saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, oh, there s nothing you can do. they say you can do something for everything else but this. that s why you find ourselves in a position where our children are afraid to go to school. this is the leading cause of death. it is the leading cause of death among children. you know, it wasn t always that way. i was explaining to some people a bit younger than me yesterday, that when colubine happened, it was a shock to the system. that was really something that massive had happened, and we thought it was a one off. then a movie theater in aurora,
concrete steps to enact? i think it is great she s there. people forget, africa is the part of the world where you will have, by far, the largest demographic increases the next couple decades. africa is going to go up by over a billion people. at the same time, europe, asia, much of the rest of the world is going to be shrinking and aging. demographically, africa is on a totally different trajectory. no, we don t have enough there. we don t have enough aid. we don t have enough trade. no diplomatic endangerment. a lot of africa was disappointed we didn t make vaccines available cheaply, readily, during the pandemic. we went to africa and said, hey, support us in ukraine, impose russia. a lot said, no, thank you. the last, big, africa initiative that was successful, probably saved 20, 30 million lives in africa because we had vaccines available against hiv and aids. the united states needs to think larger about africa. we re talking about over 50 countries south of the sahara. some ar
first step towards ending this slaughter. you don t need these gunmen to be able to go into schools with 30 rounds, with 100 rounds, something they bought over the internet for less than $20. no, i don t think the country is that divided. i think mitch mcconnell managed to get 15 reasonrepublicans, ing himself, to vote for biden s bill last summer. it s an important start. a lot of the republicans who voted for the bill, they were easily re-elected. there needs to be political courage here. gene, when you look at the structural issues behind this, i mean, lay them out for us. we ve been saying it all morning, the american public, 63% of americans support more gun control, gun safety laws. 90% support background checks. we know the nra is kind of on its back heels because of scandals and financial issues at the moment. but talk a little about the
that when colubine happened, it was a shock to the system. that was really something that massive had happened, and we thought it was a one off. then a movie theater in aurora, colorado, and then it just started rolling, virginia tech. for people who say it s always got to be this way, no, it doesn t. it didn t used to be this way. until, i have to say, the extreme glorification of guns and hyper individualism that suggests all the rules that used to apply no longer apply anymore. what we heard from the congressman was the throw up your hands argument against doing anything about gun safety. what are you going to do? there are a lot of crazy people in the world. sometimes they re going to walk into a little presbyterian
i think this is about a much more than the specific reforms. i think what you re seeing in israel are people coming out in the streets because they re worried about the future of the country. they re worried about the divide between religious israelis and secular israelis. how does israel deal with the palestinian issue? this is a struggle for israel s future as much as it is something more specific about how the supreme court in israel is going to operate. well, this was remarkable, richard. what we ve seen over the past several days, have you seen anything like this, such civil unrest in israel? have you even read about it since its founding in 1948? no, joe, this is unprecedented. again, i think it is because and i lived in israel for a year. i spent a lot of time there as a diplomat. i think what happened here is the cumulative changes in israel for demographic reasons, for political reasons, finally reached a point, and this