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thank you mister vice president for making the time to speak with the
readers of parents magazine accounts dot com today
and michael creston i'm the executive editor of parents dot com
the question of how to reduce gun violence and how to keep their kids say
is at the top of all of our minds
we asked our readers to submit questions on face book
and it's clear from what they posted
that day like
americans as a whole are
disagree sharply about
how to achieve that goal keeping a kid safe
i'd like to ask you just a few of the great questions that were passed
and on face book
the first question comes from a rematch connect all she asks if you can enact
only one single or regulation in regard to gun control what do you believe would
be the most effective one
marietta did anyone
what one law of the most effective i think
from the outset i pointed out this is a complicated issue
multitask we have here
to keep our children our society safer and that includes
background checks to keep guns out of the hands of people want the law
or not uh... title whether convicted felons are worth their futures and
justice and right
are are people were convicted of a
spousal assault et cetera and people with the judicata mental illnesses that
disqualifying
also there's a need for us to ah...
uh... to deal with the gun safety in the home and it's only rational and i have
penetration children and their you probably if your returns magazine
my guess is you have children playing having children
you wanna know that uh... guns are kept safely out of the reach of children you
keep
you keep the cookies on the second shelf so they can reach in and grab all the
time uh... people should not be a in a position where there've
children have access to weapons
and ammunition
uh... thirdly there's a need for us to ah...
make sure that we uh... in my view uh... when talking to police officers
they say they are being outgunned in the street and something need to be done by
these
a high calibre weapons with magazines that whole mobile multiple rounds that
are
referred to quite often is assault weapons and
they need help their literally out don't
we also need to deal with the whole mental health aspect of this
visited this issue
parents who have children who uh... and or people who need help and i know they
need some help
on
are often unable to get it because it's either not affordable were not available
to them
and uh... there's a probability of some of the got awful things we've seen could
be avoided
for example there are other close to twenty thousand people who
commit suicide by the use of a gun
who knows whether or not if they're greater meant mental health resources
available of those lives maybe say
there's also a need for us to see to it that uh...
in addition the background checks and as well as limitations on magazines and
assault weapons and mental health
that we uh... we begin to educate the public eh...
about physically see physical school safety
when i wrote the ah... the so-called crime bill
so-called referred as vide crime bill nineteen ninety-four uh... there was a
provisional loudest for school resource officers and that is
travadi wage a age sworn officer
in the school
who would be their available and established relationships with the
children and and and that's cool
and uh... and gain the confidence of them so that the trial would feel that
students feel comfortable saying
you know john doe officer john
you know one certain songs opens locker day there was a bottom-up pistol hanging
out of the the top of his locker or there's going to be a drug deal going
down the school behind school itself
we found that those school resource officer is uh...
were of value uh... independent
many schools
we haven't been funding them lovely we think they should be fun you should
think we should give the local school district the option
of having an armed policemen or not our policemen or for that matter if they
conclude
they'd rather have a a
it comes to rs calls call psychologist
they could get that use the money for those purposes but there's multiple
things that have to be done none of which
are gonna solve the whole problem all of which
all of which combined will not prevent all
all violent use weapons legally in our society
ask you to expand that many pieces of that on canvas of the next few minutes
samantha phillips asks
if the ban on drugs did not work with taking them off the street
how do you think about handguns is going to be different
willard whether there is no ban on dogs
no one's been knowledge taking my shotguns
hired two shotguns at home there
in a cabinet there block
there's an issue there's well within the committee my god
knows going to take anyone's god
we're talking about a background check in
the analogy too
if there is a ban on drugs how far can be a ban on you know how would any
regulation of the type of weapon available there weren't that makes sense
he suggested we have no
we just legalize all drugs
is that what you're suggesting
that would overwhelm parents magazine
let's talk about everybody being able to
no matter what you're here you go on and
be able to uh... purchase of ***
what do you think about that i did
look these comparisons are not appropriate quite frankly
but secondly the idea him
you should have no law unless the law you have prevents all violations of bar
that is not the way society where
that is not the way we the moral distract probation of society
has an impact on behavior and societies
and the moral disciple beijing
the idea that you can leave a loaded gun around your house there shouldn't be gun
safety practiced by
families in on weapons etcetera
uh... is a very important element in situ is greater gun safety security for
children
can discuss the next question she asks
do you believe the banning certain weapons and high-capacity magazines
will mean that la biting citizens will then become more of a target to
criminals as we will have no way to sufficiently protected
assist on gave up his and hers magazine
five letters i hear all about their environment hers magazine as these kinds
of questions but
i'm delighted to answer them
uh... first of all uh...
the idea that what the repeat the last part of the questions she's asking if
opn
again goes into effect on certain kinds of weapons and high-capacity magazines
and much of the um... dictate
if you want to protect yourself get a double-barrel shotgun
have the shelves twelve-gauge shotgun
and i promise you as i told my wife
in an area that's what it is somewhat secluded
so gentle answers ever problem just walked out on the balcony here walked
out
put that double-barrel shotgun and
fired two blacks
outside the house
approach was ever coming into the market
you don't mean eight or fifteen
it's harder to pain
it's harder do use and in fact you don't need for here and to protect yourself
fine shotgun
by shotgun
hello segment as a blogger for parents dot com
asks a question about the guns that are already out there
some people say that gun control isn't going to help given all the guns that
are already out there what do you say nay sayers like that
i'm not we're not talking about gun control which are not going to safety
we're talking about making
safer for our children
the idea that it's a little bit like when i said you know
uh... i was around a long time ago when we were taking
let out a gasoline
for a lot of cars like my car corvette hennessy young man
still head nineteen sixties
runs better unleaded gasoline
there were millions of carson road
in nineteen release it means we planned
wedding guests only
everybody said why would you do that you still have all these cars out there
all these cars out there
that use leaded gasoline and have to use of the gasoline for the use of the
function
the issue was
overtime
overtime
they will be off the market
the idea of not making us healthier
by saying from this point on you can have led to his love like saying
if in fact we know that magazines with thirty clips and i'm more no
value whatsoever in terms of your physical safety you can
get by with ten clinton ten rounds of the clip
nearby with child
therefore why not just keep these multiple magazines out why not just
keeps on going
it will not solve the whole problem
but the truth and that there's been should continue to make mistakes if we
acknowledging weakening
that having
a that that young man who was in a movie theater in colorado
henry cases shell case that in magazine hold off under rounds
honda rounds
so i i just think there are a lot of rational things we can do
that will increase the prospect
and fewer people victim of gun violence and we should do
and what about a legal guys dot stoical asks
that is legally obtained weapons and what specifically you're going to do
about getting those off the streets welder ftr four things from
one is that
to keep more from going onto the street suite believe there should be universal
background check
and everyone who produces the way
has to have a background check
universal ever
it's estimated there's no hard data that forty percent of all the weapons
purchased today are purchased by have worn in a background check
and that should be in number one
number two we think that in fact there should be
a national gun trafficking selection when u
go to your local police officer your local police chief of the town you live
in bigger small
he will tell you the vast majority weapons recovered in the crime scene
or either stolen weapons
and or they have been really
the admin cold war forceful
or what one of these we think she requires everyone who loses well richard
required to report it
that they lost the weapon
or that in fact there weapon was told i should say they were stolen
helping to police be able to
traced the gunfire armed
at pope a crime scene to get to the criminal by
following through with the serial number that from the manufacturer exist already
in the law
to determine who soul who had who had possession of that god
who committed the crime
uh... and so so there's a number of things in a federal gun trafficking law
that will help us deal with
these stolen and lost weapons that are the ones used by an acquired by
criminals we may find that not all lamar
stolen maybe they're legally being sold on the side
maybe they're in fact not lost maybe they were given to the crumble
and so there's a number of things we can do impact upon
the use of the league of weapons that are
not legally purchase their stolen or lost in the hands of criminals
let's talk first about the second and that we got a lot of questions about
that and laura cars are posted in the canyon
that was echoed by a lot of people who want to ask you wanted to ask you to
respond to what she said
she writes the banning of any type of god
is an infringement on the second amendment
criminals obviously don't abide by laws and kenya legally purchase assault
rifles i want to keep my right to purchase in concept weaponry if i choose
to do so
well home
i think i think uh...
reconnaissance plane
the log goes
the constitution does allow
the government to conclude that there are certain types of weapons
that no one can legally own
now if that were not the case
then you should be able to go buy a flame thrower
that the military if you should be able to go through a billionaire by if
fifteen with
well with the court
you should be able to buy an m_-one tank you should be able to buy
the machine-gun you should be able abad a grenade launcher
thank you can't do those so if you would not exist within the scope
of the government for the public safety
under the second amendment to limit the certain types of weapons you cannot
process
then the question comes down
what is the effect on your individual right to quote a weapon
if u if the government says there are certain weapons that are characterized
and the police car concerned about them
called assault weapons
that can fire
thirty rounds of high caliber bullets
and have the you know features a folding stock they have the features of an
assault weapon
use by the military
effin there isn't any question that this constitution
constitutionally the federal government state government can't outlawed certain
tight of weapons
now the question is
what is the balance between
you've been able to have the right to defend yourself and the right to engage
in sporting activities
then factor totally legitimate legal
the kind of weapon that is outlawed
the fact of the matter is that
those any ar-fifteens for example like the weapon used by young man a panda
killing those twenty innocent beautiful babies
uh... that weapon is not necessary for yourself to finance
you could defend himself he's he's with you know what the
ten grafton instead
twenty or thirty whenever numbers clap
dispute has not been made public but multiple mobile mobile multiple rounds
you can also defend yourself
and you're and nobody goes out
and most sportsman don't have a magazine with
with thirty rounds and when they go deer hunting
as one sportsman said to me if you take it in there in a second and third shot
you shouldn't be out there
yusuf
to be hunting deer
so
the question is what's the balance
what can we do
would not prevent u
from having exercising everywhere you have to defend yourself
and at the same time
engage in recreational hunting or sporting activities
that would not be limited by elimination of that particular
that's the balance
we can argue about
where that balances but there is one of the argument that the
government can in fact the impact that their homes
on the other hand out the tasks
is there some way we can and then the second amendment to bring it into modern
times
these assault weapons and oversized ammo clips of only one purpose rapid-fire
telling
you don't have to amend the second amendment to be able to
eliminate assault weapons and
limit the number of skills
once excuse me using close co
and i don't think we should have been sir
how many of our users asked about
the example that as set by chicago on some of that can etiquette where they're
they do have some gun laws
jessica for cop-out for instance rights
chicago has the strictest gun control laws in the country and is among the
nation's leaders and murders in gun violence please explain how stricter gun
control will prevent gun violence
no one should you can be an oasis in the middle of
in the desert
in the major cities of new york
and chicago in philadelphia most of the guns recovered
at the crime scene are those weapons that have come from you know indiana war
had something ever
not to see the and not the state in which they have mister
com office and that's why
there's a need for some universal stand in the and
the type of weapon that it can be sold and the need for universal background
checks
and that's the rationale but
the city of new york i forget that number but it's
we're going to happen the guns recovered at the scene
none of them are purchased in new york and very few were from state of new york
therefrom
florida and alabama other places around the country
the same thing exists in chicago or los angeles honey major cities in america
let's talk a little bit more about school safety
claire fairest bremer asks
does it make sense to provide armed guards for schools
like those that are provided for government buildings talked a little bit
about this earlier i'd like to hear a little bit more about this issue
the answer is claire on
i think not
let me tell you as speak in america chicago speaker chicago nurture cargo
had a great line he said that
this or schools of some of the safest place is in the world for our children
the dangerous places walking to and from school
on so the vast majority of schools in america
are are are are safe
doesn't need anyone public places and you prompt
some online mass *** deciding they're going to use that venue too
indiagen mass *** with uh... with an assault weapon or e weapon that has
uh...
multiple rounds that they can fire continued re fire by destructive
equipped and with ten twenty thirty
forty beloved
now when i do think yes i do think there are ways we can make schools
uh... safer
one of the things you got to ask you know if you returned magazine again i'm
assuming your parents turner you're about to be a parent
uh... and that is that you want your child walking into a circumstance where
they from everything about the circumstances says actually wants it
you want your child to walk into a metal detector
you want your child will have to walk down classrooms were there're in in a
classroom armed guards do you want
that is not as i could see mentality
schools should be a place where kids are indeed to make a flourishing they can
feel safe
and the issue of whether or not you had a school resource officer in school
who gets to know the students in that school is engaging with them
that that's a judgment for a locality to make in local school district local
school
but the idea of having essentially
a situation where you go through a metal detector where your first we have to
take your shoes off with you
where we're in a position where you have to empty your knapsack year
your your backpack with your books
that that is not one i think most people paris magazine want their children
from schools tend to safety have gone through a captain tom
tessa gray asks
should parents who don't have guns in their homes
demand to know which of their children to friends of gun owners
waters that's a judgment every parent to make for example
as a parent raising my children
by one of the no when they're going to prison that when they were younger
wonder doing overnight
uh...
uh... at someone's home when they're in second third fourth fifth sixth seventh
grade
i wanna know tennis swimming pool whether or not it was locked there's a
gate
it's not an unreasonable thing for me to ask for my kids were
fourteen fifteen sixteen of the time when ken starr experimenting
i'd like to know if they're having a party were that the parents walk the
liquor care
uh... messes me
uh... i don't think it's a rational for you'd asked whether or not
there are guns in the home and how they're stored
for example on my home
uh... i have a higher five grandchildren
uh... there around all the time hired two shotguns they're locked in a safe
there's a there's a gun case that is metal
and there's a combination i can get to really quickly if i thought i had my
home was being bait
and to try to protect myself
but i keep inundation
and the guns in that case i don't think it's irrational for you to ask whether
or not period for guns in the home or a day
block to other under lock and key here there in a place for children don't have
access to it
you read everyday about accidental shootings kids don't need to do you know
they
i think there should be
parents who have children at home should also i think they should have gone
safety on classes oradour or education
so you know what where there's a chain what were the symbol of the chamber how
how crowded
to be sure that the gone is not loaded i remember my dad
homework that was a hunter
i'm not
my dad was a home and he always had uh...
rifles uh... remember the first time it took me out field
and uh... you know uh... we were going to go birding here if we we ended up not
reasons too complicated
yet to go back to work
but i remember taking a shotgun
and we're in the field and there was a
older three rail fence in this mansfield
and took a shot can you say what you see some geo
a deep blue with one shot of the twelve gauge shotgun blue
the realm of of post-world transaction
so was born in france
on p just blew it apart
because you want me to understand the power
the power
of what i had in my hand
and i think it's this is
you teach your kids have
safely operate a car you teach them how to safely
deal was something that could do damage to someone else accidentally
or to themselves
and so i think it makes sense
gun safety is an important element
of what we're talking about here with and that's we're not legislative
legislative but again
i think you more people become aware of via of what's going on
more thursday
sort of sort of the
the imperative to uh... make sure that uh... children who were curious ah...
uh... are not
did not have access to these weapons
and or uh... if they have access to train and they've been trying to make
compliment we can handle uh... if they're going to happen version of the
viewer target shoot
uh... they should be trade i think most are partly look
there there is a really healthy gun culture sculpture
there is at the state i come from
uh... the family i come
drawings were part of my father's ethic my father
plus a responsible way
and so we were taught
we were taught you don't play with the you don't have a look
you don't think about money when i was loaded toward we weren't even allow
implant cops and robbers two point
the you know in the a cowboy you know cap dot
at some
you just don't do that
and so there certainly
basic things
like any
family that owns the weapon
alone some and should be trainer children house so that they don't uh...
accidentally
get themselves in trouble
cemented not legislating around that time i have a question about that from
the sea carson's math
she writes that she is the sister of a boy killed twenty seven years ago in a
school related shooting
her own daughter went to her first play date and weeks later i thought that
there was an unlocked gun in the hall she asks whatever just leaders willing
to do to present the message that all parents should be conversing about the
issue of gun accessibility at the household level
besito
first of all
no
sorry for which went through
so complicated decision disapprove court decision
relating to go and safety
district of columbia ordnance
that said that uh...
you had to keep your
firearm
when you're in your home you had to keep a locked up
unloading much unload had to keep a block
and uh... the supreme court ruled that
you cannot require someone too
have their weapon in a place where it was not accessible for
self their self defense
and so they said that you could not and all circumstances where your home tell
you cannot have a weapon
that has loaded in your home
that still doesn't mean you can't be responsible for making sure that is
loaded successfully you will not turn children still does not say
it's unclear whether or not
when you're not in your home
should you be required to have a under lock and key secure kids are in and out
while you were work your
where your own house
stood still unknown tested area but again i think the vast majority american
people
are serious and responsible
and i think the best overall
well-meaning georgia gun ownership criminally responsible
in fact
keeping the weapon keeping them gone
of the region children or strangers
c is yes
common sense
and uh... and i think there you're going to see
some initiatives uh... come along to them trying to find out the limits of
that d_c_ case
and i think there is room
met people that will be able to legislate
statistic combina replaces to increase the prospects
increases prospects
let alone weapon
is not within our reach of the stranger or a family member
who is not competent to use it
i'd like to close with the question
about the role what role if any do you think violent video games as well as
t_v_ and movies play
in springtime violence
there's a report out just this morning that video games may played some sort of
rolf adam lands of the new township
well there's a lot of speculation
about that
and uh... that's why i had one one of these were pushing very hard that i
didn't mention to you
he is lifting the ban on the ability of
of the c_d_c_ the center for disease control damnation national student
health
from the land use to have these on
the n_r_a_ and others have actually pushed legislation
and attached with the cold writers to
uh... to appropriations bill saying
you can get the federal government wages to fill a grumpy actually study
compounds
and one of the things that i think we should be studying uses the issue of
whether or not
there is any empirical data suggest that
actually that access to these some extremely violent video games
on to young people actually impacts on their behavior
uh... there are a couple studies the
uh... the uh... the association of those child psychiatrist it's not the exact
title of the home of the title but
acting as an adolescent psychiatric
uh... study
indicates that it may impact on behavior
uh... but there's no on attitudes but there's no hard data
and i saw one is the present our suggestion is that a b
well funded studies
really first-rate people
and to tell me whether or not there is any association between violent video
films
and behavior particularly on young people
uh... there's not enough hard added to make that judgment now but
we have to lift the restrictions
on the government to be able to study searches
thank you very much mister vice president making the time thank you
to everyone from our facebook audience for posting all these great questions
precio thanks for having very much