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The action follows a bill the Oregon Legislature passed earlier this year giving schools the ability to prohibit concealed carry weapons on school property

Crisis in america and had a mental health crisis in america for quite some time. yes, it's really great news that they're talking about actually expanding mental health coverage in america. but man, a lot of compromises right now. you want to wait until the final bill is finished. but a lot of basic compromises that 90% of americans don't support that aren't being considered around that table. >> yeah, you look at that graphic that mika just showed of things not being discussed makes you wonder what is being discussed when it comes to guns. mental health is important. school safety i understan...

Folks? >> i mean, look, i would say we did once pre-heller have an assaults weapon ban and empirical evidence is -- causation is hard to track here, but we did have fewer mass shootings in an age in which we banned assault weapons. it seems to me the kind of dangerous and unusual weapons language of heller would absolutely support a ban on ar-15 style rifles and yet i'm not sure the currently composed supreme court would agree with that interpretation, but dangerous, certainly, unusual is harder because ar-15 style rifles are now widely possessed and if that's the most important kind of criter...

>> certainly the bill that we passed would strengthen background checks, which we know background checks work. 3.5 million individuals have been denied the ability to buy a gun because they had a criminal record. we know they work. thousands and thousands of gun sales happen without background checks. we need to close that loophole. it's supported by 90% of the american people. it's not controversial. that should get to the president's desk immediately. same thing with red flag laws. 84% of americans support laws that make sure people who are seriously mentally ill, pose a threat to others, ca...

Dodging those bullets, i know what they're feeling. and i will tell you in the middle of my shooting, i said to myself f i get out of here a-- if i get out of here alive, i'm going to help get an assault weapon ban, right? then i met with dianne feinstein when i got back. i read her a letter, shannon, from my daughter. my birthday was a day after the shooting. i read her a letter that i said i might never have read if had i died. can you do something? nothing happened. what i want to tell your viewers is we have to work from the inside out. we're never going to get an assault weapon back. we k...