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Dyson, msnbc political analyst and professor of sociology at georgetown university. professor, the rhetoric is getting hot. >> yep. >> is it good for the discussion? is it good for america? can we make any sense out of this? >> the ratcheting up of this conversation is dangerous. it really presages i think an all-out war against vulnerable people who are rendered even more vulnerable because gun nuts think they have to be armed, aiming at targets that are already marginal in this culture in terms of their standing. and they pick the groups that are least likely to offer rebuttal to them. for i...

Semiautomatics when you pry from my cold dead hands ♪ >> let's turn to michael eric dyson, msnbc political analyst and professor of sociology at georgetown university. professor, the rhetoric is getting hot. >> yep. >> is it good for the discussion? is it good for america? can we make any sense out of this? >> the ratcheting up of this conversation is dangerous. it really presages i think an all-out war against vulnerable people who are rendered even more vulnerable because gun nuts think they have to be armed, aiming at targets that are already marginal in this culture in terms of their sta...

Whenever you go for the freedom of information act to get something there is a reason or investigation. it is something. this is just purely to intimidate. this exposing of these gun nuts. it is ridiculous. >> it is weird shaming them into submission. >> this is a big point because the writer had just written a long piece confessing to being a bully in which he tried to urge a girl to commit suicide. >> this is the same guy? >> same guy. he wrote a think piece because it was so good to confess the past. turns out he is the same schmuck and the same guy. >> what a creep. >> you asked if it was ...

Huk finn stayed saved until tuesday. the gun control thing is so tough. it is one of these cultural political issues where you have a ferociously well organized opposition, and a more diffuse common sense broader population. and i think that that is where the tension is. that also by the way is not -- the well organized interest plus the common sense diffusion is not just limited to guns. it's -- >> but, tom, talk more about guns. as you remember the assault weapons ban in 1994, it passes the house by four votes. and that was a democratic house. >> and by the way, it had a lot of loopholes of ...

>> smarty over here. >> is that shambolic? >> this for people who own guns and are gun collectors and some are gun nuts, not all of them, obviously. but the fact is, it's all about what we call assault weapons. and there are lots of variations on it. this entire publication is dedicated to the idea that there are lots of new what they call platforms for ar-15s. and there are ways that you can change the barrel, you can change the stock, you can change the trigger mechanism. >> this is the gun used in newtown? >> yes. and the fact of the matter is everybody talks about it as if it's one weapon....