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Not universal background checks, even though that proposal has more than 80% public support. they're looking at 18 to 21-year-olds, specifically whether they can include juvenile records into the background checks system. a number of mass shooters have been part of that age group and committed violent acts in their younger years. should they be allowed to have guns? republicans are open to that and beyond that there is money for mental health and school safety on the table. that's one category, chris. the second category, republicans with national ambitions with higher ambitions, i spoke to se...

Make a difference in saving lives. >> reporter: the organization rated the 50 states on how strict their gun laws are with dark blue being strict and white being laxed and mississippi is the least strict and how many people were killed by guns in 2020. mississippi was worse. california was among the best with only 8.5. >> california is at the top of our list because it is doing so much right on guns safety. it has a background checks system in place and secure storage slot and it does not have some of the most d

These laws in all states and really scaled them up, you know, logically the more firearms are removed from dangerous people, the more likely it's going to be that one of those people, you know, would be someone who might be about to carry out a mass shooting. and you would prevent that. you're not going to hear that. there's not going to be -- you're not going to have a show on what did not happen today. but if we really did over time have a reduction in this nightmare of mass shootings, this is very complex. then why would it matter how it's happening? >> let me ask you this about the backgro...

A guy that carried an m-4 in iraq, i think to carry an ar, you should probably be 21. let's ban bump stocks. that one is easy. if you fix the background checks system, those would have mitigated or prevented the last three mass shootings. >> you just want to see the fix nics. >> i'm okay with expanded background checks. how do you make exceptions if i'm going to buy my dad's gun, for instance? >> paperwork. why is paperwork so onerous to everybody? >> i don't think it is. i think these are 80% issues. here's the point. ive say this to my side. you can't say we can't do anything. and i say it t...

Process procedures, i like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man's case. so you could do exactly what you're saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second. >> the house did pass a bill, the bill dealing with fixing problems with our background checks system. we also combined with it a bill that advanced concealed carry reciprocity. >> if you're going to put concealed carry between states into this bill, we're talking about a whole new ball game. i'm with you, but let be a separate bill. you'll never get this passed. if you add concealed carry to this, you'll never get ...