and we do need to expand the instant background check. i don t think that s an onerous burden on anybody. reporter: so measuring americans attitudes on guns seems to depend on how you ask the question. in a recent cnn poll, a majority said they don t support stricter gun control laws or the president s handling of guns but in a quinnipiac survey an overwhelming majority, 9%, said they support requiring background checks for all gun buyer, fred. all right. chris frates, thank you so much. this has been one of the most critical issues in the obama presidency. he has made at least 12 public speeches in the aftermath of mass shootings oftentimes calling on congress to take action. we have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world. and there are some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve the
appreciate it thank you. police here in california have arrested the friend of san bernadino terrorist syd rizwan farook. investigators believe enrique marquez bought two assault rifles used in the december 2nd attack. his lawyer declined to comment, leaving the course. kyung lah has details. john and isha, enrique marquez has been known now as the gun buyer, but a federal complaint paints a much more detailed picture. as recently as four years ago, he plotted with farook, according to the complaint, some terrifying attacks in southern california. just hours after the terrorist attack in san bernadino, enrique marquez called 911. according to a federal complaint, he told the operator, he was the shooter, talking about syed rizwan farook. marquez said the exploetive used my gun in the shooting.
and a good day to you. we begin this hour with a new arrest in the u.s. state of california following the terror attack in san bernardino. we now know that a friend of one of the killers is accused of buying two of the assault rifles used in that mass shooting. that friend s name enrique marquez. he made his first court appearance a few hours ago. his attorney declined to comment as he left the courthouse. cnn s kyung lah joins us now from our los angeles bureau. kyung, good to have you with us. so we re learning more about marquez and his relationship with farook. what more can you tell us? up until this time, george, we have known enrique marquez as the gun buyer, the one who bought those two high-powered rifles used in the shooting but also as a friend of syed rizwan farook. he is one of the terrorists who went into that room and killed all those people. but thou we re getting a few more details. a portrait from this federal
every gun in the united states. the sellers of guns are required to accumulate all kinds of information about the buyer. the government already has all the information it needs. i can only think insisting upon knowing the race of the person is perhaps so this obama administration so decidedly anti-gun can say, such a percentage of whites buy and amount of nonwhites that buy is a smaller percentage and we don t like that. who cares? you say even this application sort of puts the ability to of this on the state when it says federally protected right to own a gun in the first place. federal constitution protects your right to own a gun. the states ordered the feds to ask this question. excuse me feds ordered the states to ask this question. states ordered the gun dealers to ask this question. the gun buyer thinks he or she has to answer everything on that form. guess what?
expands background checks to cover anyone buying a gun. this is after a wave of shootings in chicago. tell us more about this law the governor signed last night. calling guns applying on communities, illinois governor pat quinn signed into law new restrictions that put the restrictions back on individual gun owners. it requires gun owners to notify police within 72 hours if a gun is lost or stolen. it requires gun sellers to contact state police and get a background check done on a potential gun buyer. the idea is to prevents the guns from falling off the grid and into the black market.