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constituents demanding an end to mass shootings. as negotiations continue, cnn chief congressional correspondent manu raju pressed lawmakers about ar-15s and why people need them and he got a range of responses. here it is. >> why do you think that people need to have ar-15s in this country in. >> youre talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. people who are law abiding citizens are in good mental health and arent a threat to the public. >> in my state, they use them...

The mental health piece, the school safety piece, the guns piece, and democrats have strengthened their position by saying we want to talk about all of it and leaving it to republicans to say which parts they dont want to talk about, the guns part. the folks in the room, they are talking about the guns part. it is narrow, but theyre talking about it. >> they are. the idea of adding a waiting period of sorts for people between 18 and 21 to buy ar-15 style weapons. that would be a big change. i wa...

It was not a politically popular thing to do, and it suffered. in mississippi theres a case where the expectation was, oh, its mississippi. well pass this thing, and it got beat back fairly easily. there were national figures who were asked about it and were very -- >> litmus test. >> i know mitt romney had his whole problem answering it. by and large, he tried his best to distance himself from it. i do think there are occasions where the national republican party recognizes it its sending a div...