From the New York Times are Michael Verbal, today, the same thing has happened this past week. That always happen after mash. One side demands change the other works to block, but this time there is one difference. The students of stone men Douglas ICE, it's Thursday February. Twenty said, violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society, and I condemn this action in the strongest terms, simple terms for about the past ten fifteen years. In the wake of what has now become countless mass shootings, both sides have followed a sort of familiar script

Michael Sheer covers the White House. Immediate there is on all sides and outpouring Genuine emotion and outrage thereof, Just few words for days like this, our collective hearts are broken once again and I think it is entirely appropriate for this to take a moment today to acknowledge the victims of this nightmarish rampage and then quickly. I reject the notion that it is too soon to act on the left that morphs into a demand for government to act. If not now, then, when, for the politicians too, do something what Congress can do. What Congress must do Pass laws passed new laws pass new regulations make changes that will somehow prevent the same thing from half. Again and again Time on the left, there is a political.

Meant to sort of ramp up a public relations campaign to kind of shame the other side. It is time to make a choice. Right here Where is the american people? Or do you all right. And then on the right, there's a different script that plays out again and again initially, it tends to be a quieter one. Especially in recent years. The National Rifle Association and conservatives have come to the conclusion that, after the expressions of moral outrage and grief that they should keep quiet, that it's better for their cause to sort of take a back seat and let the other side have their day

but that changes over the course of time in the second amendment recognizes that God, given right to self defence, then quickly turned into a public campaign. About the second amendment about the importance of the second amendment, you dont defeat terrorism. By taking away our guns, you defeat terrorism. By using our guns, the National Rifle Association has been very good, coming up with catchy phrases like guns: don't kill people, people kill people or the only thing that stuff

a bad guy with a gun he's a good guy with a got an increasingly there's a new or talking point as well mental health. This bill focuses on making the background system work better, to do everything we can to punish to prosecute and to deter violent criminals and questions about whether it's the mental health system needs to be improved in this country, not the system of gun controls and, at the same time, to safeguard the constitutional rights of law, abiding citizens to keep and bear arms. So, given all of that, the left advocating for Morgan Control in a priest systematic way and their ride in its own sophisticated campaign arguing for gun rights. What usually happens in terms of action? Well, nothing I mean.

The script that we ve seen you have one shooting. After another, the same dynamic emerges. The machinery on both sides, ramps up and in the end, the political system in the country has largely been frozen in terms of major legislation or major policy changes. That has hardly changed in the decades that we ve seen all these mass shootings.

We need to dig out of this. We need to step out of it and take a look back and realise there is something seriously wrong here and solve our policymakers and some people need to leg and they need to look in the mirror and take some action. But this time things seem a little different. You know in past shootings you would hear from maybe the parents of victims, but these were the victims themselves. These were the students who were in the school huddling in fear in their classrooms, as the shooter was using this assault weapon to mow down their friends, and so you know, while the express of grief or similar. It quickly shifted. They quickly changed. Those students who we saw grieving almost immediately turned to activism, turned their grief into anger and they began Speaking out? I don't understand. I turned eighteen the day after woke up to the news at my best friend, it was gone,

and I don't understand why I could still go in a store in by a weapon of war, are how is it that easy to buy this type of weapon? How are we not start this after combine after sitting with a mother that lasted so it still happening? We need to do something. That's why we're here. So, let's be strong for the phones, we don't have a voice to speak anymore

unless never let this happen again. Please we ease they appeared on national television programmes. They called politicians out at rallies almost immediately within hours of the shooting United Island. We Back with a gun we had no lives could have been able to prevent the hundreds, endless tragedies that have occurred, we call bs, kids, don't know what we're about that were too young and how they work. They boarded buses to add up to tell a happy today stay capital so that

could lobby their lawmakers and try to demand some kind of political action? Look me in the eyes. Look me in the eyes what I'm saying my friend I've gone, but they will never be forgotten because me, a nice to me and my years of endless do we will not stop fighting. Look me in the eyes and Tommy right now. How do you feel? How do you feel tell me right now, please I just want to know I will. I would like to offer to be heard and remember. Florida is a state with a report Can controlled legislature, it is a state that friendly two gun rights, and yet these students are breaking through the traditional barriers. They are getting meetings with these republican lawmakers Centre. Rubia. Can you tell me,

right now that you will not accept a single donation from the interim, listen I respect you can ask that question and I can tell you that I people buy into my agenda. I will answer any questions. You guys of about any part right here. Right now required, because you know, I would have been. I just think that, ultimately, that is not our goal here. Our goal here is to move forward as a whole that provoked so right now is in your hands and in the name of seventy people, you cannot ask Vienna re to keep their money out of your campaign, and then there is the most important republican president Trump who as a former reality tv star, I think he's unique aware of the power, the sort of public relations power that these students have right now and that they should have captured the imagination of the country, and I think, despite the fact that he's a republic,

and I think there seems to be an understanding that he wants to get something that he can demonstrate to the country that he's doing in that he's pine that can respond to the Florida tragedy I signed a memorandum directing the attorney General Cooper regulations to ban all devices that turn illegal weapons in the machine guns publicly. He has now talked about banning bump stocks, which are these devices. They can turn a semi automatic weapon into effectively and automatic weapon. It was the kind of gun that was used in De Las Vegas shootings of the country music. Concert, the key and all these efforts. As I said in my remarks the day after the shooting is that we can

merely take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference. We must actually make a difference. He has signalled through his staff that he could be supportive of some improvements to the gun, background check database, which would improve the kinds of information there so that more people who shouldn't get a gun would be stopped from getting one, but we really need is action. Is we can say we're going to do all these things, thoughts and prayers? What we need more than that is action. Please 18th one this year, that's unacceptable! We're children, you guys aren't like are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role. Work together, come over politics.

Get something so things do feel different this time with the power of the activism from the kids in Florida, but the question is: will the results actually change or the right? but you can use a snack right about now how about a toast grill cheese sandwich just be warned if you and do achieve do each year, z perfection, you maybe beans, to upgrade your tiny drab kitchen, only you won't be able to do it alone in this matter of new found passion the people of? U S. Bank wanna help no matter what your cooking up there. Dedicated to turning your new inspiration into your next pursuit. U S back housing under member hefty icy

so, there's reason like to be sceptical that these kids, whether changing the conversation effectively, aren't ultimately going to change the outcome. Well, I think there covering that themselves were using our our sat asked us to do something. That's amazing, we ve just really why the lawmakers to understand that everything that we went through, and I think that the widow we're gonna do that by showing them that were united front and that we're not going to back down until change actually happen. If you look at just what's happened over the last say twenty four for hours. We ve seen these students head up to the state capital full of determination to change the system. To get some of this gun control legislation actually passed, where current doing the job that these lawmakers space of restating. So right now it's kind of like a pleasant positions, codes, we're gonna, be teaching them they're gonna, be the students, and I guess we're trying to take on their jobs- have lawmakers help them understand

so important to us and to the whole country, but even as many of them were on the buses still driving up to the state, capitol others were literally sitting in the gallery in this state capitol watching the lawmakers, the legislature took up a measure that would have allowed them you vote on a ban on assault weapons, something that the students, all I think were pushing for. In hoping would actually happened. This afternoon, Florida legislators declined to hear a bill on banning assault rifles. Students in attendance, overcome with the motion that measure was defeated soundly. The idea of you Debating this measure to ban sought weapons was rejected. Students visibly upset tonight after members at the floor to house failed to pass a measure that would began discussion on a ban on assault rifles enlarge capacity

designs, and then you have to look at what is happening in Washington to the President has actually embraced. Some of these perhaps legislative fixes, but what are they? The background check measure that he has indicated that he might support is literally nothing more than saying to federal agencies. And state governments do or job send the info nation that is required to be sent to the background check database so that it can accurately flag whether somebody should have a gun or not. If you talk to gun control activists. They say: look, that's more of a nod to gun control that actually gun control in the bump stocks is a similar thing. It's a small piece of the problem and the Bureau of Alcohol Echo in firearms has already indicated that they believe they don't have the power to regulate bomb stocks without additional congressional legislation, so we could find ourselves months from now. Back in Congress, again

this legislation pending, but going nowhere in the the day you would have had in Washington, essentially there little movement towards actually responding to the problem of gun violence. So, Michael, how are you thinking about all of this in an whether anything might ultimately be different here, you ve seen this cycle play out from inside Washington many times before. Well, what I keep thinking back to is the end of two thousand twelve, when the children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a new term Connecticut and the political fight that ensued at the beginning of two thousand thirteen I was covering President Obama. He had just been re elected, in some ways that the moment of maximum political power for a president and he launched an effort along with the parents of the children who were killed, a Newtown beautiful little kids between them

is a five and ten years all those parents were perhaps imbued with the most moral authority that you ever imagine a group of people. Having certainly up to that point in the stories of these kids, I mean in the pictures these young elementary school kids, that they carried with them as they lobbied members of Congress on Capital Hill, and they would take the pictures of their dead children into them when they would meet with senators they would meet with representatives still. I am. I think that the picture kind of sounds him up perfectly. He was always smiling and always laughing, and he was very pure, possibly. Because his age he respects and possibly because he was autistic, Jesse lawyers there, just you

six years all it was my best friend my body, and so you had all of the inner forces seemingly arrayed towards you know what I think a lot of people in Washington thought might be that sort of tipping point moment when Something would actually change, and I remember the day that the finally voted in the Senate and, of course, in the Senate, in order to proceed into actually pass a piece of legislation. You need sixty votes and they came short. They got fifty four votes of our fault, save it having the families of victims. Lobby for this legislation will somehow misplaced a prop. Somebody call them emotional blackmail, some outlets, or they serious.

Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence, don't have a right away and on this issue- and we think there their emotions. Their loss is not relevant to this debate. So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for washing the look on the faces, the new town parents when they realise that, despite their please that they had lost and that this wasn't going to happen. In that we were once again going to answer what could be one of the most tragic shootings in America with essentially a shrug was just devastating to them. And devastating to President Obama, who came out to the rose garden on that day after the vote went down and was as angry as I've ever

Seen him there were no town happened. I've met with these families and I spoke to the community, and I said something must be different right now. We're gonna have to change. That's what the whole country set thereby talked about, how we were gonna change summit. To make sure this didn't happen again decide thereby talked about how we need to do something after all, thereby talked about. We need to change something after twosome assume The the emotions that we often felt since Newtown the emotions that we ve all felt since to sign in a rural and Chicago the pain we share with these families and families all across the country who have lost their loved ones.

Violence, I'm assuming that's! Not a temporary thing, I'm assuming are expressions of grief and our commitment to do something different to prevent these things from happening are not empty words. I believe we're gonna be able to get this done sooner or later. We are going to get this right, the memories of these children demanded, and so the american people. Thank you very much. Urban. He was flanked by some of the new town parents at the rose garden, saying that the fight was over in that they would continue. And you know here we are multiple mass shootings later and we're still. Basically, in it,

in place wondering whether another set of people this time, the students who are also imbued with a great sense of moral authority because they were there, they saw their friends being shot. Whether the tipping point has arrived- and I am sceptical cosette- I know I've seen this movie before, but if we come to the end of this process and there really is legislation to limit the availability of guns. Then I think we're going to look back on this process and I think that the thing that was different in the one thing that made the difference. Was these kids I'm just not sure whether that's going to happen thinking happy to do it,

On Wednesday night, it is seen in town who, in Florida, Stew, from Stoneman Douglas Highschool, confronted report, In Senator Merkel, Rubio and an array spokeswoman, Dana Lash, the shooter at our school obtain weapons that he used on us legally. Do you- that, it should be harder to obtain new semi automatic weapons and the If occasions for these weapons to make them fully automatic, like bomb socks, well, first off Emma one applaud, you first ended up speaking out senior criticised, pushed too so the question I think I'm gonna. Nobody really again remind her. That question is actually do you believe it should be harder to obtain these semi automatic weapons and modifications to make them fully automatic, such as bomb stocks. Well, I think.

The earth is deciding about bomb stocks right now. The president ordered the day, the Deo J to look into. It must, in your opinion, as a representative of the eight hour at what the and our position has been, including questions from school. These senator Review repeatedly made news in the room? sponsors he gave about his positions on gun control. I believe big issue when it comes to the debate about semi automatic weapons and automatic weapons is a large capacity magazines. Would you agree that there is no place in our society for large has magazines capable of firing of over from fifteen to thirty rounds and, if not more, that traditionally have not supported rate? Looking at magazine clip size? And after this and some of the details I learned about it,

I'm reconsidering that position and I'll tell you why I'll tell you why? Because while it may not prevent an attack at may save lives in an attack that is for the daily Michael Barbaro, see you tomorrow,. Do you really tough problems and shy away from a debate? Do you think uncertainty limits potential? Neither do we have a university of Chicago Booth, school of business. We believe in asking questions and questioning answers with campuses in Chicago London and Hong Kong. The booth MBA is for people who see challenges

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