Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) calls on Americans to "wake up," pointing to restrictions in gun tracing policies as the cause of 11,000 homicides last year in America at the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the FY2008 budget for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Marshal Service.

Lautenberg compares 11,000 handgun related deaths in the U.S. to a combined total of 650 in Great Britain, Canada, Germany and Japan last year, whose populations are similar to ours. (0:47)
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