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>> no, have you ever driven a car at 100 miles per hour? >> not that i would admit. >> and all of these legal things. >> sean: yeah. >> cars, guns, you pass laws not to stop me driving 100 miles per hour into times square or you using your gun on a kid, but to deter bad people who will misuse a lawful right and scalia in his opinion-- 230 years there was never a legal right to a handgun and scalia, he said in his opinion, you could regulate unusual weapons. dont you think that a semi automatic i...

How do you protect yourself and your family? >> well, we have a police force and i would sure prefer someone that broke in my home, god forbid had a knife rather than a semi automatic, wouldnt you. >> sean: thats not the point, criminals do not obey the laws. >> adam lanza wasnt a criminal, was he. >> sean: george washington-- . his mother -- im a responsible gun owner. >> so was she. >> sean: apparently not. she knew her son was sick and-- >> i would want to know if my neighbor had semi automat...

Banning these assault magazines. thats why congresswoman carolyne mccarthy and i reintroduced the legislation today. its the same bill as last time, but i think the mood has changed here at congress. >> well, the mood in the public has seemed to really show a lot of support in a recent poll. 52% say they want major gun restrictio restrictions, 62% want a ban on semi-automatic weapons. 62% also want a ban on high-capacity ammunition clips. on p "meet the press" this past sunday, the president tal...

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Officers in every, single school in this nation and to do it now, to make sure that blanket safety is in place, when our kids return to school in january. >> reporter: a "gallup poll" found 53% agreed with increasing police presence at schools and said it would be effective and a third said what the effective and 12%, not effective and asked if banning the sale of salt or semi assault or semi-automatic weapons, 42%, yes. and, 36%, not effective. and most democrats came out in support of tighter ...

Efforts aimed at preventing more tragedies like this. we wont prevent them all. but that cant be an excuse not to try. >> reporter: vice president joe biden will lead that gun violence task force, which will give its recommendations to the president in january. rob and sunny? >> thank you, t.j. again, the president made a point of saying yes, look, this is not a commission where were going to study this for 20 years. they have until the end of january to get something done. so thats fast turnaro...

But, over and over again, it proves to not be impossible. i mean, soldiers use fully automatic machine guns in battle all of the time, right? there are millions of these weapons in circulation. but they are comparatively rare in u.s. instances of civilian gun crime. its not that they never turn up, but theyre comparatively rare. semi-automatic weapons, not so much. but fully automatic weapons, yes. thats because of federal regulation. also, two years before president reagan signed the plastic gu...

Do. you can do this on the margins. will these new gun laws that go after semi-automatic, military style weapons stop every slaughter? no. will curving violence in our culture stop everything, willie? no, it wont. will an increase in mental health counseling and screening and prevention help? no. but we have got to do whatever we can do, even understanding that no solutions going to be perfect. well make -- well do what we can do on the margins. jim is right. this is not 1994. if republicans did...

Terrorist in america, you can go to the secondary gun market and buy a weapon and conduct the kind of terrorism we saw in mumbai which was done with automatic and semi-automatic weapons. this is the call of our country. to do what the overall majority thinks is right. one out of every two women murdered with a gun are murdered by an intimate, by someone that they know well. thats why on the federal register that they do not allow people who are domestic violence perpetrators to buy guns. but tha...