>>> ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING TODAY
IN SAN JOSE.
WHILE MUCH OF THE COUNTRY IS
CALLING FOR AN SUPPORTS STRICTER
GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION, TEXAS
LAWMAKERS ARE TAKING THE
OPPOSITE APPROACH.
FOCUSED ON SOLVING GUN FREEDOMS,
REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR ABBOTT WILL
SIGN A CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY BILL
CLEARED BY THE TEXAS HOUSE AND
SENATE THIS WEEK, WHICH WOULD
ALLOW MOST ADULTS OVER 21 TO
CARRY HANDGUNS WITHOUT A PERMIT,
WITHOUT A BACKGROUND CHECK AND
WITHOUT ANY TRAINING.
PUSHING A BILL OUT OF STEP WITH
THE MAJORITY OF TEXANS, AS WELL
AS LAW INFERS METROPOLITAN IN A
STATE WITH A VERY RECENT HISTORY
OF MATT SHOOTINGS.
FROM "NEW YORK TIMES" -- V. HAD
BEEN PROPOSED IN THE LAST
DECADE, BUT HAD NO GARNERED MUCH
SUPPORT.
IT WAS LARGELY DISMISSED AS A
REMOTE DREAM OF THE FAR RIGHT,
BUT THE 2020 ELECTION CHANGED
ALL OF THAT.
AS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SHIFTED
FURTHER RIGHT AND MODERATE
LAWMAKERS FEARED BEING
OUTFLANKED BY HARD-CORE
CONSERVATIVE.
YOU HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT HOW
UNSOUND THIS IS IDEA LOGICALLY
AND POLITICALLY FOR TEXAS, BEING
IT SEEMS LIKE ITS ANOTHER SCALE
THAT SEEMS INHUMANE.
THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM THAT NO
ONE WANTS TO SOLVE.
WHEREAS SOME WILL EVEN ADMIT TO
BEING VERY EAGER THAT DOESNT
SOLVE A APPROXIMATE THAT --
>> ANOTHER HORRIBLE SAD TRAGIC
DAY IN AMERICA, WHICH WE KEEP
HAVING, AS THE GOVERNOR OF
CALIFORNIA SPOKE VISCERALLY TO
IT.
IM A GUN OWNER.
HERE, I LIVE IN RURAL TEXAS.
THERES NO, YOU KNOW, RATIONAL
REASON WHY THIS SHOULDNT HAPPEN
BUT FOR A SMALL SEGMENT OF
TEXAS, AS YOU POINTED TO, THE
MAJORITY OF TEXANS WANT THIS.
WHAT IS IMMENSELY TROUBLING, IS
AS TEXAS IS MOVING TOWARD
BECOMING MORE PURPLE, MORE
MODERATE, MORE IN THE MAINSTREAM
OF STATES IN LESS RED, THE
LEADERS ARE ACTUALLY GOING IN
THE EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
THEYRE GOING MORE CULTURALLY
AND MORE SOCIALLY CONSERVATIVE.
THEY PUT RESTRICTIONS IN PLACE
ON VOTING RIGHTS, IMMENSE
RESTRICTIONS THAT THEYRE
FINALIZING THE FINAL BILL ON.
THEY ONLY ALLOW WOMEN TO GET AN
ABORTION AFTER SIX WEEKS, SO
MOST WOMEN WHO DONT EVEN KNOW
THEYRE PREGNANT, YOU NO LONGER
HAVE THAT CHOICE IN TEXAS.
NOW THIS CRAZY PERMITLESS
HANDGUN, WHERE YOU NOT ONLY NO
LONGER HAVE TO HAVE A PERMIT,
YOU NO LONGER GET A BACKGROUND
CHECK AND YOU NO LONGER GET
TRAINING.
NOW ANYBODY CAN WALK INTO A
COFFEE SHOP, A HARDWARE STORE, A
GROCERY STORE WITH A HAUNT GUN
ON THEIR HIP.
I THINK DONALD TRUMP MOVED TEX
MORE INTO THE PURPLE COLUMN.
ITS NOT THERE YET, BUT ITS
REALLY CLOSE.
I THINK ALL OF THE SOCIAL
CONSERVATIVE STUFF IS OUT OF
STEP WITH MOST TEXANS.
PEOPLE OF FAITH AND THAT DONT
BUY INTO IT, BUT IT IS 25% OF
THE STATE, JUST LIKE MOST OF THE
COUNTRY THAT PUSHES THE LEVERS
OF THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS.
THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, THE
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL, ALL THEIR
LEVERS ARE PUSHED BY A VERY
SMALL ELEMENT.
I THINK ITS UP TO US TEXANS,
WELL HAVE TO DO THIS IN 2022,
AND THEN TIME AND TIME AGAIN, IN
SPITE OF EMBEDIMPEDMENTS, BUT IT
CRAZY.
WEVE D MULTIPLE MASS
SHOOTINGS IN TEXAS.
IN A WALMART IN EL PASO, IN A
CHURCH IN TEXAS, AND WERE
ACTUALLY GOING IN THE OPPOSITE
DIRECTIONS.
WE THINK ITS MORE REASONABLE TO
PUT RESTRICTIONS ON VOTING THAN
IT IS TO PUT ANY RESTRICTIONS ON
TEXANS ABILITY TO CARRY A GUN.
ITS JUST LUDICROUS.
I THINK ULTIMATELY MITT CAL IT
WILL CATCH UP TO THE
REPUBLICANS, BUT RIGHT NOW, ITS
SO, SO, SO INSANE.
IT WOULD BE LAUGHABLE INSANE IF
IT WASNT SO DANGEROUS.
>> I HAD THE SAME REACTION TO
GOVERN NEWSOMS COMMENTS.
THEY WERE DIFFERENT.
THEY WERE RAW.
THERE WAS A TIPPING POINT
REACHED FOR HIM.
I WANT TO PLAY SOME OF THEM.
LETS TALK ABOUT IT ON THE OTHER
SIDE.
>> THERES A SAMENESS TO THIS,
AND A NUMBNESS I THINK IS
SOMETHING WERE ALL FEELING, ALL
OF US GATHERED HERE TODAY,
LOOKING AT THIS SCENE, LISTEN TO
GO GOVERNORS, MAYORS, CHIEFS
SPEAKING SIMILAR TONE AND TERMS,
AN EXPRESSION OF CONDOLENCES,
ALL THE RIGHT EMOTIONS AND
PERHAPS THE RIGHT WORDS, BUT IT
BEGS THE DAMN QUESTION -- WHAT
THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
>> MATTHEW, PRESIDENT BIDEN
ECHOING A VERY SIMILAR THEME, ISSUING THIS STATEMENT.
ISSUING THIS STATEMENT.G THIS ST
I DONT KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS
INTO AN OPTIMISTIC FRAME, SO I
WONT EVEN TRY.
DO YOU THINK ANYTHING WILL
CHANGE?
>> NOT IN THE SHORT TERM.
IM AFRAID NOTHING IN THE SHORT
TERM.
ONE THING I THINK JOE BIDEN
SHOULD DO -- IF I WERE THERE, I
WOULD SAY LEAVE THE FLAG AT HALF
MAST UNTIL A GUN BILL PASSES.
DONT TAKE IT DOWN UNTIL A GUN
BILL PASSES.
THIS IS AN ONGOING TRAGEDY
TAKING PLACES.
RAISING AND LOWERING IT?
LEAVE IT AT HALF MAST FOR
HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES.
FIRST.
SECONDLY, I THINK DEMOCRATS HAVE
BEEN WAY TOO SHY RUNNING ON
THIS.
I HAVE SEEN THEM SKIRT AROUND
IT, NO, NO, NO, I WANT TO TALK
ABOUT HEALTH CARE, I WANT TO
TALK ABOUT CLIMATE, I DONT WANT
TO WADE INTO THE GUN THING.
LIKE LUCY McBETH IN GEORGIA, WHO
RAN ON THIS BECAUSE OF OBVIOUSLY
THE TRAGEDY IN HER FAMILY, RAN
ON IT IN A SWING DISTRICT IN
GEORGIA AND WON.
I THINK THIS IS A WINNING ISSUE,
A HUGELY WINNING ISSUE THAT
DEMOCRATS IN STATE AFTER STATE
AFTER STATE -- NOT JUST THE
NORTHEAST OR THE WEST COAST,
WHICH PEOPLE VIEW AS
PROGRESSIVE, BUT MIDDLE AMERICA
AND SOUTHERN AMERICA WHO ARE
CONCERNED.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD SAY IM GOING
TO RUN STRAIGHT INTO ITENED AND
THE REPUBLICANS ARE STOPPING ANY
COMMON-SENSE REFORM AND NOT BE
AFRAID TO SEE IT EVERY SINGLE
STOP, EVERY SINGLE TIME.
IF THE DEMOCRATS DO THAT IN THE
2022 ELECTIONS, THEY MAY BEING
TO WIN SOME SEATS, BUT UNTIL WE
START TAKING THIS ON, AS A TOP
THREE ISSUE IN AMERICA, WHICH IT
SHOULD BE SINCE THOUSANDS DIE
FROM GUN VIOLENCE.
WE DONT DO A THINGS ABOUT IT.
WE JUST KEEP MOVING ON AS THE
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA SAID.
DEMOCRATS SHOULD TAKE A PAGE OUT