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Do you agree with your own bishops? >> i think we could have a wonderful evening and well talk and compare notes on your position on right to life and my position on guns, and maybe during the course of the evening, we could have a catholic to catholic come-together and decide exactly how much each of us could support the bishops. it could be a wonderful show. >> lets have a catholic get-together. i like the idea of that, mr. speaker. nice to talk to you. >> good to be with you. coming up next...

There are steps you could take, when they had an operation trigger lock in richmond and they locked up felons, they brought down the murder rate very, very fast. i think it is possible to bring down violent crime very rapidly. ironically, this makes all the pro-gun control people go crazy, but the fact is in the states that have concealed carry, you increasingly have evidence that having honest citizens have the ability to protect themselves reduces the crime rate, it doesnt increase it, and it ...

A teacher in every one. why do the nra want to do that? because it sells another 120,000 guns. then we have our kids going to school with guns everywhere. >> piers, even by your standard -- >> why are you laughing? thats what it means. >> that is an absurd comment. first of all -- >> why? >> -- the greatest gun salesman in american history is president barack obama. nobody has led to a greater increase in gun purchases than the obama administration. just look at the last five years. you have gun...

Exactly the same way as cars, alcohol, tobacco? >> well, youre not talking about whether they should be regulated or not. >> were not. 40% of all gun sales in america, nobody has a clue whos selling them to who. its complete madness. >> but do you think that the shootings youre talking about, which are, as youve said, the majority are gang. the majority are handguns. do you believe those will be stopped by background checks? >> how could you have happen what happened at sandyhook and your answer...

Laws on gun control. he could have been stopped before he went into that theater, he could have been stopped. people looked the other way. >> okay. put aside the fact that he was flagged up by the therapist. of course they should have done something about it and could have stopped it. how did he get 6,000 rounds of ammunition? how did he get all this fire power, all these guns and everything else perfectly legitimately in a civilized society? how are you going to stop that? how are you going to ...

Know who has sold it and to who. why would a gun be deemed less significant for a background check than a car or registration? we register all sorts of things in this country. why not guns? theyre the most dangerous thing out there. >> actually, i think cars kill an awful lot of people. but the objective fact is that in this country, if i were to buy a gun from one of my son-in-laws, do i go through a background check? what does that mean? >> yes. yes. you do. >> why? why? >> because i want to k...

Arguments that wayne lapierre puts up against having any new gun control, the idea that criminals wont obey laws seems to me to be the most stupid, because if that was the criteria for any law in america, you wouldnt have any. you wouldnt have any drunk driving laws, you wouldnt have any, you know, under 21 ban on drinking or anything. you would just have the complete wild west, because criminals dont obey the law. am i wrong here? >> look, lets take the examples, and i hate to disappoint you, b...

Youve had some time to think about this. the thumping on the bible claim from bill oreilly. interesting that bill oreilly was saying that, saying look, these issues may not be religious masses. they need to be addressed in a different way, perhaps, by the conservatives. >> you know, youre always dealing with the god of the margins, you know, as compassion grows, as science grows, you just keep taking the bible less and less literally and thats good. and i think for all the sadness and all the pe...

You know, the hipaa laws and all of these privacy laws that medical conditions mean that i, as a gun seller, could do a background check on somebody who wants a gun, but theres no way that i have any access to know that that person is mentally ill, which has been the pattern with some of these most recent shooters that you point out. so, i, as a mother of children ages 8, 8, 5 and 3, youre damn right i want to know about people with guns out there. >> but, billy, i know theres a cultural thing...

1927. you have to register -- you have to have a permit for a handgun. and have you seen detroit lately? so im for true background checks and true knowing who has the gun if its -- and knowing about that person who wants a gun. heres a great example, piers. you know, the hipaa laws and all of these privacy laws that medical conditions mean that i, as a gun seller, could do a background check on somebody who wants a gun, but theres no way that i have any access to know that that person is mentall...