Newshour has been provided by music is a universal captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productions and counteroffers on the table today, but no deal between president obama and Speaker Boehner to resolve the governments fiscal crisis. Good evening. Im judy woodruff. Ifill and im gwen ifill. On the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the search for an agreement from the wall street journals carol lee and wnycs todd zwillic woodruff then, we turn to the shootings in connecticut. Ray suarez has our update, as some students return to school and two more families bury their sixyearolds. Ifill one lawmakers change of heart virginia senator mark warner, an n. R. A. Supporter, now says enough is enough. Year from gun violence, if we can cut that number in half, if we can cut that number by 20 , if we can cut that number by 10 , we save thousands of lives. Woodruff plus, neighbors and friends in newtown are searching for a way to turn the horror of fridays killings into something positive
Year from gun violence, if we can cut that number in half, if we can cut that number by 20 , if we can cut that number by 10 , we save thousands of lives. Woodruff plus, neighbors and friends in newtown are searching for a way to turn the horror of fridays killings into something positive for their community. Hari sreenivasan has our conversation. Ifill kira kay reports on an election to watch in india, where the leading candidate for chief minister of one state, Narendra Modi, is both loved and loathed. For all of modis popularity, he is also one of the most polarizing figures in india today, despised by many for a period of vicious communal violence that happened on his watch. Woodruff Jeffrey Brown remembers the life of war hero and medal of honor winner Daniel Inouye, the senator from hawaii who was third in line to the presidency. Ifill and we close with the story of a message of hope and healing from the late fred rogers, in a 34yearold photo thats gone viral. Woodruff thats all
protect the kids because even connecticut, unfortunately, everything they did today, they do not have a plan to stop a shooter. okay. but here s my problem again. wayne lapierre, the great leader of the nra, of course has done a complete u-turn on all this. he used to believe and we have replayed this clip many times, that schools should be completely gun-free zones. let me come to you, mr. la tourette. which wayne lapierre should we believe? which nra position should we believe? does he say that schools are gun-free zones or not? well, i can t speak for mr. lapierre. let me say this about asa hutchinson. he s a good man. the report made eight recommendations and i know we will focus on the arming personnel in school, but four of them were pretty decent about an online tool to enhance security working with law enforcement. but i got to tell you, in my opinion, just like connecticut s legislature didn t go down the right path, arming people in schools, i mean, i had teachers that i
says i know what this is all about. let me finish, ben. ben, let me finish. here s what i think it s about. wayne lapierre s main modus operandi is selling guns. he s worked out there are 120,000 schools in america and he can sell 120,000 weapons like this made by his mates from the manufacturers. call me cynical, mr. la tourette. i think that s what is behind this. this is about selling guns and turning schools into wild west zones. ben, i want steven responds first, then you. holy mackerel. two things. one, piers, i think that s a bridge too far. that is a little too cynical. i don t think mr. lapierre s in the gun business. i think this is a response and reaction really? from the nra to fight whoa, whoa, whoa. he s not in the gun business? to fight background checks which is where america s come which is i told you where america would come the last time i was on your program. that s the answer, that would solve some of the problems that we re facing, keeping guns o
i think their record of successfully hitting targets in a live situation was about 18% and there was a big incident recently in new york where they sprayed about nine bullets into passersby trying to get one guy. here s my point. here s my point, ben. it all sounds great on paper, until this actually has to happen, and then you re entrusting teachers, teachers, to carry guns and turn into the wild west. here s where the cynic in me says i know what this is all about. let me finish, ben. ben, let me finish. here s what i think it s about. wayne lapierre s main modus operandi is selling guns. he s worked out there are 120,000 schools in america and he can sell 120,000 weapons like this made by his mat from the manufacturers. call me cynical, mr. la tourette. i think that s what is behind this. this is about selling guns and turning schools into wild west zones. ben, i want steven responds first, then you.