sense internally to the nra when they talk about this amongst themselves, but the rest of the country are not picking a fight, but looking for problem solving, nonconfrontational ways to help each other out. trying to block the voluntary tucson gun buyback program does not make sense. the whole reason gun policy is supposed to be seen as so intractable, so unreformable, so politically untouchable and n...

im ed schultz. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening. >> good evening. thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. in politics, the concept of low hanging fruit is something that ought to be politically attainable, even if nothing else can be done, right? something that we probably all can agree on, even if we agree on nothing else about some particular policy. so on what is supposedly the most intractable political issue of our time on the issue of guns in ame...

>> well, look, number one, you know, you know and youve heard it like i have that people are scared. but if the advocacy that im hearing from my members all across the country is any indication, teachers do not want to be armed in schools. there is an issue about whether or not we should have an uptick in police presence in and around schools, and we have had. frankly, in our schools around the country about a third of our schools have some police presence for a variety of different reasons. but...

Them out. and its the right thing for aig to say thank you very much. >> will cohan, good to have you with us tonight. thats "the ed show." im ed schultz. the rachel match maddow show starts right now. >> good evening. a spectacular show right now. >> thanks. >> you have them every night. im just trying to get there. >> you have very kind. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. this is eric shinseki. eric shinseki went to west point. he graduated june 1965. before that year was out, by ...