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They were too easy to access. thats how he got the weapons. the weapon he used to kill his mother, and then murder 26 people including 20 first graders. if you own a weapon, you have a responsibility to secure it. every responsible gun owner agrees. make sure no one else can have access to it. to lock it up. to have trigger locks. and if you dont, and something bad happens, you should be held responsible. we should also have national red flag laws so that a parent, a teacher, a counsellor can fl...

How we got the weapons. the weapon used to kill his mother and then murder 26 people, including 21st graders. if you own a weapon, you have a responsibility to secure it. every responsible gun owner agrees. to make sure no one else can have access to it. to lock it up. try trigger locks. if you dont, and something bad happens, you should be held responsible. and we should also have national red flag laws so if a parent, teacher, counsellor can flag for a court that a child, student or patient is...

Rules are intended to reduce the risk of gun harm and relieve taxpayers of. financial cost of gun violence. explain how they would do that. >> thanks, craig. first liability insurance we know has helped us reduce deaths from auto accidents for many decades. weve been incentivized to drive cars with air bags and drive more safely, in the same way gun insurance can encourage owners to get trigger locks or take gun safety classes or buy gun safes. thats important because 4.5 million children live i...

Conversation because its not just about my industry. we need common sense changes to the way we interact with guns across the entire nation. um, also, theres almost 1,700 accidental shooting deaths so far this year. um, thats on pace to have nearly 2,000 by the end of the year. um, and so, you know, mandating safe storage, trigger locks, and investing in a biometric system for weapons could really reduce all of these accidental shootings. and -- and its so sad to me that things always have to ha...

Taken hold in a country with 300 million guns is not subject to a single pansy. we need a lot of solutions. >> whats the point? will this reduce gun violence? >> yeah, absolutely. what we have seen, for example, in the case of insurance with automobile driving, is that using risk adjusted premiums insurance companies can encourage safer driving, they can encourage car owners to be able to use as we saw in the past air bags and bbs brakes and so forth. similarly with guns, we live in a country wh...

Benchmark on wall street where we go see theres a rebound in the futures market. after the rebound yesterday from mondays awful performance, the dow closed up just over 1%, snapping a five-day losing streak. the s&p 500 also 1% higher, the nasdaq up a little bit better than that. gun-related products that shouldnt have been on google and amazon are now gone. they shouldnt have been there. ammunition or magazines could readily be found on the sites as recently as monday. both amazon and google ...

Own a weapon, yo u hau have to for it and make sure no one else has access to it. have to lock it up and have trigger locks and put it in gun cases and if not, you can be held responsible for that. we talk about the damage and people are require ever quid t t certain precautions and kept away. they are basic, basic things that the american people deal with and know that in fact are -- and then when you do have the right to purchase a gun because you had a background check, you shouldnt be able t...

And irk circumstances you can own. thats constitutional and allowable. number three, you have to be in a position where you let them have a responsibility when you own a weapon, you have to care for it and make sure no one else has access to it. have to lock it up and have trigger locks and put it in gun cases and if not, you can be held responsible for that. we talk about the damage and people are required to make certain precautions and kept away. something that is potentially lethal. they are...

That you have a responsibility when you own a weapon, that you have to care for it. you have to make sure no one else can have access to it. you have to lock it up. you have to have trigger locks, you have to put it in gun cases and if you dont, you can be held responsible for that. we wouldnt say that about, i mean, everything else we talk about that damages people. youre required to make sure you take certain precautions, if something you own has the potential to be lethal that in fact, it is ...

There was some talk around the time the brady law was passed about making them mandatory but there was never any incentive to do that. and they never were made mandatory. some local jurisdictions do it. i dont know of any statewide laws, certainly not in texas that wire people to keep trigger locks on their weapons if they are at home if they have children in the house. a shotgun is one of the most commonly owned weapons for self-defense for the simple reason is that it sends out this cloud, if ...