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Better of the argument. and she pressed it. and she delivered it effectively. it was sort of this moment. right, were debating. im doing this much were all doing. this i thought that was a great moment for her because it in some ways felt like that was the first moment of this campaign officially. >> yeah, it was. i dont think manufacture us expected her to go after him that hard. she knocked him back on his heels a little bit. there is the only time of the night, i thought, when he wasnt soundi...

And make sure that the law-abiding gun owners, the nra members are not listening and being misled by the leadership in washington. and thats what ive said. heres another thing, steve, also, in we in washington are basically having a tail-wagging dog and the lobbyists with their big money and support or the threat of using that support against us is controlling what goes on here in washington, then we better figure out why in the world we are here. and if not, go back home and let somebody else c...

Natural decline to some extent due to population moving into urban centers. and the regulation within those areas and the difficulty in obtaining concealed weapons permits in places like new york, in places like chicago, but i dont know that i agree that the percentage of households with guns is decreasing. i think theres underreporting there because we see every time theres one of these tragedies, in newtown, connecticut, theres a run on firearms. >> yes. across the country. we have places repo...

And that was clearly not at all the approach take up. were you as surprised, rich, is that what you were expecting? >> i think i expected, yes, the nra to be more political, to take a more political approach. i think what lapierre did was take the more practical approach. if we tease apart what he was saying, sometimes because we dont particularly appreciate the speaker we dont hear the message. i think there was some value in what he was saying. he was not just talking about armed security in s...

Organization took no questions, the executive vice president and ceo wayne lapiers only contribution was his call for armed guards inside all of the nations schools. >> i call on congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation. and to do it now to make sure that blanket safety is in place when our kids return to school in january. >> for 30 minutes lapierre went on a tread that was steadfast, unyielded and ...

Attention and the way we give them an identity by mentioning their names and repeating their names creates additional little monsters. we find that these types of crimes occur in clusters. and so to that extent, lapierre is not that far off when he says how many are out there waiting? we have no idea. >> the data, we looked into the data on this sort of copy cat effect, and theres interesting findings in both directions. it is fairly unsettled. there are finding that is do suggest the large copy...