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To gun violence. to thirds of those are suicides. hundreds of kids around the age of 18 are being shot or shooting themselves, often by accident. many of them under the age of five. and so if we can combine gun safety with sensible background checks and some other steps, we're not going to eliminate gun violence, but we'll lessen it. if we take the number from 30,000 down to, let's say, 28,000, that's 2,000 families who don't have to go through what the families at newtown or san bernardino or charleston went through. >> i want you to meet the widow of chris kyle. she wrote a book. we're happy...

Themselves harm. every year we are losing 30,000 people to gun violence. two-thirds of those are actually suicides. hundreds of kids under the age of 18 are being shot. or shooting themselves. often by accident. many of them under the age of 5. and so if we can combine gun safety with sensible background checks and some other steps we're not going to eliminate gun violence but we will lessen it. if we take that number from 30,000 down to, let's say, 28,000 -- that's 2,000 families who don't have to go through what the families at new town or san bernardino or charleston went through. so what w...

All of us can agree that it makes sense to do everything we can to keep guns out of the hands of people who would try to do others harm or to do themselves harm. every year we are losing 30,000 people to gun violence. two-thirds of those are actually suicides. hundreds of kids under the age of 18 are being shot. or shooting themselves. often by accident. many of them under the age of 5. and so if we can combine gun safety with sensible background checks and some other steps we're not going to eliminate gun violence but we will lessen it. if we take that number from 30,000 down to, let's say, 2...

How is the president going to explain what the mission is in afghanistan for these fighters? >> we'll have to hear from the president to try to explain this reversal and how things change because remember the president was emphatic back in march about keeping this promise is to end both wars before the end of his term. >> we have gone from 100,000 down to 10,000. they are not on the front lines because they are not in a combat role. the date for to us have completed our drawdown will not change. >> reporter: you can expect the white house to spread the responsibility for this decision around. ...

Still, counting the dead. >> it is a moral issue. we know how many people die in car accidents. we know how many people died in 9/11. down to, one. you know? if anything like in the military know how many people died. when there is a natural disaster. we guess. and forget it. and i think there is something wrong if we don't try to account for everybody. ♪ ♪ >> every person who died. everybody collected in the storm's aftermath have a story to tell. every victim a life worth remembering. when i was in louisiana,