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You know, limiting the kinds of ammunition that adam lanza and others have used out there. you know, these kinds of common sense gun control laws ought to be enacted. but the fact is, this congress even did a voice vote, a cowardly voice vote to extend the ban on plastic weapons. and so i don t know that this congress has the guts, has the wherewithal, to move forward on common sense gun control legislation that frankly could save lives across this country. and john, goldy mentions the plastic weapons, extending the 25-year ban for another ten years. and there was pushback on that. this is not something upon which there was unanimity. you actually did have some second amendment advocates saying no, there are they disagreed with the idea of preventing these plastic guns, which can they can get past metal detectors. it s absolutely correct. and the gun industry was given absolute immunity by this congress. and president bush. and teddy bears and toy guns are regulated, but real g ....
Not. so the gun industry is free to do this. and, you know, a gun you can sell a plastic gun today that has a metel afiring pin and it s perfectly legal. and it will evade a lot of metal detecti detection. frankly, our gun laws the sooner we wake up and understand that our federal gun laws are designed to provide unrestricted access to all weapons, without detection, and the fbi is limited to maintaining gun purchase records, even from dealers for only 24 hours because congress says you can t trust congress. so gun policy is to provide unrestricted access to guns. the more gun violence, the more mass shootings, high-profile mass shootings or even better for the gun industry, because gun sales go up. and then more money goes to the spineless members of congress for giving them immunity from lawsuits and lack of regulation. and you know what, goldy, we have had look, the reality is, these tapes are out. they re on the internet. ....
Access to these military weapons, we can t even get a background check requirement for all gun sales, never mind a ban on assault weapons. i actually think we should show the photographs of what 6 and 7-year-olds look like after being hit with 3 to 11 rounds with a military style weapon that you can buy without an i.d. or background check thanks to a spineless congress. we need to see these images to realize it could be our children and until we do and take it personally, this madness, 83 more gun deaths every day, 30,000 more americans since sandy hook 12 months ago, and nothing is done about unrestricted access to guns. shame on us. you know, and goldy, i think the frustration you hear in john s voice is something a lot of us felt. a lot of people felt that, you know, for god sakes, after 26 children and their teacher 20 kids and 6 teachers were killed, ....
And that s the kind of thing that raises an awful lot of questions about the racial dynamics that may or may not have played out here. i think we i think we ought to be responsible about that. absolutely. i think that s right. and why we don t know if race was involved, what we do know is in places where you have racial segregation and racial tension, stand your ground laws can be the igniter fuel that sets off these kinds of incidents. absolutely. we can t necessarily connect this to the trayvon martin case. but what we can say is if there was no gun in the trayvon martin case, and if there was no gun in this case, then both parties in both incidents would still be alive. absolutely true. julian epstein and goldie taylor, thank you both so much. and remember, you can read goldy s column, breaking black at the grio.com. confidence and contrition from the president at the white house. we ll go there in a moment. we all have our tricks. mom swaps my snack for a piña colada ....
But the people from these districts, likely a lot of these tea party republicans, they wouldn t lose their districts. their districts were drawn for them to win. it would be the silent majority, those republicans in the house that are tired of this game, that want to get beyond this, who come from more swing districts. those would be the ones that would be would be at stake. those people are the ones that should be speaking up and telling john boehner, enough already. yeah. goldy, boehner s speakership could hardly be described as superlative. this is, a pivotal moment for the speaker. but could it be the end if not the end of speaker boehner, maybe the beginning of the end? you know, speaker boehner s speakership ended a few years ago. that s true, actually. when the tea party coalition really took over. the cruz caucus has been in charge for many, many months, including rand paul. so we re watching speaker boehner not lead this house, but ....