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Of an armed conflict. four % of the world population, an estimated 46% of all the guns on the planet. >> the united states has the highest firearm homicide rate in the developed world. >> the number of u.s. deaths wwas about 4-100 thousand people. so we can't pretend that it is not an american problem. it is. you can't pretend it is not a gun problem. >> what's the mechanism? guns. mental lelt issues and other issues as well.
A gun problem. in other headlines today, ukraine's president zelenskyy has made a rare trip outside of the capital kyiv, to visit his troops on the front line in eastern ukraine. he went to the kharkiv region, close to the russian border, an area once again under attack. president zelenskyy described the situation in some parts, particularly severodonetsk, as "indescribably difficult" for the ukrainian army. it's the first time since the start of the war that the president has ventured to the devastated eastern region, as our correspondent caroline hawley reports. he came to ukraine's secondâ€...
Election. so my question, to moderate republicans, what you are afraid of? trump's inflated power is waning. and the nra is according to multiple reports, plagued by corruption, and losing its power and image in the eyes of many in the public. if there ever was a time to work with democrats to pass common sense gun reform, now would seem to be the moment. but instead, we get comments like those made by alabama senator tommy tuberville, who after this week's tragedy said, quote, it's a people problem, not a gun problem. i do probably agree, that people in positions of power, like himself, are t...
We have to have accountability as to what happened and who was there at what times and which agencies take operational control when. those are big questions for me going forward. >> do you think someone should be held criminally accountable for the poor response? >> listen. i think certainly for me in texas going forward, i don't know that there should be criminal negligence or anything like that or criminal accountability. but we have to make sure that this never happens again, because you and i both know there is probably going to be one of these instances happen again in this state and othe...
He was subject to a threat assessment but they failed on the monitoring piece. so that might have helped stop that. the shooter this week in uvalde, which we feel for the families, without a doubt, that shooter had some information that he put out online and if someone had come forward and mentioned that, we might have seen some intervention before the tragic loss of life. >> i invited you on because this gun problem we have in america is -- we focus on it when there are mass shootings. but it's every day. there is not a city in america -- there is something, i think, only two states where gun...