you've been told by the gun ban groups and their allies if you should look at the recent report by strad for now and by the department of justice his office of inspector general about these guns most of these guns are stolen in the united states the average age of the american gun in the united states found in a mexican crime scene is fourteen years old that's not a gun it was recently bought a gun show or a gun store in arizona or any place else that's a gun that was lawfully purchased years ago stolen and then sold through a black market of trafficking so your solution to the problem of weapons violence in the united states is what everyone should be armed that everyone should go through training in how to use a weapon there are lots of solutions to violence you can see there's one kind of simplistic want to certainly encouraged it. well once there are we need to recognize a root in a supreme court brief in the heller case for a large coalition of non first moore in the stations of blood in the two major organizations the train the police and gun use if you recognize two things one gun

if this is undermining the strad gee, and afghanistan is a serious problem. factor into an impression of weakness for the president, but it may not be that way. the question is whether the level of cuts is going to seriously undermine that strategy or not. >> i do think it's possible looking at the polling that americans if they saw afghanistan imploding after we began to pull out, we go, okay, well, we tried. do you think if something goes wrong on the ground and we're still pulling out that it's a negative for president obama? >> i agree with michael that the out come is very important. two things about the afghan decision that are very important. one was the president set forth a strategy and set forth success in the strategy and was able to keep a promise he made. and the number two is the general incoherence you see on the gop side. you have people like mitt romney that want to pull our troops out faster, and tim pawlenty wants to keep the troops in longer. there is no coherence to why they want to do that or when they would get the troops out or why the