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Newtown, supposedly, they had these guns to do target practice in. lets have gun safety lockers at the target practice range. we need to ban any future sale and we need to try to work so that those who do own them, if theyre not for home protection, lets have them in a safe place. >> let me ask this. you mentioned the assault weapons. ryan, let me come to you on this. you know the congress. and there are those that are saying that they are not going to do anything in terms of gun reform. some of...

Im a former hunter. we own guns. there are people that use target practice. but there is no reason to not come to the table and have a discussion that is sensible and logical and come to an agreement that works for the american publics safety. >> and sandy, do you think your dourt would be alive tonight if wed had different laws on the books? do you think that could have been prevented? >> i do. anytime somebody can go on the internet and order 6,000 rounds of ammunition and that doesnt get flag...

You say to lawmakers who are rigid in old-way thinking? >> well, i think theyre not educating themselves. theyre not finding out the statistics. theyre not digging deep enough. theyre not going out to their constituency and asking. and it is going to take a groundswell of americans to come forward and write to their congressmen and their senators and even the president and say were ready for reform. nobody is challenging the second amendment. no one. no one. and yet thats constantly thrown out t...

Of course not. im a hunter. or at least i used to be. dont hunt anymore. im a former hunter. we own guns. there are people that use target practice. but there is no reason to not come to the table and have a discussion that is sensible and logical and come to an agreement that works for the american publics safety. >> and sandy, do you think your daughter would be alive tonight if wed had different laws on the books? do you think that could have been prevented? >> i do. anytime somebody can go o...

That also extend to your constituents and the coloradans that you talk to who are themselves gun owners, who may be hunters, may be sportsmen, people who see themselves as pro second amendment? >> oh, yes. you know, im a westerner. i come from a family of hunters. and we respect guns out here. we use them to hunt. but people who ive been talking to, they cant understand why you would need an assault rifle or why you need one of these assault magazines to go out hunting. i mean, a magazine that h...

Themselves gun owners, who may be hunters, may be sportsmen, people who see themselves as pro second amendment? >> oh, yes. you know, im a westerner. i come from a family of hunters. and we respect guns out here. we use them to hunt. but people who ive been talking to, they cant understand why you would need an assault rifle or why you need one of these assault magazines to go out hunting. i mean, a magazine that holds 30 or 100 rounds. youre not going to use that to shoot a deer. youre either g...

Issues for 20 years. and ive never seen such a deep sense of outrage and a deep sense of commitment to doing something. >> that sense of outrage and that sense of commitment, does that also extend to your constituents and the coloradans that you talk to who are themselves gun owners, who may be hunters, may be sportsmen, people who see themselves as pro second amendment? >> oh, yes. you know, im a westerner. i come from a family of hunters. and we respect guns out here. we use them to hunt. but ...

Or do you try to go big, change the conversation, but ultimately fail? >> i think you have to stay steady on the conversation. thats critical. i took that vote in 94. i had to go home and run for re-election. >> and you won. >> i did. but i went to those nra meetings. and i talked to those people who i knew very well. i went goose hunting saturday morning over on the eastern shore. you know, there are reasonable people out there who understand that the incidences that we saw in connecticut are t...

You mentioned that she -- she -- he was shot once with a .25 caliber bullet. they recovered the bullet but havent recovered the gun. her grandfather had a .25 caliber gun missing. and what the police can do looking for evidence is to go to where he may have used target practice, a tree in the backyard. >> judge jeanine: match the ballistics. >> and match the bullets even though they dont find the gun. >> i dont think we need to tie her to the crime any more, right? >> the psychological defense o...

You mentioned that she -- she -- he was shot once with a .25 caliber bullet. they recovered the bullet but havent recovered the gun. her grandfather had a .25 caliber gun missing. and what the police can do looking for evidence is to go to where he may have used target practice, a tree in the backyard. >> judge jeanine: match the ballistics. >> and match the bullets even though they dont find the gun. >> i dont think we need to tie her to the crime any more, right? >> the psychological defense o...