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Up the whole gun control issue. britain, australia, they've had their massacres and they interacted sensible gun control and they haven't had any since. i talked to the prime minister, and she said, here's the difference. it's about leadership when it comes to gun issues. but the system is different. in australia, voting and elections is compulsory. that means that everybody goes. it means that politics are in the main screen and therefore sensible -- >> let's not go down the gun control debate. in terms of this woman, would it make a difference to you if -- the fact that she's brain dead, doe...

Sandy hook, to try to even just enforce and put more moneys and more meat behind some of the laws we had with respect to i.d.ing people and registering guns. >> and what happened? >> and that was brought by somebody, a very conservative democrat out of west virginia, someone who understands gun culture. senator manchin. and they couldn't get the votes in the senate and if they couldn't in the senate, certainly would not pass in the house. so clearly the congress is not structured today, as it stands, to go after some of these gun issues. >> and you know, there's a new nbc news "wall street jou...

Hearing about the losses they -- having -- after stand your ground, obviously you went to see sort of what you could see in terms of the process of how they do what they do. >> mm-hmm. >> but did you have any sort of preconceived ideas based on the fact that they've lost both corporate members as well as state legislators? >> i mean, there had been anecdotal information. i think until "the guardian" got ahold of these documents, i think everybody was is surprised at the extent to which they'd really been hurt by this. this organization is hurting. they have now abandoned the gun issues. they'v...

The nation where or state where it's extremely strict, you can always find somebody who is unethical who will eventually sell it to you, and that's what happened. so we have to hit this issue on multiple issues. we have to deal with the violence in our society and the fact that we are raising kids on shoot 'em ups and games that are involving killing people, we have to change the way we think about mental illness since the reagan administration, the number of psychiatric beds has gone down by ten times, and we have to deal with gun issues and make it harder for these guns to get into the hands...

Through media training. house republican strategists, in their media training, are putting an emphasis on learning how to answer questions that they're going to get about abortion, about rape, and not make the gaffe that you just played before. in addition to that, what we're told that they are encouraging republican candidates to do, both genders, is to have more events in and around women's issues, to have a women's coalition and not just have like one event per election season as some of these members do, but to do it constantly and really bring these issues to the floor. another interestin...