the hammar family but our community. and our community rallied for jon s liberty. reporter: heather, it got embarrassing for the mexicans, especially with the u.s. media coverage and really, the state department helped find a way out of this and the mexicans determined, they say, while it was illegal for him to have taken the weapon into the country, he shouldn t have don t he didn t intend to commit a crime and they could let him go. heather: good thing we had the media coverage. gregg: as lawmakers head home for the holidays, no deal in sight to avoid the fiscal cliff. we ll debate whether it is possible now to come up with a win-win for both parties. now that republicans plan b is off the table. heather: santa s elves helping folks with their holiday haul, how one business is making sure people never have to tie their trees to their car again.
concessions? reporter: and some call wayne laperriere the craziest man on earth. he criticized hollywood and videogame makers and suggested that more weapons are needed to protect our schools. the only way to stop a monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested in a plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is i good guy with a gun. reporter: according to a gallup poll, 53% agreed increasing police presence at schools could be effective and a third said somewhat effective and 12%, not effective and half of those polled said increasing government spending on mental health screening and treatment would be very effective and a third, somewhat and 14% don t think it would help and when asked banning the selling of assault weapons and, 42%, yes,
sticking point they are at right now. gregg: i don t see the house doing that. look, with $16 trillion in debt and growing every minute, the u.s. governmental is obviously looking for ways to reduce it. that is the whole point in this thing. president is proposing new spending, more spending, has that convinced some people on the hill, that is your beat, that he is either not serious about negotiating or is naive about how economically grave the situation really is? the parties are divided in a way that i element never seen in many years covering capitol hill. republicans telling me they were more than willing to talk about a tax rate increase. even some of the most conservative members but what they felt they needed to see was sizable spending cuts and talk of entitlement reform which is major driver of the nation s
we still need answers, i think, from the department of defense. why wasn t there a military response to this? what about an intelligence failure. why didn t we know about this? i am worried about the spread of al-qaeda in that part of the world, libya and somalia, there is a lot of questions. gregg: this is an attack that went on for seven hours. sources tell fox news that those who were under attack pleaded three times with the c.i.a. for help for a rescue, for assistance. they painted a laser target on the attackers and no help came. three times it was refused. we still need to get to the bottom of that, don t we? absolutely, like i said we heard a state department about security. we need to know the intelligence committee side and the armed services committee. there is so many questions, it s not just about going after people that may have made
hear about this again. gregg: absolutely, there are a great many nations in the world who don t have the 2nd amendment or equivalent and restrict the possession and ownership and use of firearms to police and the military. how do folks in america feel about that notion? that doesn t fit well in the u.s. at all. only one out of four people believe it will be good if only government officials like police and military officials could have guns, it is just 6 out of 10 say no, this is part of what it is like to be in america and i have all of these issues, there is a big split between people who live in the cities and people who live in rural areas. heather: and i found the next question you asked interesting. people as they live in a neighborhood where homeowners are allowed to own a gun or where homeowners are not allowed to have a gun, which neighborhood would they feel safer in. 62% said they prefer a neighborhood, basically where they could have a gun to protect