Bill Nelson Calls for Universal Background Checks in Wake of Jacksonville Landing Mass Shooting

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NELSON: "Well, at a time like this, of the deaths of several people, I’m not going to get into the politics. But I can tell you what I believe that we should do. At the very least, just common sense would tell you that we ought to have a law that is a comprehensive universal background check in the acquisition or purchase of a gun. That would have caught Omar Mateen, the killer in the Pulse nightclub. A comprehensive background check may have caught some of the mental health problems of the killer in the high school and Parkland because he had not been adjudicated mentally incompetent. That did not come up on the comprehensive background check. So I’m hopeful that eventually senators are going to come to their senses and that we can get a comprehensive background check law passed."