weapons. i know they were against me. i know the two who committed the crimes against me were convicted felons, so multiple gun laws with broken because they weren t allow to have guns anywhere in the country. you look at chicago. they have the highest homicide gun rate and illegal gun rate in that city. to say you will pass a law and it will fix a problem with mental health is false. by the way, in chicago ben, can i ask. one at a time. dan, i will let you respond in a moment. finish your point, ben. hold on. you have an individual here who never should sbrn able to get his hands-on this gun legally. you had multiple warning. that s what we should be focusing on here. the government has been telling us if you see something, say something. we had people from florida all the way to mississippi doing exactly that, going above and beyond to contact the government, and we did not do
the job right to stop this individual. but, ben we should be focusing on that. back to the original topic though, when a muslim person carried out an attack in the u.s., the president immediately called for increased immigration vetting. correct. why isn t he calling for increased background checks for gun buyers, for example? what increased background check would you call for? closing the gun show loophole. this has nothing to do with a gun show loophole. the law you described would not have federally licensed gun dealers, you and i know. that connecticut, they closed the gun show loophole, gun violence and murders are down 35%. in states where they closed the gun show loophole, it is working. getting rid of bad apple gun dealers. having a federal gun trafficking laws which republicans won t allow us to have. having requirement of a secured storage of a gun. we will never get to zero, but let s have one less mother cry
over a dead child. how about five less mothers and fathers crying over a dead child? that s enough for me to change the law. let s not give false hope. what you have described i don t make up statistics. let me finish. when you give false hope a gun show loophole would have stopped what happened in florida when the gun was bought not through any loophole you are describing, you are putting a political ideology ahead of real things that could have an impact. five to seven kids will die today with gun violence. nothing to do with that shooting. closing gun show loopholes by the way, six of the seven guns involved in chicago crimes don t come from chicago. have you to know that right now. they come from indiana. we know that. it is an old, tired talking point. these are lies you re talking about, ben, lies. again, i had a gun pointed and shot at me. i m sorry about that. i know the gun laws that have an impact. we need to put people away when they commit crimes for laws.
in new york, one where the man drove a truck and killed people, he instantly called for the end of what he calls chain migration, way call family unification, a law since 1965. after a man that did an attempted bombing on the subway here, he found out the man was in the diversity visa program and called quickly for scrapping a program that s been in place since 1990. there s no doubt in my mind, and i think no one watching doubts if this gunman was muslim or was an immigrant, an undocumented immigrant, donald trump would use either of those scenarios to jin up fear and try to get policies he wants in place that would be more extreme. that s the reality. no one could watch it and say it is not true. it is absolutely true. can you say it is not true, ben? i would say you re dealing with two different scenarios here. one, if you have someone that s come into this country illegal for the example he gave or someone that nuclear snuk in sn country who was a jihadist, that deals with a bo
clearly and many republicans, i m one of them, is in favor of mental health laws if you have been committed against your will and a judge declared your insane or temporarily insane, you should not be able to go out and buy a gun. that s the law right now. you are advocating the law we have. it is not the law everywhere. you are adjudicating but let s look at a couple of facts here, ben. first, there is a lot of ree research that hasn t been done when it comes to gun violence to investigate what could help that situation because there s a law that prevents that research from being conducted. yep. on a national level. we do know of an analysis, for example, that cnn has done on our own, when you look at some of the states that have passed some regulation for example, limiting gun magazine sizes, those states have seen a decrease in mass shootings. so there is at least an anecdotal evidence it could have a positive impact in something like that. we also spoke with a gop