asking the question why. there are no good answers. when you look at what we know about shooters in modern history of these mass events, you don t see anything like what we ve seen before. police denying in that late night news current that he had any relationship to isis, even though the organization said that this was not san bernardino. there were no political views as his brother said. this was not charlestown where you had a white supremacist. this was not a case in virginia as we saw with steve scalise where the shooter was targeting republicans. in tucson you had a caves mental illness. there was no history for him of that. and at least right now even though they went to his house in mesquite and, obviously, have collected items there including presumably his personal computer, no writings like we saw in columbine to help explain what he did.
happened in chicago over the past several years. you can also talk about mass shootings. in america there s practically a mass shooting every day if you look at the statistics. it s wildly out of control. the question is what legislation can we pass that will have a substantial impact on that because you look at chicago, willie as you brought up before, chicago has pretty stringent gun control laws. yeah. i get that, joe. chicago is the other thing we talk about when the question is how do we reduce this? there is no silver bullet here. but there are three or four pieces of legislation that would reduce the number of guns on the street that would reduce the ability of people with violent pasts to acquire weapons. let s get beyond law. i happen to believe there are probably a half dozen things we can do that are consistent with second amendment rights. what about storage and fewer
we really have no choice at this point in american culture in 2017. we can participate in that. we can feed into that. or we can be defiant and say enough is enough. yeah. and i think, unfortunately, what mike was describing started almost immediately yesterday. if you were online it s a familiar pattern now. there s a shooting where people are still dying. we re still count be bodies. there s a fight online and on tv about gun laws whether they should be stricter and whether gun laws would have stopped this particular shooter. how many times have we sat here? we ve done this for ten years. how many times have we sat here whether it was a movie theater in colorado or an elementary school in newtown, connecticut or anything over the last couple of years we ve seen in san bernardino and elsewhere, and we said something has got to change. something has to change. nothing has changed. the question is, in a country
firsthand as well. there s a sense of paranoia that s ginned up by the nra to say they re coming to get your guns. and it s been that way back in 1994 people would say they were going to come get my guns and pry them out of my cold, dead hands. i said listen, i ll tell you what. they re not going to come get your guns. your cold dead hands, you can just shake them out. you re going to be fine. i would let me throw out a question. how many americans have we know there s just about one gun for every american in 2009 when the population was 310 million. we had that many guns. how many americans have ak-47 like assault rifle like repeat guns, i m sorry, i forget the
washington intelligence and national security reporter for nbc news and investigative unit, ken delaney. good morning. there s a lot of questions over the last 24 hours or so whether this was a fully automatic weapon or perhaps a semiautomatic weapon that was adapted by the shooter to make it into a fully automatic weapon. what more can you tell us about that this morning? good morning. we still don t have an official answer to that question but what we have is some reporting from the associated press overnight that says authorities found two bump stock devices in the hotel room and what those are modifications, legal modifications that allow a semiautomatic rifle to fire at a rapid rate. those things only cost you can get those things for 40 or 50 bucks, right? exactly. and the reason they ve been deemed not an illegal machine