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You know, now the nra, and others, gun owners clubs, they're ubiquitous. they're actually fundraising tonight off of uvalde. they say, fear in white america, that and rural white america, that different people are gonna come into your community, with guns. and truth, we've had very little terror attack since 9/11. but each of these massacres in schools is a terror attack. and what's profoundly disturbing, stephanie, something like climate change that's hard to get our hands around, that's global. we've got to work with other countries. this is in our country. america is the only industrialized...

The semi automatic weapons that arises. she urges why permissive gun laws and easy access of firearms make the united states a prime target for firearms based terrorist attacks like the one in buffalo. they subject the population to the constant threat of mass shootings like the one in uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were fatally shot. the united states must treat the easy access to semiautomatic weapons as the national security threat it is. mary mccord joins now. she's the former acting assisting attorney general for national security. mary, thank you for being here. let's talk ab...

Ironies and more contradictions. you mentioned those. here's another one. an 18 year old, like the shooter, is a lot by ar-15s, but he is not allowed to buy handguns as an 18 year old. where is the rationale behind something like that? >> i stopped looking for rational. that an 18 year old cannot buy a pack of cigarettes in texas, a six pack of -- he walked in about two semi automatic weapons. got in your car, drove to the school, and killed 19 precious lives. 19 lives. he cannot buy a pack of cigarettes at his birthday. think about how ludicrous of an environment we are in and how broken our ...

A slaughter in nova scotia in 2020 spurred opponents to say those laws don't work, but again, gun control advocates notice a downward trend in gun deaths over the past 20 years. >> we know other countries in response to one mass shooting have been able to craft laws that almost eliminated mass shootings. >> reporter: after 51 people were killed in new zealand in 2019 by australian gunman who targeted mosques, the government, in six days, went after military-style semi automatic weapons, high capacity magazines and more. >> every semi-automatic weapon used in the terrorist attack on friday will...

Automatic rifles and a handgun to kill 16 people. british government banned pump action weapons. and nine years later after a gunman killed 16 in scotland, britain announced a law banning private ownership of all handguns. britain now has one of the lowest rates of gun related deaths among developed countries. in new zealand, after moss ker s massacres at two mosques, the government was praised for immediately banning military style semi automatic weapons an announcing a gun buy back program. new zealand, australia, britain, all countries that like the u.s. had a culture of gun ownership befor...