to buy a gun without a background check. 74% of nra members agree with that. over 80% of gun owners. those gaping loopholes in the background check allow a terrorist who s on the no-fly list who can t fly to a gun show but they can go and buy a trunk full of weapons. this is a comprehensive approach. it s a thoughtful approach. and what i appreciated, newtown aggregious and tragic, we ve had people killed by gun violence in my city that i believe is preventable if we do the things that are in this proposal. you re highlighting that issue of the background check. let me take that as an example. in 1994 we had an assault weapons ban that ended up having an effect. it was seen with tons of loopholes. it was hard to do.
and in the long version, the trolling gets really obvious. they spend more than a minute of this thing proving how mad the rest of the world is at the nra for proposing armed guards in schools. this is a simple idea from a simple guy. there s no research that says putting more firearms is going to make anybody who s sitting around safer. you, sir, are [bleep] in the head. if it s crazy to have police to protect our children, then call me crazy. please, call me crazy. i love it when you call me crazy. i love it when you call me troll food. that s my whole reason for being. trolls have a purpose in our politics.
the nra is making it easy for politicians to say you know what, these guys are a bunch of jokesters. they re not taking it seriously. there s been a real tragedy here that requires a serious response. so i think the nra might be hurting themselves. and their incentives here make this make more sense. you know that if president obama got every single thing that he proposed today, america would be a nation with 300 million guns. you don t actually do anything to meaningfully take away the gun ownership base that you ve already got. you continue to exist as the national rifle association. you ve defined yourself as a hard liner. you ve defined for the president as a tyrant and you can therefore continue to raise even more money than you ve got now and be slightly ineffective but
definitely well-monetized pressure group. and so much of their success, really, for the last 24 year, has been his appearance that exists in the heads of democratic politicians that you don t mess with these guys because you are going to lose at the polls. and i think the most dangerous thing for the nra to come out of the 2012 election is that the voters they were scared of losing by turning off the nra, by going against the nra, they don t necessarily need them to win elections anymore. you don t need to send john kerry out goose hunting. you can go out there and the republicans have been calling them the gun control party. you re already paying the political price for it. that s exactly right. steve, very smart. senior writer at salon. steve, thank you. spot on. all right, the best new thing in the world tonight involves my favorite live news moment maybe ever.
we should change the name of this graph to not anymore. not if you re paying attention to the nra in this last election. and when president obama announced his plan for reforming gun laws, this is the reaction. obama guns plan meets fast resistance and why obama s gun plan may be doomed. and nra chief on obama s real agenda. oh, yeah, let s go ask the trolls. this is how we see the debate about gun laws. this is how the nra has taught us to see debate with democrats and law enforcement and victims of violence and most of the american people on one side and themselves, the nra, as an equal and perhaps greater force on the other. that s how they taught us to see it and the beltway is happy to write that down. but i do not think that s how the debate is actually working in real life. here s another example. look at this. this is the home page of the