Replaced with a culture of life that embraces every person with human dignity. We are brought to you tonight in our prayer those we have lost, those whose hearts have been broken forever. We bring to you 20 new stars in the heavens, 20 new saints, 20 new angels. We bring to you those who risked their lives for us every day, not counting the cost. And we bring to you those who guide, those who counsel, those who bless and embrace the confused and the broken. And now in this prayer we bring to you ourselves, our brokenness, our questions, our doubts, our anger, and our hearts. And we pray for the peace, the hope, and the renewal of trust that can come only from a god who first conceived us in love and placed a hand of compassion on each of our shoulders, even in this most challenging time. And so tonight, for our community, a Community Deeply pained, we ask you to heal the brokenness, to answer our questions, to replace our doubts with certainty, our anger with peace, and our hurt with h
Why do you feel that americans should have those if your belief is they just have to defend themselves . Well, before i go any further, piers, first, thanks for having me back. We did have a heated discussion last time and i much appreciate this more calm discussion. Second, on behalf of im sure i speak for the entire board of Michigan Coalition of responsible gun owners we offer our Sincere Condolence and sympathies for the victims and their families. We are all about safety. We all want to be safe and we certainly want children to be safe. Like i said last week, we just disagree on how to get there from here. To answer your question, i would point out that the shooter in the mall in oregon was confronted by a legally armed citizen who pointed his gun at the shooter and then decided not to squeeze the trigger because he was afraid of missing and hitting bystanders. He was acting very responsibly. And the next shot that that shooter fired, that the killer fired, was on himself after he
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Holiday Season that should have been alive with the joy of children is now, instead, a season of mourning their loss in newtown, connecticut. The first of the funerals took place today for the victims of the massacre at an Elementary School. Ray suarez begins our coverage. Suarez flowers streamed into Funeral Homes around newtown as the shock and horror of friday gave way to grim rituals of grief mourners in black waited under gray skies to attend services for jack pinto and noah, 20 of the. Two of the 20 first gr
Moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff a Holiday Season that should have been alive with the joy of children is now, instead, a season of mourning their loss in newtown, connecticut. The first of the funerals took place today for the victims of the massacre at an Elementary School. Ray suarez begins our coverage. Suarez flowers streamed into Funeral Homes around newtown as the shock and horror of friday gave way to grim rituals of grief mourners in black waited under gray skies to attend services for jack pinto and noah, 20 of the. Two of the 20 first gr
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions ifill the funerals began today in newtown, connecticut, with the burials of two sixyear old boys murdered on friday. Good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Most of tonights newshour will focus on the shootings and their aftermath. Ray suarez has the latest on the investigation and the reaction in connecticut and beyond. Ifill we talk with california senator Dianne Feinstein, who hopes to revive a law banning assault weapons. They arent hunting weapons. You dont need them for defense. They are militarystyle weapons and they dont belong in the streets of our city. Woodruff we assess the Public Policy questions raised by the shooting about access to guns, Mental Health issues, and more. Ifill Hari Sreenivasan reports from newtown on a community in mourning. Woodruff and as parents around the country nervously dropped their children off at school today, Jeffrey Brown talks to a psychiatrist and a School Psychologist ab