backgrounds checks with 90 percent support could be defeated only a few months after a tragedy like Newtown, he said. Like if you couldnt do it then you know when in the future could you possibly do it?”...
Calling his meeting with parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting the hardest day of his presidency, Obama explained that you would have thought at that point, that has got to be enough of a motivator for us to want to do something about this.
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While ignoring additional background checks would not have changed that event.
They want background checks structured to begin building a national gun registry.
That's what people don't get.