king. the country was up in arms, forced congress to act. we got the '68 gun control act. when president reagan was shot, the country was upset, we got the bradybackground checks and the assault weapons ban in the '90s because the public was upset after someone massacred children in stockton, california. congress acted. this is unprecedented, really. the public is extremely upset. >> correct. >> and the congress is failing to act. it's historically upside down. every time the public has been upset, we don't want nymph this, the congress has acted. so we're in a different historical posture on the way gun laws have been formed. >> so all these -- there are a bunch of things that have gone on in the country that name form that sort of patch work of laws that might prevent someone from doing something. we started a number of states enact red flag laws. in some cases people have had histories of being abusive to domestic partners. still a majority of this country thinks we need to do something about assault weapons. that's the one commonality in almost all of the mass shootings that we've seen. they have been committed with these assault-style wea