John Regalado

This is an issue that has been in the news since, I mean, I lived in Colorado.

So like Columbine happened when I was in like second grade.

And then from then on, it's kind of dominated the American consciousness as a problem.

And we actually see this kind of violence now spreading to other countries.

I think there was recently just a school shooting or a mass shooting in Canada.

And those are uncharacteristic events in other countries.

And so I think part of the problem is it's really perplexing.

Nobody knows exactly how to pinpoint what this formula is for a mass shooting.

Obviously, access to guns is part of it.

But my impression as somebody who...

doesn't own a gun and doesn't know a lot of people who owns guns is that people who, like the gun community in the United States is so protective of the second amendment that they reject,

gun control measures and their elected representatives echo that.

And so it's just been kind of an impossible barrier to overcome to get legislation passed.

I mean, as somebody who owns a gun but then still wants to see gun control, what do you think when you hear that?

Does that sound untrue?

Does that sound valid?

Yeah.

No, it's a terrible reality.

And it's probably one of the worst features of American identity that we're known for, in my opinion.

Charlie Kirk kind of infamously said, this is the price we pay for the Second Amendment.