accidentally shot people who they thought may or may not have been suspects we had you know the fort hood shooting this took place on a military base where there's plenty of weapons and that didn't stop so many victims none of those people of fort hood had their weapons with them because they were essentially disarmed by the u.s. military the problem is if you look at three of the four last mass shootings they occurred in gun free zones no you know we think about the victims they were definitely gun free they were bullets filled there was no women are criminals don't follow laws crazy people don't follow laws so the idea that you can put a sign on the wall this is gun free zone what you've done is create security theater you've done absolutely nothing as far as making people safe so the idea that disarming victims and creating pools of people who can't defend themselves is a good idea isn't a good idea what about though the notion i mean that this would change the face of the society that we live in i think we have to think about you know where. what kind of future we want for our childre

station at fort hood i actually volunteered for a deployment which i actually thought i would be going to afghanistan and i found out a day later i would be sent sent to guantanamo but before we ever left fort hood texas we were actually told with detention facility like this had never been ran before if there was no s.l.p. or state operating bases or any policies and the saturday before we left we were actually told the geneva convention would not be held with in effect and no literally we'll be right in the book and as we went in these were the men that were planned nine eleven had something to do with it or were caught fighting the americans on the battlefield in afghanistan so we were told everybody was guilty before we ever we were left united states while you were told that the geneva conventions don't apply. yes we were told that the day before we left. what did you see firsthand over there that really. you know kind of made it apparent what was really going on what was the turning point for you. there's just there's a lot of abuse that took place where there was from the medics

military installation out there on fort hood, texas. we'll continue to update the story.e shooting suspect can still face the death penalty if he is convicted for that shooting. jon: right now a hearing on capitol hill. the battle over gun control front and center today. former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords, who survived that mass shooting two years ago, appeared before the senate judiciary committee along with her husband, former astronaut mark kelly. he told the panel cushing gun violence is a complex problem. but he says that is no excuse for inaction. >> when dangerous people get dangerous guns we are all the more vulnerable. dangerous people with weapons specifically designed to inflict maximum lethality upon others have turned every single corner of our society into places of carnage and gross human loss. jon: our next guest is the committee's ranking republican. he agrees we need some common sense reform but warns of the need to proceed with caution. >> we should not rush to pass legislation that will not reduce mass killings. banning guns based on their app

perhaps it's not a-- maybe it'sic, or the guy who shot up fort hood. >> sean: hassan is fort hood. drudge, i couldn't believe it breaking a short time ago, 19 obama executive orders. what happens if he tries to bypass congress on the second amendment and bypass congress on article 1, section 7 and use the 14th amendment. >> on guns? >> on guns and the debt ceiling. if he, imperial president threads the constitution? >> on guns, he wouldn't do that and-- >> biden said may be as many as 19 executive orders. >> i think i think for guns they try to do it on ammunition and-- >> clips? >> i think we shouldn't, should respond with the next republican president, we won't ban abortions, but ban abortionists and abortion clinics. how would that be? they're not serious about doing anything about shooting in america, dianne feinstein has a concealed carry permit for good reason. >> sean: you saw i played the clip of her. >> we heard her on radio today and i support her, she's in danger and other women's, and women like herself, the fastest group of gun owners are single women. what are women s

pushing pushing pushing look at more columns for the sons and more whether the guy was he shot up fort hood why are they coming in to begin with so you heard that right in the delusional my head of an coulter guns don't kill people people of color kill people over has managed to turn gun violence an issue that affects every one of us culture ethnicity and religion into a racial attack and that it's very clear. is that she's a sandy hook a month ago a number of cities have tried to reduce the number of guns on their streets through gun buyback programs where it works is you bring in a gun in your city gives you some cash or a gift certificate to buy groceries city that destroys the guns which gets them off the streets for example reason gun buyback program in tucson city were congresswoman gabby giffords was shot and six others killed in two thousand and eleven collected more than two hundred firearms but the n.r.a. does not like this. in fact the n.r.a. is threatening to sue the tucson police department if it destroys the guns that were just bought back that's because they say the n.r.a. an

before that it was more common that a lot of people have the missed inception that the soldiers at fort hood were armed they actually weren't most of them or that there was there was a military police force they were i mean really the ubiquitous you know for who's basically like a small town but i've been to military bases all the way back to the sixty's i've never seen people carrying sidearms unless they were in training or they were m.p.'s no no no i didn't but you know i think that you know if you think about if there had been an armed person who was trained and was capable you know maybe a tragedy at sandy hook could have avoided just as an armed pilot could have maybe prevented nine eleven well you know if you want to get to get to nine eleven how about a hardened cockpit door i mean that was something short was proposed by members of congress back in the seventy's after the fourth or fifth hijacking to cuba and the airline industry fought it and you know al al had been doing that since the since the sixty's they're not exclusive but that's but but back to this i i still i can't wrap m

we have kids from fort hood that are here. we have folks who have joined us from her joined based pearl harbor. we have folks from patterson air force base. we have folks from camp pendleton here with us. airwe've got coast guard station clearwater here as well. [applause] in the wonderful kids from naval air station to lead the pledge of allegiance -- who lead the pledge of allegiance. we have some very special guests here as well. your parents. so let's give them a round of applause. they're right there. wave to 'em! they can see you. [applause] inauguration is a pretty big deal. the president and the vice- president are sworn in. there all these inagural balls. we had a wonderful day of service today. and hundreds of thousands of people come from all 50 states to join in the celebration. i loved every single minute of it. but my very favorite part of this entire weekend is being right here with all of you. [applause] because for me, this is what inauguration is all about. it is about celebrating who we are as americans and

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we have kids from fort hood that are here.om her joined based pearl harbor. we have folks from patterson air force base. we have folks from camp pendleton here with us. and we've got coast guard air station clearwater here as well. [applause] in the wonderful kids from naval air station to lead the pledge of allegiance -- who lead the pledge of allegiance. [applause] we have some very special guests here as well. your parents. so let's give them a round of applause. we beamed them in, they're right there. wave to 'em! they can see you. [applause] inauguration is a pretty big deal. the president and the vice- president are sworn in. there all these inagural balls. we had a wonderful day of service today. and hundreds of thousands of people come from all 50 states to join in the celebration. i loved every single minute of it. but my very favorite part of this entire weekend is being right here with all of you. [applause] because for me, this is what inauguration is all about. it is about celebrating who we are as americans and a

we have kids from fort hood that are here. folks who have joined us from joint base in pearl harbor. we have folks from right patterson air force here. we have folks from camp pendleton who are here with us. and we have coast guard clearwater here as well. [cheers and applause] and for the wonderful kids from the new naval air station that led the pledge of allegiance -- [cheers and applause] we have some very special guests that are here as well -- your parents. let's give them a round of applause. [cheers and applause] they are right there. they can see you. inauguration is a big deal. the president and the vice president are sworn in. there are inaugural balls. you get to dress up and everyone dances. we had a wonderful day of service today. hundreds of people come from all 50 states to join in the celebration. i love every single minute of it. my very favorite part of this entire weekend is being right here with all of you. [applause] because for me, this is what inauguration is all about. it is about celebrating who we ar

fort hood took three minutes, virginia tech about nine minutes. people don't understand.ice officer heroes, they don't receive enough tribute, but we have to say that they can't be there on time 95 percent of the time. lou: we certainly appreciate you being here. we appreciate everything you do. i know folks in txasappreciate you have done. studying an example, and it will be interesting to see how the rest of the nation response. >> thanks a lot. lou: and a happy, safe new year to you and all of your charges. up next in the year being the same violence in chicago. the murder capital of this country with one of the, if not the toughest gun laws in that country. well, 15 new year's day shootings after ending one of the bloodiest years on record for the city of chicago. of tomorrow oversight budget mmittee members. pulitzer prize-winning columnist among our guests. we'll be will be with us. stay with us. one republican congressman tells america to stop donating money to his party. the "a-team" is nex@a ♪ lou: house speaker trying to contain bipartisan outrage on capitol hil

. >> there was an armed sheriff at colbin, and fort hood, one of the most guarded bases, 13 were killedee zone. no guns on base unless you were an mp. >> it remains one of the guarded military bases in the world. >> a lot of good that did. >> my point s when you have a mass of well-trained people, and a mass of firearms, can still have massacres, you accept that? >> when you are telling the potential victim, you can't be armed. you have to wait for theical valerie to get here, in the case of newtown, 20 minutes later i find it unconscionable. >> doing the rounds with a book that he has, he said he doesn't want his family anywhere near the assault weapons i am exercised about. >> i spent a lifetime career carrying a weapon. they fire a 556 rounds at 3,000 feet per second when it hits human flesh, it is devastating that is what i want soldiers to carry. i don't want them around the schools, on our streets, i think that if we can't, it is not a complete fix to address assault weapons f we don't get serious when we see children being buried, i can't think of a time when we should. >> why do

virginia tech, tucson, aurora, fort hood, demand a plan. right now. >> as a mom. >> as a dad. as a friend. >> demand a plan. now, i love the movies, but i hate hypocracy, especially hollywood hypocracy, the same people who make billions selling violence as a normal way of life want you to take away our guns. just look at some of the most popular movies now. some nominated for academy awards, and their plan is to take our guns away, the guns of law abiding citizens? but they oppose any effort to curb the violence in their world. the entertainment merchants association that made $35 billion warned against even investigating a link between movie videos and real life violence. quote, make no mistake. blaming movies and video games is an attempt to distract the attention of the public and the media from meaningful action that will keep our children safer. really? they think their first amendment is more important than our second amendment. so much for the blood-soaked entertainment industry. now, mr. president, you lambasted the congress people who get money from the nra. >> ask th

fort hood in texas, joint base, hawaii, coast guard, clariearwa, florida, they have flown here, because a lot of their parents are deployed. this was a way for them to have a fun weekend here in the capitol, rocking and rolling for big stars. the event i'm told is late. first on deck, usher, wolf blitzer, you an usher fan? >> reporter: certainly am. i look forward to usher and katy perry. i know kate is looking forward -- >> not only her name but -- >> reporter: now, do we know the songs they will sing? give us a clue. i'm going to get ready for -- >> well, listen, listen, in talking to these kids i can tell you that the kids would like to hear about the friday night song, firework, a couple of kids sung to me. as far as the songs she will sing, we'll have to wait. the first lady will speak for a couple of words and introduce katy perry. >> firework, i want to hear her sing that, right? >> if not, wolf will sing it. >> reporter: what about usher, he is on deck, do we have a clue aw what he is doing? >> wolf, no, this is tight-lipped stuff, like do we know what is going to happen when th

. >> and the arab at fort hood. those are the recent ones. that's true. that is not my leading point. that is a response to the argument that it's guns that are like crawling out of the drawers and killing people. it's a problem of human beings, and liberals are always citing like homicide rates in europe. there's a lost factors that go into homicides. one of the biggest ones is they're not being armed citizens there. the next big one is mental illness, and again, i blame you for that, geraldo. >> well, you're referring to the fact that i held the institutionalized the care of the developmentally disabled. those are the mentally retarded. i had nothing toot wit to do wie institutionalization of the mentally ill. >> i know you have fun blaming me on a lost things. i was mad at ann when she suggested that the problem is a demographic, a racial problem rather than a problem about guns, and then i checked. in defending stop and frisk here in new york city, the nypd released some alarming statistics that here in new york, 96% of all shooting victims are either

for example virginia, the site of the virginia tech shootings and texas home to fort hood, they are bothsidering guess what loosening restrictions. but still there is room for hope. because in arizona the home of gabby if i giffords and christina taylor green in that state governor jan brewer today said she might be open to gun control measures. jan brewer, she told the arizona republic, i think gun control has been an issue that's been on the top of a lot of people's minds. it will be something that i'm sure will be addressed in the legislature, a and my ears are all open. jan brewer open to gun control. now i've heard everything. maybe, maybe something can happen maybe courageous leaders like bloomberg giffords, mcchrystal maybe they can change the world. with me is john rosenthal from massachusetts. welcome. >> thank you. >> jennifer: house leader nancy pelosi said that congress must act on guns if she and gabby giffords and mayor bloomberg could we actually see a shift? >> maybe. if enough people pick up the phone and call their members of congress, it's possible. but virginia tech w

. >> stephanie: yeah. >> caller: how come so many people died at fort hood at the hands of one shooterat's just dumb. okay. twenty-nine minutes after the hour. charlie pierce next on the "stephanie miller show." ♪ i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. ♪ >> i have something the other actors don't. a secret weapon. my sexuality. >> oh god -- >> announcer: stephanie miller. . >> -- when does that ever work? >> when does it not work? >> stephanie: it is the "stephanie miller show." thirty-four minutes after the hour. yay, it's tuesday! charlie pierce political columnist for esquire.com. ♪ why is everybody always laughing with me ♪ >> stephanie: good morning charlie pierce. >> happy new year! >> stephan

what about the fort hood shooting? has anybody thought about how many guns were there? the man walked in, he was a psychologist, and he walked in and killed our soldiers in fort hood. now, what is the gun ban going to do on that? what is -- what does obama think about that? host: ok. sandra, what do you think the president taking some actions on his own? caller: i'm texan. i don't think anybody ought to take our guns away. host: all right. so, sandra, you think any action by the president will be taking guns away. so "politico" reported yesterday about these 19 executive actions, one of them being -- could include given the centers of disease control and prevention authority to conduct national research on guns. more aggressive enforcement of existing gun laws and pushing for wider sharing of existing gun database. you see that as taking away guns, is that right, sandra? caller: i just don't -- i just do not think he ought to have the power to do that. i think that's just not -- i'm curious to see what other people think about the fort hood shooting. nobody talks about

fort hood was loaded with guns and there was a terrible mass tragedy that occurred there. the bottom lien is we can't lose hope when people are escaped spousing what this gentleman is espousing. this is not the conversation that the overwhelming majority of reasonable americans want to have. we don't think the answer to violence is more violence. we don't think the answer to guns is more guns. they support crema criminal background checks and what you were talking about. when somebody says that they support no restriction whatsoever like background checks that the overwhelming, 92% of americans support criminal background checks. i think we all need to take heart in the fact that he is not speaking for us. not even speak for the members of the nra. >> geraldo: you are really suggesting that if someone for instance if they are on the no fly list because of alleged terrorist background if they have just been released from a mental institution you want them to be able to buy guns those two categories for example? >> they have gun registration in canada. they have had since 19

washington and from all across the country and around the world by video, we have got kids from fort hoodlton here with pena pen dalton. and coast station clearwater here as well. yes. and for the wonderful kids from naval air station siganela who led the pledge of allegiance. yes. we have some very special guests that are here as well, your patients! those are your parents. let's bring them a round of applause. we brought them in. they're right there. wave to them. they can see you. now, inauguration is a really big deal. there's balls. everybody dress up and dances. we had wonderful days of services today. hundreds of thousands of people come from all 50 states to join in the celebration. let me tell you, i love every single money of it. every single minute. but i have to tell you that my very favorite part of this entire weekend is being right here with all of you. absolutely. because for me, this is what inauguration is all about. it's about celebrating who we are as americans and all the things that make this country so great. and when i think about who we are, when i think about who

. >> virginia tech, tucson, aurora, fort hood, newtown, newtown, new than. >> how many more? how many more? how many more colleges. >> how many more classrooms? >> well, gun rights advocates noted that a good amount of the stars in that video had something in common. and reedited that clip to show the hypocrisy. >> newtown. [gunfire] >> newtown. [gunfire] >> how many more? [gunfire] >> how many more? how many more colleges? >> how many more classrooms? >> okay. i can understand people are like that. >> you know, you don't have to say a whole lot. i mean, it's been pretty amazing that many people who believe that if we just somehow took firearms away from people who legally own them and who responsibly care for them and take care of them that somehow we would end the horrible crimes that none of us want. we never want to see them again. but we aren't addressing so many of the other issues that factor in. issues like mental health. people having access to weapons who aren't stable and sane. and then the real reality that while you and i might be able to watch a hollywood movie

and fort hood, 13 were killed -- 39 wounded. >> and it was a gun-free zone, no guns on base unless you were an mp. >> and it was the most heavily guarded place -- >> a lot of good that did. >> my point is, mr. pratt, even when you have a mass of well-trained people and firearms, you can still have mass murders. >> especially if you tell the victim you can't be armed, you have to wait for the calvary to get here, five, ten, minutes, or in the case of newtown, much later. >> do you know how many mass shootings have been in the united states, tby -- by definition, more than four people in the place? >> in the last 20 years -- >> i can tell you the answer, 62. do you know of the 62 mass shootings how many times a civilian has actually taken out the shooter? >> it is probably not that many, because we make it so hard for people to be able to defend themselves. >> do you want -- i mean, hang on, wait a minute, wait a minute. you have in america 300 million guns in circulation. you wouldn't contest that. 99 laws have been passed since 2009 to make it easier for americans to own guns, to carry

at ford hood, it was fort hood familiar it was more weapons than you can imagine. >> extreme gunfire.cenk: it didn't solve any of it. since newtown, 695 shooting deathing. 695. imagine if it happened in one day instead of over the course of three to four weeks if in one day 695 people were shot to death in one event everybody would go crazy but the slow mass kill ins and peel go ok, the n.r.a. says that we can't do it. >> that's about 35 new towns since newtown. >> think about the number of regulations and restrictions we have on something like marijuana which has killed exactly zero people in this country. >> cenk: damn straight. >> and very little regulation when it comes to guns. >> cenk: the n.r.a. has signed up 100,000 people since newtown shooting. they're ecstatic about this. yay, more shooters. then people, according to cns new's, people looking for high power magazines are looking for a million of those so in case they're banned, everybody is ready, because as june stewart put it, imaginary hitler might come. anna you have more. >> i do have more. yesterday, it was reported t

and look at fort hood there were a lot of armed people there.a in his package did put out there that the cops program should be expanded to allow for school resource officers, obviously, but you are not going to populate every school room with armed guards and that's why the issue of regulating smart regulations for guns has to be part of this. by the way the mental health piece is something that i think has some really good solid proposals in terms of there's a mental first aid kit which is to train teachers and counselors to start getting us better attuned to behavior that needs help. and school-based help senator which have clinical social workers, i visited one yesterday, and they have a waiting list in an elementary school for children who have mental health issues which is kind of unbelievable. but the bottom line is those programs work in terms of getting young people young adults adolescence into, you know, good outpatient voluntary care that is going to avoid these horrible situations like the adam landis. >> stephanie: yeah. yeah. repr

language, like i said before, fort hood, benghazi, that's been completely replaced in the language of tolerance through political correctness. smoking, smoking is the last intolerance for people. i get harassed all the time. they see me as a cigarette tree when they are drunk. i don't smoke, but when they are drunk, can i have a cigarette? shut up. [laughter] a lot of this is done through what i call the tyranny of the cool. cool trumps all. we live in a culture where everybody wants to be cool. it's important to be accepted by teenagers. how did this happen? [laughter] fact is, i use a phrase "teenagers" to describe everybody now from 18 to 38 because that's what we have. they are obsessed with media pop culture, people in the academic world are obsessedded with being cool, do anything to be cool. cool says traditional success is bad. it's an attack on their parents. it comes back to something about dad didn't hug me enough. i don't want to be like him, and this -- it becomes a phony rebellion where good and evil are relative. it used to be good was good and evil was evil, but cool m

. >> aurora, fort hood. >> oak creek, newtown. newtown. >> newtown. >> newtown. >> how many more? >> how many more? >> how many more colleges? >> how many more classrooms. >> greta: okay, i can understand why people like that. well, you agree, a bunch o oi. president obama signing the bipartisan fiscal cliff bill in hawaii, after the president resumed a vacation with his family. the legislation boosts taxes on the wealthiest americans and prevents taxes on the middle class from going up and extens expiring unemployment benefits. the house gave its final approval on tuesday night. the children who escaped the shooting rampage at the sandy hook elementary school are going back to class just hours from now. a scallr school -- a school in nearby monroe was opened for them. the new school is being remaim named for theirole one, where on december 14, a gunman shot 20 students and 6 adults before killing himself. now back to greta. i'm lauren green, now back to on the record. >> a radio host is calling for the u.s. to outlaw billionaires