second amendment just like you live the first amendment when we say something like well they should allow licensed trained people with concealed carry permits to carry guns somewhere or other we've just said that they should allow that means that they have the right to disallow it's a right it can't be allowed or disallowed it's a right to who are licensed what how do you get a license for a right trained i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and that what's in front of here is going to die that's all the training you really really need. and show me a five year old that doesn't know that. it was gun control that contributed to the tragedy at virginia tech.

gun free zone is course what we're talking about that has to go we've had it with creeping gun control no more gun control get rid of virginia tech problems by get getting rid of gun free zones don't get rid of more people keeping guns out of the wrong hands that's. what is helpful is of arming the population so we can shoot trucks thanks. but i am a scholar goddard twenty three went to virginia tech in two thousand and three found myself on april sixteenth sitting in class and that's when my life changed. the goal was in this country are we at virginia tech happened as a result the brady campaign has a mission to enact sensible gun laws to help protect americans. brady campaign didn't ask me

a common words that i wanted to go work for like go tell me what exactly is it was that it was that. i did a six month internship with brady so came in to meet with the brady campaign office today will i come back at them full time as a full time advocate on the hill talking to the congressman i've talked to local people doing grassroots the media but i want to get a few and i want to talk to the guys who actually make the law. let's see this e-mail account was created to attach to op eds and written pieces i did. this after i wrote our guns on campus editorial so i get some interesting responses from people this one titled would you prefer to save yourself and others or lay like a rag dog here's another one with all due respect sir if you or no student or teacher would have been carrying a concealed weapon on four sixteen two those seven you would not have been shot. i

love or knows that when you have all the time in the world to think about it as you write it it sounds quite simple but when you're there in a man's pointing a gun and she was about to pull the trigger it's absolutely a different thing. you're the only person in the proof that has a one in twenty twenty if use about it one student did have a gun in the classroom how would they respond to a shooter coming and now it's time to begin our experiment. as you leave begins talking about to take diff headgear i've got a few for you to be back. to the instructor is down a student hit joey struggles to get his gun out but it's stuck in his shirt not a single student was able to effectively return fire on the shooter before being shot themselves or shooting another student in the class and students who said they had many hours of training on the range completely that was the first shot and the second shot was right in the chest and to recap now of how our students did half of

them couldn't get the gun out including the student with the most training those who did get it out couldn't shoot fast enough or accurately enough to save themselves and there was the constant danger they would kill a friend or innocent bystander they were simply in the wrong choice of the wrong time to little brothers ages two when eight outside ploy suddenly someone fired six gun shots redevelopment this morning on thursday shooting of a philadelphia police officer a second suspect was caught by philadelphia police eight guns were found at the original crime scene and would make a forty seven's another assault rifles for the killers of homicide victim number one hundred forty nine in the city of philadelphia this year seems crazy but a philadelphia for you not to have a gun. crazy as. we need water to live and you can't live without water and philadelphia or news over streets you can't live without

a gun at an early. communities calling the police they might come hour later forty five minutes later that's a lot of time for anything that you know to be perfectly honest. i have a gun. and i'm not the type of guy who kill people i never killed anyone and i'm not that type of family but even a family man. and it's crazy. like . philadelphia's reputation is one of the deadliest so you're actually in the deadliest neighborhood. in one of the deadliest cities in one of the deadliest countries. in the civilized world. if you've been shot before. like on two different occasions twice and today and how many of you know somebody who's been shot raise your hand if you know something's been. ok so i'm going to walk you through the experiences of one young man this is lamont adams you know if you

notice more than ten thousand people. this is hard to wrap your mind around the fact that we can live in a city that the cradle of american history and to think this so many of its people can be shot young man squeeze four rounds into his back and drop him this young teenager then stood over the month and shot him ten times more. columbines that happened over the bridge or in virginia tech's it happened but there anomalies. and you see how folks react when that happens you know i think columbine it's thirteen kids maybe. thirteen kids mainly to fit in a weekend here the other side tries to argue that the world is easily divided into criminals and non-criminals rage on the freeway very well it's friday but all of us get angry people get drunk people have road rage people get depressed a family wiped out by one man with no history of violence

a woman shot and killed her son at a gun range then turned the record weapon on herself when guns are available people who have those guns might have been someone who got angry or threw a punch all of a sudden turn into someone who got angry and grabbed a gun police say it was very angry because his boss had yelled at him for not wearing a safety glasses and talking on a cell phone call he can was on the assembly line in the home with a gun is more likely to have gun violence in the home without a gun he was having trouble drilling a hole through the wall so he decided to use his twenty two caliber handgun to make a hole one of the bullets went through the wall and struck his wife in the chest killing her i know a lot more people that have been injured by guns than they have used guns to protect themselves we need to intervene before these people get shot. what could we do about the gun what could we do about how the gun is sold what could we do about laws about guns in the united states.

this group has been around for about a year in a half year and a half they're about started out with fifteen mayors and today we have three hundred fifteen mayors representing over fifty million people mayors against illegal guns wanted to respect gun rights to have reasonable regulations just like we respect first amendment rights but has regulations on the first amendment to protect the safety and welfare of people the federal government has requirements in terms of background checks and who can buy guns those laws are not enforced the way they should be number one and number two there are ways around them for example the gun show loophole that's the most insane thing in the world i'm good at like you look it's no secret in this country how god's going into the hands of criminals. the most common way is probably through straw purchasing the cultural loophole is another very common way. to use here.

let me use this source that. some of the sisters. also don't because they were. used to have this thing out of my parents put in my underwear. after the first trip that gets hot so i became very comfortable were quick. this was his idea from way way back he was still convalescing from the injuries when he came up with the idea and i didn't know how to help him do it. so i was very nervous for us news that the equipment would work right then that he would get what he wanted i wasn't the only thing i wasn't nervous about woods was whether he could find a gun to buy because hope you see that was the simplest part about it. looking

to break the syrian stalemate the u.n. resolution stops short of calling for outside intervention but does one president assad to go russia insist there should be no foreign interference. the u.k.'s high court considers the fate of wiki leaks founder julian assange who's wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault case facing accusations of political motives. and israel's ad campaign insults jews and placed in the u.s. already feeling alienated by their spiritual home. a

very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow rule received shy russia is standing the u.n. security council on its opposition to any military intervention in syria differences remain among members of a how to deal with the ongoing conflict washington the e.u. and some arab states want president assad to step down but moscow says the u.n. shouldn't be used as a platform to interfere in syria's affairs. has details now from new york. the united states france britain could talk are. all those countries supporting this draft resolution said that there would be no military intervention imposed in syria if the draft resolution was adopted but the most important thing to note is

that those spearheading the push for this draft resolution are also calling for a ceasefire in in syria and also calling for a national dialogue between the government and opposition groups these steps these calls are calls that have been made by russia for the past few months russia has indicated on tuesday that it will veto a draft resolution on syria in which the tax calls for imposes any regime change and leaves a rhetorical door open for military intervention similar to what the world saw transpire in libya this unity council cannot prescribe a radio disappears for the outcome of domestic political purposes it's not in the charter we don't want the security council to call him to fall into the habit because once you start as difficult to stop then you will start telling what needs

to do you know what prime minister needs to step down this is really not the business of the security council moscow has proposed its own draft resolution on syria which calls for both parties participating in the violence to come to the negotiating negotiating table and take part in a dialogue this is an invitation that russia recently made to representatives of the syrian government and opposition groups earlier this week to try to get them to come to moscow and participate in talks. russia has taken a positive position the draft resolution must cooper demands an immediate end to the violence and other positive points. is the call for the government and the opposition to sit down for talks we all want a political solution to the crisis in syria in the coming days the security council will be working to try to come to a consensus on the text of

a resolution on syria but if the tax remains as it's been presented calling for president bashar al assad to step down and leaving the door open for military intervention this is something that russia firmly will be opposed to. it is more important reporting right there we can talk more on this now with job director for the center of middle eastern studies now joining us live from beirut thank you for coming on all too today so finding a solution to the crisis in syria seems to have left the u.n. in a state of deadlock how far is the u.n. from coming up with a plan of action and what might it be. i think. the. security council will not arrive to have any. any decision or resolution against syria like. some other countries the position of russia russia then china was very clear and logical and they're calling

for dialogue because they do believe. and it's sanctions or military intervention in syria is out of question and also any sanctions against syria will increase the problem. state of resolve the problem and i shall call for the. and also russia. proportions to horse you know both sides the government and the opposition. to dialogue based on the. situation. and democracy and i think within the next two months or three months if the proposition of russia will not succeed and not have dialogue in order to hug a peaceful solution for the rise in syria i think syria will be in very difficult

situation no one will win and maybe syria will go into a civil war that's what we do believe eleven or who are watching the situation you know day after day and i think the government when they are as they call the army to withdraw to the barracks you know this is half of the reality on the other hand who can guarantee that the and surgeon who are working you know and i guess. and for a structure again governmental institutions and they haven't taken terrorist action who can guarantee that goose. oh we'll be right. why would you stay away order will deliver their weapons. and if i may just just interrupt you for a moment i do apologize for interrupting you but you raise a valid point that russia has made the proposal to be a mediator for both sides the opposition and the assad government to try and come

to the table for talks you're saying in lebannon though they for see civil war escalating in the next few months if i may just for a moment moscow does say that western states have fallen into the habit of using the un as a tool for regime change is that a fair accusation do you think. yeah talking about the regime you know at the beginning they didn't want the regime to change syria everybody knows that they made the pressure of they took adventure and. they took the you know you know tension from advantage from what happened in the arab world they put this pressure on syria syria everybody knows euro two thousand and five after that the signature of syria left and was within three years under the pressure and some kind of sanction why sarkozy came to syria in two thousand and eight why obama sent this ambassador because syria has several card strong cards they want syria to

play with that account of iraq and lebanon and then palestinian and hamas and the fourth one was the relation with iran syria did not play with those that not offer anything since two thousand and eight until two thousand and seven there the western blot america and the western countries they took advantage from what happened in the arab world and they made that pressure on syria and they did finance and encouraged what so called revolution that syria so far and now i think it's very critical and it's not clear to see if they want assad to go or not but it's difficult it's really difficult to change the regime we know syria the spiritual in syria if they want a civil war in syria and then in iraq and jordan you know wooden very very.

very old you know i think they have to go and to make pressure for the military pressure or economic pressure against syria and let me say something the sanctions will not help at all to solve the problem even the economy sanctions because they need. they need companies to syria starting from never known to georgia and to iraq they do you know very important. interest economy can test to see the addict can not apply and accept even to keep any clue when the start of the. sanctions against syria they discovered that goes on just became against turkey because they gave between turkey and syria is the only. one i know you say their accent is regional implications here certainly regional implications when it comes to the a qana mees with sanctions or certainly with the west looking

to get involved as you say i wish we had more time for this i'm afraid we don't talk to his army job or a director for the center for middle eastern studies live in beirut thank you for joining us on r.t. today thank you so. this is r.t. now the world's top whistleblower is taking his long legal battle to stay in the u.k. to the country's supreme court julian assange is wanted in sweden on allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten occasions that he denies the wiki leaks founder insists the case is politically motivated and in response to his website publishing top secret u.s. cables on the wars in afghanistan and iraq parties laura smith now reports from the high court in london. the building that you see behind me the supremes court could literally be last chance saloon full julian our sons at least in this country this is a two day hearing which began this morning is expected to carry on until the end of thursday in which he will present his case to the supreme court to try and have

that request to his extracts tradition rescind days if he does fail here he can then take his case the european court of human rights in strasbourg but that is not a given this legal wranglings been going on for more than a year now i asked those arrived this morning looking fairly relaxed it has to be stats that he stopped on his way into court to shake hands with a couple of his supporters who were here some had been here apparently since five o'clock this morning actually showing their support for a thousand that he headed into court but without saying anything to the assembled media which he's taken to doing in the last month it is presenting his case in front of seven judges and they will be looking at a key question which is whether the european arrest warrant that was issued for him by the swedish prosecutor is valid can the swedish prosecutor in fact issue a european arrest warrant and this could in fact call into question the entire system of european arrest warrants it under which of course we know that people

could be extradited within europe having little or no evidence presented against them now of course this case is all relating to sexual assault charges that took place in august two thousand and ten while a soldier was in store and we are not expecting the outcome of this case to be announced in the next couple of days supreme court has said that it could take them some weeks to come to a judgment that would mean anything pertaining to chew and then ten weeks as far as we know but we also know that one of the things that's all she's been truly worried about through this entire proceeding is that once in sweden he could be extradited straight from that to america and my to my colleague told boston has been to stop to look at the relationship between sweden. and the united states is the face that launched a thousand leaks julian a sunday's exposure of tens of thousands of secret documents has embarrassed governments the world over but the wiki leaks phenomenon is no longer his most

pressing concern suis all thora teams want to question a songe over allegations of sexual assault dating back to august two thousand and ten prosecutors have been criticized by a son just supporters and international civil libertarians with allegations of a cumbersome contradictory and slow legal process huge arguments have also broken out over the nature of some of sweden's laws on sexual offenses such as those are some traces it's going to be a closed course and leading up to the trial is going to be held. well the chief prosecutor asked for him to be held in solitary confinement it's just. so there are so many bizarre aspects to the why in which the amount of matter is being conducted up till now. from our perspective i just can't see how he would get a fair trial others have gone beyond legal arguments saying that the storm raised by our sons through wiki leaks has made him

a target for political interference across the atlantic u.s. author a tease enraged at having their secret documents exposed may seek to have a son extradited there to stand trial but surely sweden's famed neutrality would stop such a thing but i would disagree as to whether so it in this country sit in a very clear cut. proximity and collaboration even in military operations with such campaigns initiated by nato you have print. so its presence in that is that you have a clear cut. brought nato policy on it back to sweden and that is not to try to do with some u.s. politicians branding a son a cyber terrorist and calling for the death penalty it could get

a lot worse for the wiki leaks founder the problem is not that we have too much wiki leaks too little. people agree with. who is a national. polls indicate that very large majorities applaud and support the efforts we could leaks to why do worry is that with or without julian assange and governments around the world with something to hide will now launch full scale assaults on internet freedom in order to keep their secrets secret but for now the focus is on the man not his website killing our son just connections with sweden have raised many questions about what really happened in august two thousand and ten but now with the sun just future as uncertain as ever questions are being leveled at sweden's legal system and its relationship with the united states which could prove crucial to the fate of the world's most notorious

whistleblower tom watson r.t. stockholm sweden. now a quarter past the hour here in moscow coming your way in just a few minutes here on r.t. israel employs a controversial figure to look america in beijing jews back to the motherland but critics say you need to fix the problems that drove them away as. china has it been taken over by gold fever it's believed beijing already the world's fifth largest holder of gold snapped up around five hundred tonnes of the precious metal in two thousand and eleven that is double what it bought in two thousand and ten and now it could be in the market for just a bit more investment manager francis lui believes beijing is wise to step away from the weakening dollar. china has the largest foreign exchange holding of any country in the world about one trillion u.s. dollars most of their u.s. dollar for several years now the chinese economy is one thing the government to

diversify is holding foreign exchange china's economy is. that of the u.s. and china has about nine percent economic growth why the u.s. has about one point nine percent so is good to diversify some with the foreign exchange holdings into something not a u.s. dollar based like gold but of course together with. china would need to have a say in the global financial situation right now. by europeans and the world. and china has to say in global financial matters and i think that you will have to change expression the u.s. and europe in such dire financial straits if you.