important. people don t realize we have very strong background checks right now. i have to tell you that it is a mental problem and i ve said it a hundred times, it s not the gun that pulls the trigger. it s the person that pulls the trigger. i have an appetite for background checks. we re going to be doing background checks. that was president trump saying nothing about solving the mass shooting crisis in the country. less than three weeks after the deadly attacks in texas and ohio and california. joining us now is david hogg, the cofounder of march for our lives and is survivor of the parkland shooting. and fred gunnburg who has lost his child in parkland. i m sorry this has to be in this situation. including he spate of arrests police have foiled. potential mass shootings this week. it feels like almost every day.
fred, why is it so hard for the president and republicans in this senate or congress to do something that 90% of americans when polled say they want which is expanding background checks? you know what? it s a great question. and i m going to try and say it like this. i don t care why they are unable. what i will say is if they don t find the way to be able, we re going to defeat them. because people are dying every single day. they are making this a political listen. bullets, when they shoot you they don t know if you re republican or democrat. they don t know if you re rich or poor. they know if they hit you, they re going to kill you. and when we have these legislators whose job it is to do something about this and they choose not to, when 90% of americans are saying here s what we want, they should be fired. particularly right now, david. the nra is at its weakest point
movements over things that are historical things are political issues able to change things is when we change our culture. what we need to do more than anything is we need to realize that we can t wait for democrats to take every part of the government to fix this problem. we need people to go out there and look at the peace plan. we need people to go out and do these things. they realize talking about how to prevent future tragedies from happening is not politicizing trauma. what they re talking about is peace. and in my opinion, peace is not political. one of the things the president said this week in a crazy rhetorical week that got your attention, fred. you said that he said, quote, all victims of gun violence love him. and did you want to fact check that this morning? i do want to talk to the president. and you showed the clip on after parkland. my daughter died in parkland. i ll live with that every second of every day. and he lied to me and all the other victims that day and