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Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions ifill former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords herself wounded by a gunman made a dramatic appeal today for more restrictions on gun ownership. Too many children are dying, too many children, we must do something. Ifill good evening, im gwen ifill. Brown and im jeffrey brown. On the newshour tonight, we excerpt giffords testimony and that of a National Rifle Association Executive at the first formal congressional hearing on gun violence since the massacre in newtown, connecticut. Proposing more gun control laws, while failing to enforce the tho...

Thank you to all the witnesses, especially you, captain kelly. Thanks to your beautiful wife, and i mean that in every way. My wife, frannie, and i were heartbroken for the families in newtown, tucson, for those of you listening or watching this hearing in newtown, i want you to know that minnesotans have you in our thoughts and prayers, and we share in your grief. We shared it when we lost lives at a sign factory. Maya is here. She lost her father. We share it every time we bury one of our sons or daughters. I know that a group of students from redlake reservation in minnesota, students who l...

Student, and she marched in the inaugural parade last week. I can point to one gun store, one store in illinois that account for more than 20 of the crimes in chicago. Straw purchasers buy the gun there and they end up in the hands of criminals in the city of chicago. We have to put an end to this im going to ask a question to the panelists. Mr. Lapierre, i ran into some of your members in illinois and they tell me, you cannot get the Second Amendment. It is not just about hunting. It is not just about sports. It is not just about shooting targets. It is not just about defending ourselves from...

Jennifer im jennifer granholm. Tonight on in the war room, the gun safety debate is still being waged and its still in the publics consciousness. Its something but its far from enough. Theme [ theme music ] jennifer lets start tonight in a little store in riverdale, illinois, called chucks gun shop. Chucks gun shop sells ammunition and guns including ber ret tas, glocks pistols shotguns. Its just a few miles from chicago, and since 2008 more than 1300 guns that were confiscated came from this one shop. There is not a single gunshot or gun range inside of the city limits of chicago. But shops l...

Cenk tonight we have a whole other the young turks show online where jayar and others will yell at me even more about that last welfare story that we did. And the insane subsidy that the nfl is getting from us the taxpayers. You can check out individual clips and stories at. Viewpoint is next. [ theme music ] john Wayne Lapierre testifies before congress that making mentally unstable people submit to background checks before they can buy guns wont save lives because when it cops to lowering the bar this man has raised the bar. Israel has and syria continues to massacre its own people. And egyp...