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. going through this 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 arming the population so we can shoot trucks thank you. but i'm just calling goddard a 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 good laws 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 to come and work so that i wanted to go work for 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 and 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 email 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 at you and is 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. one student did have a gun in the classroom you know how they respond to a shooter coming in and now it's time to begin our experiment. has really begins talking about protective headgear i've got a few for you to be back. to the instructor is down a student hit joey struggles to get his got out stuffed 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 a 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 place at the wrong time true 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 including a k forty seven is 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 still feel the streets and you can't live without a gun and herbs. communities calling the police are willing to. 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 that happened but there anomalies. and you see how folks react when that happens you know i think columbine thirteen kids maybe. thirteen kids when we do that 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 who shot and killed her son at a gun range then turned the record weapon on herself when guns are available people

who without 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 and a half here and a half there about started out with fifteen mayors and today we have three hundred fifteen mayors representing over fifty million people mayors against illegal guns when i tell respect gun right 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. it's done here.

i mean this is so little slip. some of that it's just through your students 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 it became very come to work. 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 knows that the equipment would work right 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 obviously that was the simplest part about it. russia

refuses to back the. draft resolution on syria. clearly rule out military intervention. go on damascus. german chancellor arrives in china to secure support from its strategic economic partner in times of crisis and to try and get beijing on board the western policy on iran. so if the international community calls on israel to stop building the. palestinians who live trying to stop what they call terrorism at the hands of israelis.

it is so good if you join us today this is life for a moscow rule received. russia says it will veto the latest u.n. security council resolution on syria unless the draft is changed while moscow admits that progress has been made it's yet to see a text that explicitly rules out military intervention russia is also reluctant to stop selling equipment to damascus saying that would leave syria. to recognize rebel forces with weapons smuggled from abroad artes and us to see a check and reports. russia says it won't accept even a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons and arms are that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence

anything that goes on inside syria and when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations it's following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical if there's a conflict let's not supply arms because we saw what happened in libya in an imperfect world this would have meant the following no weapons were the government the opposition point is could get them from anywhere that's what that would mean especially now our security council colleagues refuse even to admit the prisons of

groups they will not condemn them. being supplied with weapons then we say ok contracts a long standing relations with syria but they will start supplying even more to opposition groups they did in libya the arab and western backed regime change resolution calls for the. syrian president to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place and russia says no thanks we've seen this similar scenario in libya and this particular case moscow says what's important is for talks for syria to exercise its sovereignty for the opposition and the government to sit down together moscow has offered russia as the center stage for these negotiations but it's important to say that russia still. believes that a consensus can be found within the united nations security council it says that broad resolutions that are dangerous should not be put on the table that can split the council and really aggravate any sort of conflict and it continues to call for

the importance of arab observers to our remaining working on the ground. and i thought here chuck and i reported that one of the u.s. as well as its european and arab allies are committed to pushing president assad from power but a political analyst benjamin and bob says forcing regime change is a bad idea that's already plunged other countries and that's. the case of libya the case of yemen and a number of other countries egypt also suggest that you have to be careful what you wish for the west is rather uncritical recent insurgency is a good thing only to find that insurgency often means anarchy fractionalization splintering various groups up against one another and the triumph over time of forces that are no more welcome to the west than the one for the displaced nobody i think did what will happen if assad is overthrown or were killed or steps down and no one really knows what the outcome is likely to be as the west is hoping it will

be less supportive of hezbollah less supportive of iran and less support of abbas and that could be the case no one really knows what it's going to look like so the fact is would you support insurgencies you're basically taking a very difficult bet on uncertainty. you with r t and still ahead for you this hour the candidates versus their critics. when they asked me who is the president of you becky becky becky becky stan stan i'm going to say you know i don't know do you know find out why the comments of u.s. politicians could be costing american credibility on the international stage. plus iran heads back to talks with the u.n. but israel and america still want more military pressure piled on the islamic state and we've got those details just ahead for. german chancellor angela merkel has called on china the biggest buyer of iranian oil to use its

influence to persuade taran to renounce its possible nuclear weapons ambitions merkel is on her fifth visit to china where she's trying to change beijing stance on iran and get it to support a western resolution on syria also on the agenda seeking support for the eurozone to hold talks with chinese leaders to try and win investment in the ailing euro professor simon shannon of the chinese university of hong kong believes that china needs an ally to counter u.s. dominance. i think actually there are a few reasons of virtue to a lot of the shrine to assist in the year old actresses but that's not the only reason you is cooperating with the states to social and. that is the live. shows or the wish to. make use of this of a surety to increase the oil imports from your own so that is to say going to

gender but then the only card of germany is to convince china that she should not work well with iran in exchange of germans support and shown is that there is some . support the only student who didn't notice that there is a sense in china. and so commands of china by the united states really know and doesn't really engines of the united states in asia pacific so action is some balancing acts of. this one of the many important members that show no wish to engage. in some. or always love it when you get involve us here at r.t. if you are just go to our website r.t. dot com you can give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's present for china a couple of us from our website are so far this hour forty three percent think the visit will help germany get access to markets almost a third of his believe beijing will extend a helping hand to

a week in europe now sixteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran just a minority this hour believe that meeting will end up with the chinese support for a u.n. security council resolution on syria to head over to r.t. dot com to cast your vote but for now let's head over to the business desk katie hello. i'm going to be talking about gold which is now advance to the highest level in eight weeks on the sign a commodity is forecast to continue climbing why. join me in twenty minutes time for the business bulletin to find out. why katie see it and find out piecing that relations back together over a split atom the u.n. inspectors say they're on track to solving the deadlock over iran's nuclear program . monitors will head back to the country later this month after wrapping up a three day so what they call positive and constructive talks in tehran but despite

hopeful feedback from the u.n. a group of american lawmakers want washington to bully iran into submission a top military official in u.s. ally israel even says that all possible means that should be used to disrupt the nuclear program investigative journalist robert perry things that john was a thing simply for regime change. there's been almost a consensus not just in the united states in the intelligence community but even in some degree in israel that the iranians have not made the decision to move ahead to build a nuclear weapon obviously there's belief that they are developing expertise that can be used in the future for such a decision if they were to make one so. if iran is sincere about its lack of interest in a nuclear weapon and if the west is willing to show some more flexibility in terms of how they're willing to negotiate on this i think there could be some resolution

a many people in the west do want regime change in iran they would like to see the removal of this islamic republic there's been a lot of propaganda in the last against iran but i do think that there is this there is an opportunity here for. for rand to make to achieve some openings but that may not be enough to satisfy many of its critics who would like to see real change in government. and we have more news on iran at our website dot com including the power of the petrodollar hip hop its most from the echo. sanctions on iran and what payback is likely to follow the expert opinion first hand about calm . also one line fighting racism with digital tools learn how an international hacktivist group has dealt a blow to american and british white supremacists. pop goes the easel the appetite for contemporary art grows as the leading option house has

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with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. this is all to you live from moscow blunders of u.s. politicians have inspired jokes and parodies for decades as the campaign for the two thousand and twelve election heats up candidates mistakes once again in the limelight but some of the critics are not laughing i thought it was more important i reports some believe the comments made sure nothing more than ignorance and disregard for world affairs. every four years america's top job is up for grabs. with each new election comes a new batch of candidates with compromising foreign policy credentials when they ask me who's the president of you beki beki beki beki stan stan i'm going to say

you know i don't know do you know i'm afraid that it's a very hard struggle particularly given the situation on the iraq pakistan border you can actually see why russia from land here in alaska africa was a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos geographically illiterate us candidates have supplied comedians with endless material but all jokes aside some presidential hopefuls vying to lead the world's most powerful armed forces know very little about america's military interventions so you agree with president obama libya or. libya. forming a cohesive sentence on geopolitics can be a struggle i do not agree with the way he did it for reasons. i. know that's that's a different line differentiating between friends and enemies is also a challenge obviously got to stand with our north korean allies in the case of

republican candidate mitt romney mixing up presidents and prime ministers can be common i think that president bush represents a real threat. to the. stability and peace of the world the overarching ignorance on international affairs has caused american political commentator bill maher to conclude i think anybody could be president in this dumb country ok sort of like at this point now where i think if you're gonna be it when you register to be a candidate you also have to go take a test about foreign affairs and if you fail the test we might get you one chance to take it again and then i'm say sorry go run you know for city council in your little town in alaska if a country with the world's highest national g.d.p. is being represented by politicians with a deficit on international affairs the biggest consequence is likely to be

america's credibility around the world and even who we target in let me finish this i just get lost in a blizzard of words there this is where it gets really dangerous for united states of america it's like wait a minute how could they possibly be right about terrorism how could they be right about north korea are going to be right about iran so-called nuclear program when their candidate doesn't even know that there's a north and south korea i think the us is why and so then the world has this very paranoid view of the united states because of the candidates not understanding basic facts or understanding basic principles of international law which unequivocally prohibit torture if i were president. i would be willing to use waterboarding i think it was very and thank. me and i agree the consistent streak of foreign policy blunders made by u.s. presidential hopefuls is quite humorous but it can also be considered a national tragedy if most candidates campaigning to be leader of the so-called

free world simply don't know enough about the world outside of america's borders. are before we get to katie with the business here on r t let's get to the sea world update some other global news in brief egypt's cabinet and parliament have called emergency meetings now after seventy four people were killed and hundreds injured in clashes between rival football fans and the violence happened in the city of port after an upset victory by the home team of egypt's top club. found stormed onto the field as you can see here right as the game ended they were armed with sticks and stones and knives forty seven have been arrested so far in connection with the trouble troops deployed to the city hoping to prevent further class years officials fear the death toll could well rise further. american defense secretary leon panetta.