that "gun control advocates argue that such background checks would prevent shootings like that of zinamma whose husband was killed even though a restraining order barred him from having guns." guest: we do not need people with -- host: it has to prevent mass killings? guest: what i am saying it is disingenuous to say we must do this in the name of the fallen, the dead at sandy hook and what has been proposed would not change what happened there. with regard to this one incident, and i'm not familiar with that situation, but what i a hugel you is that percentage of people who buy guns have background checks, even as -- at the gun shows. if they are federally licensed firearms sales people -- even the fast and furious, those gun sellers did not want to sell guns to the people that the federal justice department demanded that they sell to because it is their job. they could lose their license if they sell to somebody that is not supposed to have a firearm. they are very careful about that. online sales is something we ought to look at, and i would imagine -- i have not heard anybody offer