80% mental health checks, red flag laws. those don t seem like unreasonable intrusions on the constitutional right. if it was really money in politics or the impact of the gun lobby the reality is democrats had control of the house and senate and the white house last congress. it didn t pass, gun control legislation didn t pass. it is not so easy as we want to portray it. i also think the reality is that this year there have been 13,000 deaths by gun violence. the vast majority, 95% of them, are inner cities. we have some of the strictest control laws in the country. we are not being tough on crime in general. i think we can have a much stronger impact if we get serious about getting tough on crime in inner cities. last congress we did pass a once in a generation safer communities bill to combat this. i personally cosponsored eight different pieces of common sense gun control legislation that has the majority of americans backing it and republicans refuse to bring it to the floor.
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statement who believes the time has come for tougher gun control laws in this country. it is something joe biden has basically championed throughout his career as a senator, vice president and now president. he has put forward legislation which would call for greater gun background checks for people buying guns, for a ban on so called secret or. guns assembled from parts, i am trying to say. and that legislation is stalled in congress as well. so there is very, very little hope even amongst those who firmly believe that the only answer to this really extraordinary situation is to tighten the gun control laws here. control laws here. that is the oint, control laws here. that is the point. isn t control laws here. that is the point, isn t it, control laws here. that is the point, isn t it, that control laws here. that is the point, isn t it, that these - point, isn t it, that these states have different controls. you compare california to texas and you can see a difference in stat