obviously if i was standing next to lee harvey oswald just before he shot, and i had a gun, that woulda nice thing. but the problem is that if you had enough guns to try to take out each miscreant, it would mean that guns would be everywhere in society. and we know that the more guns there are, the more mishaps there will be, the more road rage type killings. and certainly one thing that is very omnipresent in the u.s. is that roughly 400,000 guns are stolen every year. so if a lot more people start carrying guns, they're arming the criminal element. and that of course leads to more crime as well. >> do you think that, the prevalence of guns in the hands of citizens, some meaning to do good, others meaning to do bad and harm, is that affecting this figure? that american police officers shoot and kill at much higher levels than officers in other wealthy nations? >> there's no question that the prevalence of guns makes police much more apprehensive about citizen interactions. and in fact there's very, very strong empirical evidence that the more guns in a state, the more police shootings

have left his dog in the car if he had planned on doing this, but the biggest point is that lee harvey oswaldto be moved. jack ruby is just waking up, and he gets to the western union down the block at 11:17. he has a receipt from there. he happens to walk to the police station that day, and within 30 seconds, oswald is brought out. if that's a guy who was plotting it, boy, he was taking a lot of chances that he was going to miss him even though they were supposed to be there an hour earlier. he also had another opportunity to shoot oswald two days before, and if he was a hired assassin or part of a conspiracy, why wouldn't he have done it the first time he had an opportunity? i'm convinced this was the act of a mentally unstable man who thought he was going to be a hero by shooting lee harvey oswald and instead became a historical enigma i would say. >> you say a lot of the conspiracy theories that follow the assassination were sparked by this trial specifically, and we think about all of those conspiracies linked to the shooting, but how did this trial add to the layers of all of that? >> b