in fact, semiautomatic guns. they have protected themselves and their loved ones. we look at it as guns save lives. >> tom ridge, you are hearing this. guns save lives. >> first of all i'm wondering if there are veterans in the audience, men if women who were in the army or the marines, who have combat experience or training with assault weapons. i'd be curious to know whether or not they think that their neighbor who has not had the training, should be able to access military assault weapon with a high capacity clip, 20, 30, 40 rounds and i'd be curious if anybody in your audience has a response to than having been in the military whether they think it's a matter of public policy, a good idea and that we should go forward with continuing to permit the sale of those items. >> i can jump in. my brother was in the british military. he's used these weapons. he said what a surgeon told me who is a friend of mine who's operated on tens of thousands of people who have been injured in the gang wars in the south of los angeles. make no mistake about what these guns do. i'm

>> it's a semiautomatic gun that looks like a military weapon. if you want to ban all semiautomatic guns, fine, let's talk about that. >> what's the purpose of an ar-15? >> it's like a hunting rifle that is cosmetically on the outside looks like a military weapon. >> how many bullets can it fire a second? how many bullets can it fire a second? answer my question. >> i'm going to answer your first question. >> you will not downgrade what these weapons do. how many -- answer the simple question. >> the point of the semiautomatic -- >> how many bullets does it fire in a second? used in the last three mass shootings. answer the question. are you going to answer or not? >> i'll answer your first question, and then i'll answer your second question. the reason you have a semiautomatic weapon is because, take the alternative. if i were to have a bolt-action rifle where i have to manually load it, and i have two criminals coming at me. i can fire one bullet and then it's going to take me a second to load it again. what happens if i fire and it misses? >>

. >> it is a semiautomatic gun that looks like a military weapon. guns owned by americans are semiautomatic. >> it is like a hunting rifle that on the outside looks like a military weapon. but look. >> how many bullets can et fire in a second. >> i'm answering your first question. >> no wait. you will not downgrade what these weapons do. >> you wouldn't let me finish before. >> how many bullets does it fire a second? >> the point -- sir, you have to let me finish. >> do you want to anner? >> i'm going to answer your first question and then i'll answer the second question. the reason why you have a semiautomatic weapon. if i have to manually load it. i have two criminals coming at me. i have to load the first bullet and then i have to load the second. what happens if i fire a shot and i miss? >> how many bullets does it fire in a second. >> the place can't be there all the time. the police can't be there all the time. >> are you going to answer my question. >> you how many bullets can it fire in a second. >> i think your estimate is high. >> it can f

dick's sporting good is suspending the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic guns across the country. agroup is looking to sell their stake in the company that makes the bushmaster saults rifle used in that attack. >> some are taking a different approach. . >> less people are hurt doing that than just having them every day. >> texas governor, rick perry says concealed handgun carry permit holders should be able to bring handguns into any public place including schools here we are one week from christmas and no parent thought they'd be attending a funeral for their child. tj is in newtown today. >> it was a somber day for many parents in newtown, connecticut who sent their kids back to school for the first time since the shooting. sandy hookelementary remains closed and a second elementary school was kept closed for precautionary reasons. >> i know a lot of people are nervous. >> i think getting back to review toon is the -- routine is the best thing. >> at st. rose of lima church, back to back funerals. severalminutes after one casket was placed inside a hears, another casket was car

this is a semiautomatic gun. we've got photographs of the type of weapon it is. we understand from our sources that these guns were all registered belonged to his mother, his mother who was also killed. now, the mother's body was found in the house where a family home here in this area. we don't know much more about -- about adam lanza. we do know that his brother ryan who was a bit older, 24 years old, he was taken in to custody for questioning. he is not being called a suspect, but he was in hoboken, new jersey, when they brought him in for questioning. that's where he lives to try to find out what if anything he knew about this. what he could tell them about his brother. what information they -- he can give about his background. and police also questioned their father. he still lives in this area. he is divorced from his wife who was one of the victims here, and he has remarried. so he too is being questioned by police to try to shed some light on adam lanza and why this tragedy happened. >> thanks for that. a lot of questions are forming around the shooter's m

sparking a debate about whether semiautomatic guns should be banned. the n.r.a. recommended armed guards be placed in all schools. president obama has announced a task force to look into gun control in the u.s. several congress people are planning bills for the new year. the latest deadly shooting in webster involving first responders trying do their jobs just before christmas will likely prolong the gun debate further. >> this is a shock that something like to would happen. for some reason, violence is rearing its ugly head in this community and everywhere. >> al jazeera, washington. >> funerals have been held for the victims of a bakery bombing in hamas. activists say the air strike on sunday killed at least 90 people. many were lining up to buy bread at the time. the activists said the bakery was targeted. the government said it was terrorists. turkish officials said at least 700 people from hamas province have crossed the border. more than half a million people have fled syria in more than two years of fighting. there was a quick visit to the capital by brahim

guns. they were semiautomatic weapon guns. they were clips and strips and drums that allowed a person to go willy nilly into a school room and exercise his lethal intent. that is not a video game. that is not a rap song. that is not a scorsese movie. that is an american fascination, an addiction to violence and to guns, and the worship of guns. gary wills in the new york review of books talks about our fascination with and our worship of guns. he says we are worshipping not only the iconography of the gun but the gun itself. let's be honest about it. wayne la pierre is the high priest of the guns that murdered and maimed and not what happens in the video game. we all know about cultural influences, and we can speak about those. the reality is guns. people with men eflent intent kill. >> you hit on something. the idea of worshipping the violates itself. we all understand in a society that sometimes bad things happen. there is violence and self-defense is a legal right. >> right. >> but you are talking about a sort of excitement

deal with the gun -- the issue of the semiautomatic weapons, the assault rifles, dealing with the high-capacitythe ammunition clips, or the mental illness piece, or the violent culture piece? what can you go after in a month? >> you have to go after all of those things simultaneously. school safety an issue. mental health access is an issue. but there is no reason why we should have military assault weapons any place but on the battlefield. and most of the hunters that i know agree. i mean, law enforcement is a piece of this. governor rendell who i know you're going to be talking to in just a second, he and i had the highest title in the land, that is mayor. we had to order police officers to go into homes and oftentimes they'd bring out assault weapons, these combat weapons that had no place in a civilized society. for their safety, if only for their safety, we need responsible bans and controls on these military combat assault weapons that play no purpose in a civil society. >> governor rendell, you're right in the heart of it up in pennsylvania as you and i know. how sensitive people are abo

i did not grow up with people with assault rifles or semiautomatic guns.at we had need a conversation, a real deep conversation and this simply cannot be stopped simply because people are afraid of the politics. >> you also grew up to be the campaign manager of al gore who lost the home state of tennessee, the myth is at least in part because he supported gun control. this is a political, not a jurisprudential problem. the second part, the hiller case concerning an absurdly restrictive d.c. law is really much more permissive than people realize, and i'm not sure there would be a second amendment impediment to banning a category of weapons. there would be a political one. >> 60,000 murders since columbine. >> and the large capacity of these were used in these weapons that allowed this perpetrator to go into a school and each of the victims suffering multiple gunshot wounds. this is just not acceptable. >> there's a -- you know, i think that we can't think about this in terms of irradication. these incidents are always going to happen. >> reduction. >> we ca

i'm talking about automatic gun control and semiautomatic gun control. i grew up in a house with a shot gun, we're not talking about shot guns, it is definitely true that the nra's big legislative pushes have been more tilted towards manufacturers and corporations's not the interests of law abiding citizens who happen to have a gun or two in the home. and for evidence i would point you to the lawful commerce in arms act, the last big push which passed the senate by 65 votes. didn't do anything for gun owners, just gave blanket immunity for all the manufacturers for any future lawsuits related to gun violence. i think, by the way, that is very bad policy. but whatever you think of it as policy it is not for gun owners. >> joy, i was in newtown, connecticut, and today flew across the country. here i was in los angeles, as far away as i could be from connecticut in the continental united states. and i'm greeted today by the los angeles times lead headline saying the police chief of los angeles saying this is a new reality. those are his words, and that is wh

police say at least one of them was armed with a semiautomatic gun. the suspects got out of the home through a window. >>> prince william county police are trying to track down the man who sexually assaulted a teenager inside her home. it happened on echo court in woodbridge yesterday afternoon. police have released this composite sketch of the suspect. the victim says he knocked on her door claiming he was working for a cable company. she says he threatened her if she didn't let him in. once inside, he pulled out a knife and sexual youly assaulted the teen eastchester 53-year-old james caroline has been indicted on capital murder and weapons charges in the murder of an arlington jewelry store owner. last july, tommy wong was found shot to death behind the count are of capital jewelers on columbia pike. james caroline was arrested for the crime five days later. >> a trial date is expect today set next week. >>> still ahead on fox 5 morning news, why it may soon be a little bit easier to keep up with traffic and harder to get a speeding ticket in some

i'm talking about semiautomatic gun control. that's a different thing. i grew up in a house with a hunting shot gun. we're not talking -- no one is talking about going after hunting guns right now. we are talking about the ars. joe biden put it best in that moment there. if you think you need an ar at home, you probably need help. and i'm comfortable seconding that. we need to completely restart this debate. >> richard, how is it possible that when thomas hamilton walks into a school in scotland and murders 13 children, the british government acts. in the same year in australia there's the port arthur massacre and the uaustralian government acts. and we've had columbine, newtown. and nothing happens. not a political issue. a point of debate. it's an object of reverence in this country. it's a god. >> what you're pointing to, let's talk about the british and australian. the revulsion against the deaths of murders of elementary school kids had a huge impact there in those countries. and it's having a huge impact right now. the reason this is not just a one-

do we need reforms of semiautomatic gun, reforms of the large magazines? how do you see the gun control issue? the way i look at it is this way. first of all, i think it was a mistake to appoint just an internal administration, whatever you want to call it committee, commission, because he's going to need to get, in this case need to get some democrats to come over who are opposed to any form of, further gun control. the idea that an assault weapons ban would have prevented this crime is absurd idea to try to present to people. first of all, there's an assault weapons ban in connecticut to start with. secondly, a killer like this, a man who's as demented as this man was andbrilliant as he was, he's going to find away to do it with weapons. kn not with weapons, he'll do it with bombs and other weapons. i see why you can't have a reasonable restriction on assault weapons. i'm perfectly okay with that. i'm not okayky trying to prevent a simplistic answer. this is about mental health. our ability to track people, incarcerate people who harry mentally ill. about

and in movies and on video games would help. 63 percent said banning the sale of assault and semiautomatic guns would also work. president obama said the massacre in newtown should give perspective in fiscal cliff. economists say that combination could cause another recession and a huge mess. the president claims he has already met republican leaders at least half way as he putsz it now he is calling on them to take the deal that he is offering. but the house speaker john boehner says is he planning to pass what he calls plan b, the plan the president says he will veto. ed henry is at the white house tonight. ed, the president says he is optimistic they can cut a deal but you are hearing behind the scenes it may actually be falling apart. >> that's right. because plan b is basically as you know john boehner setting the line of taxes going up only on income of a million dollars or more. and what will happen is top administration officials brought some of us in before the president's news conference to say in private that they think that plan b has now thrown off plan a which is the broader 4 tri

particularly a semiautomatic gun.xplain why we think nancy lanza had a bush master and was able to get one. >> good morning, ali. i think right now there's no clue why she would've gotten those weapons. she may have been in fear of being burglarized or robbed or somebody else happening. maybe she had been threatened, you know, once before in her life and felt like she wanted weapons in the house to protect herself. but, there's not going to be an easy answer to that question unless she told a friend or relative why she wanted to have those three weapons. >> you know, let me follow up, tom. how hard is it to get a bush master rifle? and if i can ask about the pistols for a second, what are the issues surrounding them? are they possible to load with these high number of round magazines with a lot of bullets? >> yes, they're possible to do that. the standard magazine would generally enable that gun to have about 15 bullets in it. each of the two guns, about 15 bullets a piece, but you can buy extended magazines that carr

, the thing that's dangerous about the gun is that it's a gun, and there's almost no kind of semiautomatic gunhat you can define that's specially dangerous. >> you get the sense that republicans would play ball on something like banning high capacity magazines? >> i think that you're probably -- the best shot is going to be high capacity magazines because you're already hearing it from some people, and things like maybe strengthening background checks. you may have a chance at the private sale, although that's apparently legally more complicated than it sounds. >> something we don't talk about at all that would be hugely effective would be reforming our relationship with the atf, the bureau of the justice department that is charged with regulating gun sales and gun ownership. >> there's been no director. >> in six years since the congress mandated that they needed to confirm the director. there's no director. there are vastly fewer agents than there were in the past, and thewatching the guns in this country is just not being done. >> if we can return this a little bit. i think that the preside

why do we need semiautomatic guns in the hands of civilians?'s not a question whether we need them. it's a question that they exist. what you're asking is to wipe this thing that already exists off the face of the earth and it just can't happen. it's not true that a semiautomatic weapon is the only weapon that can be used on spree killings. the virginia tech killings, more violent than this used handguns. these clips, they exist in the world. the guy -- the aurora theater guy used one of these adjusted 100-unit clips and it jammed on him. these things exist. we need to wrap our heads around -- even in our grief, the fact that there isn't a legal solution to this problem. when we started with the mental background checks, even if this killer had been in that system, he was able to steal the guns anyway. you're asking to make them disappear. it can't happen. >> the 1994 gun control bill lapsed in 2004. it needs to be renewed. i think some of these things -- again, i regard myself as pro-second amendment and pro-gun. i do not regard myself as pro-

gun control advocates to take a clear stand on the issue. >> america had a moment of silence for the victims of the newtown massacre. exactly one week ago, a young man armed with a semiautomatic rifle gunned down 20 people in connecticut. meanwhile, the national rifle association has taken a hard- line stance on the issue, calling for armed security guards in every american school to protect students. >> the gun owner's organization has proposed the establishment of a national school shield program, saying a bad guy with a gun can only be stopped by a good guy with a gun. the head of the inner raymond it clear that the nra opposes new gun laws. pro-gun control activists twice disrupted the press conference in washington. russian president vladimir putin has made sharp comments about a european energy law, saying it causes confusion and undermined trust. russia is the biggest exporter of energy to europe. >> putin was speaking in brussels, where he has been holding talks with eu leaders. his first visit after he was reelected. although russia and the you are close trading partners, there are various contentious issues which divide them. >> vladimir putin did not waste any time

adam lanza was carrying two semiautomatic hand guns, a sig sauer and a glock handgun. all three guns were bought legally and registered to his mother. authorities also recovered three other guns. lanza was an honor student who according to an official may have suffered from a personality disorder. his mother was a kindergarten teacher at the school. one parent says she was a substitute there, even though her name is not on a staff list. the shooter was wearing blacks, fatigues, and a military vest and didn't utter a word. randy page talked to a former fbi profiler about what may have been going through his mind. >> something happened in his life, a stressor, that caused him to go over the edge. >> reporter: former fbi profiler says mass murders often have second thoughts before they kill their first victim. >> the killing becomes the point of no return, where he goes forward. >> reporter: his murder of his mother may have set the 20-year-old off on his plan to commit the others, knowing the last life he'd take would be his own. >> he was looking for people that hurt hi

guns are semiautomatic.r society. it's not going to stop people from hunting or defending themselves but it will stop somebody from being able to walk into a classroom of kids and kill his mom -- >> you just have watched the president today when he spoke with such emotion. he's such a cool guy. we know that. yet today he had to stop himself for almost a minute before he could continue talking. i think he was overwhelmed by the message he had to deliver in front of all those cameras. we've been struck by one of our own. one of our own has killed 28 people that would have been alive tonight having dinner and enjoying friday night. it's a fact. being with their families, and he had to say that to the country, that this is a nationally important issue. how do you get across the fact that this isn't just the kind of thing that has to happen. it's the kind of thing that might not happen if you do the right thing as politicians, including the president. >> well, i would say to the president there are politicians ou

friday horrific massacre up in connecticut, a number of gun rights advocates have argued that the problem isn't that there are too many semiautomatic in society. the problem, they say, is that there weren't enough armed people on site to challenge the killer. here is what larry pratt, the executive director of gun owners of america, wrote this morning in "usa today." in addition to the gunman, blood is on the hands of members of congress and the connecticut legislators who voted to ban guns from all schools in connecticut and most other states. they are the ones who made it illegal to defend oneself with a gun in a school when that is the only effective way of resisting a gunman. is he right? larry pratt joins us right now. he's joined on the other side of the table by david chipman, who is in the group called mayors against illegal guns, a former atf agent. first of all, let's imagine my same question i asked about 9/11, how do we stop it from happening again, exactly what happened on friday, larry? >> nothing is 100%, but certainly if teachers and janitors and principals were able to defend themselves -- >> with guns? >> with gun

gun stores, including this one in indiana, are reporting a big increase in the sale of and guns, semiautomatic weapons, as well as ammunition. some customers are buying guns in case new anti-gun laws go into effect down the road. >>> another major headline we are covering this morning, new progress in talks to avoid the fiscal cliff. but major differences do remain. under new concessions made by the white house, the bush tax cuts would be extended for anybody earning under $400,000 a year. the offer includes $1.22 trillion in spending cuts. but top republicans warned late last night that there is no agreement on substantial issues. if a deal isn't reached, tax increases and spending cuts begin two weeks from today. >>> daniel inouye, war hero and long-time senator is being in senate. daniel inouye died yesterday of breathing problems. he was 88 years old. >>> and secretary of state hillary clinton is said to be feeling a little more like herself after suffering a concussion last week. two teams of doctors checked her out. even putting her on an i.v. drip for a short time. aides say she is frus

if you miss the first shot and you don't have a semiautomatic gun, what do you do for self-defense atd if you have -- if you have a man who seems to be troubled and he is armed with a semiautomatic weapon, a rifle, then there is a high likelihood that is he going to massacre a lot of people in one location, sir, in a very small amount of time. we could continue this debate for a long time, i appreciate you talking with me this morning, but i just -- i have to say, your position -- your position completely boggles me, honestly. i just do not understand it. thank you for talking with us. >>> i want to bring in deepak chopra. because i get so frustrated at times when i have these conversations and many people point back to the second amendme amendment, which we should read for everybody, because it's used often as a position. >> remember, soledad, when the second amendment was written, people had muskets, it took 20 minutes to load one and half the time they missed. the second amendment wasn't written for assault weapons, ammunition, and the easy availability of these guns of mass destru

the media calls semiautomatic firearms machine guns. they claim these civilian semiautomatic firearms are used by the military. they tell us that the .223 round is one of the most powerful rifle calibers when all of these claims are factually untrue. they don't know what they're talking about. worse, they perpetuate the dangerous notion that one more gun ban or one more law imposed or peaceable, lawful people will protect us where 20,000 other laws have failed. as brave and heroic and as self-sacrificing as those teachers were in those classrooms and as prompt and professional and well-trained as those police were when they responded, they were unable -- through no fault of their own -- unable to stop it. as parents we do everything we can to keep our children safe. it's now time for us to assume responsibility for our schools. the only way, the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gu

according to law enforcement officials, the two handguns and semiautomatic long gun, called a bushmaster were bought legally by his mother. that long gun was used to kill several victims. >> i only did seven autopsies. victims 3 to 11, and i saw two of them with post-range shooting. all wouldn'ts that i know of at this point caused by the long weapon. >> reporter: one relative describes the shooter as a very bright young man. one point home schooled by his mother. and a law enforcement official tells us that the shooter's older brother described to them that his younger brother was t autistic, but so far nothing adds up to a motive. wolf? >> susan candiotti, thank very much. over at the stratford high school a half hour or so away from where we are here in newtown, connecticut, there's a vigil under way right now. i want to watch and listen right now. ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me ♪ ♪ i once was lost but now am found was blind but now i see♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ amazing grace how sweet the sound♪ ♪ ♪ the truth is plain to see she was sent to rescue me ♪ ♪ i see who i

. >> the media calls semiautomatic firearms machine guns. they claim these civilian semiautomatic firearms are used by the military. they tell us that the 223 round is one of the most powerful rifle calibers, when all of these claims are factually untrue. they don't know what they're talking about. >> that was aimed directly at the nra membership, directly at the people whose dues allow him to take home a million a year. most of those people know more about guns than most reporters do. he believes that if you can show one reporter using language about firearms that is not strictly, technically accurate that he can count in every news media, what they say about guns. he wants to show a flash of his pretend ballistics ideas, that the 223 is one of the most powerful rifle calibers. i am sure there are bigger bullets than the 223, but every 223 fired in sandy hook elementary school came out of the barrel of that assault rifle, at three times the speed of sound. 3200 feet per second. is this really something to quibble about in how powerful a bull

dick's sporting goods is pulling certain kinds of semiautomatic weapons from stores nationwide and su spendsing all gun sales in the stores closest to newtown. >> the national rifle association is releasing its first statement. theorganization says it stayed silent out of respect for the victims. they say they are quote, prepared to offer meaningful contributions to make sure this never happens again. >> and for more coverage on gun control and safety, visit abc2news.com and there you can find the latest information on gun laws and complete coverage of the tranl i did. >> now the developing story out of caroline county where a woman is accused of murdering her father on his birthday. >> he was found dead in a chair dm his kitchen yesterday. police say his daughter called 9111 to report that her father was dead but her story on how he died didn't add up. she toldpolice two men broke into the home and assaulted her dad. shefaces charges of murder, assault, manslaughter and reckless endangerment. >> three children are hit by a car in baltimore county ranging in age from 6 to 17. the drivercame around the

guns. handgun, rifles, semiautomatics, and several boxes of ammo. >> there's no rhyme or reason to it. everyone has the type of gun that they prefer to shoot. >> we target, shoot, make sure that we're proficient with them. otherwise they're locked up. >> reporter: collin says he's always careful who he sells to. >> if i get a really bad feeling, i'm not going to sell a person a gun. i have a responsibility, moral and ethical, to keep guns out of the wrong hands. >>> a new report on this past september's attack on the u.s. consulate is blaming state department heads and its bureau of diplomatic security. this is video from the attack, after it happened, what was left behind. the independent investigation found security "inadequate." the review board does not single out any particular individual for disciplinary action. the panel determined that there was no protest before the attack of the consulate to trigger the raid. u.s. ambassador christopher stevens and three others were killed in that attack. >>> donald trump having the last laugh after a former ms. usa contestant trashed his page

guns. they claim these civilian semiautomatic firearms are used by the military. they tell us that the 223 round is one of the most powerful rifle calibers when all of these claims are factually untrue. they don't know what they're talking about. worse, they perpetuate the dangerous notion that one more gun ban or one more law imposed on peaceable, lawful people will protect us where 20,000 other laws have failed. as brave and heroic and as self-sacrificing as those teachers were in those classrooms and as prompt and professional and well-trained as those police were when they responded, they were unable, through no fault of their own, unable to stop it. as parents we do everything we can to keep our children safe. it's now time for us to assume responsibility for our schools. the only way, the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a gun from a mile

guns. but juan, the thing about the semiautomatic ban, 300 million guns here. as mr. gottlieb pointed out, they're going to buy them and they're around and the bad guys are going to have them and the good guys aren't. >> you just can't curse the night. you got to do something, bill. >> not if it doesn't work and if you're impeding other people. >> bill: right. you don't make it worse. very interesting debate, you guys. directly ahead, we'll take to you connecticut where bill hemmer is report ago community in agony. he's been there all weekend. we will update you on that american marine being held in a mexican prison. those reports after these messages >> bill: personal story segment, almost every person i talk with over the weekend was devastated by the murders in newtown, connecticut. you can imagine what it's like in that town this evening. joinings from the scene, fox news anchor bill hemmer. what's the most important thing to you that you saw today? >> wow. i guess what i'm learning about the killer. i guess what i'm learning about the first responders and the kil

>> gun collector rudy orlando is specifically looking to buy the ar-15, a semiautomatic rifle similar to the one used in connecticut. and he's not alone. demand for the weapon here is driving $1,000 price tag. >> all the prices are really high, i mean they're really high on these guns right now, you know. and they're not going to budge on the prices because they're going to be sold. >> are you going to buy anyway? >> i probably will. >> a recent spike in sales reported in stores across the country add emphasis to what is already a record sales year in the u.s. last year, the fbi conducted a record 16,450,000 background checks. this year, the total so far is over 16,800,000. and that doesn't include the month of december. future legislation could affect availability of certain semiautomatic weapons, features on the guns, and the magazines that hold large numbers of rounds. without specifics, store president tom deets says any gun owner could be vulnerable. >> would the existing rifles that are in the marketplace be legal? or would they go across the board and make everything that peopl

mother, knowing of his emotional issues introduced adam to the world of high-powered guns including the semiautomaticushmaster rifle that he used in his deadly rampage that she bought legally in march 2010. agents say mother and son went to the firing range together in the last six months. >> you have a child that is troubled and doesn't bond with people or with her, apparently and you introduce something that is so lethal and violent if appropriately used it's an extremely poor decision on her part. >> reporter: especially with the bushmaster one of the most popular guns in the country, demonstrated in a video posted on the company youtube channel. it can fire 45 rounds in a minute and modifies so it is legal even under the connecticut law meant to ban the weapons. >> if you go to their website they have a page called state compliant. but it is still just as deadly. it makes it dangerous of course is the ability to take unlimited amounts of ammunition in the pistol grip. >> reporter: on friday adam showed up at the school with the bushmaster and two handguns and hundreds of bullets, enough to kill e

guns. but juan, the thing about the semiautomatic ban, 300 million guns here. as mr. gottlieb pointed out, they're going to buy them and they're around and the bad guys are going to have them and the good guys aren't. >> you just can't curse the night. you got to do something, bill. >> not if it doesn't work and if you're impeding other people. >> bill: right. you don't make it worse. very interesting debate, you guys. directly ahead, we'll take to you connecticut where bill hemmer is report ago community in agony. he's been there all weekend. we will update you on that american marine being held in a mexican prison. those reports after these messages i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time r christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's your gift? uh... whew. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. ship fedex express by december 22nd for christmas delivery. sure. ce or pie? pie. apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream cream. ♪ [ male announcer ] the sound of reddi-wip ithe sound of joy. >> bill: personal story segmen