no right to build comply more good or. bad image was quite controversial something to soar as irresponsible something to sort of dangerous threatening whereas other people including use or as a symbol of something very different was it. powerful. protecting. us more for you know. the people who criticize you what the base. a right wing lunatic. eighteen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with the gun i witnessed the grim results of these weapons in hospital

emergency rooms morgues in the confused of to mass of mass shooting spree. after each new massacre the newspaper headlines were always the side why did it happen here. since my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the us. five hundred twenty seven thousand people dead and many more injured i decided to return to the subject to track down each gun owner who i'd met and photographed those years ago to understand why despite this death toll there is such fierce resistance to even moderate gun control laws in the us. is thing there was a man on the trigger that's now at the picture is about he's not trying to harm

me. he's trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family. my neighbors. and. relaxing. the thought that some people would want to take our guns away to me is so ludicrous

because the bad guys thugs the murderers the ripest are always going to have guns and are you would be doing would be to take them away from the good guys from the law abiding citizens people in this country huddle in their houses and throw their dead belts but i was not succumb to this gown that is out there. we were at our church last sunday and our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had gun permits in i would say over two thirds of the members raised their hands. this is a thirty eight taurus and it. it's a concealed hammer and it is concealed so that way it doesn't get tangled or stuck on anything when you try to pull it out of your pocket or your purse if a bad guy tried to. it to my to my family member as he would have

a better lock with that better not i guess the grizzly bear and harding would have my baby. clothes so this is going to stay that it was just in this neighborhood were i would venture a guess everybody in this very odd out of anybody does not have a go. this is a great sarah's company it's the lead oh absolutely i can promise you that's the reason they're not coming in stay away from me and they were my home and we will have their problems. well this is one of my favorite things to do. myself. with a bible in one hand and a gun in the other we can make this country one nation under god once again in the name of the founding fathers of this great country don't you ever acquiesce don't

ever turn your weapons of war in safety don't ever turn those over to your government it is the great equalizer if two people have a gun they're equal or whoever has the gun they are supreme. every time they pass another gun control law they promise a safety do you know who did the same thing adolf hitler now there's already three hundred fifty million guns in america what are you going to do you can go to congress capable. you're going to make it more difficult for the criminals to get them they already have them they can get them faster than you can the problem with crime in america is recidivism the repeat offender if you want to go after criminals who misuse guns the first time you arrest him give them go after him keep them second make sure that the law abiding citizen is ready

capable and prepared to shoot back. you know my motto comes right from the movie cinderella last year is my favorite movie really the motto is in a really was have courage and be kind. i want my daughters armed i want my wife armed i want my sons armed and i want them to be able to defend their families we never hurt anybody we don't want to. but it's the same time we're not going to just make ourselves an easy target for those who would. rape robin plunder no no way.

i have six machine guns in the house ten thousand rounds of ammunition in a closet with a license i have i could get on a phone today and get a i could order one hundred machine guns and here in two weeks if i could get anything you know i have a tank you know it is no and you know to two hundred guns is what i sell the a k forty seven fifteen and i got everybody beat in time with the prices because i buy so many of the news people come in and they always blame the gun you know day asked me you know what happened why do you sell guns to kill people. well you know it's so when i tell him i said all these guns are on the wall last night and i walked in this morning and nobody was dead. you know it's stupid you know gun nuts or kill it people look at the people killed were people and they just used a gun to kill people you know use a fork and knife a hammer a screwdriver you know why keep blaming it on the gun or ok just give me just give me forty dollars i want. to just see if you know so good if you're starting your

finger tell myself. yes go off it here's your theory that it's better. for you i don't know where you. are. it's my birthday and i got a gun for my birthday so i'm going to shoot it for the first time are today.

we've seen just about everything m. sixteen assault rifles a ar fifteen some models hunting rifles with homemade silencers these guns could have been used by anyone they could have been use and robbers the message's and also homicides yeah those nineteen years ago those words deal right true since the laws in the state of tennessee of chinese substantially you're allowed to carry guns in parks. guns in bars you know guns in your car so from a police chief's perspective i would definitely say that perla prefer if we do not have guns in bars. i got a for a tin shack gun from santa cause last year. right

now our best selling rifle is the better wesson it's just you know finding an issue that people just you know go to the range and go shoot don't have phone. is there on zero is zero zero zero zero zero zero. b.s. and cameron tariff all. oh really seen federal the honorable know. it doesn't know where beam me you know. this vessel right here the glock semiautomatic pistol is more of the biggest biggest movie guns ever. hear. they know what they're doing because i saw in the movie. there are dangers we have to go out there and stop them and i actually hate

them on how to handle a firearm immediately ok one of our most popular self-defense rounds here it is one hundred twenty four grain. jacket whole point is. rapidly hitting organic material such as or for a couple of metals years we also have an i.r.c. of tank with. huge seller here really is strongly accurate where a very long room does not mean someone tension in the way oh most definitely i want by my bed for home protection my wife actually has a benelli improve my or her bed which in some automatic shotgun. was humming the next hill dead what does that do to your minds that does it does it not make you feel constantly vigilant peden no i mean definitely prepared all the way but i also have a family that i love and care about very much so if you do watch the news you see

it all the time home invasion here home invasion there highway shooting i mean it's pretty much it can be like the wild west out here. most shootings take place in domestic situations a sizable number of people who kill other people are so-called law abiding citizens the law abiding citizen produces a lot of the fatalities but a mistake in a her arm by accident. several years ago there was a trauma surgeon here in memphis who did a study of murders in two different urban areas. saying yes the presence or absence of guns in a home was a trigger or a protection for order and his conclusion was that the presence of the gun was more

likely to cause a murder or death by gun than the absence of a gun in a home. it . was a. little

walk still a new one the idea that dropping bombs brings to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles. that you saw spreading tell you that every gossip and public let . me tell you. that we all will walk. well nobody got off the yes no muscle in the. islamic state claims it was behind the month just a terror attack by the day the north fraud so kill the priest every time a terrorist attack happens all these people are out there screaming i says so bad someone needs to do something against their eye for me was like yeah why you know ruben studdard there. that.

you. know all the answers all. the answers are probably the highlight of the day for. each outlet little better title for. channel surfing hope you sound the coldest out of the underground this gun with the with the who plays the game isn't. the protests held against the enter a convention to place ten days after columbine. if you would what happened at columbine on april twentieth one thousand nine hundred ninety nine was that two two young men who were intent on killing as many students as they could they opened fire on students outside and then went when confronted with

a police presence they went inside the school. began shooting there went into the library that's where they they killed and injured the most students and that's that's where my son was it went worse as the day went on. no word from him being asked by the police if we could provide a description of him and what he was wearing at one point asking for dental records. and being told one point that there was one last school bus bringing students back from columbine. when you're waiting for forty five minutes for a bus that should have only taken a couple of minutes i then began to realize that there was no last school bus.

how old was daniel when he died fifteen. or. seventeen years ago when we last met i think it ended in tears for me because i realized again what i what i would do if they came to take my gun that would be the end of it for. this country for sure and i'm not willing to hand their over. no i'm able to do it and i know i would do it. protect my rights.

the rights of my friends the rights of my loved ones the rights of this country. but you mean all struggle. for i don't think so. are we or i wouldn't let it go easily and probably not while i'm living. i feel like there are a lot of gun owners out there who don't take the responsibility of owning guns carrying guns storing guns i don't think they take it seriously enough why the resistance to regulation. because it leads to more regulation. that's too slippery of a slope we can have laws to protect people from their own stupidity. one hundred eighty degrees baucus guys he's

a word sexy when they talk about guns i'm not going to but they're all mantic. they're emotional. you know when you know when. you know when you don't know you. know when. you don't know. you don't know you in. a well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state comma the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. the second amendment in every state constitution guarantees my right to keep and bear arms why for my personal safety and to preserve liberty that's why. it's called america. it's got

a lot wrong with swordfish american sex symbol i think there's somebody shooting in here. in america have become almost commonplace but the sandy hook school massacre was six and seven year olds were targeted by gunman reached a new level of horror and cops the rules of the american gun debate. today cause me to want to strengthen gun absolutely not i think if one of those teachers the principal had ever had had a gun that young man possibly would not have killed anyone or. do you think it's he. it's all right i think a properly trained teacher. can and. just do you need to deal with i think is friggin fantastic school districts are trying their teachers so they can

carry a weapon. and school. we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was interesting to see how fast we get on the buses how fast we do this who actually got hit by a paint ball gun. straight cool but pretty. scary to the swat team comes in our room and they're like ok everybody out you know put your hands up and we're all put our hands we're terrified and takes us out. yet a small town where he had his thought to him yes i did. yes this is a middle school. so if you could do. that possibility of our yeah we could be prepared. what do every single mass shooting have in common gun free zone. i mean there was i think

it was a color blind. from my cold dead. you know i think that part of the problem is that the that the gun lobby has been very successful in getting their message out much more so than those who want to see reasonable gun laws they control the narrative that you're either for the second amendment or against it you're either for freedom or against freedom there's surest way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good way that guy. is. here after these mass shootings gun sales do tend to go up just because people start getting freaked out people think that the government is gonna take our guns i mean

i hate seeing the shootings happen but it is definitely as good for business. this is a smith and wesson m m p fifteen it is our best selling weapon right now and it pretty tough. here. and. as. a sole weapon seem to control the city. what is the this is a semiautomatic rifle. is it is in all an assault weapon no one else. semiautomatic one pull the trigger one shot and that is what differentiates is it in your eyes the fight the ones fully automatic and the other is and right while they told survivor so that. because the media and the left wing politicians one meg

bogeyman out as. a tool. bullies assault rifle i mean this is by even about what it is i know i know and i should even call them an assault rifle we're going to it's a military style weapon that's what they want me to cite a sporting gun you know you know different names but it's the same thing it's a military style weapon. now the reason to buy an assault rifle is if you're going to make an assault on an enemy position then you need a lot of bullets because you've got a lot of people in the position you're attacking the assault rifle was mere barn solves it seems to me you don't need an assault rifle to kill a deer this this ongoing debates that some people have about whether. things like the a k forty seven and the a r fifteen are so weapons are not that whole discussion is absurd that the s.t.

greatest friend of a mass shooter could have. been heading out one. day on a. right up. to two killers. went out in search of guns they were under eighteen they got an eighteen year old to go to the gun show to a gun show with them to make the purchase they purposely sought out a private seller that's the so-called gun show loophole where you can go to a gun show and a one table for the licensed dealer you have to go through a background check table of a private seller no background check. this guns that i sold and everybody sells every gun dealer that a found all around the united states in crimes they should have you know mandatory registration nationwide everybody owns

a gun it should be registered and i am and are responsible for that weapon why should you let some kid walk into a gun store buy fifteen guns and be able to give them to fifteen of his friends with no receipt even sold them and everything is legal that means guns could be shipped in from the east coast in the west coast and sold in a newspaper to it to anybody that kick the can pass a background check that's how the criminals get guns. about forty percent. of all gun sales are private sales they don't go through a background check and these are not going through a license dealer imagine going to an airport and have to go through security and they said ok we're in have sixty percent of the people go through security and forty percent can bypass it when you get onto that airplane. i think.

i can take you right now thirty three miles from here and buy you anything you want on the side of the road in the black market dealers it's out there facebook for example you can buy guns. you know but just try it with a product and that is still legal in tennessee you can as of now you can still be product sales in tennessee but without them without a background check you can't so you can so that any one of us so to sort of introduce the law is. that shouldn't be. without. you know a little. after her not. maybe there needs to be some things done to people where they're back to working again and not being given money by the government to run around and do whatever they will do there's a lot of things we could there dressed maybe that's not the only problem could be some mental health issues could be drugs cause of these problem i don't know that

but we are not the problem. going to be. should anything be done. now. the national solution take it's course. young loon they. were no no. no no. they're bred for a single purpose. they have

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round be the one. time we can all middle of the room sick. leave room for the real news room. in the stories that shape the week britain's terror attack this year sees thirty people injured in a bomb blast on the london underground a second mom is not on the. young young fires a ballistic missile over japan after the international community its north korea with further sanctions. also ahead this hour to use our russian submarine strike allies old targets around the syrian city of terrorism war peace talks between the country's government position result in a breakthrough agreement.