CNN N. H. Town Hall: on Gun Control

Amy Klobuchar: Close the boyfriend loophole; no guns for abusers

Explanation from Wikipedia: The termÿ"boyfriend loophole"ÿrefers to a gap in American gun legislation that allows access toÿgunsÿby physically abusiveÿex-boyfriendsÿwith previousÿconvictions. Prohibitions from owning firearms only apply if the victim was the perpetrator'sÿspouse,ÿcohabitant, or had a child with the victim.

Deval Patrick: State gun laws don't matter when guns come from other states

PATRICK: Doesn't it just blow our minds that we're preparing children for active shooter drills? How did we come to this? I share the consensus that exists in America around most or many gun safety measures, national registries, background checks, closing the gun show loophole. This is one of these issues that has to be dealt with at the federal level. We have some of the best laws in America in Massachusetts. They were good before I was in office and we added to them. But it doesn't much matter if you can buy a crate of guns elsewhere and bring them into Massachusetts. We have to have--we have to have a federal solution. I would also ban assault weapons. And I would do a voluntary buyback, as well. I believe there is consensus on many of those, and other, measures.

Andrew Yang: Personalize guns so only the owner can fire it

YANG: My younger son's school had active shooter drills. And he's four years old. I tried to find studies that said that active shooter drills make our kids safer, and I could not find any evidence that they do. I then tried to find evidence that the shooter drills make our kids anxious, stressed out and confused, and I found a whole stack.

Q: What about getting common-sense gun legislation passed?

YANG: I want to offer every gun owner in the country a complimentary personalization upgrade, where only they can fire the gun based upon their palm print and the size of their hand. This way, if the gun gets, let's say, taken by their kid, then it's useless, because they can't fire it. And if you are a gun owner, you actually, kind of, like this personalization upgrade because it makes your gun cooler. It's like a James Bond personalization. You can, like, show your friends and be like, "Only I can fire this." But it also makes us all safer.

Elizabeth Warren: Lethality of guns makes more suicides & domestic violence

WARREN: I think you have to ask a broader question here than simply our schools: we have a gun violence problem in America. And it has to do with mass shootings. We also have a gun violence problem with suicide--the lethality of suicide attempts in America--because of the ready availability of guns. And we have a problem with women dying from domestic violence and the increased odds that a woman will die because she is in a house with someone who is an abuser and there is also a gun available. There are studies right now that suggest a waiting period to be able to buy a gun reduces deaths by suicide by somewhere around 11%. We just need to keep working on it, studying, doing more. In an America where more than 90% of Americans want to see us do background checks and get weapons of war off the street--90%, that's Democrats and Republicans and independents--we do nothing. And the United States Senate can't even get a vote.

Elizabeth Warren: Multiple solutions to gun deaths, like with highway deaths

So what did we do? We did some more obvious. You put in safety glass so people don't get cut if they bump against a window. Seatbelts. Some things hadn't even been put into cars at the time, like airbags and automatic braking systems. But over time we reduced deaths by auto by more than 80%.

And that's what I want to do. I want to see us reduce gun violence overall. Some steps are going to be obvious, like we need national background checks of our guns. We need to get weapons of war off our streets. Some are less obvious, and the kind that you want to study.