Gun Control | CNN Town Hall

I met an extraordinary middle school student who may be here. She goes to Berg Middle School in Newton, her name's Milan, and I had a chance to talk to her class. Her one question is, I don't want to come to school and wonder whether I'm gonna come home at the end of the day. What's the answer to that? We know that in this country, those states that have adopted universal background checks enclose every loophole, the Charleston loophole, the boyfriend loophole, the gun show loophole, and make sure that everyone who purchases a firearm goes through a background check. Those states have seen a reduction in gun violence of up to 50%. When we complement that by ensuring that weapons of war designed for use on the battlefield are no longer sold into our communities, so they don't end up in our schools or our synagogues, in our churches, we can save even more lives. Two more steps that I want to take, red flag laws, and not just do it town by town or state by state, but do it nationally so that anyone who exhibits a tendency to harm themselves or to harm somebody else can be stopped before they do that, and then the last part, let's make sure that we invest in the counseling and the mental health and the therapy necessary for people to get the care that they need.