background check requirement. and as a result, there is more gun violence, more gun violence, more fear, more fear, more gun sales, which is exactly what the gun industry is up to. and congress is more interested in taking the gun industry special interest campaign contributions than public health and safety. and for the members of congress that are watching today, because i ve been in their offices and they ve got msnbc on all the time. they should look in the mirror and ask themselves why they allow guns to be sold without i.d.s or background checks across this country instead of doing what they can do, which is enact national laws, uniform laws that make it more difficult for criminals and the mentally ill to get guns without banning guns. and they need to find their backbone. reporter: what would you say, though? criminals will show up on a background check if they have been popped before, but somebody who is coming up as mentally
state in the nation right now, except for hawaii. so, you can reduce injuries and deaths from really preventible gun violence without banning most guns, but you need to hold gun owners responsible, you need to have a background check for all gun sales. and in the absence of federal l law, even requiring a background check, individual states need to do more. if the goal were to reduce injuries and deaths from guns, you d follow the massachusetts model. but instead, congress has literally prohibited holding gun manufacturers liable for even selling guns to criminals. there is no background check requirement for all gun sales, unless you re stupid enough to go to a gun store like me, the criminals and terrorists and mentally ill know that they can go to 33 states and 5,000 gun shows would the any i.d. or
be disarmed, and the message that it should be harder to get a gun, doesn t fly in the real world. and larry, is that the message? john, is that the message, rather. is the message that the people should be disarmed and we should make it what is the message? well, first of all, i m a gun ownerer and strong supporter of the gun rights burk i do not believe that the founders ever intended for the criminals, and the mental i ill or the international terrorists to come to the u.s. to buy guns in 33 states and thousands of gun shows without an i.d. or gun check, and thanks to the gun lobby, and since 1980, 1.4 million americans have died are from the guns, and there is no background check requirement. that is more americans died from guns than all u.s. servicemen and women kaled in all foreign wars combined, and we are losing a classroom like sandy hook every three days, and the gun lobby just keeps on buying off the congress, and congress keeps
clearly within the public realm, clearly within the public interest to disclose, but there s clearly also a political agenda for not disclosing it, and in nevada what about the feds? the feds don t even have a background check requirement. which i think is shocking in 3 states no background checks whatsoever. stop there. you want to become a navigator for the federal health healthcav and they don t check your background? don t check your background. 31 states. no background checks whatsoever in california they have background check established that is stringent but at it clear it s not doing a good job of screening out bad guys. somebody with a forgery conviction, burglary conviction in between, 12 years later another forgery conviction. i just would not feel safe giving my information over. it s great information. let us know what you re finding. absolutely. obamacare was supposed to
access to these military weapons, we can t even get a background check requirement for all gun sales, never mind a ban on assault weapons. i actually think we should show the photographs of what 6 and 7-year-olds look like after being hit with 3 to 11 rounds with a military style weapon that you can buy without an i.d. or background check thanks to a spineless congress. we need to see these images to realize it could be our children and until we do and take it personally, this madness, 83 more gun deaths every day, 30,000 more americans since sandy hook 12 months ago, and nothing is done about unrestricted access to guns. shame on us. you know, and goldy, i think the frustration you hear in john s voice is something a lot of us felt. a lot of people felt that, you know, for god sakes, after 26 children and their teacher 20 kids and 6 teachers were killed,