they have had a culture around one's ability and flexibility in adam lanza so i think this was extensionat. this don't spend to fathers as well, that they want to give their employees an opportunity for the right of their family and you are starting their family. it is a very positive meshes overall being played in that. mark: any thoughts on why europe is so far ahead of us on this issue? >> and begin the u.s. we have been hardwired to think about vacation everything off as things that are crude or for some time. as hard to envision as it is europeans are starting to switch and catch up. thank you for your time. mark: still ahead, why is rock legend neil young selling this slice of your and eyes -- of paradise? the details after the break. ♪ mark: welcome back to the bloomberg market day. let's get a check of the markets. where following wall street action. we were talking about what is going on the dow industrials. white the plunge on this friday. >> let's take a look at the numbers right now. the dow, nasdaq, and s&p are all in the red. the nasdaq is the biggest w loser. the dow was o

adam lanza's mom had this in her collection too and took this and self other guns and killed her andnocent children. >> text saying 60% of americans think owning a gun will make them safer, in fact, it increases risk of homicide and suicide and unintentional death but john lot says that is a lie. it is hard to believe that's a lie. it is just logical that if you have a gun in the home that all three of those things homicide, suicide, accidental death is more likely to happen because the gun is there. >> all right, well surely guns can be used for bad things, and they are but the presence of a gun in the home saves a lot more lives than it cost. you know, just a simple -- number to look at. every place in the world that has tried to ban guns when they ban guns they've seen big increases in murder rates. at least one time someplace where they ban murder rates would go down but that hasn't been the case. >> okay more guns, less crime because people can defend themselves, how about suicide and accident? >> we finding people commit suicide in other ways if they don't have guns present. >>

. >> what if when adam lanza started shooting his way into sandy hook elementary, last friday he wouldconfronted by qualified security? >> in congress the push for new restrictions collapsed. in the wake of wednesday's graphic on air murders of a young tv reporter and cameraman mr. obama says his heart breaks after every such shooting. >> what we know is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarves any deaths that happen through terrorism. >> the president wants what he calls common sense reform. but public opinion appears to be turning against more gun control. according to pew research for much of the last two decades most americans thought it was more important to control gun ownership than to protect gun owners rights, but in a pom last decembea polllast december thatn flipped. 52 to 46%. not everyone is pie buying it. colin goddard is a survivor of a gun attack. despite the edit feats in washington he said the tide is turning at the state and local level. >> we've seen a lot of activity in the past few years, promoting good gun policy an

. >> what if, when adam lanza started shooting his way into sandy hook elementary school last friday, he'd been confronted by qualified armed security? >> his comments are aimed directly at the gun owners of america to rile them up, to get them behind the nra's no-holds- barred, never-say-die, you know, no-compromise position. >> our children... we as a society leave them every day utterly defenseless, and the monsters a the predators of the world know it and exploit it. >> narrator: in waington, they said the speech was a political disaster. >> nra, stop killing our children! >> narrator: in new york city, lapierre was called "the craziest man on earth" and a "gun nut." but those who know lapierre say the speech was no miscalculation. >> this was not off the cuff. he didn't lose it. this was very thought out. and they decided on a strategy and they executed the strategy. >> because the people that it resonated with gave more money, and this is what you need to do in order to keep that... that tough persona. >> and we've got to send the signal that this is not the time to compromise,

she was mass killer's adam lanza's mother. 26 people including 20 school children were doned down in that assault back in 2012. >>> 5:38. happening now -- beachgoers are being warned of a high risk of rip currents in new york city and long island beaches today. it comes as three people were recovering, they had to be rescued last night. two swimmers, a mother and young girl, that-h had to be rescued around 6:30 last knew. they got caught up in a rip current. the young girl was unconscious at the time. >> the girl was unconscious. the guy ran in to get her, brought her up to me. and brought her up to the beach ems was here. >> over the weekend, two dozen swimmers had to be rescued from the waters off of long beach, and rockaways. 23-year-old keslon carlos is a victim of the rip current. >>> and two teenagers are now recovering in the hospital. >> the kids hit the boat, they were tubing and now they're unconscious. >> authorities say the 13-year-old girls slammed into the side of a design-foot yacht while tubing at a fairfield beach. we learned that one the girls broke her pelvis. poli