cameron russell and roland martin and dan baum, author of gun guys. fierce winter storm, they re predicting the heart of washington, d.c., could see four to eight inches of snow but the surrounding areas up to 20 inches of snow. severe winter weather warning is in effect, d.c. schools are closed, central offices are closed, more than 93,000 customers are without power at this hour, most are in virginia, five major airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights. the storm covered for you, joe johns is live in winchester, virginia. shannon travis is live at washington dulles international airport. joe, what a big mess and looking worse than when i last saw you. how is it doing? reporter: that s for sure,
a lot of guys talking about how proud they are to be participating in american history just by being one of the people that is allowed to own a firearm. jenna: one of the things you mentioned is that you thought that this conversation was really divided between party lines. and that is something that you wanted to explore more. after this documentation, are we having the right conversation? oh, goodness, no. there are all kinds of things we could do. if we wanted to be safer, there are all kinds of things that have nothing to do with the gun ban. but it would involve including the gun guys in the debate and what we have done now with all this talk is we have driven him out of the debate that they often go into. jenna: do you feel like you are not as well? less than sun.
along. just one state of many with new gun laws that are being considered right now. a debate on stricter gun control is actually happening on a national level, and the united states, an estimated 70 million americans own guns, that s one out of three of us. last year, or background checks were conducted in any other year in history. background checks in general have surged 54% since the election of president obama president obama and that in part inspired our next guest. with all of the noise on gun control and gun rights, this man decided to go to what he calls the gun guy, a group that he himself belongs to and he joins us now on the set. he is the author of gun guys, road trip. okay so who are they? i was surprised. a lot of jews, which surprised me, i m a jewish liberal democrat and i couldn t believe how many i met. a lot of liberals. and a lot of conservatives but
to use your gun, how to store your gun, how to clean your gun. you ve got to go through a background check, of course, whether you buy the gun at a gun show or anywhere else. think of the stupidity of the gun show loophole. i mean, was bob casey talking about that? the fact you can buy a gun over ruling out the possibility of some gun control legislation, but catch his act. this is what the republican party has been brought down to. they have to kiss the butt of the gun guys. take a look. we join the president in mourning the victims of the horrible tragedy in connecticut. he s appointed vice president biden to lead a commission. when the vice president s recommendations come forward, we ll certainly take them into consideration. at this point i think our hearts and souls ought to be to think about those victims in this
they have to kiss the butt of the gun guys. take a look. we join the president in mourning the victims of the horrible tragedy in connecticut. he s appointed vice president biden to lead a commission. when the vice president s recommendations come forward, we ll certainly take them into consideration. at this point i think our hearts and souls ought to be to think about those victims in this so you re hoping did you catch that, ron? that the we re not supposed to think about gun control. we re supposed to think about how terrible what happened is but don t think about why it may have happened or what could be done to stop it from happening. that would be desecrating the memory. you know, these guys hide behind this. they say don t think about what caused it. show reverence. it seems to me consider it to think about making sure something like this doesn t happen again if you can as part of your good sentiment. you don t just say, too bad, and