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I think we have -- we don't know enough about his family. i know they've been vilified over the last few days. "washington post" has an even handed story about his family today on trying to look at this a little bit less -- in a very kind of outraged fashion which people are. but look, i don't think in a five-minute segment we can figure out what happened here. i think everyone is trying to piece it together. but to say that if there was an assault weapons ban in place this wouldn't have happened, i think that might make us feel better, but i don't see that anything that i'm reading indicates ...

Still be sold. the other attention will be on the so-called high capacity magazines. any of the clips that go into the gun that can hold more than ten rounds, that's the legal definition of a high capacity magazine, and i think there are a lot of people who would say -- who are skeptical of the assault weapons ban the first time around nonetheless thought that was more effective so that will be an equal part of the debate. >> a remarkable explanation. pete williams. thank you, sir. i want to bring in our panel. we m is msnbc contributor joy reid who is the managing editor of thegrio.com and in...

Inferno from the fire after the tsunami, huge fires all over the place about you can see from the devastation here, there was so much devastation here, that the buildings that still stand for days, rescuers couldn't get to those buildings to see if anyone was alive because there was so much rubble in the way. 150 miles from here, a few days ago, we were 50 miles away, and -- the foreigners are leaving. a lot of the foreigners are getting out of japan. the japanese for the most part have to stay. they hope their government is telling them the truth, either way they have to go on with their live...

Death toll is 805 with 12,664 people not accounted for. which would mean if they're all dead, a death toll of over 20,000 now. that's just from the earthquake and tsunami, we're now hearing reports of radiation possibly contaminating the food chain in japan. what do you hear about that? >> the word trust and the word government is not necessarily synonymous, no matter where you go in the world. people here don't necessarily trust what their government is saying, that right now things are okay, they could get worse, they're okay right now. there's not much they can do about it, there's no quest...

This area was pulverized by the tsunami, and suffering an inferno from the fire after the tsunami, huge fires all over the place about you can see from the devastation here, there was so much devastation here, that the buildings that still stand for days, rescuers couldn't get to those buildings to see if anyone was alive because there was so much rubble in the way. 150 miles from here, a few days ago, we were 50 miles away, and -- the foreigners are leaving. a lot of the foreigners are getting out of japan. the japanese for the most part have to stay. they hope their government is telling the...