Meet The Press – December 16, 2012

Guests:

Gov. Mike Malloy (D-CT)

Mayor Michael Bloomberg (NYC)

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
Tom Ridge

Bill Bennett

Michael Eric Dyson

Randi Weingarten

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Gregory: good morning on this tragic day

Gregory: Pete why did this guy shoot little children?

Williams: um he was fucking crazy

Gregory: ok what the hell happened?

Williams: he took his mother's pitols and

her military combat assault rifle to kill children

Gregory: tell me all about the shooter

Williams: his parents were divorced,

he carried a briefcase and had

trouble fitting in school

Gregory: wow

Williams: he didn't leave a manifesto or even a letter

Gregory: too bad I would have loved 

to have read that

Gregory: welcome Governor please tell us

what happened all over again

Malloy: we had to tell parents that their

children had been killed

Gregory: why did this guy shoot kids at this school

Malloy: I'm guessing he was out of his freaking mind

Gregory: what evidence do you have of that?

Malloy: I have one piece of evidence –

you know the whole killing random children thing

Gregory: what should be done now?

Malloy: admit that guns are pretty 
damn dangerous

Gregory: would you like more laws?

Malloy: we ignore mental health issues

and make it easy to buy a machine gun

Gregory: interesting

Malloy: having said that we probably

don't need more gun laws

Gregory: oh right

[ break ]

Gregory: Mayor Mike what was your reaction

to this latest mass shooting

Bloomberg: Americans kill each other in

graduate schools, hospitals, high schools,

malls, middle schools, movie theatres and

elementary schools and it's got to stop

Gregory: what action would you like to see

Bloomberg: stupid people always say 
nowis not the time to act or there's nothing 
we can do and meanwhile 50,000 more 
people will be killed

Gregory: so what specifically?

Bloomberg: enforce our gun laws more aggressively

and also ban military assault weapons

Gregory: but people love combat machine guns

Bloomberg: the power of the NRA is a

completely misunderstood myth like

Bigfoot or the need for a debt ceiling

Gregory: the NRA defeated a lot of 

Democrats years ago

Bloomberg: 20 children are dead 
– things are different!

Gregory: but his mother bought this gun legally

Bloomberg: that's the problem stupid

Gregory: I don't understand

Bloomberg: I'm trying to fix bad laws

Gregory: ok I'm slow but think I grasp

what you are saying

Bloomberg: look the fact that people might

break a law is no reason not to have a law

Gregory: what an unusual concept

Bloomberg: the President signed a law

allowing people to carry a gun on Amtrak

– we can do better than that

Gregory: did you discuss this with Obama

Bloomberg: he knows my views and

would still be better than Mitt Romney

Gregory: if the shooter didn't have a

gun he could have a bomb

Bloomberg: I could strangle you right

now with my bare hands

Gregory: please don't

Bloomberg: oh all right

Gregory: 'stop and frisk' is controversial

Bloomberg: we call it 'proactive policing'

Gregory: nice

Bloomberg: In New York we have

scared people away from carrying guns

Gregory: that is frightening

Bloomberg: the people who are scared are

not legit hunters - they real are threats to

public safety like Plaxico Burress

Gregory: how can you pass tougher laws

on assault weapons?

Bloomberg: we don't just need tough laws

we need tough mayors and tough cops too

Gregory: what about gun rights?

Bloomberg: guns don't have rights Fluffy

Gregory: touche

Bloomberg: even proud gun owners don't

want military-style assault rifles

Gregory: but the NRA is so scary

Bloomberg: they don't frighten me –

I took 'em on and I won 4 out of 7

Gregory: amazing

Bloomberg: the NRA is like Darth Vader

– their power is vastly overrated

Gregory: but gun control-

Bloomberg: stop there - I call it 'gun safety'

Gregory: what other solutions do you want?

Bloomberg: you don't have to do a 

background check at a so-called 

gun show which is just stupid

Gregory: well that does seem odd

Bloomberg: the background check

database is not even kept up to date

Gregory: well it's not something really

important like a person's credit rating

Gregory: the ATF hasn't had a leader for five years!

Gregory: why rush things

Gregory: how much money are you

willing to spend to get rid of guns?

Bloomberg: a billion dollars

Gregory: sweet jesus

Bloomberg: I don't fool around

Gregory: by the way we invited every

pro-gun Senator on the show and

they all said no thanks

[ break ]

Bloomberg: Diane the President took 

strong and decisive action to allow  

Americans to carry guns in parks

Feinstein: tomorow I will stand up in 

the Senate and propose a ban 

on assault weapons

Gregory: Diane you are so badass

Feinstein: but we will exempt 900 kinds of weapons

Gregory: what makes you think this can pass?

Feinstein: I did it before and I can do it again

Gregory: David share your wisdom on

killings and why do always we blame guns

for all these mass shootings?

Brooks: for the killers this is the 

happiest moment of their lives 

Gregory: like that time when I was 
dancing with Karl Rove 

Brooks: exactly 

Gregory: Bill Bennett you were Secretary of Morality

Bennett: I was the Drug Czar too

Gregory: I'm sorry sir

Bennett: a lot of us are tired of hearing about

privacy and civil liberties when murderers

are probably talking about their crimes on

on Myface and Twatter

Ridge: they are all troubled suicidal

and murderous young men

Gregory: like terrorists

Ridge: let's be reasonable and rational 

and not ban guns

Weingarten: we must reassure kids there

is a high probably they will not be shot

by a maniac until they are adults and and

avoid the mall and movies theaters and college

Gregory: isn't this all Barack Obama's fault?

Dyson: the President needs supporters to

demand action like a ban on assault rifles

and then the President can use the damn bully pulpit

Bennett: I would just like to say I am available

to lead this non-existent gun violence task force

Gregory: it's all about you Bill

Bennett: the teachers are heroes so why

not give every teacher a loaded 9 mm handgun

Brooks: trying to ban machine guns is

an attack on rural white people

Bennett: good point

Brooks: you can't have some rich Jew

from New York City trying to steal the AK-47s

from poor racists hiding out in Appalachia

Dyson: black folk are shot every damn day

and we don't have special episode of

Meet The Press about that

Brooks: [ weeps for white people ]

Feinstein: I don't care about the paranoid

ravings of a bunch of dumbass rednecks Bobo

Gregory: Rupert Murdoch wants to ban all

automatic weapons and Tom Brokaw

wants you off his lawn

Weingarten: Bill teachers don't want more

loaded weapons lying around

Gregory: Tom what is the color

of our current terror threat level

Ridge: gun violence is like an onion

– it has many layers

Gregory: what are they?

Ridge: video games which create a

digital fantasy world which cause murders

Brooks: it's not a social problem –

it's a mental health problem

Dyson: we demonize rap stars but

the reality is that this loon was able

to walk into his mom's house some

and take some homemade cookies

and also a combat rifle

Bennett: guns are protected by the Constittion

Dyson: not machine guns

Bennett: that's true

Dyson: what if Aaron Burr had a

stockpile of AK-47s ??

Brooks: hey that would make a great book 

[ scribbles note ]

Feinstein: sheesh we regulate everything

in America – but we can't regulate a device

the sole purpose of which is to make it easy

to quickly and easily kill large numbers of people

Gregory: and that's another

episode of Meet The Press

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