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hi, i'm sandra gartman, welcome to portal your gateway to some of our to 0 as best online content. this week we're focusing on guns in the us. it's a country with more firearms than people and the highest level of civilian gun ownership in the world. ah, we've got a powerful film about how gun violence is playing out on the streets of new york. we'll look at the complicated politics law around gun ownership and the push for stricter controls. and we'll hear why more and more black americans are exercising their constitutional right to bear arms. feel the person actually empowered it was a gentleman rush. we're going to start in new york shootings in the city,

surged and 2020 to levels not seen and 10 years. you can see the devastating impact on people's lives and neighborhoods like the bronx. where for many people don't violate as part of everyday life. in this episode of the online documentary series fly on the wall filmmaker, i always spend time in the bronx and meets people there who are trying to stop the cycle of violence. the snow was going on in the country everywhere. david vomit wrong about the end up dead or in jail much poverty is going to get worse. and i also believe the virus is going to keep one creasing where live in dangerous time. right now we did is elisa gunshot. if somebody gunshot this is why

i oh i i no matter where you go, you will not work 10 times harder than the next person. because we are minorities. we often the projects we often the bronx, the bronx, we're black, whereas spanish and we're from the project. i saw 3 strikes automatically. my know if you've got murder that tell you what was coming to my house. he was walking away and they shot him in the back and i heard it. it was,

it was a was feeling is a way just this to know that he was on the floor dying for why ah, whatever they doing, know we used to be done that. so we change our life one day that we change so they can change to their respect, what we're doing. what i do is talk to them, let them know, listen, we don't want no shooting, we don't want no violence. the violence just increase because there's really nothing to do in the neighbourhood. poverty would come from, you know, one of the poorest borrows when the report broke in the nation. you know, so, i mean, it's tough times and throughout over, you know, there's no worries, you know, people listen the jobs. i mean, they're hanging out guns out here like it's candy,

unfortunately. and they don't care what age or research tragedy to meet somebody a much much tragedy was. 2 was going to jail this live death penalty in doing that and making it out of that situation. said mary, no, i got to be here for a reason. and now i'm helping know the younger ones under me. i it's our client was a good unit. i mean, they were older, you know, it's all the old toxic kids around and they could just blended and see what was going on now, you know, which restore just one thing. after all,

the new york reactions don't, don't solve anything. basically no one's being held on down and everyone is being led out of out of jail and arrested. police can't enforce the laws the way we used to. they tied to hands of the police. morale is, is an issue. it doesn't make sense to me that all these people are being shot now, seeing young children being shot now, city and know elected officials are saying we're living on destroyed time where no one wants to take the time out and have understanding what's really going on. i was very bad, you know, i was selling drugs in gangs hurting people and something had happened. my son was murdered and he was only 16 years old. so this motivated

me to stop other people from becoming my son. really the core part of despair and despair. so people fall into, into despair is like took up anything by next, like you know, where there's a gun no knife, you know, anything like that. so does how i go up. i bought it. well, you certainly buying guns because one year for the protection will block your shot, but then somebody will close me, dot com, violet, and then after that is my dad. money life already short. so that's what i did start . this is my cell phone. people are nose like that. i got my head off from school, went to college and all my stuff. i now just focus on on my life and make sure me and my family leave. so we don't have to go to the

the politics and culture around guns in the u. s. is complicated to say the least and of course it goes back to the founding fathers. the constitution guarantees the right to bear arms. but what does that actually mean in 2021. so far this year there have been more than $270.00 my shootings and president joe biden is called for tougher gun laws. on this episode of start here, my team and i break down how gun laws work and whether they can change the let's talk about guns and the law. there are more guns and people in the us. nearly 400000000 of them. and those are just the ones accounted for. so far this year, more than $20000.00 people have died because of a gun. that's roughly a 100 people killed in the country every single day. yet again, in america, innocent families are swamped to their knees in grief. another weekend of gun

violence, a deadly shooting. had a boulder, colorado grocery store, not shooting, grab the headlines, but gun violence goes way beyond that. homicide police shootings, domestic violence, accidents, and suicide, which make up the highest number of gun related death. gun violence is taking more lives than any other public health. the crisis of our time, we lose roughly $40000.00 lives every year to done violence in this country. and that we're behind 40000 emily's friends to friendship circle community going violence in this country is an epidemic. and it's an international buyers. the president wants to do something about it, but there's resistance. they'd rather get top on the law abiding. then go out and get top find criminal. so how do us gun law actually work? why are some americans have guns to tougher gun control? and what does president biden to do about it?

ah, ah, most americans agree on one thing. gun violence is a problem. according to one survey, it's a pretty huge majority with only 6 percent who say it's not a problem at all. the question of how to tackle gun violence is whether the debate at the heart of that debate is gun control and whether more laws are needed. but before we get into that, let's debunk the met that gun, control, anything new. hundreds of years ago. there were rules about owning ammunition. you had to register to own gunpowder. you had to register your guns, you couldn't carry your guns with you in town. i have on your guns over we had in the late 1700 in the populated cities like boston in new york, philadelphia for that matter gun regulations which today would be unimaginable. in the 1930, they found machine guns in response to choose in the late sixty's. after these

destination of president j. k, the gun control act came in impulse regulations on the firearms industry and came up with a list of people who could be denied the sale of guns. and in the ninety's president clinton's crime bill introduced a federal ban on assault weapons. but that expired 10 years later, we always respected the both gun right and gun regulations and that goes back to the constitution for americans being able to own a gun as a basic right up there with free speech. the 2nd amendment says, a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. what does that mean? well, for a couple of 100 years, the understanding focused on that mention of the militia, it's really the idea that the states would serve as a check against a possible radical government make sense. seeing as it was written after the war of independence. and that idea still process today, but in 2008, there was

a landmark supreme court decision that focused on the 2nd half. it's known as the heller case. the court ruled that a ban on hand guns in the district of columbia was unconstitutional. and for the 1st time, affirmed the right for individuals to keep arms for self defense in the home. that was an enormous change in the sort of legal meaning of the, of the constitution. now, most americans already believed what the supreme court held was already the popular view and that shift in thinking among americans started happening well before 2008 . 4050 years ago. we see that people predominantly owned guns for hunting or for sport. and now we're seeing a big shift for the primary reason people are owning firearm is related to self defense. a lot of it has to do with marketing around gun ownership. so in the decline of hunting down lobby recognized that they needed new ways to motivate

people to own firearms. the national rifle association, the u. s. of main gun rights advocacy group has also played a big part in that and pushing the idea that guns are needed for self defense. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun from mike or dan. they've really changed the everyday politics of guns and how people relate to guns is part of your identity. it's part of what makes you who you are. you are the kind of person who takes your right seriously. you're going to exercise them. you are not going to rely on someone else to solve your problems. the gun symbolizes that we can't get away from the fact that this is all super political. and we see that when it comes to support for gun laws overall, more than half americans favor stricter laws. the when you break that down more than 80 percent of demo crab support,

more gun control compared to just 20 percent of republicans. republicans have placed more important on gun rights, whereas democrats police more important on gun regulation that partisan gap 30 years ago was probably 20 point, which is big right now. it's almost 50 points, which is a greater gap partisan gap than you know, almost any other issue in american political life. so what did us gun laws look like? well, that depends on where you live. there are federal laws that apply across the whole country that for instance, been convicted felons. people with mental illness or kids under 18 from buying guns . but then there are state laws and each state has a lot of the way to enforce their own regulations. and they differ pretty widely in states that are controlled by democrats and that are controlled by republicans. the difference you see in regulation i think, reflects the sort of underlying, partisan divide in massachusetts, a strongly democratic state. you need to police permit and a background check to buy a gun. while republican control texas recently passed

a law allowing people to carry concealed handguns without any permit. now we're at the point where 20 states, you don't have any obligation to get a permit, which means you don't have to have a background check. you don't need any additional training. so now we've got a democrat in the white house. the president biden has declared gun violence of public health epidemic. his plan to tackle it include more money for community programs to address some of the root causes of gun violence. whether that, housing, whether that education, whether that deployment services, how do we channel all of these programs to help reduce this crisis? bit frankly, is now no one called the debt for all you in america. and the number one called the deaths. the black men in america on the legal side biden wants to toughen up the gun laws and make sure the ones that already exist are actually applied, including 0 tolerance for real good gun dealers. if you will sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it,

if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully false fire record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with the tracy request or inspections my messages use, this will find you. he also wants to tightened the rules on what are called ghost guns. either weapons sold and parts and without a serial number, so they can't be traced right now. in the us, you could go on the internet. you can buy kit that you can get shipped to your house without a background check. and with youtube video instructions and a little bit of know how you can create a fully functional firearm. another big thing biden wants to do is bring back the ban on assault weapons guns like the semi automatic a r 15 rifle. according to a newsweek investigation. this type of gun was used in more than a quarter of the last 80 mass shooting. like this year's attack in a supermarket in boulder, colorado, the orlando nightclub shooting in 2016 and at sandy hook elementary school where 20

children and 6 teachers were killed in 2012. but can he do it? a democrats pushed for more gun control. there are plenty of voters and politicians and congress who say, guns just aren't the problem. they're talking about, oh, we need to stop there. 15 these up. they are 15, you know more people are stab to death and they're shot with air 15. so it's just, it's absurd hype and it's, it's, it's mostly just nonsense. let's target the bad guys, the felons, the fugitives, those with mental disease. let's put them in jail. let's stop them from getting guns. let's not go innocent, law abiding citizens, and let's not target their constitutional rights. no, even though we always hear about how america is so divided over guns, there's another way to look at it. i think maybe the central misunderstanding, including within the united states about the gun debate is the idea of a gun rights and gun regulation are mutually exclusive and that's just not true. there is a very broad, moderate middle, including a lot of gun owners. there's

a great deal with regard for example, to background checks. now this is more political battle. it is a public opinion, a gun aren't going away. that's a non starter in the us. but if americans can find that common ground to look at policies, they can agree on, or maybe that's where their chance of saving lives the. so if you just heard gun ownership in the us comes down to people exercising their constitutional right. and that's something that black americans are doing and growing numbers. last year, black people accounted for the biggest increase in firearm sales. and this film for a day plus in my in banga, visited a firing range to find out what it means to be a black gun owner. in a country with a history of limiting black people have access to firearms. the don't be locked

so tight that you're like, right? go left a little bit. what's the most important thing is? safety, safety. what's the most important thing of what's going on? now? they have right. the u. s. has at least 63000000 more guns than it does, people and the most civilians with firearms globally. some of the people you're watching are new to an ownership and handling. some of inherited gun culture from previous generations of family and all of them are the legacy of black people, lengthy and complicated relationship with bearing arms in the us. one of the things that black people wanted to wire along with the vote, along with land, along with education, was the right to bear arms with the right to protect themselves and their families . these are the thesis we normally see for the voices we normally hear when the u. s. talks about gun rights and ownership feel the 1st time you saw me actually

empowers it, was a gentleman rush fine. so what does it mean to be a black, one owner? in this nation i'm taking a gun safety course in the middle of the curve in 1900 pandemic. in this session, there are 62 students with varying degrees of gun knowledge. my gun since 2010 i shoot often on but lately i felt the need to be more proactive and getting training this when i look at tv so frustrated, you know, i just felt like i need to be more prepared. dorothy wilson is like all the other attendees, the army owner, and all of the instructors. but now there's no magazine and it's gone. i took a gun now, you know why i didn't want and we realize that a lot of people,

but it looked like us really didn't have the education so good upon ourselves to take on the challenge of educating people, getting involved in the community and let them know that bar arms are safe and can be fun and they can get that proper training buffy. would it look like how many guns would you say you have to? that's a tricky question. i have, i have a lot of gun rifle shot guns and some custom gun higher education happening on this one is indicative of much larger trends when people in the us are concerned about their safety. they buy more guns. here's what monthly firearm sales look like in the last decade. we see them spike during 2 occasions. one is emergencies, like the sandy hook, san bernardino, and the parkland. mash shooting. org, the cooper 19 pandemic. the 2nd rise we see in gun sales is doing proto,

like the nationwide ones we've watched all summer in the spring alone, the u. s. had an increase of $3000000.00 more requests that normally would for criminal background checks during that period. those background checks have a close correlation with fire and fails, and 40 percent of gun buyers during this pandemic have been 1st timers, but how equitably or gun owners treat it is different for us. you don't see the same type of treatment to black. people who advocate right to bear arms in practice, right to bear arms as you do for white organizations and why groups american society. i can yearly says black people in the us always have had to fight for their right to be art history and resistance. pre dates are non violent from the very inception of our black people being in america with this thing. they

oftentimes headaches, appropriate weapons from new york presses to resists, of course, our slaveholders created policies to dis, arm us. but it was an ambivalent policy because if they thought it meant the interest, they would arm black people. this is what many people think of when they think about black resistance in the u. s. the civil rights i can nearly says it couldn't have happened without armed black people. this is something this oftentimes when it, when we talk about the success of violence, many other communities, not violence, would not have been able to operate without black people who were to protect an activist particularly to places like rural louisiana,

rural mississippi, rural georgia. off the oftentimes the non violent activists would not as the bad because they weren't protected by police. the us just tension with black and has been codified in long like when then california governor ronald reagan with the right support signed the multiple which prevented the open carry of loaded firearms at the time, reagan said there's absolutely no reason why out on the street today civilian should be carrying a loaded weapon. the multi dock was a response to the members of the black panthers who saw their decision to be armed as an assembly and a political choice, as opposed to a personal one. important for us to get organized and be trained and be politically aware of that. so we can protect our communities, check our household, protect our live tv. i could tell you this, our resistance in our community for freedom and self determination.

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passions stand up in flight generation change on al jazeera who's hello there. it's a hot, dry picture across the middle east and quiet as expected up in the north. we've got our temperatures sitting slightly above average q weight could see the temperature touch the early fifties as we go into tuesday. but further south things are looking a lot cooler. we've got a southerly wind kicking up into yemen, anime on that's bringing temperatures slightly below what we expect for this time of year. and look what that does on tuesday to catawba temperature is going to drop by about 10 degrees with that change in the wind. the 3 day for dough showing us that we can be sitting and high thirty's as we go into tuesday and things are going to really start to feel humid. well, for the south we could see some showers along the coast of yemen and or mud. but for the wet weather we have to move to central africa. those thunderstorms rolling

along the ethiopian rift valley, touching into kenya as well, but fell sedan and the central african republic seeing the heavy rainfall. then by the time we get into tuesday, it will become a ruin that sees some of those heavy showers. but as the head further south, things are looking a lot finer and dryer, but the sun shines for johanna spring in south africa. but cape town, seen a wet and windy weather from that weather system moving in. the welcome for iran, 80 president elect in his home town of mesh at the image of the shrine, crowd had gathered to hear what their newly elected leader abraham, right. you have to say on the issues that affect the job, shut off in domestic politics, domestic policy, and foreign policy. the focus should be on the dignity of this nation. and the focus should be on the fact that in any negotiation,

the dignity of this nation should not be hers is already made large weeping promises including fighting corruption, improving the country's economy and maintaining a wrong interest. in negotiations the wes, but it's not clear yet. if you will be able to deliver on his promises, ah, locked downs are in full again and parts of south east asia as credit virus infections increased from a more contagious variance. ah rahman you're watching on just they were like my headquarters here in the coming up in the next 30 minutes.