Plans to remember that event today. On this anniversary, a debate about gun violence and what to do about it. Were interested in hearing from you. How to best reduce acts of gun violence. If you are a gun owner. If you do not own a gun, 2027488001. If you want to put your thoughts on how the best way to reduce gun violence can occur, you can put those thoughts on facebook and twitter. Patch talks about the remembrances that will take place in sandy hook today. It has been for years since the gunman took the lives of those 20 innocent children. Four years. Today, the town will hold a somber, silent reminder for 15 minutes, the time the shootings took place. The superintendent said that the will bees of silence for Department Staff and the schools themselves. Abc news looks at the efforts made by the Obama Administration since that shooting at sandy hook. Mr. Obama has made little federal progress towards what he repeatedly described as common law. The outgoing president has knowledge one of the greatest time hasis acknowledged it is one of the greatest regrets of his time in office. It was in 2013 when the president signed 23 executive actions relating to gun control that are still intact. As far as major legislation is concerned, nothing on that. Again, those numbers come how to best reduce gun violence, 2027488000 if you are a gun owner. If you do not own a gun, 2027488001. You can always post on twitter and facebook, too. Will is in baltimore, maryland. Does not own a gun. Give us your perspective on reducing gun violence. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. The best way to go about it, i believe, first of all, we need more indepth background checks. , these concealed weapons that people are allowed to carry in public, i dont see why that is necessary. Laws haveyour ground proved to have been not what we need in todays society. Making the trip on martin von martin trey travesty. Ive never owned a gun. Ive tried to live the right way. You live the right way, more than likely, you will not need to use a gun. Ive taught my sons the same. Stress to them that i dont want them to begun owners. To be gun owners. They dont own a gun. I think the world would be a safer place if we had less guns and more importantly, why do we need assault weapons . Host jerry is in detroit, michigan. Also does not own a gun. Caller good morning and greetings once again from motown. I think the best way to deal with gun violence is just like ller said, he mentioned assault weapons, we should bring back the assault weapons ban. Or aecides a Soldier Police officer assigned to a swat unit needs weapons like the , the ak47 and a 50 caliber sniper rifle . These weapons were made exclusively for the theater of war. I cannot see for the life of me how any civilian could justify owning these weapons of war. , the assault weapons ban that was originally part of the 1993 crime bill by president clinton, it was allowed to expire under george w. Bush. The one drafted by senator dianne feinstein. Caller that is correct. She was excoriated for that by those who somehow blindly feel that civilians have the right to own these weapons. They think the Second Amendment means anything goes. You can own as many as you want, any kind you want, to take anywhere you want. They use the Second Amendment to justify owning these weapons of war. Inish i could ask the people the gun owners of america, do they believe that private citizens, people who have no military or Law Enforcement background whatsoever, have the right do they think the Second Amendment gives them the right to own these weapons of war . Host lets hear from a gun owner. Barry in iowa. Good morning. What do you think . Caller im a federal firearms license dealer. I ground checks are done. About banning assault weapons come it should be more the gun owner response ability and the fact is, the young man , she gaveis mom him the opportunity to go in there and get the gun. You see all these shooting accidents, kids shooting others and so forth, where do they get the gun from . The parent was responsible. Assault weapons a car is an assault weapon. What can you do about that . Are you going to take away forks, knives . Ar does not stand for assault rifle. Talk about the background checks. We hear a lot about that. How are these conducted and how are they able to do that if they are at all site locations like a gun show . Caller you bring a wifi connection and you can go on there and run your background checks right there. That can next to the various databases that provide information on the background of the person interested in buying the gun . Caller yes, they do. Connectionifi through verizon, people can buy arms from me at gun shows. Ive turned down two transactions. Host what would happen to you if you sold a gun with circumventing that background check . What would happen if you went around that system . Caller i would be the one going to prison. Host lets hear from another gun owner. Trevor in oklahoma. Caller good morning. Say as far as the gun shows go, the licensed dealers and the people selling from private guns individual to individual, background checks are not required. Weapons calls assault weapons of war last time i checked, we are at war. There are people being beheaded in no clone the city. Theres some bad stuff going on. In oklahoma city. People toof rich for say you cant protect yourself. It is a private transaction, if you and i were working this out, you would not need to perform a check on me. Caller that is correct. This. Als know there used to be facebook pages ande you can go on there meet people in a walmart parking lot and buy from individual to individual. That will not change no matter what law is passed. Theirduals can sell property and criminals can do it outside the law if need be. Jim in columbus, ohio. Does not own a gun. Is my my point with all theevel groups like the brady campaign, monzon action, the issue with aassroots movement, i see fractured group of people like these groups that dont on aively Work Together common goal on various issues at the state level, which ohio has been atrocious for them, as well as the federal level. I have tried so hard to really try to find a Grassroots Group i can be a part of. The only one that seems to have some semblance of that is moms demand action. The other ones seem to be working through their state legislatures. I think we need a Grassroots Movement. We need people that are going down to the statehouse and protesting in front of the capital. We need to expose the issues that are out there. That is what i think is missing. I always thought the brady paign had a local charter does not exist. All those kinds of things and theres a bunch of people out here that would love to be part of a Grassroots Movement but it doesnt exist. I think we are totally missing the boat because we have to compete against the nra. Curr the hartford ent with an article about sandy hook. They put out a video in the hopes of talking about stopping gun violence before it starts the chilling video begins with everyday scenes at a high school. A second student is quietly planning a shooting. Heres the video from that group, sandy hook promise. [video clip] way. You like to write on desks . Thats what i do. [screaming] host if you want to see that full video, sandyhook promise. Org. His is tim go ahead. Caller thank you for taking my call. I watched cspan every morning. The only way you cannot stop gun violence because there are so many guns in the United States currently. You would never be able to get them all. The way to stop it is background. Hecks you just have to be alert. Part ofn a rural jackson, mississippi. It may take the police 2030 minutes to get here if i have an emergency. Thats why i own guns. Far as the background checks, we had some people talking about that already this morning, saying if you are a ,ealer, you have to pursue one if you are making a person purchase, you can get around that. Persontoperson purchase, you can get around that. Caller you can get around it. We have gun shows here. You can get around that background check. Persontoperson. But there are more illegal guns then there are legal guns in this whole country. Host lets hear from mark in kansas. Mark is not a gun owner. You are next up. Caller thank you for taking my call. The morning. That good morning. I cannot understand these concealed carry laws that in kansas, you can carry weapons on university campuses. That should be banned completely. This should be a background check, most of italy. Most definitely you register it and you have to transfer the deed or title to that weapon to the person youre selling it to. Host do you think the pushes against the Second Amendment . Dont think our Founding Fathers when they wrote the Second Amendment had any weapons that of would be coming out 200 years later. If they knew, they would probably change it completely. Host herman is in fort lauderdale. Not a gun owner. You are on. Caller good morning. But like youa gun, just mentioned, 200 years ago, guns were a lot easier to get. It is much easier now than it was before. The people that manufacture the guns, they are the ones were guns wille always be there. Guns make a man who has a gun in his hand big. Violence, its the people supplying the guns to the people. They should do something to streetshe guns on the today. They feele guns and once you have a gun, you are big. They dont care who they kill and who they dont kill. It doesnt matter. Guns should come from the top. We have to stop it. The law should not be the nra saying we dont care who gets killed an. Host the fbi put out information regarding 2015 when it became available about murder victims in the United States. The 13,000 total murder cases the fbi had in record, 9600 plus involved firearms. Most of those coming from plus. Ns, 6400 252 involving rivals, 259 involving shotguns. Lookan go to fbi. Org for a at that information. The best ways to reduce gun violence. That is what we are asking you in light of the fouryear anniversary of those shootings at sandy hook. 2027488000 if youre a gun owner. 2027488001 if you do not own a gun. Kentucky, a gun owner, this is daniel. Good morning good you are on. Caller thank you for having me. Recently new gun owners, my family and i. It is for protection only. It is not for doing things that people need to understand it is a right that you should have the gun. Host what changed your mind all of a sudden to get you to purchase a gun . I really did not realize how vulnerable i was. Its him and he breaks into my home, its my right to take care of my family. If somebody breaks into my home, its my right to take care of my family. With a protection product, which is the gun. Host have you had experience with guns up to this point . Caller years ago, i used to , went deer hunting and squirrel hunting and rabbit hunting, stuff like that. Its been a long, long time. The idea of as , are theren violence changes needed in the process to maybe help that along . Caller i watched that video. If one of those kids had a gun, they could stop that violence in a heartbeat. My little my wife and boy and i go out to the gun range. To do the training that we need to do. Host what does it take to own a gun in kentucky . Caller you have to go and get registered and fill out paperwork. We do that every time we buy a gun. Aople need to understand lot of people throwing a lot of stuff around out there. Its not the gun that is evil, it is the person that is evil. They will do whatever they want with that gun. You have to be a responsible citizen to understand you have to protect yourself and your family. Host amity guns do you own and what types . Caller i have a nine millimeter pistol, shotguns. Host these were all purchased recently . Caller in the last six months. Kentucky. Is larry lives in new jersey. Harry lives in new jersey. Not a gun owner. Caller good morning. Believe weve become complacent as a nation. Were brilliant , we got safe and felt it, but we are not safe anymore. Stop the gun free zones. Those are just targets. Teach your children to respect the gun, how to use one so that they are familiar with them. Thats what makes them respect the gun and things. We live in a society where we have to protect ourselves and we dont know what we are up against tomorrow or the next day. The good guys are the ones going the policeting checking them out and all that kinds of stuff. The bad guys will get the guns no matter what anyway. Why should we be targets constantly . Areas, and different their crime went down because they were allowed to carry guns. When a criminal goes into an area thinking somebody else has a gun, maybe he will do that thing. Thats he wont do that thing. Host terry in new jersey. Off of twitter gallup put out a poll on december 12 taking a look at the topic of gun ownership among those identified as crime victims saying 33 of u. S. Adults who have been recent victims of assault, that or property crimes owned a gun compared to 28 of those who had not been victims, a significant difference. Theft or property crimes. 11,000 plus interviews done for this survey. You can find out more when you you can find out more when you. O to gallup they claim these civilian firearms are used by the military. That the two to three round is one of the most powerful rifle calibers. When all of these claims are when all of these claims are factually untrue. As prompt and professional and welltrained as those police where wendy responded that when when theynded responded, they were unable to stop it. As parents, we do everything we can to keep our children safe. Is now time for us to assume responsibility for our schools. To stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invest in a plan of absolute protection. That stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Full speech available on host that full speech on www. Cspan. Org. In north dakota, this is james. You are on. , that was sandy hook the mother that but that kid the gun. Direct me if im wrong. That was the that was the t bought kid that kid a gun. Correct me if im wrong. The question is, what has changed . This is unheard of to have happened 30 years ago or 40 years ago. Something has changed in the culture. Nobody ever wants to look at that. The always want to bandaid for a deeper wound. Back to buying a gun, i keep hearing liberals saying you can buy one at a gun show. The guys selling them from the different mr. Bitters distributors have a guy outside and when you come out, you have to have a background check. Pennsylvania, you cannot even buy a gun with a couple mr. Meiners misdemeanors. ,f you go in with a misdemeanor a year in prison, the gun shop itself will call the police and you will be arrested and you will go to prison for even trying to buy a gun. There is no solution except the cultural problem. Is it a spiritual problem . I dont know. If you think it is a cultural problem, what is at the center of that . Caller it started to get big with columbine. What was the deal with the psychotropic drugs . We have little boys drugged with adderall and ritalin, a form of speed. Look at that aspect. Look at the lack of fathers. , fear ofof fear of god euro own father coming home, fear of the police. We all had that. Schools use to have rifle teams. This is not about a gun. This is about something we lost in our society. Host tony from columbia, illinois, does not own a gun. You are next. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I heard on the news a couple weeks ago that they were going to slow down the production of these pain medications, oxycontin, vicodin, because of all the overdoses. Sounded like a good idea to me. Cut the number of pills you are putting out. Why cannot the same thing be done with weapons . Areguys making these guns putting them out there, putting them out there. They said that there was a million guns that got into the wrong hands. Could that be right . I dont know. Dont make one million guns next year. Just dont make them. , go take the gun test, do whatever you have to do to legally get a gun and you can send that to the manufacturer and they can make you one. Nobody wants to take your guns away. Why do they keep pounding them out like mcdonalds hamburgers . Ost that is tony in illinois at two fear this afternoon, janet yellen desk at 2 30 this afternoon, janet yellen making a speech on shortterm interest rates, expected to rise a bit. Watch it on cspan. You can also go to www. Cspan. Org and the app. Ington journa cspan radio the papers all have analysis of president elect trumps choice of Rex Tillerson as of interstate. As secretary of state. Said mr. Tillerson is individual. Ssive it also quotes senator chris coons. He said he was intrigued by reports that he had not only thatd a carbon tax is in the wall street journal. If you go to the New York Times this morning, some analysis of the president elects choice to head the interior department. Mr. Trump hopes his interior etary this from the Washington Post this morning, plans for the president elect to nominate rick perry to head the energy department. Accepted generous donations from oil and gas industry for his political campaigns. He was in the right place at the right time, benefiting from the surge of shale oil in texas. Governor perry has proved he is with domestic production. It also quotes Bill Richardson saying perry is a dealmaker may political presence and a good manager. He is too tight to fossil fuel and also fuel industry. Tied to fossil fuel and the fossil fuel industry. Sean is in broad run, virginia. A gun owner. We are asking for best ways to reduce gun violence. Caller good morning. I believe it is through education and liability. , we have aans culture, we love our guns. Learn all the ends and outs and the statistics , the dangers and everything of gun ownership and also are tested, you proven you are proficient and liability if the weapon is insured and documented, you are less likely to go and sell this person to person to a possible bad guy. I can sell my gun to a bad guy legally and theres no issues, no liability. If i am held responsible for that weapon, if i sold it and did not go through the proper steps and measures, i am held liable, i am less likely to sell a gun to a bad guy. Theres all kinds of loopholes and its a profit driven market. Were not getting around it. ,hrough education and liability we will drastically change the violence factor. Host indianapolis. Not a gun owner. Marjorie, good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. I had a couple things i wanted to mention. While an automobile is manufactured for transportation, it doesnt sometim