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Demonstrating his belief that as a gun owner, going through a background check ask not too much to ask. joining us tonight is captain mark kelley, he is the husband of former congresswoman gab yell giffords. captain kelley, thank you very much for being here. you re welcome, rachel. you ve obviously served as an astronaut and an aviator in the navy. i want to ask you what you thought about yesterday s shooting at the navy yard in d.c. i served in the navy for 25 years and to see something like that happen to your navy family, that really hurts. also, it s about a block from where gabby lived in washington, d.c. there seems to be so many of these mass shootings that they can touch people, multiple ones can touch people in different ways. ....
Mark kelley and gabby giffords, made that video so they could make a point about getting a background check isn t making it impossible to buy a gun. still the whole process only takes a few minutes. today we re going to demonstrate what the whole process is and how relatively simple it is. this will not be my only gun. i ve got a 9 millimeter ruger, a hunting rifle, a shotgun, a .25 semi-automatic pistol, very small. hey, you don t have that colt .45 anywhere, do you? i wanted to buy that colt .45 that was here. two important things. are you under indictment for a felony? have you every been convicted of a felony, no? are you a fugitive? ....
Are you an unlawful user connected to marijuana? are you subject to a court restraining order? no, have you been convicted of any court of any misdemeanor for domestic violence. no. okay, appreciate it. thank you. five minutes and 36 seconds, that is how long mark kelley spent in that arizona gun store waiting for his background check so he could bring home a new gun and show it to his wife, former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords. two years ago today after the mass shooting in tucson, gabby giffords and mark kelley announced that they were forming a new organization. a nonprofit and a superpac called americans for responsible solutions. founded on the principle that it is okay to use guns and support gun rights while also changing policy to try to combat the ....
And murdered six should never have had access to a gun. joining me for an exclusive interview, two of the heroes from that shooting, patricia helped stopped the shooter from reloading, and daniel hernandez, the congressman s intern that helped save gabby giffords live, author of the book they call me hero. thank you both for joining me tonight. i see you re standing in the parking lot of the safeway. i think just about on the spot where the shooting happened, is that right? the shooting happened behind us against the wall. patricia, when you discovered some of these details today and realized that we ve known for a long time it was your intervention that stopped this when he had to reload, you were able to make a move on him. we now know exactly how many bullets he had in his pockets that he could have gone to and how many more people could have ....
one of the things that being here is a stark reminder how little has been done to strengthen the background check system. but congressman giffords husband mark was trying to show how easy it is because we haven t made any changes. it has been two years since the tucson incident happened and we haven t done anything. tomorrow, 150 cities are planning a national call to action to demand action because we have demanded a plan from the federal government. we got one from the president and vice president in terms of the taskforce. but now we need to ask people like senators john mccain who has gone in the record in 2000 and supported background checks to do it again. because if it is good enough for people in oregon and people in colorado, it is good enough for all americans. daniel hernandez, patricia maisch, thanks for joining me. thanks for having us. tomorrow, a last word exclusive, mothers of sandy hook students will join me after they protest outside the national ....