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And as it goes from 5-4 in one direction with the heller decision, which is pretty much a very basic idea, you have the right to own guns, very basic, to the more limited notion that it has something to do with militias and more restrictions. i think we'll be going back and forth on that in the years ahead. >> let's go to perhaps a future justice on the supreme court now. >> i am also a junior ambassador to demand action for gun sense in america. on june 27th, 2017, my 14-year-old brother was shot while walking home from a party at his friend's house. my brother survived for 14 days and died o...

>> gun reform could be a defining issue in the u.s. senate race in texas where democrats are hoping for a blue wave this november. republican incumbent ted cruz will face democratic candidate beto o'rourke. joining me now, jim moore and sarah slayman. thank you both for being here. jim, i want to talk to you about old ted cruz. ted cruz, a lot of people may forget, came to the country's attention when he was the solicitor general of texas, a position he held for five years, and was constantly weighing in on issues that had nothing to do with texas but were matters of national import, including...

One-fifth of the entire gun stock from the country. looking in america, i've lived here now for three years the problem you have is you got this whole debate about mental health checks, fine. but i think if you really want to arrest the rate of mass shootings, you got to do something directly about automatic and semi automatic weapons, because their ability to cause mass carnage within a few seconds is there and it's transparent for us all to see. we saw it in australia once or twice before 1996 and we enacted. i cannot see how similar action was taken here, that the supreme court of this coun...

Have about 300 million guns in this country without getting at its constitutional sub structure. i'm not under any illusions about the political difficulty about this, but if we had been having a conversation 25 years ago and you or i mentioned the possibility of marriage equality, for example, you would say that's a pipe dream. i also think that -- >> just like that's the opposite of the heller decision. at one moment, the court decided 5-4, we're going to have marriage equality. the same court goes 5-4 and say everyone has in the d.c. case, the howard case, everybody has a right to a gun reg...

They barely pay us to teach as it is. that's another whole joke. no, i'm not going to be making a decision should i shoot a student or students with a pistol. that's not the call i want to make and other teachers we all think this is a very bad idea. >> chris, i want you to imagine you go to class next week or two years from now in another class and you know the teacher is carrying a gun. wouldn't -- where would your focus be starting the first minute of class? i don't want to put your words in your mouth. what would be your visual reaction to that fact that the man or woman in front of you te...