The United States Senate apparently reached a bipartisan agreement on
gun control legislation.
And if you're thinking to yourself, wow, that's amazing.
The Senate usually doesn't accomplish anything unless
it's handouts to corporations.
Well, you're correct because they didn't really accomplish much with this gun
control legislation and I wanna give you the details.
So, among the provisions within this legislation,
there's funding for states to implement red flag laws,
which is great now there's no mandatory red flag laws being implemented.
But of the states that have the red flag laws, they will provide funding to
carry out that policy investments in mental health and
suicide prevention programs, an end to the boyfriend loophole.
And I'll get into details on that in just a second.
Also enhanced background checks for
anyone under 21 looking to buy guns like an AR-15.
So they're not banning 18 year olds from buying AR-15s,
you just might have to go through an extra step in a background check.
Requirements for firearms sellers to register as Federally Licensed Firearm
dealers and also investments in school security measures.
So the lawmakers in that regard said in their release that the proposal provides
money to help institute safety measures in and around primary and secondary schools.
While also supporting school violence prevention efforts and
training for school employees and students.
So there's a lot going on around the edges.
But when it comes to meaty gun control policy,
you're not gonna really find it in this legislation and
when it comes to the boyfriend loophole, you might wonder what that is.
So now, anyone who was deemed to have been in a serious dating relationship and
convicted of domestic violence would no longer be eligible to own a gun,
whereas before, that wasn't the case.
Before, that only applied if you were married to lived with or
had a child with a partner.
So if your boyfriend and you're convicted or
if you're a partner and you're convicted of domestic violence,
you would be included in this gun control measure.
>> Yeah, so this is not half a loaf, it's not a quarter of a loaf.
It's that maybe 1% of a loaf.
And so will I take 1% as opposed to 0%.
Yes, but with a huge asterix.
Okay.
So they're gonna call this historic.
In fact they already are.
And of course every reporter slash stenographer is calling it historic.
So, what is historically weak?
Remember when Matthew McConaughey went to the White House, he outlined four things
that were just the bare, bare minimum federal background checks.
American people agree that nine out of 10 Americans want that easy, easy.
Not in there.
>> Not in there.
>> Okay.
Hey, move the age up from 18 to 21 for AR-15s, etc.
A quarter in there, they didn't move it up, but hey,
you gotta wait like a couple of more hours.
They're gonna do one more check before they sell it to you.
Okay, and there was like all of this was super simple stuff, right?
Almost none of it is in there, and so
they found stuff that was below the bare minimum to do.
And so what's the downside though of that?
Well, this covers their ass.
And so now they're both, the Republicans will say, well, we did it.
What do you mean?
We care so much about the mass shootings, that's why we passed this historic bill.
And by the way, the reason the Democrats are doing it, this is the same reason.
So that those same democrats who everybody's frustrated and
you do nothing, will you?
For God's sake, do something like, we did it.
We did something, we did something, technically it's something.
>> And they'll get the help of corporate media to your point,
the point you make repeatedly on the show.
The corporate media will provide cover, will refer to it as a historic piece
of legislation, even though it just tweaks the edges, right?
>> It's super weak guys, it's not a little weak, it's super weak.
>> So just to really drive this point home,
let's just quickly list what this legislation does not include.
Okay, what is not included in this week's sauce gun legislation bill a gun
legislation.
So no ban on semi automatic weapons.
No ban on high capacity magazines,
no 21 year minimum age to buy AR-15- style rifles.
No universal background checks, no safe storage rules at home.
Okay.
No requiring background checks on internet sales and
at gun shows, which by the way is huge.
You have smugglers buying unlimited guns at these gun shows and
then smuggling them south of the border, fueling the violence south of the border.
And then it turns into a vicious cycle with people fleeing their their
countries coming to our border for safety.
And then we give them the middle finger.
Let's go back up to that graphic.
So no banning family members purchasing weapons for their kids.
These are the actual relevant provisions that should have been included that do
not in any way stop a law abiding citizen from being able to purchase a gun but
it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
>> Look, I think the list we just showed you is fairly weak sauce.
It doesn't have any-.
Other than banning the AR-15s and the high capacity magazines.
Okay, those are real.
Those are real, right?
The rest of it is like universal background checks,
97% of us agree with with that.
It's like saying, okay, we're still allowing you to keep oxygen.
>> I disagree with you, I think that list is pretty excellent.
It really is because it does away with one of the biggest issues,
which is the gun show loophole,
It ensures that there are regulations in place to be responsible gun owners.
So you don't have guns laying around where your kids get a hold of it.
And if you and if you do get caught being irresponsible with the guns,
then you could face prosecution for that.
That's actually a pretty good list.
And-.
>> I would go a lot further than that.
[CROSSTALK] You wanna ban guns.
>> Well, no, it depends, right?
But the list that, I don't think it's nearly good enough
that Anna thinks is pretty good.
None of it got done.
None of it.
Okay, so look,
there's one other tangible thing that the Republicans are getting out of this.
Cenk Uygur was going to make them vote one by one on all these
provisions that are very popular with the American people.
Now they're not gonna vote.
So now the Republicans won't be embarrassed,
they won't have to take tough votes by the way.
Also let's keep it real corporate Democrats like Mansion won't have to take
tough votes.
So this is a giant cover your ass bill by Congress that barely does anything.
That's the reality, so if you see any reporter calling it historic,
understand that they're part of a cover up job to try to
deceive you into thinking that Congress did something monumental.
When it did something that was at best minuscule and incremental