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but this case of shelley parkins mcdonald is a case of interracial violence. and so again this goes to my argument or my sentiment at the advocates for gun control are advocating on the perceived assailant or aggressor is black. guess that part of the responses that we have to appreciate that lots of this information is coming through a filter of popular media we can get a snapshot of the claim that someone is making about the right to arms and it is that sort of caricatured as part of the debate. and so one of the people i talk about, it's a couple of things. a surprising diversity within the black community was an issue of the right to arms. and so there was recently a pew standings poll and there were two questions essentially asking people, blacks and whites, whether they supported more gun control were more gun rights and whether they thought that we should err in favor of one or the other. and so i believe that it was something like 60 to 40 in favor of more gun rights. meaning 40% of the survey say that they thought that more attention should be paid to

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top parkins, a businessman worth $8 billion wrote a letter to "the wall street journal" comparing the to the holocaust. saying i would call attention to the parallels of fascist nazi germany to its war on 1%, namely its jews to its progressive war on the american 1%, mainly the rich. the sad thing this has become a theme for the far right. any discussion of income inequality is illegitimate, wrong, or worse. today rush limbaugh attacked the president for focusing on it in the state of the union tomorrow. >> and you know what the theme of the state of the coup is. inequality. the president is going to complain and whine and moan with inequality. this is his route to further punish achievement, to stigmatize it, to stigmatize the rich. >> the president isn't trying to stigmatize the rich. he's trying to make this country more fair. that's why tomorrow night income inequality will be a major focus of the state of the union. he is re-igniting a conversation that this country needs to have, whether or not the right wants to have it. joining me now are mark hannah and krystal ball. thank yo