NBC Nightly News - 1999-04-27
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[0:00] Blue larger community. The president's
[0:03] very strong words on guns and kids.
[0:05] Plus, the latest on the
[0:07] investigation. In depth tonight, the
[0:09] family. Should parents be responsible
[0:11] when kids kill? Another war zone.
[0:15] Thousands of American reservists getting
[0:17] the call to
[0:19] Kosovo. And who's really disabled? If
[0:22] you wear glasses or have high blood
[0:24] pressure, does that count? Questions
[0:26] before the US Supreme Court.
[0:31] From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:34] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:38] Bro. Good evening. That shooting
[0:40] massacre in Littleton, Colorado has
[0:42] touched off an emotional debate on gun
[0:44] control at the highest levels, one week
[0:47] to the day after 15 people died by
[0:49] gunfire at Coline High. It began with
[0:52] President Clinton presenting his omnibus
[0:54] crime package which includes banning
[0:57] juvenile possession of assault weapons
[0:59] and limiting handgun purchases to one a
[1:01] month. Then the president spoke to the
[1:04] larger issue of violence and its effect
[1:06] on
[1:07] society. This is about our community.
[1:10] This is about our responsibility to our
[1:12] children. This is about protecting our
[1:14] our children and the vulnerable children
[1:16] themselves from people who are about to
[1:18] go over the line here. And this is crazy
[1:22] that we're living in a society that
[1:24] takes no reasonable steps to protect the
[1:27] larger
[1:29] community. So it's not just a culture of
[1:32] violence that has to
[1:34] change. It's a culture of hunting and
[1:36] sport shooting that has to stop
[1:39] financing efforts to frighten their
[1:41] members who are good, god-fearing,
[1:43] law-abiding, taxpaying citizens o