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Mr. mayor. heres the reality. lets look at the weapons that were recovered from the scene of this disaster. >> sure. you have this bushmaster assault rifle. this would have been banned under the assault weapons ban. the pistols, the semiautomatic pistols, the .9 millimeters were recovered. the medical examiner says they were not used but this information could change and these were weapons that were found and legally purchased by his mother at her home. she lives in a rural area and when you hav...

Criminal records who have substance abuse problems, who are minors, if you ever stopped any of them from guy buying a gun, that this particular event would not take place. this is just one in a series of what happens again and again and again. your argument is that theres no reason to have speed limits because it wouldnt have stopped that one person when the cops werent around that they stepped on the pedal. if congress were to act, if congress wasnt so afraid of the nra, and i think i can show ...

Bill: there is an american stretch of highway today where you can drive 85 miles per hour, and it is legal. some argue it is not smart. but casey siegal is live in mustang ridge, texas, near austin, texas. how do they reach 85? why the number? reporter: everything is bigger in texas. why are for speed limits going to be the fastest? in all seriousness, the state department settled on 85 miles per hour for the new toll road. because it is a brand-new, wide open stretch of road. 41 miles, to be ex...

Will cut the two-hour drive in half. >> we feel like this is a good deal for the state of texas. getting a brand-new, world-class highway at no cost to taxpayers, and we will be providing congestion leads to those on the i-35 quarter. reporter: this was built by a private company and it will be paid for by the whole revenue. it will cost a little bit more than $6 one-way, to make the drive, and a lot of people say money well spent when youre going to cut the drivetime in half. bill: there are co...

Northeast corridor. the train service is operating tests at 165 miles per hour. its taking place in four stretches of track between maryland and massachusetts. tests are being performed before a possible increase in speed limits along the heavily traveled route. the current speed limit for passenger trains is 1 heres a story thats dear to my heart. brace yourself for a worldwide shortage of bacon. pork is ompd l thats because farmers were forced to scale down herds. the drought killed the corn...

The question at the heart of the question is, why is this issue so powerfully symbolic to millions of americans who would never even pick up a gun themselves? >> because i -- because people look at it as a corollary for freedom. if youre trying to restrict guns youre trying to restrict my freedom. we restrict all kinds of things in the interest of public safety and security. >> health. >> we have speed limits on the roads. but people look at it in the symbolic way. it is part of the dna of ameri...

Drinking water when they enter cant get to the soda fountain soon enough. we need to start changing the way things are acceptable to do a trough of sugar water is not good for anyone. >> david from, i love it when i agree with him, doesnt think the campaign like when they took on tobacco. the generation long campaign highway fatalities, we had to make personal behavior choices. >> seatbelts and speed limits. there was a bunch of different regulations, a bunch of different levels, looking at the ...

Highway 130. a toll road that allows speed limits up to 85 on new roads. right now oepb only sparsely populated roads in texas have speed limits of 80. in travis county. some roads in utah also have 80-mile per hour speed limits. most highways in the u.s. top out at 75. there are no longer roads in the u.s. that have no speed limit posted like germanys autoban which could be a lot of fun. they are running studies to check the safety of 85 miles per hour on that particular stretch of highway 130....

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Martha: well you lead foots out there, present company excluded, you may soon be able to drive a little faster in texas. the lone star state considering an 85 mile-an-hour speed limit on a new toll road. like some of the fast highways in europe. that links it from san antonio to austin. maybe go 85 on that road. it would be the fastest speed limit we have here in america and the second fastest in the world. number one is in poland where you can push the pedal to the metal 6 86 miles per hour if ...