christina taylor green's family is an example. the story you told about jessica that you and her brother talked about. i mean, just, you know, scene much like christina taylor green, even though she was much younger. these are tragic stories. this is going to take a long time for this community to get over this. >> what's your advice? there are family members who have lost loved ones who are watching right now. and there are obviously the larger family in aurora, colorado, who's suffering through. what's your advice to somebody watching tonight? >> well, i think for the folks that were directly affected by this, the victims, the ones that were not killed, and the family members, i mean, it really helped to come together as a community. that happened in tucson. i think these towns like tucson tend to rise to the occasion. and that support really helps those people that are experiencing this. so i think it helps. as an example, gabby's staff, i mean, we immediately got, you know, some professional help for them. in january, january

one killed was 9-year-old christina taylor green. born on september 11, 2001, christina was a living symbol of hope that persisted despite the tragedy our country faced that day. so president obama spoke about christina in his speech at the tucson memorial a few days later. >> i want to live up to her expectations. i want our democracy to be as good as christina imagined it. i want america to be as good as she imagined it. >> the president was imploring us to be a better nation for christina, better so that no parent, no mother would ever of have to endure the loss of a child again. and, if they did, for whatever reason, that justice would be fair and swift. i couldn't help but think of christina but this week and wondered how well we lived up to president obama's challenge. for sybrina fulton spoke out this week after the killer of her child when said it was all part of god's plan. >> i don't believe that's god's plan for him to killable innocent teenager. >> but trayvon can't be here to tell his side of the story. he was shot and k

taylor green who died outside of that safeway in arizona. and family members who may have called to express their concern and their grief over a 9-year-old being killed and murdered outside of a safeway, we still have nothing done. so now that we look at a 6-year-old, lost in aurora, again, i say, why is that going to make anything different now? >> well, i hope that there is some kind of a tipping point, where finally the american people just get fed up, with the dangers on their streets. now the dangers in a movie theater, with the kinds of demands by the national rifle association for more and more ability for people to carry guns everywhere and anywhere. and i really do think that, you know, if you really look at the agenda of the national rifle association, that wanted to protect $3,000 worth of weapons in bankruptcy, that people should be able to maintain those and keep them safe from certs. that kind of ridiculous legislation and the ridiculous idea of someone buying 6,000 bullets, i think maybe there is a tipping point. i hope it's n

. >> we met christina meadows and kristine taylor at the tennessee prison for women. both were eager to talk about their children which made the graphic details they shared about their violent crimes all the more shocking. >> i did so much damage they said that i had to have a weapon which i didn't. >> it was almost like an al pacino movie i guess you could say. very brutal, bloody. >> christine taylor serving 12 years for aggravated robbery and kidnapping told us about the eight hours she held a friend captive and brutally beat her. she had accused the friend of stealing from her. >> burned her on her face. i burned her on her sides. with a 12 gauge shotgun i pistol whipped her on her hip. which took a chunk about a quarter size out of her hip. she was disfigured, i guess. her face, couldn't really look at her and see it was her. >> christina meadows also knew her victim. she and her cousin got into a fight that escalated into a vicious assault. >> i hit her so many times in the same spot, you know, it made a gash from up here to down here. she was 6 foot tall and we

that day, that night, and someone whose tragic death reminds us all too well of when nine-year-old christina-taylor green was murdered in tucson last year because she wanted to know more about our government. she was part of a group there that for representative gifford. the victims of these tragedies and their families deserve more than solidarity and mourning. they deserve our attention, our action. what do we do to prevent these tragedies in the future will be the real test of character of this body, the best way to prove we're really concerned is to take the action necessary to protect young lives, because on that score now we lose. i've been in the senate a long time, and i've seen too many americans murdered by guns, too many lives cut short because of the easy availability of guns. and too many times congress has sat back, cowered before the gun lobby and done nothing to prevent these things from happening in the future. we can't wait any longer, mr. president, without the public at large challenging our effectiveness, wanting to know what it is that we're doing to protect the next group of