and over again. why is it always a young and angry man? what can be done to stop this american carnage? oh put that question to the national security. later, wealthy evangelical conservative couples were able to wine and dine supreme court justices while making comments about the issues facing the court. i have some thoughts about desperately needed reforms for the highest court in the land. all of that and more is coming up. there s, the latest news you might have missed. this morning, the body of shinzo abe was return to tokyo. he was shot while giving a campaign speech from one of his parties candidates yesterday. the investigation into the assassination continues today. police are saying that the detained suspect used a homemade gun. the violence shock japan. the national police agency reported only ten shootings in all of 2021. janice is reporting. reporter: katie, japan is in mourning forge st. joe abby. he was assassinated in a brazen attack. this is a place where
the online environment, there is this shooter that we saw in the 4th of july. it is in the thousands. when you pick out which one will actually move to violence, there are some indicators. these are young people. they are fickle. they might we move to violence. they might move the next day. you don t exactly know why. the other part is access to weapons. there is two parts, there is the frequency. that s what we re talking about here. how do we get in front of this? are there ways that we can do it online? i think that matters. this is a decentralized network of actors around the country and the world. we need to centralize the way we do deporting in the we need to protect the access to weapons. we need to deal with both parts. listen to the political aisles arguing with each other. one is focusing on one thing, one is focusing on the other. the solution is some of both. clint, let s switch gears to
thresholds that parents are responsible for when assessing their own children? how will they be held accountable for that? and most cases, you re going to look to a doctor, a forensic psychologist. you want to do some sort of assessment and come to her conclusion that a person is a threat or a harm to themselves and others. that is usually the same threshold or red flag law. if those aren t enacted, it is gonna be very difficult to go after the parents. the parents will say, well, i didn t know these things went on behind the scenes. that is what i saw. we were looking at americans being recruited into isis and al-qaeda. there were lots of these lone actors, lone shooters. they were always being connected with or tapped into. when you talk to the parents, they rarely were aware of everything that her kids were doing in the online environment. they did not know the violence
homemade gun. the violence shock japan. the national police agency reported only ten shootings in all of 2021. janice is reporting. reporter: katie, japan is in mourning forge st. joe abby. he was assassinated in a brazen attack. this is a place where gun violence is almost unheard of. this morning, a hearse carrying his body drove seven hours from where he died to his home in tokyo. that is where his family will hold a closed funeral. the assassination was captured in chilling video. you can hear two shots. it was the second one that hit him in the neck area. he collapsed as the suspected gunman was tackled. police say that the seized they describe is a homemade shotgun. metal pipes held together with duct tape it would. they say a raid on the suspect s apartment led them to find even more improvised
domestic violence disputes, and threats of violence. we need to look at the legislation. we needed to consider how tragedies like this can be prevented. katie? i. thanks. coming up, i m going to speak with a former fbi special agent about america s mass shooting epidemic and the responsibilities that the parents of the shooters may have. now to the latest in the trial of wnba superstar britney griner. she pleaded guilty to drug charges in russia this week. she potentially lay the foundation for the biden administration to make a deal with russia. she still faces the sentencing phase of her trial. the next court date is set for thursday. we turn to an nbc news correspondent, megan fitzgerald. she has more. it has been a tough road for brittney griner. she is closing in on five months inside of a russian prison. on thursday, she wrapped up her second day of the trial.