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Moments ago. so lonnie when you hear like we always bring up the issue of gun control and talking about guns and what we might do and then it -- then the talk just dissipates or goes away because the gun lobby is so strong you might as well not talk about it. everybody is afraid. how does it make you feel when you hear things like that? >> we are gun owners. sandy took the nra safety course at 10 years old. we have a shotgun. i like to trap shoot. skeet shoot. we are gun owners. we like to consi...

Not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws, even in the face of repeated mass killings. for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing, but it is not something that i intend to stop working on in the next 18 months. >> as we mentioned, last nights attack came three years after james holmes shot and killed 12 people and wounded 70 others in a movie theater in aurora colorado. the penalty phase of holmes trial is still in progress. the jury who convicted h...

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The others involved. >> theyve taken our daughter and now they want to take our worldly goods. i think thats a little much. >> sandy and lonnie phillips we appreciate you joining us. i want to consider the conversation with you, the financial situation youre in and your battle to continue to fight in the name of your daughter and others who have died in that tragedy in aurora. i really do want to talk to you and well consider this conversation on this lawsuit and whats happened to you financiall...

Away youre going to jail. get back in your car. that was it. how cavalier was that? and its gotten a little better but not a whole lot better. we still dont treat guns like theyre instructions of death in this country. >> sandy, why do you think that is? >> as a legal gun owner -- well i think youre a legal gun owner until youre not a legal gun owner and you have broken a law. you have killed somebody. youve shot somebody. we have to start looking at this in a much broader picture and saying tha...

Shooting. one of the 12 victims who lost their lives in that shooting was 24-year-old sports journalist jessica gawee. her parents joint me now. sandy and lonnie phillips. thank you for being with us on this friday on what i know has to be an especially difficult day for the two of you. are you at all surprised that this happened again at a movie theater in this country? >> unfortunately no. my husbands been predicting it. >> why? why are you not surprised? >> well im not surprised because the h...

And mood amplifier. any thoughts that is in a persons mind at the time of smoking marijuana could be amplified by smoking marijuana. for that reason its relevant. >> the jail had a history of violations including regularly observing an inmate who hanged himself in 2012. last night on politics nation sandra blands mother told al sharpton she was disgusted when she saw the arrest video. >> we had been going back and forth over the years things we needed to apologize for. we did that, laughing and ...

Confidence in man i do not have at this point. i have confidence in god. >> how do you feel about the national reaction, people all over the country showing such concern and interest. how did that make you feel? >> i have to tell you, reverend, i would hope that everyone would understand that it makes me feel great that theyre paying attention to the story. it makes me feel overwhelmed at the same time overjoyed because as everyone is talking about sandy, sandy sandy, after all the lights are ov...

It is your choice to turn things around if thats what you want to do. sandy had been applying for jobs all over the place. so she and i just agreed that she was going to stick to going back to texas. she was going to also be on her masters program. and she said, mom you know i know what my purpose is now. she says, my purpose is to go back to texas and stop all the injustice against blacks. thats what my daughter. . she and i were in the car. and that was what she was going to do. >> wow! do you...

Commotion. again, as you pointed out, there will be a power point presentation and photos from the autopsy of sandy bland. well wait for that from the d.a. go ahe hadad ryan. >> we talked to her for about 35 minutes. she said she would talk through the food slits so they would talk to each other from across the hallway. she said sandy was crying all the time and very upset that she was still in jail. she was sleeping when they found sandy and afterwards she could see her body on the other side o...