Kaine: Expanded Background Checks for Guns Will Make Us and the Police Safer

"I’m a gun owner. I’m a strong Second Amendment supporter, but I’ve got a lot of scar tissue, because when I was governor of Virginia, there was a horrible shooting at Virginia Tech, and we learned that through that painful situation that gaps in the background record check system should have been closed and it could have prevented that crime, so we’re going to work to close background record checks. One of those killed at Virginia Tech was a 70-plus-year-old Romanian holocaust survivor. He’d survived the holocaust and survived the Soviet Union takeover of his country. But then he was a visiting professor at Virginia Tech and he couldn’t survive the scourge of gun violence. We can support the Second Amendment and do things like background record checks and make us safer, and that will make police safer too."