have been no mass shootings since. canada has massive requirements in response to mass shootings there. 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 be banned in this country. reporter: and the prime minister said just this week, they are not done. there are still obviously guns misused in new zealand, so
didn t ask me a set of recommendations on how we should proceed to meet that moral obligation we have. joe biden really threw himself into it. barely a month after the sandy hook shooting, his task force had held over 20 meetings, it had heard from over 200 organizations. it had talked a gun control advocates as well as gun control opponents. he came back with the set of reasonable bipartisan proposals that might have prevented another sandy hook. the truth is, it wasn t enough. republicans and congress actually refused to do anything. not one thing. nothing. in his last year in office, president obama s still got emotional talking about it. second amendment rights are important. there are other rights that we care about as well. we have to be able to balance them. our unalienable
we said that the train boards on time every time, well, that s also the case on the gun issue here. we hear calls for gun control, and then, maybe traction for the wild and disappear. there is an embodied, embedded resistance to the kind of lost that president biden would like to pass in the political system. and i don t think it s gonna change after this law, after this terrible tragedy and massacre anymore the children of newtown is hard to see how anything is gonna change that, at least in the short term. it has to be something more fundamental, if gun control advocates want to bring the kind of change they believe is necessary in washington. we re gonna end the segment exactly where we started it. people always say, this isn t who we are. but alas, perhaps it is. peter baker, melissa murray, brittany packnett cunningham, like you all for joining us tonight. coming up, how that false theory we were just talking about, apparently embraced by the suspected gunman is allowed
massacre anymore if it didn t do it after the children of newtown is hard to see how anything is gonna change that, at least in the short term. it has to be something more fundamental, if gun control advocates want to bring the kind of change they believe is necessary in washington. we re gonna end the segment exactly where we started it. people always say, this isn t who we are. but alas, perhaps it is. peter baker, melissa murray, brittany packnett cunningham, thank you all for joining us tonight. coming up, how that false theory we were just talking about, apparently embraced by the suspected gunman is allowed to flourish on the internet? nbc news reporter ben collins is here to debunk replacement theory and explain how this movement has no borders. and later, just hours away from polls opening. and there is a high stakes primary races in pennsylvania, where there are new twists and turns for candidates in both parties in the final stretch. the 11th hour just getting underway on
about it. that is so incredibly sad. the left needs to take accountability and do something to actually fix this. brian: even if they believe the criminals had it too bad for too long, i want to make better for them for their own political survival they have to do something. it gets to the core of the american family about safety and law and order. no one thinks about right or left they think about right or wrong. never seen a mayor he elected having more people rooting for him because of the mayor he relace placed. 110% is grandlarceny. 37% increase in major crimes. so far the numbers don t reflect his words. nothing is happening on the positive. yeah. and he has given some lip service to gun control advocates and repeated some of that rhetoric before. i, like you, anybody is better than de blasio. anything is better than what new