single bill to the floor for a vote. so i do think it s a red/blue issue. sadly. atima, is it? it s been unfortunately more so than it should be, i think. i think that he was right. there are some congressmen who are definitely interested in having common sense gun reformulation and working on a bipartisan effort. but honestly, you know, we have not had anything done in several years on gun reform. i carried a sign, i was the same age as the shooters were at columbine, it s 19 years later. very little done. we did some work in 2008. close to 200,000 school shootings or kids hurt in a school shooting since then. there needs to be something done. and the nra needs to get its grip off of members of congress to be able to do its work. we have to leave it there. atima, thank you. hugh, thank you. congressman, thanks, as well. we, of course, will be continuing the conversation. all of the speakers today were students, again, none of them over the age of 18. but there were a lot of
background checks, you would not rule out supporting a measure. i wouldn t rule out any common sense gun reformulation without having a chance to review it. i would have to review it and make an assessment based on the circumstances. but i can commit to you that being tough on gun violence is something that i would want to be, as director of the fbi. and one last question. between 1977 and 2015, there have been hundreds of crimes committed against reproductive health care facilities, clinics and other offices. abortion providers, reproductive health care centers, including 11 murders, 26 attempted murders, 42 bombings, 185 arsons and so forth. in 1998, attorney general janet reno created the national task force on violence against reproductive health providers.
breaking news. well, sort. the house voted this afternoon to pass an extension on a gun control law. yes, you heard me right. the house of representatives voted for further gun regulation. but before you go into shock, i should explain this is not a new law but rather than a ten-year extension of a 25-year-old ban on firearms that can pass unnoticed through metal detectors. an important law in the age of 3-d plastic gun protection. this may actually literally be the least congress can do. of course, you need no reminder there has been no gun reformulation in the one year since the mass shooting of 20 children and 6 educators in newtown, connecticut. who knows, perhaps that position will soften tomorrow when congress can hear for the first time the 911 recordings from inside sandy hook elementary on that fateful day. the connecticut state attorney has decided not to appeal last week s ruling to release the
there is no purpose whatsoever for a military-style weapon and high-capacity ammunition clips other than killing a lot of people quickly without having to reload. and as a gun owner, look, i know if i go duck hunting by federal law, i am i am limited to three rounds in my duck hunting shotgun, by law, to protect the duck population. but congress does not put limits on how many magazines a shooter can fire or buy without even a background check in 33 states. and john, you know, i mean, powerful images. one of the moms, goldie, in the newtown shooting, actually had an open casket funeral to make that very point. just very quickly, we have very little time. do you foresee us getting any sort of gun reformulation, even given all we have heard about newtown? frankly, i don t. i don t. unless i m sorry. no, no.
bullet proof vest and also shot in the head and the deputy was shot in a grazing wound and expected to survive. colorado investigators will be working alongside the texas rangers. because he was the prisons chief in colorado, investigations of anything that happens within texas prison systems will be involved in the investigation now on-scene this afternoon as well making phone calls. colorado s governor has reacted to all this by saying, quote, we don t know yet exactly whether this is the guy. there is some indication. i hope it is. of course, the overall story here is still that we do not know what the motive might be for the killing of tom clements, whether it was related to his job running the prisons or to colorado state politics more broadly or to neither of those issues. tuesday night s shooting happened hours before the colorado governor was due to sign into law the hotly contested new gun reformulation that state lawmakers passed last week. governor hickenlooper announced