mr. korte. guest: yeah, and all too common story. here is the tricky part -- without going into details of whether that gun was legally own. obviously, if it happened 34 years ago, it was pre-background checks. what a background check have prevented his friends -- his friend's parents from owning that that if they were law- abiding citizens? at what point does personal response ability in the ownership and storage of guns -- what role does that have to play? you will hear a lot of republicans over the next couple of days in the senate talk about how a background check would not necessarily have invented a tragedy like that or many of the other tragedies -- not necessarily have prevented a tragedy like that or many of the other tragedies because guns are already so pervasive in our society and people can get them other ways. host: senator mcconnell is on the senate floor. watchn go to c-span2 to the whole thing could he just announced he would vote against cloture. gregory korte. guest: not surpr