Reid to Michigan A.G.: We Have a Big Platform But We’re Utterly Powerless ... We’re at the Mercy of Gun Lobbyists and Gun Manufacturers

EXCERPT:

REID: "You know, it’s amazing that, you know, you have, as attorney general, incredible power, law enforcement power. And yet here you are, like myself, who has a great big platform on cable television, and both of us as moms and -- your kids are a little younger than mine, it sounds like -- are utterly powerless. You, as somebody with all of that power, essentially we are, as mothers and all the fathers and siblings and everyone out there, are completely at the mercy of the gun lobby. We’re at the mercy of gun manufacturers who have the freedom to put guns in the hands even of little kids. In Virginia, it was a little -- like, 6 or 7-year-old. I wonder just how you process that as somebody who has law enforcement power, but can do nothing to make them stand down and stop putting more guns into the hands of whoever wants one, whatever their background."