Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.
One of the things we do at the Brady Center is we're trying to reform the gun industry through litigation. We have a small law firm in our office of eight or ten lawyers who are suing gun companies, trying to get them to change the product they make and change the way they do business.
If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.