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As voters prepare dissenting representative to congress and debate the merits of a new law about concealed carry rights. correspondent nate from roswell, georgia. >> georgia is in the middle of two hot debates, one over who will represent the state's sixth congressional district and the other on whether the governor should sign house bill 280, a more restriction mack restrictive version of a bill he had last year allowing firearms on college campuses. >> as far as guns on campus, i am opposed to it. i think the only guns on campus should be law enforcement. >> were not really talking about stu...

Fellow citizens, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid is called names, that doesn't make us safer. that's not telling it like it is. it's just wrong. it diminishes us in the eyes of the world. it makes it harder to achieve our goals. it betrays who we are as a country. >> there we have it. the final state of the union address from president obama. and he pressed for return to a core of american values, a return to tolerance and inclusion and also talking about gun issues for this country. seated in the first lady's box last night, ryan reyes who even through unspeakable tragedy is a voice aga...

Strongman when it comes to gun issues. are you prepared to meet with him? >> megyn, let's be clear what this is about. this president is creating an illusion that he is doing something to keep people safe. he needs to do that because his policies failed miserably. he saw that in san bernardino when we add terrorist attack. this president didn't use it as an opportunity to unite this country. didn't use it as an opportunity to lay out a plan to defeat terrorism. he used it as an opportunity to impose more gun control on law abiding americans. treating that as a case of gun violence as well. >> ...

Strongman when it comes to gun issues. are you prepared to meet with him? >> megyn, let's be clear what this is about. this president is creating an illusion that he is doing something to keep people safe. he needs to do that because his policies failed miserably. he saw that in san bernardino when we add terrorist attack. this president didn't use it as an opportunity to unite this country. didn't use it as an opportunity to lay out a plan to defeat terrorism. he used it as an opportunity to impose more gun control on law abiding americans. >> he is treating that as a case of gun violence as ...

To gun issues. on the other hand, nothing will ever pass if the advocates for gun laws don't speak up, start to build a coalition, if the president doesn't talk about it, if the democratic nominee this year doesn't talk about it in a serious way, in a way that the democratic candidates have not done for about two decades now on the national stage, talking about the need for new gun laws. it will never happen. this is a process that if it's going to happen, it's going to take some time, some period of years, and building a coalition that at the moment doesn't really exist. >> chris cillizza, th...