host: you are on with paul helmke and john lott, good morning. caller: john lott, i think your ideas are appropriate. i do think that the clips need to be of the mandated from the public. i don't think they need to be a part of anything about guns because they do cause more problems. you can rapidly fire off. consequently, i believe the bill in congress right now needs to go forward. it is not about limiting guns or the purchase of guns. certain types of fish ammunition are more used toward a person as opposed to going hunting and protecting yourself. so those two uses are the uses for a person who has that gone. host: are you currently a gun owner? caller: yes. host: thank you. guest: let your congressional representatives know that. that is the sort of talk that we need to start having. we can have reasonable restrictions to make dangerous people to get guns. host: reasonable restrictions? what do you think about that phrase? guest: it is used for a lot of things. i think it is a catch phrase. it is always thrown up to justify any regulation th

host: you are on with paul helmke and john lott, good morning. caller: john lott, i think your ideas are appropriate. i do think that the clips need to be of the mandated from the public. i don't think they need to be a part of anything about guns because they do cause more problems. you can rapidly fire off. consequently, i believe the bill in congress right now needs to go forward. it is not about limiting guns or the purchase of guns. certain types of fish ammunition are more used toward a person as opposed to going hunting and protecting yourself. so those two uses are the uses for a person who has that gone. host: are you currently a gun owner? caller: yes. host: thank you. guest: let your congressional representatives know that. that is the sort of talk that we need to start having. we can have reasonable restrictions to make dangerous people to get guns. host: reasonable restrictions? what do you think about that phrase? guest: it is used for a lot of things. i think it is a catch phrase. it is always thrown up to justify any regulation th

but this is what paul helmke -- he issued a statement.deeply concerned about the heated political rhetoric that escalates debates and makes it seem that violence is acceptable to disagreements. we as americans can and should do more to restore civility to our political discourse and we can and should do more to address the easy action toes high-powered guns that allow people to disrupt the lives of americans and political leaders who are simply trying to serve our communities and our country. where does this debate move? >> i've had heard a lot about the type of gun that was used here. what a lot of people don't realize is that that's the same glock millimeter that many police departments use. it wasn't that the gun was evil but in the hands of an evil person. maybe a police officer with the same gun could have prevented a lot of people from dying. i don't know that we can focus in on that. i think debbie is correct. the real issue here, we need to have -- be able to have debate here in this country. we need to be able to advocate our pos