Fiancee Kellyo Brien News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Education, and i think your viewers would agree, is the path forward in this country. it's the way to lift yourself and your family. >> massachusetts governor deval patrick, author of the new book, "a reason to believe." thanks so much for joining me tonight. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> earlier today the fiancee of gabe zimmerman, the congressional staffer gunned down in the tucson massacre, took her story to capitol hill. her message was simple, get high capacity ammunition magazines out of the hands of killers. kelly o'brien joins us next along with congresswoman carolyn mccar...

Six of the victims were killed, including a 9-year-old girl, a federal judge and congressional staffer gabe zimmerman. today zimmerman's fiancee kelly o'brien went to capitol hill pushing congress and the white house to support a pair of amendments to the brady law. they would ban anyone from buying, selling or transferring large-capacity ammunition magazines like the kind used in tucson, anything over ten rounds. clay o'brien is joining with the brady campaign which has unveiled a dramatic new television ad. >> a magazine which allows a gun to fire 32 shots in 16 seconds is only good for one ...

Who along with democratic senator frank lautenberg of new jersey is sponsoring the legislation to restrict the high-capacity magazines. thank you so much for joining me tonight. miss o'brien, our deepest sympathies, obviously, for your loss. >> thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> kelly, i want to know what motivated you to get involved in this. it obviously must have been a terrible trauma. you're continuing to work through. what prompted you to get involved with this? >> i just felt that this was an issue that could have a lot of impact with very little effort to go into it, just -- just a vot...

Took a year, sometimes two years, to get a piece of legislation done, so we are following the plan that we had right from the beginning, grass roots and also me working member to member to get people to sign on to the bill, so i think that we're actually ahead of schedule when you look at 107 in three -- 107 members have signed on in three months. i understand where the president is coming, and i'm also very happy that the president, for the first time in decades, you know, is talking about reducing gun violence, so we need to have this dialogue. we need to work together, and i'm certainly app...