19 gun related deaths at schools. so, in your view, what has changed since columbine, and what still needs to change? >> i think it is important to remember that columbine was kind of a wake-up moment for a particular kind of problem that intersected with semiautomatic weapons, i mean it was a shooting that happened in a suburban area and white children were the victims as well as other people and so it really brought a question of gun violence home to a lot of people. and i just remember that moment as being like this moment where we are going to turn the course. this is not going to stand. we had come together as a nation. we had done and assault weapons ban a couple decades before. we had come together to arrest other types of public health emergencies, cigarettes and drunk driving and asbestos. people felt like we have hit bottom and this is the moment where we come together. i will say that many important
politicsnation, martin and andrea, and young yolanda were in the studio with me. we didn't know it was a racial killing till we come back to the hotel. at the very time that we were marching, in someone's, saying they don't need to do that anymore, this was happening. that's why we need to keep doing this. not only marching, but march shane into legislation, back in gun lobby in terms of how we deal with these weapons. these automatic weapons and semi automatic weapons are making it easy for someone to do what they debt. we can't stop people from haiti in, but we can sure stop armed haters from automatic and semiautomatic weapons. >> before i let you, go revved, gop candidate is doubling down on calling congressman, ayanna pressley, part of the modern kkk. here is some of how he answered direct questions on his rhetoric today. >> this whole country --
detail his disgusting ideology of hate. blindly put, the shooting was racially motivated, and he hated black people. >> i want to bring in host and president of the national action, reverend al sharpton. i want to get your initial thoughts on all of this and what we are learning so far. >> obviously we are looking at another situation of hate. with an automatic and semiautomatic gun to be able to execute what your hate drives you to doing. you can't look at the hate crime and, not also bring in the -- that we are still allowing these weapons to be available to people that not only are engaging hate, but -- to learn have some mental health issues. so it happened while we were watching in washington yesterday, around the hate crime with the anti defamation
when they dropped the pacifier logo explicitly targeting the gun to the teething toddler market, that might have seemed like it was signaling that they were abandoning the whole idea of assault rifles for kids, but no, it turns out they just dropped the pacifier logos and the cartoon font but they're making clear that it is not just for people with little tiny arms or not just for people with very poor upper body strength. it's still definitely for preschool. and the reason you can tell that it's still their targeted market for this gun is because this is the image that pops up on the splash page at their website. clear enough? here's another view of the same target consumer, maybe she's, what, 5? think she's 5? and if america is now marketing smaller, lighter, fully functional semiautomatic assault rifles for 5-year-olds, i mean,