they have always fought that. they have always lobbied to weaken the use of the background check system. i m sure clint could talk about it. they see it potentially as something that can be ill-used by totalitarian government to take guns away. clint, we are obviously, all of our thought and our prayers are with these people in texas. the families, the victims, the stories are incomprehensible. they re heart breaking. anybody with children, anybody with grandparents, anybody that looks at this story is heart broken by it. and for me, again, these are the type of churches that i would visit with my friends when i d spend the night with them on saturday night. then we d go to whether i was in georgia or mississippi or alabama or northwest florida. i would go there, and there
attacked political opponents. chuck schumer. called for radical vetting and then went on and attacked america s judiciary. we did all that after these gun incidences that happen so much more often than acts of terrorism. and kill more people lately. and kill so many more people. all we get is let s pray, and i feel real bad, and it s too soon to talk about guns. we can t talk it. and well, this is a mental health issue. it s interesting. last week i m sorry. we wouldn t put up with this no. with any other epidemic. if there were terrorism, like islamic radical terrorism, again, washington would be on fire this morning. and yet, we have one apologist after another apologist after another. it s been going on since sandy
of these airline programs where you can jump in front of the line with tsa preor the clear, you have to go through a process. it appears the process, for some reason, members of congress and the attorney general, who i don t want to be too critical of as they mourn, but you have to deal with realities. we say this man was mentally ill. not enough to not throw on a bullet proof vest. the man in south carolina went in with nothing on. this guy was prepared for battle. we ll learn more as we go on. this idea of arming everybody for the purpose of protecting themselves. maybe the nra should have that mantra. most people don t buy guns because they want to prevent somebody from shooting up a church. i m glad this young man was there, but this needs to be brought out. there are ways to do this. what about the device on the gun
with mental illnesses to buy guns. carol? that s right. in february the president signed a bill the house and senate passed that would roll back an obama era provision that required the social security administration to register individuals who were receiving social security checks because of mental illness in the national database. background checks database. the obama administration estimated that this could have covered about 75,000 people, and so president trump came into office and within a month of being in the white house decided to launch legislation to roll it back. this was a provision that was opposed by the gun lobby, so the president s raising the question of mental illness, and i think he should have to answer why, then, he decided to take this step and roll back this provision that would have addressed not all of the problems but at least a segment of it in terms of mental
illness. you know, nick, you have legislation like this which would have never passed under ronald reagan, george w. bush. regulations rolled back like this. you look at what george w. bush supported, ronald reagan, and other republicans, and it seems that on this issue, the party has gotten the party of ronald reagan has gotten so extreme, so out there, literally playing for maybe to 5%, the 10%? look, it s true. i think that the gop has absorbed the rhetoric and the ideas of the nra fully in this area. the background check in the nra s view, if you look at their lobbying is a sort of danger. it s a way to register people who have guns and take their guns away. they have always fought these efforts to reform and expand the background checks system, make it more consistent and effective.