Political Inaction Over Gun Legislation Angers Voters



Symone Sanders, Stephen Hayes and Leigh Ann Caldwell join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to discuss the inaction over gun regulation legislation.

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  1. This man gave a good point. There are a lot of people that need changing out of their political party they are all about who can buy me out and that alone should not be allowed. Time for serious change. Money should not buy everything. It is sad more than not doing anything about it. I am all for removing assault weapons out of the general public's hands. A few tweets to the rules of the 2nd Amendment will be politically correct. It's not that hard really unless you stand to lose the NRA's money. Who cares about that loss? The politician that needs to be bought out. He is not working for the people but working for them and only for them.

  2. I agree with these points about playing "hard ball." It's the good ones that are being voted out or are quitting, and we must turn that around. There are evil forces at work, and we must deal with it. One problem is when we turn politics into a war by demonizing decent people for not being in our political party, or for holding different ideas based on different life experiences. They are fellow Americans, we are fellow Americans, and we exist in a Constitutional Democratic Republic. That requires compromise and negotiation across different points of view, which are all legitimate and reasonable. Majority rule, but with minority rights requires we come back from the extremes toward the middle ground just a bit.

  3. Nobody wants there guns taken away Democrat’s and republicans

  4. Useless Media plus Useless Politicians..! 😂🇺🇸👎

  5. It's hard to take gun control seriously from an administration that left 300,000 guns for the Taliban to use. Or from a member of the Fast & Furious program that armed Mexican drug dealers.

  6. Why is a news show so concerned with pushing gun restrictions?

  7. Thanks Chuck Todd Et Al.🙂 "Acquire personal gain"? Sure but what's wrong with this Picture, that is, precisely from whom do these gluttonous politicians expect to acquire those personal gains? God? Beneficent Altruists? Or more likely some manners of "Mirrors, Mirrors on the Wall"?😁

  8. Quote from Robbie of THE HILL 6-7-22: "I don't want mentally disturbed people to have access to firearms — we are talking about a tiny – tiny cook fringe of deranged individuals".

    Thier, we have said it out loud, thier is a very small number of people perpetrating school shootings. Add to this the number of individuals who have been convicted of crimes involving violence.

    Add to this the larger number of individuals who have perpetrated violent attacks that have been documented.

    Describe the problem: We have an identifiable group of individuals that should not have free access to our children, our neighbors, our families and ourselves. Not simply limited to lethal weapons of any kind.

    Identify Possible Solutions:

    Eliminate all lethal weapons.

    Provide these individuals with mental health guidance and services that redirect thier anger and problem-solving skills.

    Provide supervision of these individuals when in public.

    Sequester these individuals from contact with living organisms.

    Treat these individuals with medications that eliminate thier risk to living organisms.

    The whole Violence issue now becomes addressable. Not just gun violence, but the violence that is disrupting our entire society.

  9. The problem is with the media. They keep telling us what we already know or what we're already thinking. Why not give us the names and faces of political leaders and members of the senate who consistently votes against these common sense gun legislature. The media needs to make specific these leaders, photos and names, so it's not some invisible, abstract THEY in Washington. WE NEED TO KNOW WHO, so THEY can be held accountable and we can vote them out of office.

  10. This "political inaction" that you speak about is called democracy. I know it is something foreign to the media talking heads but that is the way it works here. The only voters that may be ANGRY are those same talking heads, the rest of us REAL Americans have other more pressing things to be angry about, such as can we afford food, gas and are our babies going to starve. Demented OLD Joe Biden isn't up to it. He is barely able to find the door to his office when it is pointed out to him. He needs bells on his shoes so the secret service can track him down when he wanders away. LGB.

  11. Because the lies you spread that’s why they vote for corrupt joe Biden trump was the only man who win the White House and care about the Americans people. The Obama, the Clinton, and joe Biden because they are all corrupt

  12. Stop blaming Congress! It is the Senate who can not pass anything!

  13. American citizenry is totally awash in widely available guns thanks to an absurdly
    powerful gun lobby. Addressing legal and police policy matters in isolation from this overwhelming circumstance hasn’t worked and won’t work.

  14. Vote them out the do nothing gop isn't worth the salt in their bread . We need to vote them out every chance we get until this gop cult is no more .

  15. Get your guns and head to capital hill..

  16. We have a dysfunctional govt right now. The media is pushing irrational gun laws to the politicians who are clearly inept. The idea that politicians do anything for the wellbeing of the people these days is laughable. Politicians today are dancing around like clowns trying to figure out what policy will shut people up and keep them complacent. The media finds itself a puppet of these political parties and is no longer independent nor truthful. No amount of weapon restrictions will stop mentally insane individuals from committing mass murder. You have to be delusional to think criminals will just suddenly listen to any common sense.

  17. 1st step is to disarm the Jews.

  18. Twice Impeached look to the Republicans for getting nothing done.

  19. O N L Y
    I N
    A M E R I C A

    MORE GUNS THAN BRAIN CELLS

  20. The Land of The Free, is no more! How are you free when you are scared when a balloon pops in the mall? People just panic and run. You cannot even go grocery shopping without a bullet proof vest.

  21. & YET ITS FINE TO CONFUSE A CHILD THINKING THEY CAN CHOOSE THEIR GENDER ..

  22. Yeah, the WINDOW of OPPORTUNITY He should be relating to, is 'He Running for Governor of Texas' as He had previously Considered or Talked about DOING. It's NOT like it didn't OCCUR in His HOMETOWN..

  23. The U.S. is becoming one of the most violent countries in the world too!

  24. 81 MILLION FAKE VOTES!!!! LOL

  25. NEVER GIVE UP YOUR FIREARMS!!!!

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  27. Symptomatic of two realities. One,, the political system consisting of two groups that won't work together,, said political system no longer functions as intended. Two.. the more stark reality being even if, by some galactic miracle..a person that knew what he or she is doing gets in the oval office..He or she would have to serve for 10 or 12 terms to clean up the mess left by the last string of beauties..

  28. mlk said there is a blm problem, since I was a kid there have been section 8 blm shooting on the news everynight, now there are just more of them, way to go dem welfare

  29. I don't live my life according to hollywood

  30. Most of us believe that there should be a complete overhaul in the government. get rid of the whole swamp and start over. That's not going to happen but that's what people want. From healthcare to protecting our schools there's been nothing but complete and utter ineptitude and failure. And who pays for the failure? Not the rich people.

  31. The rats are fleeing..White House announces more press team departures amid shakeup

    Departures follow multiple news reports of inner turmoil at the White House

  32. MATTHEW and or Anyone that reads my Opinion Comment,
    Please know this is our pleas for help.

    Please READ and share:

    Is Everyone Blind to Evil???
    Don't You All… Get It?

    I can't believe
    normal people
    with common sense
    CANNOT put two and two
    together and view
    the entire picture!!!

    We All Know
    the Sky is BLUE.
    You can not tell us
    The Sky is Purple.

    In the Uvalde Tx
    Mass Shooting,

    The Given Word Command
    to Stand Down,
    Most PROBABLY,
    came from
    TEXAS GOVERNOR,
    GREG ABBOTT.

    As soon as Abbott
    was made aware
    of the HORRIBLE situation
    in Uvalde,
    HE,
    (again, Most PROBABLY)
    GAVE THE WORD,
    to and through
    his Racist Political
    and Law Enforcement Possee,
    For ALL POLICE OFFICERS
    IN UVALDE'S SCHOOL
    MASS SHOOTING TO STAND DOWN.

    Why? 
    Mass shootings usually
    equals or relates to
    long rifles, the NRA, the 2nd Amendment, the Ban on weapons
    of war, petitions for stronger
    gun laws… etc.
    Oh yeah,
    and one last one:
    DEATHS of
    innocent victims.
    But Abbott don't care
    about the last one.

    By having the police stand down,
    Abbott would be able to dispatch, ASAP,
    HIS RACIST POSSEE of politicians, his RIGHTHAND MAN, DPS DIRECTOR,
    STEVEN C. McCRAW and his state troopers to Uvalde, Tx.

    Why?

    To Take Over
    the Mass Shooter Investigation
    IN ORDER to Keep a TIGHT LID ON,
    On All Occured. 

    Why???

    Because it is
    election year for governor,
    in the state of Texas.
    and Abbott, a Racist,
    Political-Power Hungry Politician
    and present governor of Texas,
    will not let anything to get
    in his way of his political carreer.

    Any Bad Publicity
    is the last thing
    Abbott needs.

    So, JUST IN CASE,
    that any TRUTHFUL news
    that would publicly come out,
    thus affecting
    his monetary donor base (NRA)
    for his reelection for Governor,
    THEY ALL would be able
    to LIE about it FIRST,
    covering up and bending the truth to their benefit as they usually do.

    And that's EXACTLY
    what they all did the next day.
    They Lied and Lied
    in their 1st  press conference,
    just like they always do.

    But this time, 
    They All got busted
    with all of their made up LIES
    on their 1st news press conference
    on national and international TV.
    Showing the world .
    their true colors
    on whose side
    they stand with:
    the (NRA),
    INSTEAD of the victims
    and their families of the
    Uvalde Elementary School Shooting.

    The next day,
    DPS DIRECTOR,
    Steven McCraw,
    gave their 2nd press conference
    in which they LIED again,
    Attempting so hard to cover up
    the 1st press conference lies
    they had put out a u day before.
    You can see McCraw's nervousness
    and his hands' shaking movements
    as he attempted to answer
    news reporter's questions.

    NOW,
    Also, don't forget
    the initial news reports
    that journalists got
    from the police and by listening to the police radio communications traffic:

    "(# of shot victims) shot,
    Shooter in Custody"

    I read it clearly on
    all news outlets:
    "Shooter In Custody".

    Hours later the
    news reports stated:
    "Shooter Dead".

    Wait a minute…
    was NOT the Shooter alive in Custody???

    think about it.

    Did someone order
    to have the Shooter Killed
    in order for the incident
    RECORDS NOT TO BE MADE PUBLIC through a little know
    texas law loophole? 
    And Also to keep us from finding out
    the shooter's reasons for the attack?

    This to me has
    a Validity to be
    legally Questioned.

    Almost Done:
    A PREVIOUS COMMENT THAT SOMEONE WROTE EARLIER BEFORE I WROTE this (my) OPINION, READ:
    "They Wanted it
    To Happen".

    That's what I'm kind of WRITING
    here in my opinion.

    It actually seemed Greg Abbott
    and his Possee wanted
    for something to happen.
    So at the end of the day,
    They could be the HEROES
    and be able to Utilize
    all of their conspiracy theories rethoric and place the blame on other things instead of some of the real reasons.

    LAST…
    Please Ask yourselves why ex chief Pete Arredondo retained an Attorney???
    Just Wait For It:

    THE PROBABILITY
    that MAYBE
    ex chief Pete Arredondo's
    Attorney will drop
    a NEWS bomb
    in the future
    stating Greg Abbott
    gave the word to
    Stand Down
    But then
    after it all went wrong,
    Abbott Wanted for
    Arredondo to take the blame?

    WELL,
    The REAL Moral Truth
    of my Opinion WAS:

    I ONCE BELIEVED
    Weapons of War Killed Children
    Mental Health Killed Children
    Weak Gun Laws killed Children

    BUT NOW I KNOW THE REAL TRUTHI:

    "POLITICAL-POWER GREED"
    KILLS CHILDREN,
    TEACHERS AND ADULTS!!!

    ABBOTT,
    AN INSECURE AND HEARTLESS,
    BUT VERY VERY
    MONEY AND
    POLITICAL-POWER HUNGRY
    HUMAN BEING!!!

  33. I am a proud American gun owner. I own 5 firearms. I disagree with Democrats on just about everything, but I think most of the gun safety proposals they are putting forth make sense. The people's general distrust of government prevents anything from getting done.

  34. The Democrats are going to get demolished…they may even become a permanent minor party like The Green Party, or the Libertarian Party.