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One of these terrible events, sandy hook, gabrielle giffords columbine back in the 90s theres a movement that starts up by anti-gun folks. they all want something to be done. and the something they want done often turns out to be regulating guns. then they melt away after a few weeks or a few months. we all have different issues we care about. in some ways more than that. but the gun owners of america, as you say, involved in a sort of religiosity believe more than anything their patriotic duty ...

A close 51 votes. just barely enough. he angered the gun people, as you know, he equated gun violence with a public health issue. and i got to say, guns killed a lot more people in america last year than ebola did, so, you know, it kind of is a public health issue but any time a doctor talks about guns you know youre going get controversy. >> with the expression, do we think the idea and the issue of gun violence along with public health will we see a cross over now hes been appointed? >> the tw...

County in kansas, the states republican supermajority just invalidated all your gun regulations. its all thanks to the hottest trend in conservative law making, preemption. >> the basic part is universal preemption. >> in state after state, conservatives have gained control of governors mansions and state legislatures but they still have those pesky blue-dot cities in their state with higher concentrations of liberals. places that may want to pass paid sick leave or raise minimum wage or even wo...

New law that stops local government from regulating guns. >> can you carry -- openly carry weapons into municipal buildings now, public buildings? can you take them into the rec center, into the library? >> if we want to have a law that gets involved in the second amendment, it needs to be a state-wide law. >> well bring you that report next. . during the day, we generate as much electricity as we can using solar. at night and when its cloudy, we use more natural gas. this ensures we can produce...

Its kind of -- i hate to say bare bones, but it is. they kind of turn into ghost towns fairly quickly. >> we met the republican insurance commission here is fighting her own partys refusal to expand medicaid. >> for me, its not about the political party. for me, its about doing whats best for the people of kansas. listen to what can sans have to say and are they really representing your interest as a voter? are they really looking out for whats in your best interest as a citizen of the state? >>...

And state legislatures but they have higher concentrations of liberals that want to pass paid sick leave or raise minimum wage or even worse stop folks from strolling down the streets with guns strapped to their chest. >> now wait a minute. you must have a real good reason to have a man to do a fool thing like that. >> we dont allow anyone to wear guns in dodge city. hadnt you noticed? >> kansas municipalities have a reach history of regulating guns. back in the days of the wild west, the key to...

To the taxpayer, because 85% of the texans are paying high property taxes to hospital districts, because its our hospital districts that are paying for the uncompensated care. this is a really bad business decision, not to accept those medicaid dollars. and find a way to do this. >> state senator from texas, leticia van de putte, and howard dean, thank you both. on "all in america" tomorrow, the nra is calling kansas a model state, thanks to a new law that stops local governments from regulating...

Districts, because its our hospital districts that are paying for the uncompensated care. this is a really bad business decision, not to accept those medicaid dollars. and find a way to do this. >> state senator from texas, leticia van de putte, and howard dean, thank you both. on "all in america" tomorrow, the nra is calling kansas a model state, thanks to a new law that stops local governments from regulating guns. >> can you carry, openly carry weapons into municipal buildings now, public bui...

Neighbor. and its been very disrespectful to the taxpayer, because 85% of the texans are paying high property taxes to hospital districts, because its our hospital districts that are paying for the uncompensated care. this is a really bad business decision, not to accept those medicaid dollars. and find a way to do this. >> state senator from texas, leticia van de putte, and howard dean, thank you both. on "all in america" tomorrow, the nra is calling kansas a model state, thanks to a new law th...

Killing a dozen people to the idea that you ought to ban guns. >> not the idea that you ought to ban guns. >> that regulating guns will reduce murder. it is not an assumption borne out from the data. your show and melissas show you guys pride yourselves in looking at data and not working from knee jerk reactions. we had a 2007 national academies of science study and it could not find a correlation between gun ownership and gun crime and between gun laws and gun crime. the cdc had a study where t...