be a polite way to describe how the legislative proposals, as well as your father, vice president biden and president obama, have been received by republicans, but also by some democrats. does it surprise are you? is congress, democrat and republican, out of step with what people think about guns and gun controls and the place for guns in society today? >> you know, i don't know. you've got to recognize, and i think president clinton spoke to this recently. there's a great tradition of weapon ownership, responsible weapon ownership in our country. in my state, there for sure is. i own a weapon, i respect the second amendment. but i also understand as a parent, you have to have a common sense approach making sure that guns don't get into the hands of people who are crazy -- that's not the right term to use, people who have serious mental issues, and people that shouldn't have them, that are prohibited under the law since 1968. senator cruz and others have to make sure we deal with the fa facts. if we deal with the facts, i think we can get to a universal background check, which we should have had long ago. it actually gives purpose to the 1968 gun control act, which says