often they re criminals. the police like the idea of microstamping. yes, you can trace it back to the straw person who bought it, but that gets them a little closer to finding the criminal if they re lucky. craig, you talk about living in safety in a world filled with guns. some of those stats on the number of guns in america is quite appalling to me. but guns don t make us safer. if you have a gun in the home it s 43 times more likely to kill a family member than intruder. there are more children killed by guns in the last 25 years than the number of soldiers killed in all wars in the last 50 years. there have been many years in which there are more kids killed in america by handguns than cops killed. they maybe us feel safer. but they do not make us safer. the proliferation of guns in america does not make us safer. so you have the constitution sitting there, but that s sort of the thing that gun rights lovers always hold dear. can you defend the right to have guns without rely
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there, there s also fiery debate about gun rights and when recent tragedies like tucson or aurora, colorado, happen, both sides dig in even deeper. how do we reconcile the second amendment with the safety of innocent americans? today we have got a self-described liberal who argues simply disarming america is not the answer. craig whitney is a correspondent, and author of living with guns, a liberal case for the second amendment. welcome, craig. thank you. so you outline a number of great arguments familiar to most gun owners like myself about the philosophical case for the second amendment. tell the skeptics out there on the other side why we need to learn to live with guns? because we as americans have had guns and had the individual right to keep and use firearms ever since the earliest colonial days. that s the right that was recognized by the second amendment. not created by, but recognized by it. it still exists today. the reason why they created
indiscriminately targeting our civilians and they deliberately hide behind their civilians. the terrorists targets are children and they use their own children as human shields. but if stronger military action proves necessary to stop the barrage of rockets, israel will not hesitate to do what is necessary to defend our people. secretary of state hillary clinton is heading to jerusalem to help secure a truce before israel launches a ground invasion. u.n. secretary-general ban ki moon is also there and nine arab leaders are showing solidarity with the palestinians. a big change since the last serious fighting four years ago. earlier today at the u.n., the united states blocked a joint statement condemning the conflict because it didn t mention the root cause which the u.s. says is hamas missile attacks. nbc s martin fletcher is in tel aviv and martin, if there s a talk of cease-fire, what is israel doing dropping leaflets? reporter: that s a good question. israel actually
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