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Stricter background checks in purchasing guns, but there is this political divide here if you take a look at the new cnn/orc poll, says 29% of republicans say they favor stricter gun control laws compared to 82% of the democrats. so how key is this political divide here? and what gets done? >> its very important. i mean, if you look at this sort of macro politics of it, suzanne, you see that kind of a number. you understand whats going on between republicans and democrats. you see that nine out ...

Than a the shotgun is. but as you may know the ar-15 was used, perhaps because its so easy to fire, it was used in a couple of mass shootings we saw including the colorado movie massacre and the shooting at the oregon mall. the weapon itself is controversial. your thoughts on that? >> well, i mean, i understand that they want to say, you know, this wouldnt look scary if the military were to find weapons and perhaps falling in the wrong hands, but the fact is, theres so many in circulation that, ...

Murdered directly linked to a u.s. federal government government. i think the idea we rust them with good judgment is a big, serious mistake. they have not earned it. >> go back to the basic question. do you support background checks on gun sales? to prevent mentally ill people, criminals, abusers from purchasing guns? that is a question they wont answer this, is about an extremist agenda that wants to prevent any sensible measure no matter how it will save human lives that. is fortunately the c...

Government program and the idea that we trust them with good judgment is a big serious mistake. they have not earned it >> just go back to the basic question that he didnt answer before. do you support background checkos gun sales to help the seriously mentally ill dangerously mentally ill person from purchasing guns. this is not about any one regulation. it is an extremist agenda that prevents any sensible measure that no matter how demon it will save human lives and thats the conversation that...

Control. but at the time, he was very much in support of the legislation that went through and wrote president johnson a letter to that effect. >> its kind of interesting when you think about 1968, because you could at that point mail order a gun, minors could buy the guns. there are some critics of the bill, legal scholars, as well as gun rights advocates, that say that it was actually motivated by racist fears, that this bill was meant to keep african-americans from purchasing guns. whats your...

This is nra members. 57% of the nra members believe that everyone who wants to buy a gun should have to pass a criminal background check. 71% of nra members support banning people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns. those are not things that are true of american law right, which is amazing. if you are on the freaking terrorist watch list, you can buy a gun in america. if were going to get past this almost hysterical fear of trying to do anything at all on gun rights, if were going ...

The gun policies that the members of the nra would want. that is the impression that we all have. but that is not at all true either. we do not have the gun policies in this nation that members of the nra want for this nation. look at this polling from july of this year. this is nra members. 57% of the nra members believe that everyone who wants to buy a gun should have to pass a criminal background check. 71% of nra members support banning people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns...

Smuggling, a ban on people on the terrorist watch list from purchasing guns and explosives, all pending, not discussed. >> who could be against the last one? >> or any of them, for that matter. >> and i think, you know, that background checks is i think the really fertile ground where every gun owner except for the really radical extreme, the black helicopters are coming gun owners, agree that a convicted felon shouldnt be able to walk into a gun show or any commercial establishment in our count...

People supported preventing them from purchasing guns. the nra doesnt matter, insists on absolute orthodoxy. the republican party cannot resist the magnetic allure of the conservative movement. they cant stop the conservative movement dragging them to the right even when its not in the republican partys interest. thats the way its always been. except sometimes its not. heres headlines that had an exclamation to me. brewer vetoes law that allows guns on public property. brewer vetoes? yes. arizon...

From purchasing guns. the nra doesnt matter, insists on absolute orthodoxy. the republican party cannot resist the magnetic allure of the conservative movement. they cant stop the conservative movement dragging them to the right even when its not in the republican partys interest. thats the way its always been. except sometimes its not. heres headlines that had an exclamation to me. brewer vetoes law that allows guns on public property. brewer vetoes? yes. arizona bruer vetoed a bill that sailed...