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Perceived here, if you talk to gun control proponents, they really have tried to argue previouslily, these people pushing for expanded background checks, pushing to regulate certain firearms to get rid of certain firearms like the ar-15 what they really want is to confiscate weapons. that's not a message that goes over well particularly in conservative leaning states. red states like texas, states like west virginia. so for gun control proponents, including this president, to actually now have a prominent figure a prominent proponent of gun control arguing for a full repeal of the second amend...

Parkland survivor david hog, one of the most outspoken gun control proponents would be taking the stage in a minute. we will hear from him in a minute and somebody who is not invite today speak on stage, we will bring kyle, prosecond amendment survivor of this shooting. go back to what matt was talking about, the rally here in washington, there's also a rally at your high school today, parkland, where despite the fact that there were so many major failures there's in parkland, we are not hearing about that. we are not hearing about those as solutions, we are hearing solely about gun control as...

The gun debate is heating up after some residents in newtown, connecticut, report getting automated phone calls from the nra. tom foreman, he's following all of this. this is the fht over gun control. tom, first of all, you know, you can imagine people very sensitive about this issue. the shooting occurs and then there's a debate over guns. and people are getting calls. they didn't ask for these calls, just getting calls. what is it about? >> well, it's about normal political procedure i'm afraid, suzanne. that's what many of these groups do out there. the nra said they were targeting only peo...

That support is there. and the simple truth is even though the president used his radio address this weekend to say congress needs to vote on the gun control measures, that is really what he said, they need to vote on it. he didn't really go out there and say you must pass this, this must be passed now even though he's in favor of it. that is a reflection of the political reality right now, suzanne, which is very difficult for many gun control proponents who feel very strongly about this issue. the political reality is there are a lot of lawmakers who live in purple states who rode into their ...

That's what the nra said that barack obama would do if he were elected president. scary stuff for nra members. enraging stuff. so barack obama does, in fact, get elected president and as president he ends up saying very little and doing even less about gun laws. his most notable act with regard to guns so far has been signing a bill that allows you to carry a gun in national parks. now, it should be noted that gun control proponents are not all that happy with this part of the obama presidency. this part where he's doing almost nothing about guns kpe st allowing more of them in places they did...