Agriculture Secy on gun control: This could be a unifying conversation and Lord knows we need to be unified.

Highlight from Interview– Secy. Vilsack

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VILSACK: I mean, when the Speaker of the House basically says, look, we can't talk about the fiscal cliff and the farm bill at the same time because it's a 1,000-page bill. It's not 1,000-page bill, first and foremost. It is a bill that could easily be attached to our hurricane relief bill or a fiscal cliff resolution bill, easily attached to either one of those, if he had the will, if it was a priority.

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Here's how I view this. I view when the conversation starts, as this conversation started, with a respect for the 2nd Amendment and a recognition that there is a value system attached to it that is important, and it starts with the recognition that people do hunt and that that's important to them - 38 percent of America either hunts or fishes. So you know, it's a big part of the population. It's a much deeper conversation.

And it's a good one to have for this country. It's a - it's potentially a unifying conversation. The problem is that these conversations are always couched in the terms of dividing us. This could be a unifying conversation and Lord knows we need to be unified.

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