Where you dont have to have a background check for purchasing a weapon at a gun show. In massachusetts, all of new england, youve got to have background checks. In connecticut, youve got to be practically licensed to buy ammunition. Psychiatric evaluations is a simple solution to make your medical records public information. Then you can go and the people who do the background checks i had to go through this with the Police Department here. They look at your records and they see whether you have had any instances where you would be suspect to owning a gun. Governmentw why the has not done this a long time ago. I think the nra has promoted this, that they wanted to have peoples records made public so they can easily check and evaluate the old instant background check. Thats about it. Very simple solution. Bernie sanders was saddened by the on air shooting. As a selfdescribed socialist, Bernie Sanders has not been a gun control advocate necessarily given his state of vermont. There is a mixed bag with his record on those issues. Gary is in roulette, pennsylvania. Caller good morning. The few people who have called suggested that possibly parents should look out for their children better, maybe teach them some morals, things like that that is the only thing that can help anything. Kids growing up have to learn the difference between life and death. When somebody bleeds out, it would not be fun. Theyve got to understand that. The people that want to take my guns away from me, they are not interested in death. They just want control of my guns. Its plain and simple. If they were worried about death , they would be marching in front of planned parenthood. More babies are butchered every than all the shooting in the whole world. The democrats are missing a big opportunity. They say there is a hurricane coming towards florida and they could pass a law against hurricanes. That would take care of that problem. There is not much you can do. Host as a gun owner, do you feel the check system you have to go through to buy a gun is sufficient . Caller well, there are people who are not going to abuse their constitutional right. The people that are not going to myself iuch as have never killed anybody i dont think i should have to do any more background checks and what ive already had to do. The people that are going to mattert, it would not how many background checks. It would not matter if guns were illegal. They would still find a way to kill somebody. Senator marco rubio said after what happened in virginia that its not the guns, its the people committing these crimes. Huey, from virginia, whats your view . Caller good morning. There has been a lot of good points brought up on your show. I dont think there is anyone solution. I wanted to mention whats going on in virginia. Ownerof all, i am a gun and i have a concealed weapons permit. I do a lot of hunting, small game hunting. I have enjoyed it all my life, im 55 and i started when i was eight or nine. My one and only big hobby. In virginia, i dont know about the other states, when i go to a sn dealer, i have to have id to show who i am and a background check which is fine. I have no problem with the laws. We need them in everything we do. The regulations are fine. Neighbor or to my to the flea market on the corner or go to my nearest gun show that pops up. Gun i wantny kind of with no regulations, i can get it. Me, that that is the craziest thing ive heard in my life. Host why is that crazy . Ifler its crazy because myself or anyone can go and buy whatever gun they want at these places i mentioned and when i want to buy a brandnew gun from eight dealer, i have to have 3 ids and the background check which is fine. Its contradicting itself to me. It does not make sense. I am all for guns and hunting. Thats what i love. The rules and regulations are contradicting themselves. So thehe coa socalled gun hole gun show loophole, would you like to see it close . Caller it does not make any sense. Its not just the gun shows. We have a lot of flea markets. I have seen them and yard sales. You can buy a gun anywhere you want. Its defeating the purpose. It does not make any sense. I still dont understand this. What do you think . Does it make sense to you . Host its more important to hear what our callers think. Melba, idaho, what do you think about this conversation . Caller host turn down the volume on your television and listen through the telephone and go ahead and talk and we are listening. Caller ok, im from idaho and i grew up having guns all my life. I am retired military. They should come out with a program, the gun makers, that the only way you can get a gun is if you buy it [indiscernible] do you understand . Host so he fingerprints check . Caller yes, like when the gun makers make it and when the dealers sell it, you can grab it because it not fire will be matched to your fingerprints. You can only use it with your fingerprints. If anybody stole it, they cannot fire it. Host thats ray in idaho. This is trevor in cincinnati. Caller good morning. Mantra goes, guns dont kill people, people kill people. Democrats who say otherwise are only interested in control. I would like to expand on that and say that every private citizen deserves a nuclear weapon. Host thats trevor, probably a little did tongueincheek. We are talking to gun owners only this morning. Solutions to prevent gun violence randy in wisconsin, what kind of gun the you have . Caller ive got a 22 for hunting and i also taught my first 12 gauge shotgun when i was 14 years old. Host ok. Do you believe in the Second Amendment and do you think there is too much gun violence on the streets . If so, what would you do to prevent it . Caller for sure i believe in the Second Amendment. Too much gun violence . Sure there is too much. To maybean easy way put a stop to some of this. Stop and frisk. If you are driving around new york city at night and you get stopped, and you get caught with a gun, youre going to jail. Youre not going hunting. That would stop a lot of violence. I think the mayor out there and a lot of cities should have that. How about this one . This guy that did this horrible , hedown in West Virginia wanted to do that to be known and be famous just like the School Shootings and all this other stuff. The news media jumps on it and ,urns that person into a martyr a celebrity or whatever. There should be a law that whenever there is a shooting like that, there should not tb e one thing put on the news. Rightpeople who are not they willo be famous, know that they will my be famous doing that so they will not do it. The news media is just as much to blame for propping up these people as they are for doing it. That is a law that this country needs and a strict one. Host that is randy in wisconsin and this is mansa in capital heights, maryland. Of the on the border District Of Columbia and maryland has a lot of strict gun laws. What was the process like for you to get a gun . Caller i dont think freemen should need permission to bear arms. I think the government is the cause of this problem. The u. S. Government as a number one arms dealer in the world. Is the u. S. Governmenti is arming terrorist groups likes. Its really the secret intelligence service. They sell guns to the mexican cartels. Though my have these draconian laws like the patriot act. The president signed executive orders. Without aan citizen trial or jury i dont have a weapon for hunting, i have it for selfdefense. Rightstry to violate my or break into my house, i will defend myself. Host what was the process like to get that weapon in capitol heights, maryland . Free man should not go through a process. Host is your gun owned legally . Caller legally . What is legal about the president what does the president need an executive order giving him the authority to kill any american citizen without a trial or jury . Whats legal about that . Thats the law. Is nick inxt alexandria, virginia, another suburban call. Caller how are you doing . Host we are listening. Caller i am a real gun owner. I know about the laws. I do a lot of lobbying at the statehouse for the Second Amendment. I heard someone talk about biometrics which his fingerprints on a gun. That sounds great and its expensive and would prohibit many people from purchasing firearms and if your hand is dirty or has blood on it, the gun will not function. I heard someone say that we need a law that says the news does not cover these gun tragedies. The problem with that is thats against the first amendment. We have the freedom of the press. Thats censorship. Someone else said we need to have psychiatrists when you buy a gun. Who will pay for that or make that determination . Weeone called in and said need to violatehipaa and allow medical records to be made public. Baby, they area diagnosed with postpartum depression, are they allowed to own a gun . Who makes the determination . A code for low information voters. It has nothing to do with the gun show, its private sales. Knowing can own fully automatic firearms unless you go through a class three. Ak47, he isth an talking about a semi automatic civilian version. Which is legally defined as one shot per pool of chigger. Anything more, you must go through years of intensive paperwork, training, to the federal government. I am sure youre wondering how many guns i have. Probably more than all of your callers combined because i am from virginia. Because i cannot this but i cannot disclose that because it is private information. Any questions . Host you say you lobbied in richmond on these issues. Are you with an organization . Caller i am. But i also just go there as myself. But i am wellknown by organizations. I prefer not to mention the. Host there are a couple in richmond, including the National Rifle association and gun owners of america. Would one of those be yours . Caller i prefer not to name names. I just heard it bunch of people calling in. Bunch of discounted a callers we are talking to gun owners only to bring a different perspective. Youris a solution, in view, to reduce gun violence . Aller there needs to be solution. First of all, we do not have a gun violence problem. We have a violence problem. We have guns all over the world and there are plenty of great solutions. , we are going to have to have a lot of people, security and police, with guns around america. Every school, shopping mall. It may not happen in our time. Guess who has that right to israel. When youre under a constant threat of being shot at, they hand out concealed weapon permits like crazy. Police andws having security. It will come to that. Our time. R but it will come to that. Other solutions i have a few degrees in criminal justice. There are factors that contribute to violence, truancy, recidivism, poverty, education. We all know it. It sucks. Just like casinos foster crimes, drugs foster crime. What is there a quick solution i will tell you what it is not. Background checks. Let me make this clear. The federal law requires everyone go through a background check when you purchase a gun through a dealer. Everyone has to go through a background check. I heard someone say we should not let the mentally ill have a gun. You are not allowed to have a gun if you are mentally ill. This is miss information. We have a good system when it purchasing and transferring guns. In virginia, we do have private sales. It is a dirty word. Everyone says what does that mean . What that means is, i have whattely sold guns, happens is if you know somebody and you say i know you, let me see your id and your concealed carry permit. I will take your information. And if you want to buy this gun, it is yours. That is how we do it in virginia. Some people call it over the fence. You do not do it to someone who is shady or out of another state. You do not do it that way. A solution there is no magical solution. There is a point where our society is so bad, there is no coming back from the brink. I can tell you the solutions that do not work. That is a lot easier, unfortunately. A realry gun locks gun owner locks up their gun. What will that do . Any other questions from someone who knows what they are talking about . Host we appreciate your time this morning. The last caller, mark in new mexico. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you to cspan. He took my thunder. He mentioned israel. Is these it is the perfect time. When kids graduate high school, they go into mandatory two years in the military. They get educated on weapons and stuff. This would drastically cut down on violence in the u. S. After they got out. Knowthing else, they would they would he educated on weapons. It would not stop the violence, because people will do what anyway. But with more people knowledgeable about it, it would help control it. Host mark in carlsbad, new mexico. For the next two hours on the washington journal, we turn our attention to the 10th anniversary of the katrina hurricane, which the landfall anniversary is tomorrow. We have three guests coming up. We will be joined by karen durhamaguilera of the u. S. Army corps of engineers. We will talk about the levee system and how that is going in the rebuild of that. After that, marc morial, head of the urban league and former mayor of new orleans. He will join us to give his perspective. Then we talked to the editor of in newspaper down orleans as well. That is what is coming up. First, we want to show you a little of the president , yesterday, in his talk in new orleans. [video clip] laid bare a deeper tragedy. That had been brewing for decades. Because we came to understand that new orleans, like so many cities and communities across the country, had been too long plagued by structural inequality. That left too many people, especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs, Affordable Health care, housing. Kids grew up cycling through a life of crime without the chance to break out of poverty. E a audie weekend already, body weakened already, undernourished already, when the storm hit, there was no resources to fall back on. Shortly after i visited shortly after the storm, i visited with folks not here, because we could not distract local Recovery Efforts. Instead, i visited folks in shelter in houston, many of whom who had in displaced. One woman told me we had nothing before the hurricane, and now we have less than nothing. Before theing hurricane, now we have less than nothing. Thisknowledge this loss in pain. Not to dwell on the past. Wallow in grief. We do it to fortify our commitment. And to bolster our hope. To understand what it is that we have learned and how far we have come. Because this is a city that slowly, unmistakably, together, is moving forward. Process of rebuilding here was not just to restore the city as it had in, but to restore the city acted should be. A city that no matter what they look like, how much money they have, where they come from, where they are born, has the chance to make it. [applause] and i am here to say that, on betterrger project, of a , stronger, more just new orleans, the progress you have made is remarkable. Washington journal continues. Host a few weeks after katrina hit new orleans, president bush spoke in Jackson Square in new orleans to talk about rebuilding. [video clip] area has aorleans particular challenge. Because much of the city lies below sea level. The people who call it home need to have reassurance their lives will be safer in the years to calm. To come. Protecting a city that sits lower than the water around is not easy but it can and has been done. City and terrorist officials in new orleans and state officials in louisiana will have a large part in the engineering decisions to come. The army corps of engineers will work out their side to make these flood Protection System stronger than it has ever been. He worked that has begun in the Gulf Coast Region will be one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen. Done, all americans will have something to be very proud of. Host care and durhamaguilera is with the u. S. Karen durhamaguilera is with the army corps of engineers. Has the levee system been rebuilt as president bush called for in 2005 . Guest good morning. He has been a great week to be here in new orleans, 10 years after katrina brought such havoc and devastation to people that live here and a big wakeup call to the nation. Yes, the levee system we really call it the Hurricane Storm risk of damage system, around Metro New Orleans has been ill stronger and better than we could have ever imagined. Incredible it an system for the people of new orleans, but it is also great for the nation. It shows what we can do. All week long, i have been hearing people talk about it being a worldclass system. Host how much has been spent on this system . Guest we were fortunate to have twocommitment of administrations and the u. S. Congress to provide for nearly 14. 5 billion program. About 11 billion dollars of that has been for the hurricane system around new orleans alone. There were other parts of that program to make further improvements, such as interior drainage in the area. Temporary pumps and closure structures we installed in 2006 around the canals. And the permanent replacement of those are going on now. There are other things done. Storm proofing they numerous pumping stations owned by the local parishes. Strengthening other components to provide for environmental mitigation. Overall, an incredible piece of work. Phonewe will put the numbers up. We want to hear from new orleans residents, especially those who want to comment about the levee the work the u. S. Army corps of engineers has done. If you are a new orleans residents, call 202 7488000. Country,s around the including those on the gulf coast, because we want to hear from you as well, 202 7488001 is the number for you. Durhamaguilera, has the levee system rebuild been finished . Guest the hundred year system of a storm 1 chance happening each and every year, that system is complete to it was complete in september of 2011. You may remember hurricane isaac hit in august, 2012. Dayn years almost to the katrina hit. We were pleased to see that the designed. Formed as people in Metro New Orleans, everyone stayed dry. The people outside the system, with different levee systems partly in place, did experience flooding, as well as considerable flooding on the north shore. The hurricane system we built for that hundred year storm is in place, finished, and doing what it is supposed to. Hit, did thetrina levees break or were they overrun . Guest several things happened when katrina hit. First, the existing system, which is totally different from what we were able to design and construct after katrina, averaged about 50 finished on the east bank, the lake potter inain lake ponchatra vicinity, was finished. The in the area around new orleans, it was ab