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Assault weapons ban? joining me is paul hemky former president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence and eugene robinson. how far do you see how far vice president task force will go and how far the president will go? >> i doubt they will go as far as i would like. i think they should deal with a comprehensive plan, deal with background checks and deal with military-style weapons and deal with trafficking and deal with special protections the gun industry gets now and put all those trigg...

Joining me is paul helmke, former president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence, and eugene robinson, of course, pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. paul, you devote your time and life to this story. which way do you see it going in terms of how far the vice presidents task force will go next tuesday and then how far the president will go and then how far the congress will go in terms of gun control and gun safety? >> i doubt if theyre g...

The old trigger locks. put them all into a comprehensive bill. its going to be tough to get through. the problem with doing it single bill by single bill, people say this wouldnt have stopped this shooting or that shooting. do a comprehensive bill. if you have to negotiate to keep the high capacity ammunition magazines and give up some of the military-style weapons, then you have trade-offs you can make, but put everything on the table. i think biden needs to -- vice president biden needs to do ...

Gets. the old trigger locks. put them all into a comprehensive bill. its going to be tough to get through. the problem with doing it single bill by single bill, people say this wouldnt have stopped this shooting or that shooting. do a comprehensive bill. if you have to negotiate to keep the high capacity ammunition magazines and give up some of the military-style weapons, then you have trade-offs you can make, but put everything on the table. i think biden needs to -- vice president biden needs ...

Shouldnt have their hands on a gun if you close the gun show loophole and i also voted for a lock to be sold with guns so that you have a trigger lock, $5 you can have a trigger lock and that actually might have prevented this if the mother had had trigger locks on the guns. >> chris: we got about a minute left. >> she would have been able to perhaps prevent this. >> what do you think of wayne lapierres offer? >> it is pretty empty. that is the only answer is to put more guns in schools? look, w...

Shouldnt have their hands on a gun if you close the gun show loophole and i also voted for a lock to be sold with guns so that you have a trigger lock, $5 you can have a trigger lock and that actually might have prevented this if the mother had had trigger locks on the guns. >> chris: we got about a minute left. >> she would have been able to perhaps prevent this. >> what do you think of wayne lapierres offer? >> it is pretty empty. that is the only answer is to put more guns in schools? look, w...

Shouldnt have their hands on a gun if you close the gun show loophole and i also voted for a lock to be sold with guns so that you have a trigger lock, $5 you can have a trigger lock and that actually might have prevented this if the mother had had trigger locks on the guns. >> chris: we got about a minute left. >> she would have been able to perhaps prevent this. >> what do you think of wayne lapierres offer? >> it is pretty empty. that is the only answer is to put more guns in schools? look, w...

From facing any liability the way cigarettemakers do. they are exempted from such liability. there are other ideas that have been put on the table like forcing manufacturers to add trigger locks, forcing them to add mechanisms that would allow a stolen gun not to be able to be fired. there are a few practical things that can be done. but what i hope the task force does is keep talking about this issue because as sad as it is, to your last question, the risk is over the course of a month that a t...

Transported must be patrol carren down and -- broken down and only one gun in the house ready for fired. the rest must be broken down or have trigger locks and can only be in the inside, not in the yard, cannot in the yard or the porch. the net effect is to make it too expensive and discourages the practice of owning guns. >> why is this chicagos fight? >> primary because gun violence here is so bad. there have been 209 deaths by gun related violence so far this year. its twice as much as l.a., ...

It restricts gun owners to have only one gun in the house ready to be fired. the rest need to be broken down or fitted with trigger locks. theyre only legal in the residence, not on the porch. the yard or even the garage. the n.r.a. says they put so many hoops, so many restrictions in the path to lawful gun ownership it discourages the practice, jon. >> why is this chicagos fight? >> mostly because they have so many problems with gun violence out here. so far this year, 200 people have -- 209 pe...