Bloomberg on gun control: "No more soothing words" (video)

MSNBC-Martin Bashir, video (10:00).

Karen Finney, Ari Melber and Jonathan Capehart discuss.

"America's deadly devotion to guns"

A family looks at a pistol at an annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, which now claims more than 4 million members. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Gary Younge (GuardianUK):

...guns in America are no trifling matter. There are approximately 90 guns for every 100 people in the US (a rate almost 15 times higher than England and Wales). More than 85 people a day are killed with guns and more than twice that number are injured with them. Gun murders are the leading cause of death among African Americans under the age of 44. MORE...