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Availability, gun homicide rates were higher, not lower than communities in states with lower gun availability. Its your decision whether to buy a gun or not. There are certainly instances where it may make sense. And i dont begrudge the individual who makes that decision. But the data tells us only one story. The actual real live experience of living in a nation awash in guns shows that contrary to the gun lobby sloganeering, the opposite of their claim is actually true. The more good guys have guns, the more good guys die from guns. And we have no clear, more horrifying example of this truth than last weekend in dallas, texas. Texas is an open carry state, meaning that anyone who can legally buy a semiautomatic weapon can walk around the streets of dallas with that weapon attached to them. Reports suggest there were perhaps 30 people openly carrying ar15 style weapons at saturdays protest. Some were also wearing camouflage, bulletproof vests and gas masks. There were also dozens and ....
About half of the cases, individuals are interested in traveling to join a foreign terrorism organization. The question on guns and foreign plotting goes away and we have this question of what do you do with these individuals who are drawn to a Foreign Terrorist Organization . Individualseen 88 arrested in the last two years, u. S. , butted for the pales in comparison to other countries. It is something we have to wrapper heads around. Host that is seamus hughes, the Deputy Program director from the program on extremism at George Washington university. Thank you so much for joining us. Guest thank you. Concludes our program for today. We will be back tomorrow morning. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [capt ....
Cspan, created by americas cable companies. Our live coverage of every minute of the republican and Democratic National conventions is brought to you by your cable satellite provider. Despite the theme for united together, things got start off to a rocky start at the them accredit national convention. At the Democratic National convention. Thank you very much, madam chair. I am honored to accept this gavel as permanent chair of the Democratic National convention. Im excited for Hillary Clinton and tim kaine in the white house. [cheering] yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Have [cheering] thank you. Assembled, we have assembled an extraordinary selection of americans here in this arena. We are here from across the country. We have traveled thousands of miles and ....
Reality that 47 million men, women and children live in poverty. It is about understanding that if we do not transform our economy, our Younger Generation will likely have a lower standard of living then their parents. This election is about ending the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we have in america today. [cheering] it is not moral, not acceptable and it is not sustainable that now own1 10 of 1 almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 . Boo or that the top 1 in recent years has earned 85 of all new income. That is unacceptable. That must change. Boo abouts election is remembering where we were 7 1 2 years ago when president obama came into office after eight years of republican trickledown economics. [cheering] the republicans want us to forget that as a result of the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior on wall street, our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the great depression. That i ....