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Co president of brady, an organization focused on preventing gun violence. chris brown, good to see you. when congress comes back this week, what do you want to see happen? the senate take up s 42. the companion measure that would actually close the loophole that we have right now that allows private sales of guns to happen with no background check at all. we ve learned in the odessa shooting that that s how the shooter apparently got his gun even though he was a prohibited purchaser. one in five guns sold today is sold with no background check at all. the senate can fix that by passing s42 and having americans sign it. 97% of americans support this measure so we want that to move forward. we also want extreme risk laws to be promoted in the states and ....
Met with so far has been the nra. although you rightly note that he s changed his position at least several times since pa parkland on this issue. look, brady represents both gun owners and non gun owners alike. we have one mission. that s to solve the epidemic of gun violence and we re talking to all lawmakers. i think too few of them who are on the republican side of the aisle are really listening on this issue although we have convinced many to join us in this fight. although sometimes you don t have to have a face-to-face with the president because he s a big consumer of news organizations programs just like this and perhaps this is your opportunity in which to make a plea to him. what would you say to him if he was listen bing right now? i would say there s no issue, mr. president, that you can find in the american public today in which there is greater ewan imty than to fix this issue of gun violence. and that he has the opportunity to say he wants expanded ....
Let him carry? a lot of this stuff sounds like to be honest and blunt, it makes it easier for mass shooters. absolutely. and these are instruments of terror. 22 people killed with the variant of an ak-47. in el paso on august 3rd and the killer s mom when the ak-46 came in called police in texas and says what does my son need with this, and the police said sorry, miami, perfectly legal for thim to do this. and now we ve made it permissible to carry a firearm like that into a church or school that has suffered four mass shootings in less than two years. this is absolutely crazy, but the optimism can be found in the people that we re listening to. the politicians in texas are an indicator. republicans, democrats, gun owners and nongun owners alike. and they re going to be heard in this next election. ....
Walked back. you shouldn t have to grow up as a senior in high school having to have lockdown drills. we can take common sense actions and i m counting on that not only when i m present but i m counting on gun owners and nongun owners alike. let me have you sit down for one minute, to follow up on what aditya said. you only announced your support for universal background checks in 2018, about a year before you announced you were running for president. what do you say to people who say this was just a political stance? i certainly tried to say let s take some common sense steps and vetoed 14 different bills that came through our legisla legislature that certainly i don t think was added to the safety of our communities or law enforcement or others. i think it was quite a gut punch ....
The black church pac and former owners, non-gun owners all were ceo of the democratic national north of 90%. convention committee, talked to some of them were within the her earlier this morning. listen to what she has to say about the new generation of margin off error of everybody. african-american voters. we know that the here s where i disagree. african-american community is you do see those spikes not monolithic. sometimes after those shootings we have all stripes, all kinds, and then we begin to normalize and people kind of go back to and so these are young voters their corners after a period of time. who are some of them voting for here s the thing, the people who vote on gun rights, they are the first time who are very engaged. some of them who voted for the first time in 2018 to help flip high limo bi the house, and so they are high ly mobilized, highly vocal. interested in pocketbook issues. they re very involved in any gop many of them are dealing with primary, and the ....