what can be done to curb gun violence in the country to do that i'm joined by jim stokoe yank and kevin powell author of the new book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs an essay so jim i'm going to start with you i know that you're going to say that gun control is not the answer but i want to show you a chart before i get your answer i mean this this chart that we're showing right here is a list of just a few of the shooting massacres that we've seen in twenty twelve alone so if gun control isn't the answer what is well what's really and truly on the chart is this shooting back the mass shooting the last twenty years virtually all of the big one at the democratic national convention which might as well be gun free zone have occurred and what we call target rich environment to go where the victims of mass shootings were able to defend the. idea that the common denominator in all the.

done to curb gun violence in the country to do that i was joined earlier by jim soko we act and kevin powell kevin is the author of the new book barack obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs and essays i started off by asking jim who is pro-gun what a solution to curb gun violence is if not gun control here's his response. they shooting back the mass shooting twenty years virtually all. of the democratic national convention which might as well be. called target rich environment. victims of mass shootings able to. the common denominator in all the. latest video. talking about the numerous. the be pointed out two hundred. of. him i want to go ahead and stop you right there i can't help but to bring up two instances where that theory just doesn't hold water first is for hood where major nidal hassan killed three people and hold on the me finish and i mean that was on a military base kill those people that had weapons to defend themselves in the second instance i want to bring up well i finished second and says i want to bring up is that during the chaos of the tucson arizona shootin

questions to ask you but unfortunately we are just out of time thank you so much for your time kevin powell activist and author of the book but rock obama ronald reagan and the ghost of dr king blogs and essays and gents a color yakka constitutionalist and freedom advocate who apparently has less to say and i he supports doesn't support gun free zones and on my web site freedom fighter radio. all right still ahead on our team can the u.s. lock you up with any with out any due process the battle over indefinite detention is playing out in the u.s. congress will have an update on the issue in just a moment. welcome back it's one step forward two steps back for civil civil liberties advocates in the u.s. today last month the senate approved an amendment that would bar the military from detaining american citizens suspected of terrorism indefinitely without a trial the move was regarded as a huge surprise as well as a confidence booster for groups who have been working for years to end indefinite detention but just yesterday lawmakers in both the house and the senate dropped the ban also known

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