cross 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 the mass of mass shooting sprees after each new massacre the newspaper headlines were always the side why did it happen here. says my book was published in the year two thousand more than half a million americans have been killed by firearms in the usa 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 there was inger on the trigger that's now at the picture is about he's not trying to harm me. he is trying to protect me. i'm looking out for myself my family. friend neighbors. this is. 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 but i was not succumb to this con that is out there. we were at our church last sunday in our sunday school teacher mike asked the class how many people had a gun permits in i would say over two thirds of the members raised their hands. this is a thirty eight taurus and it five so under obama it's a concealed camera 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 is he would had better lock with that better not i guess the grizzly bear and hardy when i have my baby. clothes that is it will have to go in the state it was just in this neighborhood were i would venture a guess everybody in this layer i doubt anybody does not have a go. is a great severance. 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 their 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 go confiscate it will. 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. 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. to. god. 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.

they have six machine guns in the house ten thousand rounds of ammunition in a closet with a license i have i could get on the 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. two hundred guns is what i sell the a k forty seven s n a r fifteen and i got everybody beat in time with the prices because i buy so many of the news people come in and i always blame the gun you know de 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 were on the wall last night and i walked in this morning and nobody was dead. you know it's stupid you know gun us to kill a people look at the people kill the 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 are so good if you start with your finger time i spoke with mr griffin ok go off it here if you carry that order. for i don't know where you. would like that number to. 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 guys could have been used by anyone they could menus and robbers the message and also homicides there was nineteen years ago those words feel right. 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 probably prefer if we do not have guns in bars.

i got a four tin shack from santa cause last year. right now our best selling rifle is the better wesson it's just you know i'm fighting an issue that people just you know go to the range and go shoot don't. have a phone. is there answer article is a lot of. b.s. thank you ma'am and here are four. oh really seem fair on the animal no. it doesn't. poor b.m. you know. this as well right here the glock semiautomatic pistol is more of the biggest biggest movie guns ever. kids here do they know what they're doing because i saw in

a 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 are for a couple mousers we also have an i.r.c. of tank with. a huge seller there really is strongly accurate weapon for a very long range is being stolen by the section that i almost definitely i will buy my bed for own protection my wife actually has a benelli improve by her bed which is an automatic shotgun. more but what is it having done next hill dead what does that do to your minds that does it does it not make you feel constantly vigilant peden oh 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 so. most of shootings take place in domestic situations a sizable number of. people who kill other people are so-called law abiding citizens the law but of the fatalities by mistake in anger or by accident. several years ago there was a trauma surgeon here in memphis who did a study of murders in two different urban areas. seeing if the presence or absence of guns in a home was a trigger already protection for order then 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. here's what people have been saying about rejected a night with the dish just full on awesome deal the show i go out of my way to punch you know what it is that really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same. apparently better than booth. and see people you never heard of love or death for

the night the president of the world bank take. me seriously send us an email. but whole existence to yourself to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be present in church. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be this is what before three of them can't be good. interested always in the water. for shit. and the culture is good out of the big picture but it's a it's a real business which we need to maintain when he took i would but it's no the fact of the prospects at all the more we go forward with the drawings with the automotive g.p.s. to the one practical side of the machines will have less and less people employed so the fact that we easily get to the c.e.o.

of the business just so we'll see how the rest of the world is getting rid of those bits. with it with the go. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin task hollywood guy the suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v.'s to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different i'm not a abraham lincoln or no no no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the brood have some fun meet every day americans come home and cook for the store to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which.

took. the protest held against the owner a convention took place ten days after columbine. what happened at columbine on april twentieth one thousand nine hundred ninety nine was that to two young men who were intent on killing as many students as they could they opened fire on students outside and then went when 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 then 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 at one point that there was one last school bus bringing

students. back from. it 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 thought 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 that over. or. no i'm able to do it and i know i would do it. protect my rights. why the resistance. it's too slippery of a slope we can't have laws to protect people from their own stupidity. or nine hundred eighty degrees backus guy sees a word sexy when they talk about guns i'm not going to buy their own mantic. they're emotional. no

nor no we're going to go where the. i don't know you. know what. you don't know. you don't know. 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 in for. the second amendment and 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 i cannot run let's look at this never can say anything i think there's somebody shooting in here. mass shootings in america have become almost commonplace but the sandy hook school massacre where six and seven year olds were targeted by gunman reached

a new level of horror and cuts to the rule of of the american gun debate. and. today cause me to want to strengthen and absolutely not i think if one of those teachers the principal who never had had a gun that young man possibly why not count anyone or. do you think it's he chased into the air over the gunman with. a life oh i think a properly trained teacher. and the just the you need to read that they deal with it i think is friggin fantastic that's turned school districts are training their teachers so they can carry a weapon. yeah 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 the paintball gun. it was pretty cool but pretty. scary too the swat team comes in are and they're like ok everybody out you know put your hands up and we're all put our hands were terrified and takes us out. and we had a thought to you yes we did. yes this is a middle school. so if we could do. that possibility of oh 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 an armed guard at columbine.

from my cold dead. you know i think that part of the problem is 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 those surest way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good way that guy. here after these mass shootings gun sales do tend to. just because people start getting freaked out people think that the government is going to take our guns i mean i hate seeing the shootings happen but it is definitely it is good for business.

this is a smith and wesson n p fifteen it is our best selling weapon right now now a pretty tough. here. and. as. a solo weapon seem to control the city. what is that this is a semiautomatic rifle. is it is it not 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 isn't right why are they controversial that. because the media and the left wing politicians one meg bogeyman out as. a tool. all of these 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 say a sporting gun you know you know different names but it's the same thing it's a military style weapon. not a reason to buy an assault rifle is if you're going to make an assault on an enemy position and 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 they are fifteen are so weapons are not that whole discussion is absurd that the s.t. greatest friend a mass shooter could have. been having on 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 you know one table for it's a 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 i 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 they're responsible for that weapon why should you let some kid walk in a gun store buy fifteen guns and be able to give him to fifteen of his friends with no receipt even sold them and everything's 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 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 licensed 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 to do something in the black market dealers it's out there facebook for example you can buy guns although. you know but just prior to the

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 yes so to sort of introduce the law. that shouldn't be made out. without prince philip do you should we shouldn't. you know also that after her not so well 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 to do whatever they will but 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 it for all i don't know that but we're not the problem. it's. going to be. should anything be done.

now. take its course. when the no no no no no no no no no when. she'll be. still observed and miles from. the church for that day with. the counselor.

we will meet and they. were sort of my limit was that they let him get me or the jamie as a hunk was the only. now at the five the last scene but because hell i don't know him for that matter. i see let him make what we have made already in the meadow have one thing closer you got to grab me as. whenever you can pretty much. just get

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