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America. >> right, look, there are four clusters of ways to think about these issues in terms of policy prescriptions, one is guns which we'll spend the rest of the year, 2013 talking about. the other is mental health which will be some interest one the culture of video games and so on and the fourth one, david brooks brought town his credit is the copy cat issue. after columbine, there was a mean in the media, don't mention their names and give no credit and notoriety. after virginia tech in 2007 the american psychological association says it's a mistake and harmful to mention this killer's n...

Attention and the way we give them an identity by mentioning their names and repeating their names creates additional little monsters. we find that these types of crimes occur in clusters. and so to that extent, lapierre is not that far off when he says how many are out there waiting? we have no idea. >> the data, we looked into the data on this sort of copy cat effect, and there's interesting findings in both directions. it is fairly unsettled. there are finding that is do suggest the large copy cat of large publicity shootings i deuces those on the border of committing these things to plan t...

With fear after one of these events. >> well, i think as you're saying, he's not just speaking to this crowd here, he's speaking to the nation, a nation who is mourning and a nation who is frightened and people who have young children and nieces and nephews, look, they see this and they think this could happen to my children. i mean, what's to say there's not a copy cat or something like that, and i think that the president has to -- is going to be doing a lot of reassuring as well. >> we're looking live at the auditorium at newtown high school, about 900 people inside that auditorium, about 1...

>> i suppose, obviously, as you just heard, we don't know yet what the motivations are. there's going to be a lot of analysis of the motivation. given this is a situation where the shooter may have had a mental illness, there's going to be a lot of emphasis of this individual case as an individual case. each of these tragedies are undoubtedly sort of about that specific thing. when you lay them all out together, they are all about one thing. they are about the access to guns. ultimately, whatever his problems, whatever his motivation, had he not had easy access to handguns and weapons and bull...

While the violence is reprehensible and unjustified, it is not a reaction to the 9/11 anniversary that we know of or to a u.s. policy. >> five days after the attack in libya that happened on september 16th, susan rice went on five sunday talk shows, not this one, and reaffirmed this position. >> our current assessment is that what happened in benghazi was, in fact, initially a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired hours before in cairo, almost a copy cat of the demonstrations against our facility in cairo, which were prompted, of course, by the video. >> three days later on septembe...