CNN "CNN Newsroom" - Transcript: Interview with Rep. Tom McClintock

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[09:30:00] REP. TOM MCCLINTOCK (R-CA): Experience with gun control laws. They are very effective at disarming law abiding citizens.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN ANCHOR: Really?

MCCLINTOCK: They're completely ineffective. They're -- they're completely -- they're completely ineffective --

SCIUTTO: How can they be effective if tens of thousands of people are dying every year?

MCCLINTOCK: Exactly right, they're completely ineffective at disarming murderers and terrorists and mad men. The good news is, we know what works. Executing murderers works. Putting gun predators behind bars until they're old and feeble works.

SCIUTTO: You can only execute them after they've shot people, right?

MCCLINTOCK: And confining the dangerously mentally ill -- confining the dangerously mentally ill so that we can treat them works and having law abiding citizens who can return fire works.

SCIUTTO: Do you want your -- would you want your kid students -- your children, their teachers, armed as the only defense against school shooters? Is that the solution you're proposing?

MCCLINTOCK: My -- Jim, my daughter is a first grade schoolteacher. And, yes, I want teachers that have been entrusted with concealed weapons permits to be able to use those to defend their children. And that includes my daughter.

SCIUTTO: I've got three kids and I don't know that I want their teachers walking around with loaded guns. But subject to debate.

Congressman Tom McClintock, we appreciate you coming on.

MCCLINTOCK: Jim, those just -- OK, let's continue this discussion because --

SCIUTTO: Please.

MCCLINTOCK: You know, we have armed guards to -- at banks to protect our money.

SCIUTTO: Yes.

MCCLINTOCK: Why you object to armed guards to protect our children is something I don't understand.

SCIUTTO: I don't want a gun in my kid's classroom. I'm sorry.

But, listen, it's a subject of debate. I'm happy to continue the conversation.

We do appreciate you taking the time.

MCCLINTOCK: Thanks for having me.

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