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00:00A quick question, I want to talk to you about gun control.
00:03So you've said you support an assault weapons ban
00:07and universal background checks,
00:09and we actually learned during the debate
00:10that you are a gun owner.
00:14But in cities like Philadelphia,
00:16handguns are responsible for most homicides
00:20and violent crime.
00:21The most recent FBI data shows handguns were involved
00:24in 59% of murders in our country.
00:27How will you address the issue of the use of handguns
00:30because a push for an assault weapons ban
00:33only addresses a significant but small part of the problem?
00:39So, first of all, yes, I am a gun owner
00:42and Tim Walz is a gun owner
00:44and we're not trying to take anybody's guns away from them.
00:47But we do need an assault weapons ban.
00:49Assault weapons are designed
00:52to kill a lot of human beings quickly
00:55and have no place, I'm gonna get to it,
00:59and have no place on the streets of a civil society.
01:03We need universal background checks,
01:05which to your point about handguns
01:08is about saying that it is just reasonable
01:13to want reasonable gun safety laws
01:16that say we should do background checks
01:18that we ought to know, it's just reasonable.
01:20You might want to know
01:22before someone can buy a lethal weapon
01:25if they've been found by a court
01:26to be a danger to themselves or others.
01:28You might just want to know.
01:29And respectfully, we do understand that.
01:32But you're asking about,
01:33I'm asking specifically about handguns
01:35because many of those handguns aren't purchased in places.
01:38Universal background checks apply to handguns.
01:41Yes, but in many instances,
01:43those handguns aren't even bought lawfully, yes.
01:46Which is why I also have been very adamant for years.
01:50In fact, I myself protested at a gun show,
01:55probably 10, 15 years ago about the gun show loophole
01:58and why we need to close that.
02:00Because what ends up happening
02:02is that gun shows at flea markets,
02:04gun dealers are not under existing law in the past
02:09required to register their sales.
02:13And so you are exactly right
02:15that a lot of homicides, for example,
02:18a good number of them,
02:19I have the statistic in front of my mind,
02:23are committed with illegally purchased guns.
02:27And that's why we need to address
02:29each entry point in the issue,
02:31including universal background checks,
02:34closing the gun show loophole,
02:36and what we need to do as a general matter
02:40to focus not only on reaction to crime,
02:43but prevention of crime.
02:45So you're raising a very important issue
02:47that has many facets,
02:49including what we need to do
02:52in terms of reasonable gun safety laws
02:54and what we need to do around crime prevention,
02:57what we need to do around crime deterrence.
02:59But listen, I have personally prosecuted homicide cases.
03:04I have held the hands of mothers
03:07who have come to me crying,
03:09who have said, I only want to talk to Kamala
03:12because they knew when they sat down,
03:15I would treat them with the dignity and respect
03:17that they were entitled and due
03:20about the loss of their child, often their son,
03:25to gun violence and the need to take it seriously.
03:28And we must take it seriously.
03:30In every way, understanding it's not just about a soundbite.
03:35It's about a comprehensive approach
03:38that deals with the tragedy of, to your point,
03:40everyday gun violence in America.
03:43It's real, it has had a profound impact
03:46in terms of trauma that for the most part
03:49has gone undiagnosed and untreated.
03:52The trauma that exists in communities
03:55around the violence of losing their children,
03:58losing a brother, losing a father, an uncle.
04:01All of that must be addressed
04:03and we have to have a holistic response to it.
04:05Are there things we haven't thought about yet?
04:06Because every time we bring up this issue of gun violence,
04:10universal background checks comes up
04:12and a ban on assault weapons.
04:16Are there other solutions that you're also thinking about
04:20that will get at this issue?
04:21Absolutely.
04:23For example, part of what we did with,
04:25so we, as vice president and with the president,
04:29we were able to pass the first
04:31meaningful gun safety legislation in 30 years.
04:34And part of what that involved
04:37was millions and millions of dollars
04:40to put more mental health counselors in public schools.
04:44Right?
04:45Because we know that there is an aspect of this
04:49that is about treating the trauma
04:51and dealing with it at its source
04:54before it ends up manifesting itself in a problem.
04:57There is the work that we need to do
04:59that is about putting resources
05:01into communities around violence prevention.
05:05I've been a big advocate of that for years,
05:07which includes what we need to do
05:09around putting resources into community-based intervention
05:13that is not just requiring on the good people
05:15in the community to volunteer to do the intervention,
05:19but actually paying people to do it
05:21because it's a full-time job.
05:23It's about understanding what we need to do
05:27to, again, understand that, to your point,
05:31we have to have a holistic response to this issue
05:33and prioritize it instead of reacting to the tragedy
05:38that, sadly, they are too predictable.
05:41Let's all agree, enough of that.
05:45There are very few solutions that we haven't thought of.
05:48We need to put the resources into them.