coming up on the newshour: comedian aziz ansari on dating in the digital age. but now to the analysis of shields and brooks. that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. so let's go back to the lead story. david, a string of shootings just in the last few weeks including this one last night in lafayette louisiana. we talked to mark kelly at the top of the program, gabrielle giffords husband. what, is there anything to be done? >> i'm for doing all the front control you can think of, the event control small weapons you might do some good. i'd be a little modest about how much good you do. this has been studied quite lot by the cdc, ama series of studies all the gun control legislation that's hatched in the past and it's hard to find strong effects. there are 250 million guns in this country and as we heard earlier in the program where there's a will there's a way. people find ways to have guns. i'm for it but we've seen 50% reduction in homicide in this country in the generation and a lot of other things are effective in

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