that s what s frightening about it. people they don t know. one of the smartest things we could do is impose some waiting period for purchasing a gun. so you can t just go out, background check or no, and just buy a gun right away. you should have to wait a couple of weeks before you take delivery of that gun. you know? what s wrong with that? we re not saying you can t have the gun, but what s wrong with waiting? maybe they wouldn t be so rage filled by the time they took possession of their weapon. and limit the magazine size. going back to you, brian. back when bobby kennedy was shot and killed. i wrote a letter to my congressman. nothing happened. not just because i wrote one but i imagine hundreds of thousands others wrote letters. something really stops us from gun safety measures. what is it? you tell me. you ve got a minute here.
don t want to use the word sick. the coincidence of these guns available where you can shoot pow pow pow pow pow and you can shoot a lot of people really fast like in newtown. and this impulse of rage. let s get then rage over with fast. let s do a lot of shooting and spraying in this urge that seems to go with the fire power. that s what s freightening about it. people they don t know. one of the smartest things we could do is impose some waiting period for purchasing a gun. so you can t just go out, background check or no, and just buy a gun right away. you should have to wait a couple of weeks before you take delivery of that gun. you know? what s wrong with that? we re not saying you can t have the gun, but what s wrong with waiting? maybe they wouldn t be so rage filled by the time they took possession of their weapon. and limit the magazine size. going back to you, brian.
how do we stop that? well, i think mr. smerconish who was on earlier made a good point. look, we have information out there. you have to register to get a driver s license and drive a car. if you re going to get a security clearance and a firearm, at least there should be some reasonable regulations. and of the kind that president reagan pushed back when he was president could not get passed today. so magazine size is important. and semiautomatic handguns. we tend to concentrate on ar-15s and that sort of thing. even among the mass killings, semiautomatic handguns are the most common. i think reasonable regulation and addressing mental illness, some waiting periods could do a lot. but let s remember that even as murders and violent crime has declined over the last 20 years, almost half, mass murders have not. that tells there s something very wrong here. the sick thing here i
they could cast their ballot and shift up to two weeks before the election. what right wing groups did was to make sure they suppressed the vote and meat it a low turn out election because they know in every election recently when we had a good turn out and democrats win. your advice is this was not about guns. don t worry about it. the polls show it was not about guns. even yesterday the polls showed that colorado voters support the legislation and the reason they put the recall and the overwhelming support and the background legislation and the limiting of the magazine size. this was making sure you had a small number of voters that
that at the end of the day when it comes down to it, we will win. we will win the vote to have gun control and have universal background checks and assault rifle ban and lower magazine size. the nra has the money now. they have the numbers because they have been around so long. they have been doing this for so long, but mayors against illegal guns, newtown action alliance and all of the other organizations that have formed and mayors against illegal guns have been around six years that are fighting. our numbers are growing pretty rapidly, pretty fast. we re going to win. we have a strong group of people who aren t willing to give up and who will continue to fight until we get safer gun control laws passed and we feel safe in this country again. jillian, we know we covered this week that newtown families were in d.c. earlier to meet with our elected leaders. were you and your family part of that, if so, how did the meetings go? we met with senators