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Speaker 1: This is gem nation with genesy and land.

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Speaker 2: Almost feel the collective heads of people in hands in

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Speaker 2: America at the moment with yet another mass shooting out

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Speaker 2: of school. And America's love affair with guns has been

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Speaker 2: around for so long that it's part of their DNA.

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Speaker 2: There's four hundred million guns in America. There's three hundred

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Speaker 2: and seventy million people in America. There's more guns than people.

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Speaker 2: And when you look at it, how they've glamorized guns

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Speaker 2: in movies, in TV ads.

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Speaker 1: My first rafel Irish, I had one, girls and even

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Speaker 1: mom will love the way they could pick one to

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Speaker 1: their own taste. Tell me what your favorite thing about

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Speaker 1: the cricket gun is?

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Speaker 2: Because I get to shoot it. This is disconnect with

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Speaker 2: what the gun can do. It it's gone out of control.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like a cult. And I remember we're over

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Speaker 2: in waik A kid one of those crazy gun rangers there,

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Speaker 2: and the boys said, come on, let's go and do

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Speaker 2: this dad right there, right Yeah. So we're all on

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Speaker 2: there and we're shooting this world of guns that we

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Speaker 2: would never dream of here. Like I was using a

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Speaker 2: clock the one that the police use, and a Dirty

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Speaker 2: Harry Special and a machine gun, and the guy that's

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Speaker 2: running it, he says, hey, you guys, you don't get

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Speaker 2: this back in Australia And my son said yeah, because

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Speaker 2: we had a massacre and they banned all the guns.

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Speaker 2: And the guy said you had one massacre and we

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Speaker 2: went yeah, and he was like, you've had one massacre.

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Speaker 2: You're not trying hard enough. We're going, well, one massacre

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Speaker 2: is enough. One is enough, But we're never going to

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Speaker 2: convince America to get rid of their guns.

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Speaker 3: Well, the thing is, the debate isn't even get rid

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Speaker 3: of all your guns. It's how about you just bring

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Speaker 3: some a couple of things into play so that you

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Speaker 3: can have a checklist of whether these people are mentally stable,

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Speaker 3: whether they're old enough, whether they should have guns. It's

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Speaker 3: not even getting rid of them. They won't even touch

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Speaker 3: the rules on them. Texas has some of the most

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Speaker 3: lax rules of ever in the States. That's where this

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Speaker 3: massacre happened yesterday. As you say, Brendan, we had one

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Speaker 3: massacre twenty six years ago. We've had prettymum much no

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Speaker 3: comparable mass shooting since, and yet farmers still have access

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Speaker 3: to guns. We have recreational shooters in Australia. We just

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Speaker 3: don't give out guns that you'd have on a battlefield

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Speaker 3: of war. Dun Blaine, that horrendous tragedy that happened in

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Speaker 3: the primary school in Scotland nineteen ninety six, twenty six

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Speaker 3: years ago. They've had no comparable shooting since and no

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Speaker 3: one complains. In America, Today's the one hundred and forty

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Speaker 3: fourth day of twenty twenty two. The Uvaldi shooting is

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Speaker 3: the two hundred and twelfth mass shooting of the year,

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Speaker 3: so there'll be more mass shootings than there are days.

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Speaker 3: It's just disgusting. I was reading something in the American

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Speaker 3: newspaper this morning where they say all Americans are saying

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Speaker 3: this isn't who we are. Well, this newspaper is saying

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Speaker 3: this is exactly who we are. It's the Washington Post,

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Speaker 3: where the place with more guns than people, where tens

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Speaker 3: of thousands are murdered every year, Where arguments over parking

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Speaker 3: spaces end in death. Where the place where much of

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Speaker 3: the gun legislation that passes insures that almost everyone can

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Speaker 3: take guns or guns almost any The place where candidates

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Speaker 3: for office show their cultural bona fides by popping off

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Speaker 3: rounds in the campaign ads. We're not England or France,

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Speaker 3: or Canada or Denmark or Japan or Portugal or any

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Speaker 3: other country. In those places, parents send their kids to

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Speaker 3: school worried they might catch a cold, or struggle with

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Speaker 3: mass problems, or be bullied. They don't worry that someone

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Speaker 3: will come into their child's classroom with a weapon of

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Speaker 3: war and to hear their little bodies apast shot. Imagine

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Speaker 3: how you'd feel as a parent.

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Speaker 1: You know everyone.

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Speaker 3: As you mentioned earlier, Brendan Steve Kerr is a basketball

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Speaker 3: coach I think of the Golden State Warriors. He used

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Speaker 3: to be a player himself. He was taking the podium

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Speaker 3: to discuss his team. They're about to go into the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: Steve's father was murdered by gun violence. He was assassinated

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Speaker 3: because he was head of the American university in Beirut.

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Speaker 3: So this is something that triggers excuse the terrible pun

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Speaker 3: Steve very much. So there's the basketball coach, Steve Kerr.

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Speaker 3: He's about to talk about his team playing basketball. He's

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Speaker 3: just heard the news that at that stage fourteen children

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Speaker 3: had been murdered higher than that now, and he outed

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Speaker 3: these extraordinary woods.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about basketball. Any basketball questions

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Speaker 1: don't matter. Since we left shoot around fourteen children were

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Speaker 1: killed four hundred miles from here, and a teacher. And

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Speaker 1: in the last ten days, we've had elderly black people

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Speaker 1: killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, We've had Asian churchgoers

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Speaker 1: killed in southern California, and now we have children murdered

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Speaker 1: at school. When are we going to do something? I'm tired.

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Speaker 1: I'm so tired of getting up here and offering condolences

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Speaker 1: to the devastated families that are out there. I'm so

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Speaker 1: tired of the excuse me, I'm sorry. I'm tired of

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Speaker 1: the moments of silence. Enough. There's fifty Senators right now

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Speaker 1: who refuse to vote on HR eight, which is a

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Speaker 1: background check rule that the House passed a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. It's been sitting there for two years, and

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Speaker 1: there's a reason they won't vote on it, to hold

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Speaker 1: on to power. So I ask you, Mitch McConnell, I

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Speaker 1: ask all of you senators who refuse to do anything

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Speaker 1: about the violence and school shootings and supermarket shootings. I

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Speaker 1: ask you, are you going to put your own desire

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Speaker 1: for power ahead of the lives of our children? And

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Speaker 1: our elderly, and our church goers, because that's what it

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Speaker 1: looks like. I want every person here, every person listening

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Speaker 1: to this, to think about your own child or grandchild,

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Speaker 1: or mother or father or sister, brother. How would you

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Speaker 1: feel if this happened to you today. We can't get

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Speaker 1: numb to this. We can't sit here and just read

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Speaker 1: about it and go, well, it's not a moment of silence. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: go dubs. You know, do you realize that ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of Americans, regardless of political party, want background check, universal

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Speaker 1: background check? Ninety percent of us. We are being held

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Speaker 1: hostage by fifty senators in Washington who refused to even

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Speaker 1: put it to a vote. Despite what we the American

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Speaker 1: people want, they won't vote on it because they want

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Speaker 1: to hold onto their own power. It's pathetic. I've had enough.

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Speaker 2: Wow, and he's still always asking for It's not getting

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Speaker 2: rid of your Gun's just a background someone's mental. Don't

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Speaker 2: give them a gun, you know.

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Speaker 3: And the NRA has cut its speak symposium this week

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Speaker 3: this weekend, Donald Trump's talking about it. The NRA has

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Speaker 3: been funding Mitch McConnell. This is the stuff. Extricate yourselves

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Speaker 3: once again, we say, surely this is the turning point.

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Speaker 3: Surely