Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130507:15:27:00
Weapons, sir. but is there concrete evidence thaed the buybacks actually result in a decrease for police officers on scenes like the one we're just seeing there? >> well, it was 1,100 in that buyback. it's about 11,000 over the last four or five years. that's 11,000 guns off the streets. as you know, people are more likely to be a victim of a suicide or an accident than they are defending their home. so getting these guns or particularly the assault weapons off the street is important. the numbers speak for themselves. l.a. is safer than any time since 1952. >> as i mentioned earlier, you are ...