need to realize they can be used not only to kill them but their family members and to kill 20 kids down the street. there are roughly 300 million guns in the country according to most estimates i have seen and read. we talked about it after the congresswoman was shot. we talked about it after aurora and talked about it after the sikh temple shooting in wisconsin as well earlier this year. we are talking about it now. do you think in your heart of hearts that this is actually going to be the tipping point? well, i think it will be a tipping point for the congress. and for the country to enact. i hope some responsible gun control measures. whether it will be the broader tipping point we probably immediate to really question whether we need so many guns in our homes and around the country, whether we need these thousands and thousands of gun related deaths every year, that s a bigger question. i certainly hope so. this is an epidemic of violence.
anything that i have seen i take from the law enforcement perspective as gospel from that lieutenant from the state police who is giving it. anything else is an unnamed source and a lot of those are changing, and they are trying to give it to us at the pace they can. but it is the culture we are in right now. ari, i want to bring you in here, because i feel like this is a moment after the sikh temple shooting, that chief edwards comes up talking about learning about state trooper vance and of course in the colorado shootings, and we think of the first responders as heroic in the moment, but then we make public policy which is going to make it harder for the first responders to do their job. so not only on the issue of policy, but how to help them do their job? well, if you see something, say something.
this is wrong and lethal and a horrible effect on us, and why not as a nation come together and say, we won t repeal the 2nd amendment, but put some curbs on people s access to guns that will have a great and powerful effect on the community. we will be right back with more on this issue, and more on the shooting in connecticut right after this. .we have these. home depot gift cards. give the gift of doing, in-store or online.
four injured. the ages were 32, 30, 40, and 22. still working on getting the identities of those women. they all had t undergo surgery r their injuries. also reports, harris, of the explosive device that was possibly there. the reason they thought that earlier is there was a small fire in the hallway, and a propane tank was found in there. now what we re learning this evening, not sure if it was left behind by the suspect or if it was just for routine maintenance. > harris: so many questions. it wasn t long ago that we were reporting on a different mass shooting in the state of wisconsin. reporter: in fact, those attempted by the sic sikh temple shooting, a 40-year-old killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself just south of milwaukee. harris: anna kooiman, thank you very much. an update to a story we first brought you last night. the search for the man accused of gunning down a family near
waukesha county are awaiting an official bulletin. black man, 6 1 , weighing 270 pounds with a bald head and brown eyes. the key here i believe is that he was last seen in this area driving a 2003 black mazda. we re going to continue to follow this angle of the story here in the news room and check in with some of my sources throughout milwaukee county and waukesha county and we ll bring them to be in the breaking news update. is at this point settle any reason to believe that suspect is not acting alone? could there be any other suspect that the police are looking for? at this point we re trying to get confirmation. we don t know if the individual jumped into the driver s seat or if someone else was with him. this is a very fluid and breaking situation. as soon as i can gather more information, i ll pass it along to you and our viewers. we want to bring you up to speed on what s going on. a shooting at the azana salon