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Guns. you re right. actually today there are still over 1 million disqualifying mental health records missing from the background check system that the brady act private sellers are not required to run background checks. you can go into gun shows, buy on the enter net. and you went you ntedto pre thisyorsf,ndyou we a d ckou chksanth 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. as one guy explained to me, there s no tax, no paperwork, that s got to be worth something. people who 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? i don t know that my position ....
I could tell by the look on his fate, shots had been fired at my father, but he hadn t been hit. we raced upstairs and by that time we discovered he had been hit, got on a plane, flew to washington d.c. and went straight to the hospital. over the first couple days, when did you feel like, okay, my dad s out of the woods? actually i felt pretty good in the intensive care unit when he came out of surgery. we knew by that time, obviously this was very serious, but he looked pretty good. i mean, for a guy who had just been shot and nearly killed, his color was back, you know, he look okay under the circumstances. so i stopped worrying a bit there. the doctors didn t seem so worried, either. they looked like they had a handle on things. well, at the time, of course, it became a debate about the issue, particularly of mentally ill folks getting their hands on guns, and this issue of gun ....
Dad s out of the woods? actually i felt pretty good in the intensive care unit when he came out of surgery. we knew by that time, obviously this was very serious, but he looked pretty good. i mean, for a guy who had just been shot and nearly killed, his color was back, you know, he looked okay under the circumstances. so i stopped worrying a bit there. the doctors didn t seem so worried, either. they looked like they had a handle on things. well, at the time, of course, it became a debate about the issue, particularly of mentally ill folks getting their hands on guns, and this issue of gun rights. i m also joined, ron, by colin goodard, he was one of the victims of the virginia tech shooting. colin, thanks for being here. i want to throw up some poll numbers about the issue of gun control versus gun rights and where things were in 1993 and where they were in 1999 in favor of gun control verse expanded gun rights, and where they are today. ....
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 much. i was always pro-gun control even before the shooting when my father was shot. i think we have an issue that s broader than just guns, though, and that has something to do with the kashger or psyche of the united states. it isn t just guns. the nra people are right. guns don t kill people. people with guns kill peopl ....
In 93, it was 57% in favor of some sort of gun control. look at this line graph. it now crosses where more people are in favor of expanded gun rights than they are gun control. colin, you ve decided to join the brady campaign after what you went through at virginia tech. virginia tech we have similar circumstances, the tucson shooting had to do with a mentally ill shooter. at virginia tech it was a mentally ill person, john hinckley, it was a mentally ill person. what s been the challenge, particularly on this. which know about this issue of gun rights and they don t want any contraction here. but there hasn t even been any luck with dealing with mentally ill folks and preventing them from getting guns. you re right. 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 g ....