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in all other news on capitol hill
gone safety reform is also moving forward and some promising developments
four senators four says united states senate to republicans two democrats
senator tom coburn from oklahoma
senator marker from illinois
on the republican side again tom coburn won the most conservative senators in
the senate
senator chuck schumer from new york and senator joe mentioned from west virginia
one was conservative democrats undemocratic side
are coalescing around the planet to create universal background checks that
were close the gong show loophole
and other loopholes allow private sales of guns in many states to occur without
background checks which is the reason why forty percent
of the guns that are sold in this country are done without any background
check at all
again at all
through criminal give a criminal record your record of mental illness the record
of terrorism
it doesn't matter
under current law
you don't get a background check
and it's promising to say that some republicans are finally getting behind
on the beyond this issue
and with a compromise their forging also includes provisions address better
coordination between the states
and the federal government on mental health records
some might say is good policy all around all those would say that it that is a
concession to the conservative base that believes that this is a problem
exclusively
of mental health
john mccain on the stump again in a town hall meeting in arizona encountered a
very tragic victim of gun violence and here's what he had to say
coronel
on and and and and and
karol
lower and lower c_n_n_ environment around them and you know you'd like to
know our streets container and heated up angela isn't not selections
the it hello you're
helen do you read it because i really will results what
now became effectively saying that while he does support some universal
background checks for some form of reform like that
that he doesn't support a ban on assault style military weapons like the kind
that were used
new aurora colorado theater
where that woman
send mccain's constituent
sourceone kilt by a gunman
and also the same gun use the clackamas small portland oregon
and the good news that the newtown masters cynical mantri school
just a few months ago
p gal and be johnny depp callahan
escape
was an appropriate response from the came so my sense is realistic ryan yeah
assault weapons ban can get the congress forty six
by that agreement for stuff but then
beyond that i think you know it's kind of it's also mccain in some wires lay
mccain display down the trees are not being the slimy old
as interesting take people and don't you think that
he could have been a little bit more sensitive initially to the woman said
bystander with you i stand with you in your tragedy here i'm going to stop this
and
yes i respect that we're not what you mean this is john mccain regarding
around so i think alike
you gotta just expect that prompted barbara course lower standards for john
mccain he's always progeny
well it it certainly is fascinated by recruiter so much that i think that
his idea we got to give you straight talk
i'd but i would have preferred
again harking back to some of the old john mccain style honest retelling
politics
group referred to him giving a little straight talk to some of those other
members of the town hall who were cheering so loudly
yeah no need to do that completely disrespectful not only on x_-rays talk
with our own resident n_r_a_
garner
insane right wing expert cliff schecter co-owner we act rio you tell us what he
thinks is also john mccain expert author of the real mccain coming up next on
take action news this saturday afternoon february twenty third