Most Americans -- It's common sense.

If you need a license to drive a car,

you should have a license to buy and possess a firearm.

This is about gun safety.

This is about lives being lost every single day.

This is about what kind of leader will you be.

Will you stand apart from the American people

or will you join 75%,

80% of us who believe in doing the common-sense

things that will protect -- -The comparison's always made --

you need a license to drive a car.

They're state licenses.

You don't need a federal license to drive a car.

And so what we should be doing is doing first things first.

Let's have more states do what

Connecticut has done and California

and other states have done, because you can get that done.

You will get that done.

-You ought to have a license for owning a deadly weapon.

And what I'm finding is --

My in-laws are a pretty good barometer on this.

Gun owners get that this is common sense.

You're used to getting a hunting license

and a fishing license and a driver's license.

How about a license for access to firearms?

-We should be licensing all guns.

I mean, guns are obviously

as deadly and destructive as vehicles,

so if we're licensing motor vehicles,

we should be licensing firearms.

And then you have levels based upon

the destructive capability of those firearms.

-Ensuring that there's the ability,

that there's a unique marker

so that we're better able to track ammunition

when it's part of a crime scene, you know,

and make the job of investigators easier.

I think that when you combine that with gun licensing

and investing in other programs that will help solve gun crime

that too often these days goes unsolved --

because the clearance rate in a lot of American communities

is still very low --

that we can get better about solving gun-related crime.