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the david letterman show magicjack dot com just a little while ago president
obama came out in a big bigness at the white house press briefing room
plans regarding cons and gun regulations falling up on the newton
sandy hook school massacre let's listen to a little bit of what he had to say
and then we'll discuss it
is complex
no longer be an excuse for doing nothing
the fact that we can't prevent every
act appt doesn't mean we can't stanley reduce the box
and prevent the very worst
violence
that's why i have asked
the vice president
to lead an effort includes members of my cabinet
and outside organizations to come up with a set of concrete proposals
no later than january
proposals that i've been intend to push
without delay
this is not some washington commission
this is not something where folks are going to be
studying the issue for six months and
publishing a report
gets red and then
pushed aside
this is a team
as a very specific test to pull together real reforms
i asked joe to lead this effort in part because he wrote
the nineteen ninety four crime bill that help law enforcement bring down the rate
of violent crime in this country
that plan
uh... uh... that bill uh... also included
the assault weapons ban
that was publicly supported at the time by former presidents
including ronald reagan
further he also goes on to say that we should get an actual vote on the head of
the
a_t_f_ by the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms which hasn't happened for
six years they've really kind of been without an official head of the a_t_f_
for some time now so okay this is what this is what president obama wants to do
uh... we've heard that the n_r_a_ is is saying they might consider some
concessions on some things as much as it sickens me too
even have to admit that the n_r_a_'s actually a factor in these negotiations
they are what do you think uh... while we don't see anything happen or change
as a result of this president obama saying this is not to be studied for six
months and then then do nothing
it for now
hard to say i can't imagine
uh... accurate because i can imagine opinion on assault weapons
but uh... unfortunately i don't see
people who worry on them having been taken away
yeah i know you know there's a really interesting article that's uh... and in
the chronicle of higher education
which identifies a number of different nixon realities about gun control and
some of them are myths held by the left and some of them are myths held by the
right
and because president obama talked about the assault weapons ban it because he
talked about it are wondering if you want this
but list the myth says about that in the midst as a claims is
that restoring the federal ban on assault weapons would prevent this type
of crime and indicates the reality is that the overwhelming majority of mass
murderers use firearms that would not even be restricted by assault weapons
ban in fact semiautomatic handguns are far more prevalent and mass shootings of
course limiting the size of ammunition clips would at least pause uh... make
the gunman paused to reload for that is a factor
i don't think the even those of the assault weapons that would be banned by
the band
often aren't the ones used in these shootings
i still think that figuratively if there is the will to do that it can be done as
part of a broader thing because even if those are the source of the shady do we
really need those weapons right it still seems to be okay i just don't want to be
misconstrued as the solution
uh... it's just
part part of the solution a canal i can only help no question about it
the other issue is
we really have to talk about this idea that mass shootings are on the rise i've
looked up as much information as they can about this
and the evidence i found suggests that over the last three decades diverted to
had there have been about twenty mass shootings a year in the united states
each with at least
four victims killed
and uh... it seems that sometimes by coincidence there did you happen
clustered together sometimes they don't
it's really more of a media coverage thing that instant and pervasive in
constant media coverage that we've talked about
that has made it appear as though they're on the rise but
people have other information please correct me but i've not seen evidence
that the nasons are on the rise marie
but of course anytime there's a mass shooting
you suddenly start hearing about uh...
much smaller more more minor shootings happening all across the country like i
said on a show earlier we live next to uh... city
that has few things just about every day
we don't even hear about them right we live right next door so i do agree that
the ammunition thing is a big factor of people increasingly have trouble getting
any nation for the guns that they like using
is far more likely that they will they will not use that weapon at all and i
keep it as an active weapons of the people saying doing only air b_r_c_
doesn't have an affect all of these things together could have an effect
let's wait and see
according to president obama will be wonderful we know what the proposal is
hopefully