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Help, focus on mental health and make the gun laws maybe a little stricter. >> whats changed? >> after what i experienced and just hearing the rounds go off in such succession and watching those terrified cases come at me and knowing youre the adult am charge and not only are you dealing with your life but as a mother, these are all my kids. >> of course. >> i just -- for me its not enough. something has to be done. you have to have laws that take the catalyst out of the equation. assault rifles...

Weapons and other very lethal semi-automatic weapons in the u.s. again, as your previous guests have pointed out, there really seems to be no national will to make the types of changes that are needed in order to reduce or hopefully eliminate some day these types of terrible tragedies. >> you know how popular ar-15s are, the most popular semi-automatic rifle. 61% of all u.s. civilian rifle sales in 2016. it doesnt seem you can just erase their existence by snapping your fingers. >> no, it certai...

>> whats the catalyst? >> the assault rifle. >> semi automatic weapons? >> semi automatic and assault rifles. nobody needs to own one. when they say theyre using it for target practice, what are you targeting? its no need. its a power struggle for them to fire it off. it is everybodys god given right to defend themselves and have weapons but there are some weapons in this world that our children do not need access to. >> thank you for everything you did in helping those kids, ashley. im so who a...

On october 1st, i thought we would promptly move to ban bump stocks. thats what made it possible for the shooter in vegas to massacre more than 50 people in a few minutes with this illegal appendage that takes a semi-automatic and makes it fully automatic. i was hopeful wed take action against that. i co-sponsored legislation. it was never brought up for a vo vote. >> how is that possible, senator? im sorry to stop you. just because we remember the bump stock, everybody after that incident said ...

In order to stop the perpetrators. time and time again -- semi automatic, one shot per trigger, that is all that means. we have seen other people with ar 15s any times able to defend those who need defending. people who are waiting for the police and guns to come. why dont we make sure those regulation requirements who have a firearm are able to do so on campus. >> what would you say to an idea of much stricter background checks on weapons like this? instead of just a test that this disturbed yo...

Entrance to the schools? what can you do? you can do a lot. >> the interesting thing, ill start with kurt on this one, is that the absence of conversation is mandatory now. you must not talk about it. and two weeks from now, were not talking about this. theyll say you can talk about it but nobody wants to talk about it. you cant talk any policy. i dont want to hear from policymakers except about policy. >> thats why it exists. >> i dont want to hear how to contact my faith leader. i dont need tr...

Piece of legislation, the reasonable legislation that said, if youre too dangerous to board a plane, on the no-fly list, you shouldnt be able to buy a gun. not controversy at all. i said if you have concerns about civil rights concerns, due process which i think was his argument, then lets sit down and talk about it. clearly we ought to be able to find a way to take meaningful steps. after las vegas, there was a moment, a moment where everyone at least said -- even the nra said, well, maybe we s...

61. it was designed for target practice and rabbits. but to suggest those types of things, for it to be identified as an assault weapon, thats where you start running into the problems. part of the problem is once you start saying this is an assault gun because it has a larger magazine, or this is an assault gun because you can have it as a semi-automatic. i have a three-handled shotgun. to some it proposes its semi-automatic but also defines itself as an assault weapon. even though its not a ri...

In 2005 protecting manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes are committed with their firearms and since the assault weapons ban was aloud to expire in 2004 sales of the ar-15 and other semi automatic have soared after the 26 murders of the grade schoolers in newtown, connecticut. and i reached out to the national shooting sportman association to inquire about the industry response to the shooting yesterday and a spokesperson e-mailed me and said our hearts go out to the victi...

Thought about this a lot. this is the problem that i think we face. we love the american character, the cowboy in us. all of us love the cowboy. we love to drive our cars out on the open road, live in our own house. we love the independence, that sense of the cowboy spirit and the one downside of that is guns. not rifles or pistols. semi-automatic weapons, capable of killing people by the dozens. thats whats new and unique to us today. i go back to sean. the motive of somebody obviously a bit de...