bigsby in long beach, california is one of our second prize winners. his entry focused on weapon availability and background checks. ♪ ♪ >> i hate guns. >> it's the right to bear arms. >> i find them frightening. >> a gun lays there it will not do nothing. >> people should not be allowed to have guns. >> seconds count. law enforcement is minutes away. >> i hate guns. >> if i could snap my fingers and all the guns would be gone i don't see why not. >> we will have to have that conversation along the way that says when it is appropriate and what is appropriate for our citizens of the united states to carry and use? ♪ ♪ >> i was born in the age of suicide street justice at mass

shootings. all because of the second amendment. >> the constitution is kind of beginning to show its age. >> i am destin bigsaby, a voice for american youth. over 20 million people commit suicide every year with a gun. once that trigger is pulled, there is no stopping the bullet. like so many others, mike cousin committed suicide with a gun putting my family into shock and disarray. still to this day, avoid has been left that has this that can never be filled. >> do i think that a depressed kid who walks into a punch up should be able to buy a gun? without any kind of background check whatsoever? probably not. >> my friend sam got a gun.

he threatened suicide. we were able to intercept him prevent the suicide emma take the gun away from him, get rid of the gun, get him in therapy but that only lasted so long. then he got another gun. >> we tried to get him a lot of help and he ended up walking into a pond shop and buying a gun and he used that gun to kill himself. >> he evidently did not have trouble buying a second gun even though he was already in the database, as we say, as a mentally ill person who i believe should not be able to buy a gun. >> i live in los angeles county, the home of compton, inglewood, and my hometown of long beach. three cities wracked with gun violence. i am here in contin, california, one of the most dangerous cities in the united states to speak with the people about gun

violence. >> they should have procedures that should prohibit people to get guns. >> it kills innocent people and it's wrong. it's not about that. >> i feel like a permanent solution to a temporary problem. >> i was seven years old and eight years old and there is a try by shooting with bullets flying everywhere. it was very scary i could've lost my life and i didn't want anyone else to lose their life as well. it's terrifying. >> they call it street justice but there is no justice. it's just someone losing their life. it's really stupid and trivial. >> that's what a drive-by is. it's just cowards in a car. >> every year, more than 230,000 guns are stolen from those who legally purchase them. >> we ended up arming criminals.

that was not with the intent of why we had those guns. >> the rap community is changing its using guns and the warmer long beach guest: >> we are the snoop dogg is leading the charge. >> you should do something about it. >> i'm here in newtown, connecticut to speak with the people and make sure that a tragedy like the one at sandy hook elementary never happens again. on december 14, 2012, six teachers and 20 elementary school students lost their lives at sandy hook elementary. i sat down with the people of newtown to hear their story. >> i am walking around looking for this little brown had and i don't see it. sure this is not a thought in

your mind anything could happen to your child. >> she never did find his little brown head. her son, jesse lewis, lost his life on that day. >> i guess i felt numb. i felt like, ok, it's survival mode. it's you know two years later -- i will -- it will always be incredibly difficult. >> as i think we proliferate our society with more weapons or opportunities to get terrible weapons, we may see the body count go up. >> the weapons that were in adam lanza's hand on 24 teen -- on december 14 should never have reach his hands and hopefully will not reach the hands in his mental state ever again. >> limiting the size of the magazines would not have made a difference. it did make a difference print

when he stops to reload at one time, a group of children were able to run out of the room and escape. his final action in the classroom which was instrumental in saving nine of his classmates -- as the gun man ran out of all its and was reloading, he called to his friends to run and they said it's because he told him to run that they did. then the gun man reloaded and murdered jesse. >> it's a shame that the world lost jesse but he cannot die in vain. something must be done to make sure something like this never happens again. >> this is an absolute epidemic. when there is no response from congress, not a single legislative act passed, to try to do something about this, to send a message, a message of quiet endorsement. >> it's time for the legislative branch to pass stricter on laws.

-- gun laws. our future depends on it. how many more children have to die, mothers have to cry, or something -- before something is done? >> to watch all of the winning videos and learn more about our competition, 02 www.c-span.org and click on studentcam and tell us what you think about the issue this student addressed in their documentary on facebook and twitter. >> next, live at 7:00 a.m., your calls and comments on "washington journal." live at 3:00 p.m. today, the house and budget conferees will work out differences between the budget resolutions passed by both bodies. >> challenging the new fcc internet rules, five organizations of filed lawsuits against the fcc. tonight, we will speak with the president and ceo of one of those organizations u.s. telecoms walter mccormick and a supporter of the rules

christopher lewis, vice president for government affairs at public knowledge. >> what we are challenging is the reclassification of internet access from being an information service to a telecommunication service regulated as a common carrier pursuant to 19th-century railroad regulations. common carriage is a vestige of the english common law was originally applied to railroads and to trucking companies and then to airlines but it has been repealed for all of those industries going on from 30 years ago because it imposed new cost on consumers and delay deployment and slowed innovation and really chilled investment. >> we both agree that net neutrality protections are important. that's an important thing to start with. but we do disagree with a lawsuit. we have been supportive of the rules that the fcc and acted -- and acted -- enacted and now

have become a force of law and we believe that after a decade of working towards a way to have net neutrality rules that could hold up in court that this is the strongest set of net neutrality protections we have seen in the three different attempts at the agency to ensure that the internet remains open. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span two. >> this morning, the hill staff writer has the latest on negotiations between house and senate budget conference committee members and previews there monday meeting. then a representative of the justice department talks about national crime victims rights week and the department role in assisting crime victims. later, the government accountability office details their fourth annual report on federal programs duplicated in other branches of the

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