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>> connie and i have been in dayton for most of the day with mayor whaley and others that have played such an important role in this, and, i mean, it was remarkable that hundreds weren't killed because of the, you know, the -- it was not exactly an ar-15, but it was mostly the same weapon that was used in aurora some years ago that can kill a maximum number of people in a few seconds. and so it could have been way worse. you know, my first thought as it always is, reverend sharpton, is sadness and prayers and all that for victims and their families. and we saw much of that here today. but it's...

Were. so nobody paid a political price. after that failure there was a new strategy. put this on the ballot. if you put it on a ballot, it can't fail. they did in maine and it failed 52% to 48%. hillary clinton won maine on the same day. attitudes on this issue when you strip away the basic questionnaire and you get into a real political debate, they default to something more complicated and messy. joining me now here in the newsroom to talk about the politics of guns is national correspondent. the president talked about the mansion toomey, the background checks bill. he talked about the age r...

Introduced a bill today. 12 of those devices were found in the hotel room on sunday's shooter himself. for more on the president's visit today, i'm joined by john raulston. is nevada never going to do a gun control bill? >> i've been talking about that a lot. there's a huge gun culture here. you're familiar with nevada. there's a wide swath between if two urban areas and they love their guns in rural nevada. we passed a background checks bill in 2016 but all 16 of the 17 counties voted against it except for clark county. as you know, las vegas has all of the population. and yet, this is so nev...

This is a complicated election, the people most angry and want to throw the bums out, they have advantages, i think more importantly be senators. i think that's what happened. >> i give you that. ed the complicated. there are other issues put out there. i think the bottom line, to me, i look at this. i think this is something that will have long-term ramifications. i think to later this year t. talk has been the idea of re-introducing mansion to me, the background checks bill. bring it back around if one-year anniversary of the sandy hook massacre, basically shame us into coughing up those ext...

Tennessee, there's a great deal of support actually for the kind of proposals that were on the table and that got voted down. >> right. >> i agree with garance. the gun safety community is not punishing people who go against us at the ballot box. not yet. the gun control -- the gun rights side is absolutely punishing people and they know that lawmakers know they will be punished if they go across. >> joe manchin for example. >> we have to get into a position where they know that the gun safety community will punish them. otherwise, they're free to cross the aisle as they wish. >> for the first...