experienced in asking polling questions, if your second question in that poll is what is a mandatory gun buy back, most americans could not tell you what that means. most americans do not understand the implications of that and when they do, the answer changes. now, look, the phrase universal background checks sounds great. right now we have background checks that cover roughly 95% of all gun purchases through the nix system. almost every gun purchase goes through it. the marginal areas where we see gun crimes emerging are mostly, not from people who have legitimately obtained their firearm, done so by critical means, we do have to tighten that system up. we should work on that. we should focus on that. but i don t think that the flush of polling that we ve seen after all of these events, and they re very tragic, i m not minimizing them, but we always see the polls come out. they soar up there with those numbers and then they drop back. and as a percentage of the most
new zealand and australia were different. the idea we ll be threatened by fear of when are the gun people going to say. the gun people are actually many of them are for the policies. in that same washington post poll, rick, support for universal background checks. is huge. 89%. congress, though, has been unable to pass anything. does that show how far we are from any kind of mandatory gun buy back program? i thu one of the things as a guy who is experienced in polling and asking polling questions. if the second question in the poll was what is a mandatory gun buy back most americans couldn t tell you what it means. most don t understand the implications. when they do the answer changes. the phrase universal background check sound great. we have checks that cover roughly 95% of gun purchases. through the nix system.
he potentially could, yes, sir. zbrm his guns were taken away, should he have had weapons? he should not have had weapons, correct. in tennessee. . he was legally stripped of his ability to purchase or possess weapons? that goes back to the fbi they control the nix system, not the atf. do you have an idea how this man was able to survive and escape infraction. what do you think he was able to do? i don t know. we don t have that information, i wasn t involved in a lot of the planning, and a lot of the search, i had a specific job. there s a lot of things that we have to take into account that i don t know of, all i know is that when we caught him, he was at 5,000 mountain springs in that area. there s a good chance he had
work. bunk stocks we ll eliminate them in ohio. fixing the nick so that the system we at counties or communities in my state that did not report felons to the nix system. that s going to get fixed. woo packing progress here. it s not everything maybe some of us would want but it s progress to give us more gun safety in america. you running for president? i don t know. i have no idea. i don t know what i m going to do. people can t believe this but i vest a lot in what the big guy tells me and i have no idea. and the big guy meaning god not president trump? yeah yeah yeah. listen, i know this is hard for people to believe, but i think we all have a purpose. i m trying to be as open as i can to what my purpose is and i don t know what it s going to be, stephanie.
voting for things. i support reinstating the ban on assault weapons. will it happen? look, i introduced the bill yesterday. right now there aren t the votes for it. i think there s a new opening to get comprehensive background checks. so all sales covered? all sales, gun show, private sales, sales through registered dealers which are already covered. we need universal background checks and full entry of data into the nix system so background checks can prevent a dangerous individuals from getting weapons. when you see the florida governor or other republicans saying we need to do this now, there s an opening in congress. frankly, the opening has been created by the passionate and energetic advocacy by these young people, these students who are basically forcing us to look into the mirror and saying, what s more important, the lives of your kids or political