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Talk about smoking when it comes to lung cancer. it just doesn't make any sense. it's part of the problem. and we have to deal with it. now i agree with ted. there's a right to bear arms. i want to see that lady if she wants to have a firearm in her house have it. and i think those of us in the pro gun safety movement should accept the heller decision and say there's a constitutional right to bear arms. and it's no less important than the right to free speech, the right against search and seizure. but heller also said that there should be reasonable limitations. they are allowed reasonable lim...

He didn't talk about video games or violence in hollywood where he gets a great deal of campaign funds. he didn't do anything to make his own folks uncomfortable. he just said to senator cruz's constituents, rise up and force him to vote for gun control. >> i don't think that's fair. the president has talked about generally dealing with violence in our society. i agree with that. but to take guns off the table, to not talk about guns when it comes to gun violence, is to not talk about smoking when it comes to lung cancer. it just doesn't make any sense. it's part of the problem. and we have to...

Secretly hoped it passed. we've entered a new kind of framework. guns are a different story. it's going to be tough, maybe impossible to pass all the different stuff the president proposed, and some like the background checks, 90% of americans are for them. nra numbers are for them. one really big thing is happening. the old line that this is about conphysician cat iing people's guns taking guns away from hunters has been opposed because this has been too vivid a tragedy, and the president has been so swift and so clear. >> and anybody who goes back and looks at the heller case, the d.c. gun c...

We don't have to regulate a shotgun or a regular pistol, a revolver or anything, but if you go into the semiautomatic level, why don't we say that's like the automatic level? just go with that? >> i can tell you this, chris -- >> the courts would have to approve it because they approved the earlier one, didn't they? isn't there a precedent? >> even after the heller decision, the supreme court told us there were reasonable limits that congress could impose when it came to firearms. there are two groups that i think are essential to the success of this effort. first, sportsmen and hunters. let m...

Here is what she had to tell us. >> everyone says it is really hard to get a gun in d.c. i wasn't even sure i was legally allowed to. i didn't know if i had to prove. if i wasn't doing it in newspaper and publicly i wouldn't have gone through the whole process. was that hard, was that complicated. >> reporter: she is not the only one. there was another big case in the supreme court dealing with chicago's laws. more recently the gentleman in that case who won as well i'm told is still having trouble getting his hand legally on a firearm as well, jenna. jenna: they are cleared legally to do it b...