that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence not a progressive country, by the way. just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, how were they able to get this done? reporter: well, the secret is it wasn t even that difficult. there were these two mass shootings last month. they were extremely rare. people were outraged. they took to the streets. but they weren t just dismissed as tragedies, dismissed as part of a problem that is too difficult to confront. the people got together. the government got together. lawmakers from a variety of political parties put their differences aside, and they radically changed the entire country s relationship wit
no one could explain. then, across town, another scare. i felt a gun to the back of my head. a teenager in danger. he said, you have to come in the room or i m going to kill you. two young lives, strangely length. had police put the two things together? i said i will do whatever i can to help find your son. can they help unravel this mystery in time? don t you understand, every minute counts right now? hello, and welcome to dateline. it s a story of young dreams interrupted, a talented drummer who was aiming for rock and roll stardom finally disappeared. his parents immediately since he was in danger, and they were forced into a race to find him in time, here is dennis murphy with taken. matt landry from the detroit suburbs was a regular guy. i can t who delivered the pizza that you ordered, he was on the skateboard, and cracked up his friends with jack ask style stunts. it was never a dull moment, he always had something crazy to do. but if you want to
about as symbolic stairway that he climbed way too soon. and, it was so beautiful. and it was just perfect. matthew loved it. he would have loved it. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m andrea canning, thank you for watching! for watching good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, july 4th. happy independence day. we re on tape this hour. we have plenty of great conversations and interviews that we hope you will enjoy. let s dive right in.hip recentl legislation following a pair of deadly mass shootings, proving