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House the president fwetweeted behalf of a grateful nation, thank you to all of the first responders who saved countless lives in las vegas on sunday night. back in washington there's possible movement on gun regulation as some are signaling a slight willingness to consider a band on what's called bump stocks, that, of course, the device used by the las vegas shooter that enables a semiautomatic automatic weapon to fire as rapidly as a fully automatic. >> let's bring in a. >>reporter: -- let's talk about this potential small movement on gun legislation. two different narratives. here's one. ...

This wouldn't have stopped this shooting. do a comprehensive bill. if you have to negotiate to keep the high capacity ammunition magazines and give up some of the military-style weapons, then you have trade-offs you can make, but put everything on the table. i think biden needs to -- vice president biden needs to do that, i think the president needs to do the same thing. the nra and their folks are going to fight everything tooth and nail. let's put the whole program out there if we can. >> do you think we could get something out of a more liberal judiciary committee? i just don't know which r...

Issue, this is a public safety issue, a law and order issue, it will help our communities, then i think we can get it done. >> will you get any votes in the south? >> illinois and indiana pushing. >> any votes in the rocky mountain states, any votes in conservative country, utah, idaho? >> yeah. we can get some in the rocky mountain states. i think we can get soge of the folks in colorado, some of the folks -- we can get bennett, udall perhaps. those are folks that in the past have been supportive. you know, the one i would really like to see is mark begich out of alaska. as mayor of alaska he...

Otherwise be swayed by the same people. they're worried constantly about their right flank, about someone running against them and saying they were soft on gun confiscation, so that's why i am so dubious, unfortunately, and cynical as to whether you can get actual legislation because the politicians think the fringe rules their base and they're worried about their jobs. >> you have just done something very frightened, joy. you have just tied together paranoia with gullibility. in other words, they believe rush and they're afraid of everything else. >> these aren't crazy people. these are peopl...

Armed patrols, it was people like governor ronald reagan who pushed for gun control, who signed the mumford act which made it illegal to carry guns in public, in a car. the nra was all for that because at that time it was couched in the idea of stopping what they thought was a frightening black panther movement or black civil rights movement. they completely changed their minds about this issue. >> and another way and certainly in a more beneficial way back when we identified machine guns or automatic weapons with machine gun kelly and baby face nelson and those guys in chicago, the country wa...