Omaha Mayor - Pro - Gun control democrat in a red state

joining me is the mayor of omaha nebraska jim subtle he is eight democrat in a red state mayor subtle really great to have you here today uh... i want to talk about this campaign that's uh... you've launches ad campaign which really shows that you support assault-weapons bans high-capacity magazine limits as a democrat infrared state so let's talk about that first or your gun policies at cards with the broader opinion in your state if not your city well i a m a city not anymore we see a rapid change in attitudes and they're reflecting what you were saying also on the national scene and quite frankly of this all angela bandana newtown connecticut matched up with what we saw here and would to locations along with the bond market uh... are shooting at they went through small in two thousand uh... seven and we had an incident and one of our high schools i'm ourselves uh... and um... about two years ago so public sentiment is changing may want to see some leadership and i a m read this uh... over and over again and my i'm might uh... exposure to the citizens of this uh... city they kept saying merrillville save uh... you gotta help us so i stepped forward and then took a very uh... bold move move but i a m a lot of movable leadership quite frankly into bill then come in handy and responsibility tenuous outline specifically the gun control measures that that you support and and would carry through lou if if you had uh... uh... support uh... in omaha also specifically if you can what gun control measures would you not be so are supportive of baumrock ram it this way because i will last slowly and cautiously but determined on this to assembled the right kind of a broad task force of our citizenry to determine the several things first of all you and i have the second amendment rights to colon hehehe every gun but that's what the sacraments s but we also have our children have the right to go to school and be safe and not have the threat of a gun violence and and our classrooms the same with family members they go to here's your shopping malls will walk down the street they have the right to so we need to bring all this together and find the right middle ground and i think in our civilized society what we start with his what is the boundary line between civilian weapons that are there for hunting for sport and for a personal protection with military weapons which were there for one per person that is to kill if we can get that definition of place than the rest of the things we need to do in order to maintain a civil society uh... with the absence of gun violence is uh... gramophone place and that's what i will be putting together in my own way with my own past four sphere of our history to determine adheres to those questions i think that sounds good that you know the problem i have and we talked to a number of elected officials about about guns in about gun control is that between task forces and different proposals we hear a lot about assault-weapons bans and high-capacity magazine limits but if we just look at the numbers the majority of of gun deaths in this country are really coming from handgun violence and and that really brings me to ask the question would you consider a handgun ban altogether because that's really the source of most of the violence well three-year-old looking for one answer there is no one answer to this alarm out we're planning a remarkably address our are issues of gun violence and and and the type of violence or gangs you have to do a multiplicity of things so as far as i'm concerned this uh... this task force i will assemble so we can get the right word that's written and in the right state law to band military style sought by police and high-capacity magazines is one more step and the right direction i don't disagree with the mayor and i'd actually i think we would both of those policies dimension but just in the interest of having a rational conversation based on facts most of the deaths related to guns would not be in anyway effected by the high-capacity magazine limit mostar one-shot handgun homicides and the definition of a quote military style assault weapon also can just change and and manufacturers can get around that so that back to the handguns which really is the source of most violence as a progressive are you saying a handgun ban is off the table i did not say that one way or the other i went back to the format that we're gonna use were going to decide as a civil society and all my heart where is that the other airline and right now our focus on this issue a military assault weapons on the high-capacity magazines so that and of itself let us uh... with the right guidelines i think for writing an ordinance and writing uh... proposing state legislation an order to do what are our mission is and we can come back to these other issues in the meantime were stepping up the pace from all kinds of brunch here as we deal with the illegal guns from the university debate off a strange we will continue that we will continue with our our community policing we will continue with our press on jobs will continue to uh... of what our trust on our tackling the issue of the games at the top of a gang uh... a hierarchy so as i said it's a multiplicity of things will pick one steps that i had a time-out taking a step here receive is true then we'll regroup and see what else we need to propose so you're not preemptively saying that a handgun ban is off the table you can sell to wait and see they're trying to put more to my mouth not asking their this the was and what i'm saying yeah we're taking steps one by one by one as we put them all together that we are moving america reaction so will deal with this on what i've taken a leadership role to do and we will get a complex then we'll come back and we'll regroup them see what else we need to do all right i know enough to know what i'm not gonna get more more of an answer so the other than the one i think there his new job or place where you want you today and made it d and that's to be discussed on another day right after stairs what i did and and why i did it and we're going to follow through with what i said i would do menace seeing a ban on military assault weapons and high capacity magazines in omaha nebraska it's the right things is common sense when you do we can still protect our second amendment rights yours and mine in the process mayor how difficult is it when you're working with them a city to pass legislation that supersedes or can can overlap with what may be the state regulations are for example in chicago we've talked extensively about chicago gun violence and how easy it is to drive forty five minutes south into indiana or north into wisconsin and get guns and then bring them into chicago talk a little bit about that given that you're working in a city within another legal framework of the state well again i'm an engineer on ma problem solver the sort of been doing all my life so this is larry identifying the problem getting an *** in st task forces citizens and business people together on both sides of the issue to do but by now how or why approach this but the ultimate goal is to work things backwards we were right an ordinance that gets all mom then we will write a draft piece of legislation that pits this staying and we will go and push that in the uh... you again on lincoln as they debate state law and we will seek the permissiveness to allow us to pass the ordinance for metropolitan class cities in omaha nebraska once that's done then we can go and rest first class citizen others here in a matter of and start more of a global a way of getting the best this particular problem under control alright omaha mayor jim subtle certainly fighting and uphill battle their commander work uh... and really opposed to having you on today well thank you uh... appreciate questions and that we need to go to the future let's do it thank you so much