The President, congress, and all State Governors need to see this video.
Unfortunately, even if they did see it, I'm convinced that most would not care.
I live in MD and attended several of the proceedings leading up to passage of laws which will (come Oct. 1st) treat law abiding gun owners in this state like criminals.
Facts from trusted, non-interested sources (e.g. CDC data) were presented in all manner of emotion, by people of virtually every walk of life.
The proponents of the bills absolutely refused to acknowledge the data - they practically stuck their fingers in their ears.
They had no interest or intent to be objective on the matter.
It was horribly disheartening.
And to add further insult - the media did not accurately report the proceedings.
We rallied before the proceedings with numbers in the thousands and most then went to attend and/or testify at the proceedings.
They had to close the building due to safety concerns - security and other staff said that they had never (in 15-20 years) seen anything like it.
Although we had a record number of (well behaved) opponents to the gun restrictions - it was reported as hundreds, and no one aired any of the comments from the state employees that witnessed and were awe stricken by our numbers.
Approximately a dozen or so people signed up to testify in favor of the new restrictions - but literally hundreds signed up to testify against them.
They stopped allowing actual testimony and only allowed opponents to the Bill to state their name, county of residence and position on the Bill.
That process still went on until the wee hours of the morning.
It was reported that the hearing went very late - but not that the ratio of proponents to opponents was so disproportionate...
Throughout the process - none of the politicians that supported the firearms restrictions cared about any of the facts. It didn't matter that none of what they proposed would have prevented any of the horrific acts that they were citing as the reason to enact more gun laws.
They always fell back on the "If it saves only one life..." "It's about the safety of the children..."
Even though they could not cite any facts that the restrictions would have any effect on gun related crimes and there was a massive show of opposition to further restriction - they passed the laws stating that "They will make us safer" "This is what our constituents want"
We intend to speak with our vote at the next opportunity and are ever hopeful that the system still works...