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Washington. and we get the photo op to show he is doing it. that same day, mayors against illegal guns makes news with data shows major gaps in the background system. the very next day, december 21st, president obama observes a moment of silence at the white house that they allow to be photographed to honor the victims of the sandy hook shootings. that same day the nra breaks its silence on the issue since sandy hook. they call for armed police officers to be posted in every american school. that leads of course to a cascade of more than 24 hours of outraged and almost uniformly disgusted resp...

Make sure states are required to comply with the background system. so it has currently and accurate information. and every purchase of a firearm requires a background check. to make sure those factors are checked. criminal background, mental health status. requires to us do both things, states have to put the correct information into the system and every single purchase of a firearm must be required to go through the system. we have to do both things. there will be more than one thing we are doing. fix the broken background check system and make sure everyone follows the procedure before they...

Actions issued by the president is an actual executive order. however, the white house did issue three presidential memoranda. one, improving availability of relevant executive branch records to the national criminal background system, tracing of firearms in criminal investigations and engaging in research on the causes and prevention of gun violence. what is the difference between a presidential memorandum, not much. did a lot of research on this today. executive orders in all but name. the main difference executive order has to be published, a memorandum only if the president determines they...

Ideas like la pierre who called for a mental health database. they provide carrots to have federal agencies do a better job providing for mental health information to go into the background system. there is a lot of lower hanging fruit in the ideas he put forward that could have bipartisan support. >> pointing out the background checks, i think the odds are according to a couple of blocks, about 75%, they see it below 50% to get the assault weapons passed of any kind. at least some movement if possible on a few of those ideas. here we are the day before the president made this announcement of ...

About also our mental health system. my background before serving in the senate i was a homicide prosecutor. i do come from the perspective that taking away the rights of law abiding citizens is not going to stop a deranged individual or a criminal. should we look at improving our background system? i'm willing to listen to what proposals come forward on that. again, i don't know that that would have stopped what happened in newtown and i think we need to be very thoughtful in how we go forward with what happens and make sure that whatever is done actually is a solution to the problem. >> chri...