MSNBC Guest on Charleston: 90% of Americans Want More Laws Restricting Guns

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

WAGNER: "Do you think the confederate flag should still be flown?" 
MORIAL: "I do not. I think as a son of the south, the confederate flag is a sign not of heritage but of division and of a time that Americans have to -- let's fly the American flag, the stars and stripes is what I respect and love." 
WAGNER: "You're also a son of the south, and Nicki Haley gave a really emotional response, but for some people, the fact that the state house is flying the confederate flag was a reminder of the forces at odds with one another." 
BATES: "It's deeply ingrained in portions of the deep south. You talk to many white southerners they see it as divorce from history, they don't see it as meaning that. So it's very complicated to get through to them how it does mean that, and how it is a continuing symbol of that era that persists to this day. Both the issue of T confederate flag and gun violence, this is political failure. The American people agree that there needs to be more gun control. We need to get guns out of the hands, they're just too pervasive. I think it's something like 90% support that. And yet Congress has failed to act. This isn't a case where we failed to change people's minds. People understand it very well. But the forces that are aligned to prevent any meaningful change from happening control the upper hand."