America hostage. We do not have to accept this carnage as the price of freedom. Patrick advocates for increased gun control stood in applause multiple times today at the white house. But gun lobbyists, and some republicans on the hill and on the campaign trail, say the president wants to make buying guns nearly impossible. Part of the plan, to expand background checks. If they wanna add some more questions to it, parameters that we have to go through, i cant see that would hinder anything, other than just slow down the process. Patrick president obama also wants to spend more than 500 million to expand treatment for the mentally ill, add more atf agents, and criminally prosecute unlicensed sellers. The South Carolina chapter of moms demand action for gun sense in america reacted to the speech. We respect the 2nd amendment. Were not antigun, were antigun violence. And we believe there are common sense gun laws that will respect patrick a big part of the president s plan is to close the