But samuel colt made theme ball. This is the type of weapon that would have been used in lexington. While guns offer a window into our history the view hasnt always been krystle clear. Guns were a tool, more in the 20th century see convergence of gun laws and large number of guns. Ahead, how americas love affair with firearms may have started as only a cool crush. For more and more american women these days a concealed handgun is the weapon of choice. As our tracy smith saw for herself. Its no secret that more women are carrying guns, but where they carry them might surprise you. Are there bra holsters. There are. Youre sold out . Doesnt that figure . Ahead this sunday morning, female fire power. When an unsupervised child picks up an unsecured gun the result can be tragic. Martha tirer this will have one such tale. I thought of it has any other toy gun because it looked similar. At age 10, sean smith accidentally killed his little sister. An unlikely tragedy, not according to a landmark study of boys and guns. How hard is it to pull the trigger . Ahead this sundae morning, a powerful urge to play. Cowan were not the only country struggling over gunrelated issues. 20 years ago in australia a mass shooting was the action that caused a sweeping reaction. Seth doane takes us there. A lone gunman killed 35 people. It rattled a country and its then Prime Minister. You knew right away you had to do something . It demonstrated so dramatically what happened when a madman got hold of rapi rapidfiring weapons. Ahead on sunday morning australias dramatic response to its worst ever mass shooting. Cowan in parts of the american west, guns are a way of life. Shared by young and old alike. As our newest sunday morning contributor ted koppel will be showing us. This town was founded by and named after william f. Cody. Known to the world as buffalo bill. There are more guns here on a per capita basis in wyoming than anywhere else in the country. And the passion for firearms is ingrained at a young age. Good job. A very young age. Families and their guns, here in the town that buffalo bill cody built, later on sunday morning. Cowan weve asked still more of our cbs news colleagues for help with this explore rakes of guns and america. First, lets go to the newsroom where Elaine Quijano has the sunday morning headlines. Federal investigators will return to a corn field near maxwell, texas, today where a hot air balloon crashed yesterday killed at least 16 people. The deflated balloon appears unscathed from the firer crash but all thats left is the frame. Significant loss of life. Eric grosof is an investigator with the ntsb. Much like a crime scene. Make sure we do everything correctly. The balloon caught fire in flight. Witnesses initially thought it was a car on fire. Margaret wylie lives nearby. I looked off, you saw a big fire ball go up and it was jus just just praying that whoever was there got away from the thing in time. This is the deadliest hot air balloon accident in recent u. S. History. According to the ntsb a total of 16 people have died while hot air ballooning between 2002 and 2012. For sunday morning im omar villafrankaz one person was killed four wounded. When someone opened fire in the citys Downtown Entertainment district this morning. Police are looking for a suspect. Hundreds of thousands of young catholics filled a meadow near krakow, poland, this world youth day for mass with pope francis. It was the last event on the pontiffs five day trip. We finally have a powerball winner. The ticket was purchased in new hampshire. Now todays weather, showers and storms are expected to damp pen big parts of the country, thunderstorms could be severe in the upper midwest. Nothing but sun out west. For the week ahead both coasts should be nice but heat will bake the heartland. Im Hillary Clinton and i approved this message. Who do you talk to for military advice right now . Well, i watch the shows. I mean i really see a lot of great you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows. While donald trump watched tv, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton negotiated a cease fire in gaza. A reduction in nuclear weapons. Took on vladimir putin. And stood up against the trafficking of human beings. A steady leader in an unsteady world. Cowan no other developed country embraces firearms the way ours does. The more we argue about them the more it seems their mystique grows. How guns became part of our cultural d. N. A. Has been a long journey and that is where we begin. Of all the artifacts that were aboard the good ship mayflower. But its going to be they were probably there. Accompanying the pilgrims to plymouth rock. Guns are so woven into the frab fabric that on the fourth floor of the Smithsonian National museum of American History they have their own vault. Im sure there are people who would give anything to come in here. Lots of visitors who are just astounded and dont want to leave. David miller is the curator here. Hes got guns of all shapes, sizes and calibers. That one probably from russia. And everyone has a historic reason for being here. This is the type of weapon that would have been used at lexington or concord. Its not the gun that kicked off the revolution with that shot heard round the world. But its similar. The muss kelp is in every history book. In the smash hit hamilton. Guns are just part of our every day language. Going off half cocked. Flash in the pan. Bite the bullet. Theyre all rooted in firearms lore. But were we really born a gun culture . Historian pamela haag says not necessarily. Listen to how many sentences begin with something like, americans have always. Always loved guns. Always had guns. These things are much more complicated than that. The meanings of guns have changed. In her book the gunning of america haag says most settlers viewed the gun as a tool, as necessary, and yet as ordinary as a plow or an ax. We we thi have gun culture because of this special exceptional status with guns, but really its really unexceptional. Treated like any other commodity. The at start of the revolutionary war we didnt even have enough arms to outfit the continental army. Today, however, its estimated we have more guns than people. So how did we get from there to here. And here. The gun industry not the only reason that we got here. However, it is the reason that never gets talked about. Its not just a matter of salesman ship. But gun industrialists like Oliver Winchester and samuel colt did their level best to create a market. Out of their factories in connecticut what came to be known as gun valley would produce firearms with the same speed and efficiency as henry ford would do with the automobile. Best known, the winchester 73 and the Colt Single Action Army revolver. Two of the guns that won the west. But as the frontier disappeared, so did the desire of Many Americans to own one. These guns were not just selling themselves they werent just flying off the shelf. So by the 20th century gun makers started to market their guns not just as a tool but a feeling. What was once needed now had to be loved. There was a strong appeal to the young, too, and the notion of the gun as a rite of passage. One of the more interesting ads said, you know your boy wants a gun, you just dont know how much. He cant tell you, its beyond words. For parents worried about real guns there were catalogs full of toy ones. A must have. Immortalized in what is now a christmas classic. The range model air rifle. It looked like the iconic rifles of the wild west. And nothing romanticized the gun better than the cowboy f. Real life legends like wild bill hickok. Like john wayne and jimmy stuart. Gun came to represent the rugged individualism of the untamed west. As the good guys and bad guys changed, so did the guns. Say hello to my little friend some became famous as the stars who fired them. Go ahead. Make my day. Cowan we take our guns seriously. Owning them is a constitutional right but weve also tried to legislate how to control them. Americans have always had a mixed feeling about guns. Like they are part of our heritage. Even in the supposed wild west,nd towns like tombstone and dodge city prohibited people from carrying guns in public. Fdr signed First Federal gun control legislation in 1934 hoping to reduce the number of bootlegging gangsters armed with tommy guns and the like. Then, fast forward three decades. President kennedy died at 1 00 p. M. Central standard time. John f. Kennedys assassination along with Robert Kennedy and reverend Martin Luther king, junior led president johnson to push through the gun control act of 1968. We have been through a great deal of anguish. These last few months and these last few years. Too much anguish to forget. Too much anguish back then. But what about now. The shooting at an orlando nightclub in june was the worst mass shooting in modern history. Weeks later, dallas, police were ambushed during a black lives matter protest. In both cases, the guns were bought legally. In fact, incidents like that tend to spur the sales of even more guns. In the year after the sandy hook master, u. S. Gun makers produced nearly 11 million firearms. Not far from sandy hook in hartford, connecticut, sits a church built by samuel colts widow. It stabbed as unique symbol of where guns sit in our culture today. Because mixed in with the cherubs and saints youll find her husbands firearm, as art, on the walls mingling with the ivy hidden at the top of the churchs column. Maybe thats the place guns will always occupy, worshipped by many, their presence carved in stone. Ahead you killed this man . I killed him. Good guys with guns. Isnt it time to let the real you shine through . Introducing Otezla Apremilast . Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats plaque psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. And the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. Dont take otezla if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Otezla may increase the risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. Some people taking otezla reported weight loss. 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At that very moment, lynn russells husband, chuck de caro, emerged from the shower. And he then moved the gun from pointing at my wife to pointing at me. And he said i need your money. But the gunman did in the know that russell, a former cnn anchor and de caro a former cnn reporter who trained as a special forces soldier, habitually travel with guns that they are licensed and trained to use. You were able to actually move your gun from the nightstand into your husband. Right. I slipped one of the guns into the purse and handed it to chuck and said, take a really good look inside here because see if theres anything you can find that we want to give the man. And chuck looked he said, yes, there is. And they say, as the suspect started to shoot i drew. De caro fired back. You killed this man . I killed him. But you got shot yourself . Well, thats the nature of the game. Its called combat. You might call them good guys with guns. An idea touted by donald trump after the june attack in orlan orlando. And one of the people in that room happened to have it and goes boom, boom, you know what, that would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight, folks. That would have been a beautiful, beautiful sight. Wayne lapierre. And its become a rallying cry for Wayne Lapierre the nra will go the distance. Ceo of National Rifle association, the nations most prominent gun rights group. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. We asked to speak with lapierre millions of american share the nra it. But instead the nra provided former president and current board member sandy froman of tucson. Could a good guy with a gun really stop a terrorist attack . I think a good guy with a gun could protect himself or herself. If you have a choice of using your gun to save your life or having your life taken, then, yes, i think you should have that choice. Basically the thought is the more lawabiding people own and are trained to use guns, the safer well all be . Exactly. Exactly. This is also a personal issue for froman who purchased her first gun at 32, after an attempted breakin at her home. I think that we all need to be prepared in case something really evil happens to us. And gun sales are up. With background checks on buyers hitting a record high of more than 23 million last year. Is even some School Personnel like these in ohio are preparing for the worst. While many gun rights advocates say its time to end most bans on guns in public places. Nope as gunfree zones. Something intent on rape or robbery or murder is not going to owe by that little circle with the line through it. So you think these itting ducks . Thats exactly right. But Dallas Police chief david brown be r, speaking after five officers were shot and killed, says these good guys actually complicate matters for police. Its been the presumption that a good guy with a gun is the best way to resolve some of these things, we dont know who the good guy is versus the bad guy is if everybody starts shooting. We heard this loud bang, bang, of noises. Colin has been in the thick of a gunmans attack. He was in french class at Virginia Tech on that day in 2007. You could hear it then it was getting louder. Then all of a sudden you could see bullets coming in the front. Classroom. He was lucky. He was shot four times he recovered. 32 people were killed. Yet he rejects the idea that good guys with guns could have saved the day. There was never a thought that came in my mind during the course of the event. I was more concerned with how can we do a better job of stopping the one gun from coming into that classroom. Than trying to put a gun in every single classroom of my school. That felt like it would much more dangerous situation. He now works advocating for stronger gun control laws that he says would keep guns away from bad guys in the first place. But the nra insists we dont need more laws. Ever time you pass a new law instead of enforcing the existing laws you further burden lawabiding citizens. Chuck, none of that was therefore before . Hes now undergone six surgery. He and his wife, lynn russell, believe that their right to bear arms saved their lives. But they say being a good guy with a gun is not a political decision, its a personal one. I dont tell anybody, can out and get a gun, i dont. But if youre going, you should be very well trained. And then understand that even if you have to use that gun to defend yourself, that life is never going to be the same again. Can you show us where you carry it. I have a purse. Cowan coming up. In the front pocket. Cowan weapon of choice. Its pink. It is pink oh. Model year endink thclarence event. Looks right to me. Shouldnt it be clear clearly. 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Michael waldman who heads the Brennan Center for justice at New York University law school, is the author of a biography of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment says, a wellregulated malaysia, comma, being necessary to the security of free state, comma, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, comma, shall not be infringed. What does that mean . The most disputed clause in the constitution is the phrase about militias which were a great concern when the bill of rights were written in 1792. At the Constitutional Convention in philadelphia, there was a very big controversy about how to allocate military power. Nelson hundred, professor of constitutional law, says the states feared the new government would try to disarm the 1 state militias which required every white male over 16 to own a gun. The antifederal lists were very worried that states were being deprived of their power to resist federal tyranny. The militia, sirs our ultimate safety, Patrick Henry argued. While guns were common place then, so were regulations. New york and boston prohibited the firing of guns within city limits. And in the notes for the Constitutional Convention, waldman says theres literally not a word about it protecting an individual right for