crisis from hurting themselves or others, let s come together and make sure that not another family experiences that this loss that not another community is ripped apart and it s very fabric by this type of savage and senseless violence. you mentioned universal background checks. we know most action on gun reform is likely to happen at the state level more likely to happen at state level than it does at the federal level. just give us a sense since being there in washington, and i know you ve reached out to your constituents and we re calling them as recently as last week. asked about their concerns, gun violence was right up there. since you ve been in washington . are you more or less hopeful that this country can and will in fact address gun violence? uh i m always going to be helpful. hopeful i spent 10 years in the state senate in the minority is a democrat and kentucky and worked every day with my colleagues from all over the state and across the aisle to try to make th
and just the fear that we see permeating across the country. and that is something that we said is uniquely american. no other developed western countries experiencing these types of numbers, and as we noted the number of americans impacted by guns, gun incidents is stunning. but the study also reveals josh concerning behavior when it comes to storing firearms as well. can you talk about that? that s right. you know, just as give you an example, the american academy of pediatrics. they recommend to the extent allowed by law that doctors actually talk to their patients and talk to their parents about storing firearms in the home and we can see why looking at this new data from the kaiser family foundation, a whopping 75% of gun owners who participated in the study said that they don t store their guns safely. they don t adhere to common gun safety practices. this certainly has public safety officials concerned. it s certainly has medical officials can cern. i spoke to one senior physici