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Gun violence in the senate or the house before the mid terms because they don't want to expose their members to votes that would make them very unpopular as they head to the polls. what i do know is that congress's silence is giving an effective green light to these shooters. i really do believe that these troubled young men who are contemplating acts of violence have noticed that the highest levels of government have offer nod meaningful condemnation to the acts of previous shooters, and in their minds that pervert that silence into permission. so i do believe that there is blood on all of ou...

Unpopular as they head to the polls. what i do know is that congress's silence is giving an effective green light to these shooters. i really do believe that these troubled young men who are contemplating acts of violence have noticed that the highest levels of government have offer nod meaningful condemnation to the acts of previous shooters, and in their minds that pervert that silence into permission. so i do believe that there is blood on all of our hands if we don't step forward and pass meaningful legislation to try to stop this. these are copycat killings, and these killers are taking s...

Through this is what we think about on days like this. >> i have covered probably, i don't know, probably 20 of these at this point. i was in las vegas, in orlando, san bernardino. i'm sure you have sat there and watched a number of these. there's a kind of learned helplessness. you feel like you're sitting in a car in neutral and gunning the engine as you watch this transpire. do you feel that way? >> i don't feel helpless. i don't feel helpless because as i said on the senate floor, the responsibility for this lies in our hands. it is congress that has applied a kind of quiet unintentional e...

Through this is what we think about on days like this. >> i have covered probably, i don't know, probably 20 of these at this point. i was in las vegas, in orlando, san bernardino. i'm sure you have sat there and watched a number of these. there's a kind of learned helplessness. you feel like you're sitting in a car in neutral and gunning the engine as you watch this transpire. do you feel that way? >> i don't feel helpless. i don't feel helpless because as i said on the senate floor, the responsibility for this lies in our hands. it is congress that has applied a kind of quiet unintentional e...

Background checks, but polling consistently shows that more americans support banning these weapons than support them continuing to be traded in commercial markets. listen, these are copycat killings. the shooters are not continuing to use ar-15s or ar-15 variants by accident or by coincidence. they see the damage that is done in the previous mass shooting. they see the lethal efficiency of these weapons and they choose the same gun. we need to wake up to that reality. take these guns off the market to try to protect people from this kind of just epic carnage. >> how much do donations -- polit...