that there is no fundamentally new dock african-american. we won t do anything different such as establishing safe zones that would require more troops, that is exactly the kind of thing that senators like lindsey graham say we need to do. there is not a sense that there is a support among the public for doing that. and i think with assad kind of showing this, he s challenging trump to basically do exactly that, to ramp up and get us more enmeshed in a conflict that the american public showed in the past that there was no appetite for because that was the whole problem in the first place which was that obama understood that in order to embroil us in another middle eastern conflict like this, you need broad public support. so he went to congress. congress did not give him that support. and now that you re seeing in the aftermath of this strike the different factions rising up in congress and questioning whether this was even legal, you ve got this coalition of libertarians
if we did have much greater controls as canada and australia has, as any other modern country has, if we could reduce the toll by give the australia example as you did in your column today. australia has a legacy like the u.s., many people had guns, a lot of hunters. like the wild west, historically. similar heritage. and they had a series of mass attacks. in 1996 there was one that really shook the country. the conservative government at the time actually decided this is enough. with broad public support, they instituted major constraints on guns. handguns are still available. it becomes a lot harder. the result is that gun homicides dropped almost 50%. gun suicides dropped 50% over the next seven years. let s listen to more what andy parker had to say today.
is enough. with broad public support, they instituted major constraints on guns. handguns are still available. it becomes a lot harder. the result is that gun homicides dropped almost 50%. gun suicides dropped 50% over the next seven years. let s listen to more what andy parker had to say today. somebody has to be able to identify, hey, this guy s got some problems. got some anger issues. he shouldn t be buying a gun. i got a call from the governor from terry mcauliffe who was very gracious and i told him this is what i m going to do. this is something now to help alison s memory live on and do something about her life and make it, you know meaningful we need politicians like terry mcauliffe to step up.
position back on its heel to have to come back out to explain themselves and the use of drone strikes? obviously they are going after targets, enemy targets, never trying to have civilian casualties but that is collateral damage. exactly. the u.n. report which you alluded to in your introduction is going to be presented to the general assembly on friday. and there will be a debate on the floor of the general assembly about this issue. there s no question that from the u.s. perspective, certainly domesticically and politically, there s broad public support and support in congress for going after al qaeda operatives with drone strikes. it is not a hugely controversial issue domestically within the united states. but internationally, it is clear this remains a very significant issue, despite the president s promises of greater transparency and greater precision and
big, we are going to get our men and women that we are chasing almost all the time. are you surprised that these young men didn t think, maybe we should help the fbi and not help this guy who is probe going to get caught. yes. 19-year-olds sometimes make bad choices. i think that they ran into the resilience of the people of boston, number one. that s really been one of the biggest factor here, how strong they are. across the board, the police, the citizens just really helping the investigation. that broad public support, you re going to be able to capture people. so yeah, they made a bad choice. it is surprising. they did it, given the nature of the crescendo and the events that occurred during that week. that they couldn t see the right path. but those things happen. all very chilling. james cavanagh, robert mcfadden, thank you for joining us. straight ahead in the cycle, homeland insecurity. time magazine s michael crowley on this week s cover