Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190813:14:11:00
>> what's different is just a sheer weight of the -- the ra pidty with which these events have been occurring. you have a republican party, particularly in the senate that is rooted in smaller, rural states where gun culture is very strong. if you go back to the 2013 vote on the background checks and you assign half of each state's population to each senator, the senators who voted for the background checks represented about 195 million people. the senators who voted against hit represented about 120 million people. you can't get more decisive than that in a democracy, and yet the 120 people b...
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