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Actually today there are still over 1 million disqualifying mental health records missing from the background check system that the brady law enacted. and we don t apply that check on every gun sale. private sellers are not required to run background checks. you can go into gun shows, buy gups from people just by giving people money. and you went you wanted to prove this yourself, and you went and had no background checks, and then turned in these guns. i found out the guys not running background checks were charging a little more than a dealer was with a check. because as one guy explained to me, there s no tax, no paperwork, that s got to be worth something. for people that want to go around the background check, that s worth a lot. ron, your own position on gun control, has it evolved over the years? after that shooting, did you find yourself, this is what i want to do? where are you on this position now, where have you been? i don t know that my position has evolved so mu ....
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Has evolved so much. i was always pro-gun control even before the 14509ing when my father was shot. i think we have an issue that s broader than guns, and that has something to do with 9 character or the psyche of the united states. it isn t just guns. the nra people are right. guns don t kill people. people with guns kill people, particularly crazy people with gunz kill people, but we fetishize violence and guns in this country. look at the way our young people are brought up. the video games and computer games they play, the movies we watch. we are awash in violence, and we consider violence to be the first resort in almost any circumstance. it s like we re walking around in our personal revenge fapt sis all the time. that s a much bigger issue than just controlling this or that type of gun. what s interesting, of course, the politics of this. the nra is politically very popular. how can we prove this? i m going to read three ....
Guns kill people, but we fetishize violence and guns in this country. look at the way our young people are brought up. the video games and computer games they play, the movies we watch. we are awash in violence, and we consider violence to be the first resort in almost any circumstance. it s like we re walking around in our personal revenge fantasies all the time. that s a much bigger issue than just controlling this or that type of gun. what s interesting, of course, the politics of this. the nra is politically very popular. how can we prove this? i m going to read three statements from president barack obama when he was a guy running for congress, then a guy running for senate, and then a sitting president. here is where president obama was on guns in 2001. i know the nra believes people should be unimpeded and unregulated on gun ownership. i disagree. in 2004, here s what the president had to say. i think it s a scandal that this ....
Statements from president barack obama as a guy running for congress, then running for senate, then a sitting president. here is where president obama was on guns in 2001. i know the nra believes people should be unimpeded and unregulated. i disagree. in 2004 i think it s a scandal that this president did not force a renewal of this assault weapons ban. here s the op-ed. he wrote in the tucson arizona daily star, gabby giffords hometown. my administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners, it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks and wildlife refuges. that s the same person. this is, colin, when you hear this, and ron i m going to go to you in a second. do you feel like you have an ally on the issue of guns with president obama? this is the first time a sitting president has addressed the gun control issue in more ....