about half firearms. about half of all u.s. households have at least lea one gun at home, and many have. much more than that. plus, they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers, butg they are hardly an argument forn gun control. they re an argument, in fact, against ask yourself what would it require to confiscate allmmuo those guns and all that ammunition in turn, the united states into disarmed nation like turkmenistan or north korea? wellrea., it would take a police state and it would end in civil war. nono sam sane person wants eithr one of those things. but thankfully, we don t neehinn the fact that so manyirearm americans have a firearm withi n reach but never commit violence that gtbe that guns are no the problem. just as we can this country can be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can be trusted with cars and light aircraft t in andand electricity, basebaw and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shearsct and countless other objec
here at home, that midair scare onboard a cross-country united flight from san diego to newark. a lithium battery catching fire. passengers screaming, air traffic control radioing the pilots, saying they could not hear them. we have new reporting tonight, the u.s. navy off the east coast and what they ve now discovered. parts of that suspected chinese spy balloon and what it reveals. and the unmanned underwater vehicles examining the wreckage for explosives. a way for the chinese spy balloon to self-destruct. martha raddatz with new reporting. just moments ago, the first look tonight at what president biden will tell the american people later this evening. the address in prime time, the state of the union here on abc. the president before congress and the country, and mary bruce live at the white house. there is also breaking news from memphis at this hour in the tyre nichols case. we have new reporting tonight. what one of the officers allegedly did. pierre thomas is h
scare onboard a cross-country united flight in san diego to newark. a lithium battery catching fire. passengers screaming, air traffic control radioing the pilots, saying they could not hear them. we have new reporting tonight, the u.s. navy off the east coast and what they ve now decision covered. parts of that suspected chinese spy balloon and what it reveals. and the unmanned underwater vehicles examining the wreckage for explosives. a way for the chinese spy balloon to self-destruct. martha raddatz with new reporting. just moments ago, the first look tonight at what president biden will tell the american people later this evening. the address in prime time, the state of the union here on abc. the president before congress and the country, and mary bruce live at the white house. there is also breaking news from memphis at this hour in the tyre nichols case. we have new reporting tonight. what one of the officers allegedly did. pierre thomas is here. also, the war i
under your pillow, what are your thoughts? 50 under your pillow, what are your thoughts? under your pillow, what are our thou~hts? ., , your thoughts? so we have been on day two. your thoughts? so we have been on day two, today, your thoughts? so we have been on day two, today, thursday, . your thoughts? so we have been on day two, today, thursday, of| on day two, today, thursday, of the budget. the big picture thing is that some of the think tanks, westminster s brains beyond government have been crunching through it and they have concluded what many a newscaster will know as the kind of bleeding obvious really, but they presented in the spreadsheet and the rest of it, which is that times are really tough people, that wages are squeezed, living standards are squeezed, living standards are squeezed, living standards are squeezed, that household income is squeezed and will be for a while, that the tax burden is the highest it has beenin burden is the highest it has been i
democrats who participated in a gun violence protest inside the general assembly we ll talk to one state lawmaker what calls the move a very dangerous precedent. a violent start to the holiest week in the middle east. new air strikes in response to dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip in lebanon. we re going to bring you a live report from jerusalem. plus, classified documents detailing u.s. and nato plans on ukraine posted to social media we ll talk to one of the reporters who broke the story about how the pentagon is responding and it has been six months since hurricane ian decimated parts of florida we go back and see how communities there are rebuilding and we begin this hour with that extraordinary move in tennessee where the republican-led state house voted to expel two democratic lawmakers for an alleged rule violation for the first time in the state s history. people were removed from elected office before there, but never for violating decorum rules. j