Oregon Shooting Renews Push For Gun Laws, Republican House Leadership Shakeup

After a gunman opened fire at a community college in Oregon killing nine people, President Obama made an impassioned appeal for stronger gun control policy. Despite Obama's plea, Alexis Simendinger of Real Clear Politics says there seems to be no appetite to bring up new gun legislation on Capitol Hill and if any change occurs it’ll be a project for the next president. After the announced resignation of House Speaker John Boehner, Republicans on Capitol Hill are preparing to elect a new leader. The likely next-Speaker Kevin McCarthy has come under fire from Democrats after he initially told Fox News that the investigation into the Benghazi attacks and Hillary Clinton's role was politically motivated. Another government shutdown was avoided after a battle over federal funding for Planned Parenthood heated up. NPR’s Susan Davis discusses how the debate will start up again in December. And after meeting with President Obama at the UN General Assembly in New York this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his government launched airstrikes in Syria just days later. Despite the assertions of the Kremlin, it appears the attacks are being carried out against anti-Assad forces in the region and not against ISIS. The New York Times’ Peter Baker and The Daily Beast’s Nancy Youssef discuss how Putin’s defense of Assad’s government may be an inadvertent defense of his own.