I recently visited Chicago, where I met with the Reverend Jesse Jackson. On Saturday, I appeared at a series of events sponsored by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition calling for common-sense steps to end gun violence.

Hundreds of marchers, led by Rev. Jackson, converged on a suburban Chicago gun shop which has supplied hundreds of guns that were traced to crimes. We know from national data that most Federally-licensed gun dealers never sell even a single gun that’s used to commit a crime. When stores like Suburban Sporting Goods Ammo and Guns in Melrose Park, Illinois channel hundreds of crime guns into a community – 712 in a single four-year period – one has to question those business practices and procedures and whether they’re taking reasonable steps to help prevent dangerous people from getting guns.

Rev. Jackson and the community leaders who joined us on Saturday refuse to accept that 712 crime guns is just a cost of doing business.

A partial video of the event is available on YouTube.