you have here, this week, we are celebrating republicans and conservatives are celebrating margaret thatcher and her life. she supported gun checks. the nra says back ground checks is something they believe in. 90% of the american people support, can t even get support in the u.s. congress. john rosenthal, part of your organization is to rally your troops, if you will. what is the next step as we wait to see, honestly, what happens with the legislation. no one is done, we just know a compromise wab proposal is on the table. well, we will continue to push for universal background checks that over 90% of americans support, including nra members. and gun owning households. and we are going to continue to support a prohibition on the sale of ammunition magazines used in all the mass shootings.
but it is also proof congress can be bought. this is not significant legislation. it will help close the commercial gun show loophole. why isn t that significant? because it will do nothing to close the dangerous criminal loophole. so criminals can continue to buy gunnes from private individuals who they call their friends without an id or background check. so this this isn t significant as far as reducing access to guns by criminals. it is significant in requiring gun shows to do a background check. well, if criminals can continue to go to 33 states, where private sales are legal among private individuals, they will be able to buy a thousand guns a day, privately without an id or background check. and the fact that members of congress think that somehow they have found their backbone to close a gun show loophole but allow criminals to continue to buy guns without detection, you
know, is just an indication of how spineless congress really is. keith, let me bring you in on this. we note first lady is preparing to speak in chicago. her hometown. we know the record, the sad record, as it relates to the violent crimes especially on the south side of chicago where she s going to be speaking, where she grew up here, is this a disappointment? you re a democrat. i know you wanted to see more on the table here. universal background checks supported by nearly 90% of the public, and it seems that this may be where the buck stops. yeah , it is a disappointmen. it is not something everybody wanted. and the nra says, this would not have prevented newtown or the aurora theater shooting. here is the problem. it is a double-edge sword. on one hand, this bill won t solve every problem, won t solve every crime. but if it stops one crime, if it stops one person who shouldn t have a gun from getting that gun, it has done some good. it has done some value to our
universal background checks is just common sense. you will have people who wonder how much more could this be watered down and the sense that compromise for example, the government will not keep record on gun purchases as far as person to person gun purchases. those happen without a background check. we re looking at these gun show loop holes for example, and on-line internet sales of guns. what else could be put in it or taken out of it, i should say? well, my understanding of the proposal is that gun shows and on-line purchases will be subject to the universal background check. right. the one area that will be the person to person sale and purchase. now, that concerns me greatly. everyone should be subject to universal background check. that the way we have it in california and it has not been burdensome on the purchaser or the seller. there were 600,000 guns
thing to do. and then also, there s a lot of gun sales that go on between individuals. if i were to transfer my car to my son, he would have to register that car with the department of motor vehicles, the government. why not a gun? i mean, at least a car has a remdemptive value of getting people one place to another. a gun is an instrument to kill something. whether you know, so i would think that we would be able to make more progress than this. as i said before, it is not something i would oppose because it doesn t actually do something bad. but it is so much less than the people, the american people deserve. it s so little and so meager and to think that they re running into opposition for doing something this small, the fact is in my own district, we had people, we add gun violence prevention forum in my district just last week. we had a lot of people in attendance telling stories about how they lost their fathers, lost their children, lost their