In response to a question from @briaasmithh — who was on the same flight as Warren into Las Vegas, she says — Warren says, "If 100 people were dying a day from a mysterious virus, we would be all over this."
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Melvin pushed Biden a bit on the licensing portion of his plan, which would give incentives for states to enact licensing reqs but wouldn't create a federal program or make states act. Mentions Booker's argument that if you don't support licensing, you shouldn't be nominee.
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Biden says he could be open to a federal licensing program in the future, but "I don't want to hold things up and get into false fights in the meantime. Let's get serious things done quickly."
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He pointed out that driver licensing is administered at the state level. (This is not really directly comparable to the gun licensing question, because every state *has* a driver licensing program — it's not a situation where each state is choosing whether to enact one.)
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Biden says he thinks he could get gun control done "really pretty easily once this guy's gone," meaning Trump.
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Two activists from Good Kids Mad City asked about reducing urban violence and "decriminalizing the way in which police and government view violence in black and brown communities."
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Biden says he's proposing $900 million in funding to go into the 20 cities with the highest rates of gun violence and research the most effective violence prevention programs.
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He also talks about increasing funding/resources for "at-risk schools," adding social workers and psychologists, and holding "bad cops" accountable.
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Calling for a ban on high-capacity magazines, Biden says there's a law that if you're hunting ducks or geese, your shotgun can't hold more than three shells. "We protect ducks and geese better than we protect people."
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"You can get this done, you really can," Biden tells the audience as he walks offstage. "Keep the faith. Go get 'em."
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Melvin started by reading some of the criticisms from fellow Democrats of Beto's declaration, at the last debate, that "hell yes," he would take away AR-15s and AK-47s. He asked if Beto stood by his mandatory buyback. Yes, he said.
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"Those who are worried about the polls and want to triangulate or talk to the consultants or listen to the focus groups... mandatory buybacks are supported by a majority of Americans," he said. Midway through, he dropped the vagueness and said he was talking to Buttigieg.
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"Mayor Pete probably wants to get to the right place but is afraid of doing the right thing right now," Beto says. (Buttigieg supports a voluntary buyback program.)
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Beto says "AR-15 owners have approached me in airports, in public restrooms — true story, in Katy, Texas," and told him they would be willing to give up their AR-15s.
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Beto has spoken twice now of an El Paso shooting victim who was shot once in the Walmart attack, and the bullet damaged both kidneys, his spleen, his gallbladder, his liver, and his intestine in three places, and he's undergone 21 surgeries.
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@Emma4Change asked Beto how he would go about appointing a director of gun violence prevention, one of the items in March for Our Lives's platform, which Beto has endorsed. "I'm really going to rely on you... to make sure that we have the best advice and counsel," he says.Afficher cette discussion -
Beto's done;
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"If you purchased that AR-15, if you own it, keep it. Continue to use it responsibly... If you own a gun, keep that gun. Nobody wants to take it away from you — at least I don’t want to do that.” He has significantly broadened his proposals during his presidential campaign.
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@amyklobuchar. She says if Trump were onstage today, she would tell him that she sat across from him after the Parkland shooting and he said nine times that he wanted universal background checks. "Nine times. I counted. I made little hash marks on a piece of paper."pic.twitter.com/K5G1dQJk39Afficher cette discussion -
"As your president, I won't fold," she says.
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Like many activists, and several other candidates, Klobuchar emphasizes, "We just can't isolate it to the mass shootings. We have to remember that everyday violence." Says this is why universal background checks and more CDC funding are so important.
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Klobuchar gets an audience question about how to keep guns away from racists and other extremists. "The question you just asked me, I asked the FBI director," she says, adding that the government has to "see this as the domestic terrorism that it is."
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Among other things, she says she would appoint an attorney general "that's going to make this a major priority"; appoint a director of gun violence prevention to coordinate among agencies, as MFOL has proposed; and give more resources to local officials.
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Klobuchar says she asks herself about all restrictions, "Does this hurt my Uncle Dick and his deer stand? And these ideas we've talked about today... they don't hurt him and his deer stand, they don't hurt other hunters and their deer stands."
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Asked about a cap on gun purchases (e.g., you can only buy one gun per month), she says she'd be open to considering it but would rather focus on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and universal background checks.
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Melvin asks if Klobuchar's buyback program would be mandatory or voluntary; she says voluntary.
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"Did I see Alyssa Milano in here?" Craig Melvin says, chatting with the audience before Yang comes on. "You're everywhere."
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"No, he did not bring $1,000 for every family," Melvin says. "You don't know that, Craig," Yang says.
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Melvin asks about Yang's tiered gun licensing system. Yang says he sees it as analogous to driver's licenses — you need one license to drive a passenger car, but if you want to drive a truck, you need a commercial license.
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All guns should require a license, he says, but different guns have "different levels of destructive capacity," and if a particular gun "requires a little bit more sophisticated training," then that training should be required in the licensing process.
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Talking about providing more resources to schools and other programs to help young people who might become violent, Yang says:
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