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Now house democrats are working very hard. they actually passed an array of bills to address gun violence, including a bill that would raise the legal buying age from 18 to 21 for some semiautomatic center fire rifles. they also have something that would let local governments run buy back programs. these are really extensive measures that probably won't be included in whatever the bipartisan group comes up with. they've been working on trying to do something that's more narrow, something that's more focussed, that could get republican support. but i do want to say, christi, boris, that senator...

Anybody who's purchasing a firearm should have to go through a background check. every responsible gun owner that i know has been through a background check. and so this is one of those things everybody talks about hr-8, this is a piece of legislation that's been brought up multiple years. when i was in congress i was one of eight republicans that voted for that. this is something simple. now, would hr-8 have stopped the uvalde shooting? no. but that's still something we should do. and again to go back to there's not just one issue that is going to solve all the problems in the past nor solve ...

People have taken advantage of them and gotten guns out of the hands of the wrong people. guns that didn't need to be in the hands of the civilian population. should there be buy back programs for people who want to take advantage? >> look, if someone wants to take advantage of it, why not, right? you're not forcing anybody -- you're not forcing anybody to do that. and so i don't know what the -- what the opposition to something like that. again, i go back to responsible gun owners. they know you're supposed to lock up your weapon when you're at home if you have other people in your house. aga...

>> well, i mean, the republicans don't care about getting things done, right? they want to stop government, they want to cut back programs. there's nothing they want to move forward in charge, except tax cuts. other than that, what else did trump care about in the republicans getting done through legislation? very, very little. the democrats want the legislate. and it a very difficult process, particularly with a 50-50 senate. yeah, they are -- they know if they have any chance in 2022, they have to get this done, the infrastructure bill. i mean the infrastructure bill within the next month or...

Who would think that people would be shooting guns around a stadium? so d.c. is just what because dodge city again. remind us of the 90's when the crack co-era bodies left and right. numbers 3 and 400 people dying a year the numbers seem to be going up again. we had 120 homicides right now and that's 5% increase of homicides over last year. another thing i want to mention in the month of july, we lost 8 people to covid-19 but we lost 21 people to homicides including a 6-year-old girl that was shot and killed in washington, d.c. this is ridiculous. our officials need to figure out something to ...