>> the activists, the grassroots ground swell that we are reading about and that happened after parkland in florida locally, it did change things. the parkland students did change things. maybe that's what it takes. if the senate won't come back from recess, if mcconnell doesn't think this is pressing enough to come back and vote on this from their august recess, then maybe at the state level, something would change so we don't have to experience this, you know, again. >> and i think to your point, alisyn, to demonstrate results on the level. i think the issue whether they come back in august is not the point. if they dn't have the votes, it doesn't do much. it takes time to build support from this. but demonstrating the results. we see videos like our reporting this morning. it's just such common sense. why wouldn't you at least try to do something to reduce the lethality of this kind of event without infringing upon the rights of gun owners of america. there's such broad consensus