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cnn news 2013-01-14

We begin tonight with vital news about a man whose courage is inspiring. His name is Zaidoun Alzoabi. And for more than a year on this program, he has raised his voice from inside Syria, raised his voice to counter the lies repeatedly told by the regime of Bashar al-Assad. For more than a year, this man, Zaidoun Alzoabi, has defied the dictator insisting on using his own name in interviews talking about the crimes he has seen the regime commit. He has done this knowing full well that at any moment the regime that has killed and tortured and disappeared so many could simply choose to silence him. A month ago, I asked him why he was risking his life by talking, risking his life by insisting we actually broadcast his name.

"When I chant I want freedom. I can hear my vioce for the first day in my life. Now how can I give up this? Even if it costs me my life. "

Imaging that a growing adult hearing his voice for the very first time. But three weeks ago, Syrian secret police arrested him and his brother Sohaib. Today we got great news, we learned that he has been freed. He says he became seriously ill during his detention close to death in fact and was not given him medical treatment. He is with his family tonight in Syria. His brother, Sohaib, though remains in custody and Zaidoun and his family fear for his safety. Zaidoun says he last saw his brother eight days ago and that he was in good spirit.

You can go to a facebook page the family set up to get latest on his brother's condition and find out how to- try to help secure his release. A relative says Zaidoun do thanks everyone worldwide especially this program and our viewers for keeping their story in the public eye, which we will continue to do as long as it takes and we hope to speak with Zaidoun as soon as possible.

Now, "keep them honest", the one truth that we know about the gun debate here at home that neither side has monopoly on the truth or even the facts because the facts can be so hard to establish. One side has studied linking gun ownership with violent death, but correlation is in causation. The other side has researched showing that when people are allowed to carry concealed weapons, violent crimes go down. Yet newer studies cast doubt on that conclusion. The botton line, finding a way to study the problem and possible solutions to it, would hard enough even if this weren't already such a pressing and emotionally charged subject. But it is. So with the shortage of facts but a surplus of victims and anguish and loss that a debate so far has evolved into passionately stated mutually exclusive competing articles of faith.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."

Well, that's one view, more guns in more places. Here is the other.

"And when it comes to preventing future acts of violence in our schools, let me say this, more guns are not the answer."

That Cennecticut's governor, Dan Malloy. His view and Wayne LaPierre from the NRA, they each ring true to a whole lot of people. That's because each side can point to real-life gun incidents to prove their point. In a moment the political state of play. And we'll talk also with General Stanley McChrystal, his view of military style firearms in civilian hands. But first, Randi Kaye with two very different gun stories. Take a look.