Do Background Checks For Gun Sales Really Work? (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

Gun buyer background checks should have stopped Dylann Roof – charged with killing nine in a church in Charleston. They didn’t. Gun buyer background checks could have stopped John Houser, who killed two and wounded nine in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. He wasn’t stopped either. un control is hard in the United States. Let’s at least make the background checks work, say advocates, so that criminals and the psychologically ill can’t go into any gun shop and buy. But even that gets pushback. This hour On Point: guns, background checks, American politics, and how to get it right. / Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/07/29/lafayette-chattanooga-gun-control-gun-rights