scott, we talked about republican problems in the suburbs. a lack of action on the part of republicans, do you think that could make things even worse? well, i do think that republicans could do things that rick said to clean this issue up that would have no impact whatsoever on people that believe strongly in the second amendment. he listed some of the things that could be done from a policy nature. there are other issues that deal with human processes that have failed here that have caused some of these mass shootings to occur in schools and other places that could be dealt with as well. i was looking at some polling recently from quinnipiac, i think, and the least likely age cohort to want to ban guns or even ban high capacity magazines were actually 18 to 34-year-olds. the most likely age cohort were 65 and up. so i think there is a belief out there that young people are rallying and doing things because they want bans and they want government to take away property. that s not
me the most challenging not because of the common sense policy nature of it, but because there s a lot of income to be earned by some fairly powerful groups around those high-capacity magazines. i also think detect one note of some dissent. i do think we should subject any expansion of federal criminal law to a pretty tight degree of investigation because expansions of crimes being made federal have had the effect over the last 10 or 20 years of falling most heavily among people of color, among people without resources and i do worry about what the cost and benefits of increasing criminal penalties in this area are. yet, the head of the nra, david keen, he said in an interview today, pete, keen, predicted failure on all