this country, is not necessarily tied to mental health. we have to have a multipronged approach. we need to make sure that people every responsible gun owner in this country should want to make sure that criminals that s what we re talking about here, criminals and mentally ill people who should not have guns do not have guns here. we have to leave it there. they have nothing done to affect that. we already have the brady bill. we ll have to leave it there. thank you so much for your conversation on this very issue today. it s a no day for federal workers in washington, students across the mid-atlantic states. a major winter storm is packing high winds and up to a foot of snow. jim, as you look at it, how crippling might this get? well, we re running out of time. every subtle break we get in between the snow, it actually changes on over to rain like it is now, then believe it or not, richard, that sun that sun is warming this a123589, okay?
when you were here last time, it was a month later than we re doing this interview now, we had 189 gunshot wounds and currently already, we ve had over 200 gunshot wounds. the problem is not getting better in fact, getting much worse. obviously, part of the reason we re talking about this, some chicago lawmakers are calling on the governor to deploy the national guard to help with this violence. could that be part of the solution here? i equate that to putting a band-aid on a hemorrhaging wound. it might help solve this symptom but it is a huge problem and really has to be attacked on multiple fronts. it s not just the national guard or more police, a multipronged approach. you have to go after it in many way, through education and setting up violence prevention programs, a lot of other things, family structure and things for kids to do outside of being recruited into these gangs.
the governor to deploy the national guard to help with this violence. could that be part of the solution here? i equate that to putting a band-aid on a hemorrhaging wound. yes, that might possibly solve this symptom, but it is a huge problem and really has to be attacked on multiple fronts. it s not just the national guard or more police, it s a multipronged approach. mrk you have to go after it in many way, through education and setting up violence prevention programs, a lot of other things, family structure and things for kids to do outside of being recruited into these gangs. it s a difficult problem and needs multiple solutions, not just one. in medicine you have acute and chronic problems, right? the chronic problems, some of the solutions you mentioned, but steven, these numbers are out of control, so many people dying, 113 homicides so far. some of this matches what we re seeing in afghanistan and iraq. in some ways, maybe that makes the case you need something more. how doe
ago sean spicer tried to clarify what many see as diverging statements from the trump administration when it comes to syria. the mixed signals coming a week after the u.s. missile strike in this war torn country. the president s ambassador to the united nations said regime change in syria is something that, quote, we think is going to happen. and yet secretary of state rex tillerson says the hope is to work with russia to achieve areas of stabilization throughout syria. remember, russia has been backing syrian president bashar al assad. moments ago, the white house press secretary sean spicer tried to explin how the two u.s. did you wants are not in conflict. i can t imagine a stable and peaceful syria where bashar al assad is in power. i think we all yek recognize that happens and there can be a multipronged approach.