how that works. good night from washington. sean hannity is live from new york tonight. we leave new his capable hands. hey, sean. >> hannity: hey, tucker. thank you. great job as always. we have news about the florida high school shooter confessing to killing people. how all the warning signs surrounding the gunman, nikolas cruz weret missed, what went wrong and why did so many red flags go unnoticed? we'llpr have a comprehensive discussion tonight. in the face of unspeakable evil, violence, tragedy, people rose up to protect other people. we'll show you the heroes that saved lives at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. while politicians, the media are all pointing fingers placing blame, giving you the same predictable talking points tonight, we'll offer solutions. how do we protect students at schools all across the country? answers. that's in tonight's breaking news opening monologue.

all right, we start tonight with breaking newsew and detail about the investigationon into this horrific tragic florida high school shooting. now, the 19-year-old gunman nikolas cruz has now confessed to slaughtering 17 innocent people and wounding at least a dozen others. now, cruz is also telling investigators details of the sinister attack. he shot students in the hallway and fired into five separate classrooms. cruz also confessed to authorities he had extra ammunition in his backpack. we're also learning disturbing new details of o missed warning signs in what is now one of the worst massng shootings in amerin history. all of the red flags were there, but tragically, nikolas cruz was able to commit this heinous act. the f.b.i. is infant confirming tonight in september, a youtube user with the name nikolas cruz spelled the name the same way as the shooter was reported to the bureau for writing "i'm going to be a professional school shooter."" the man who reported the comment

says the f.b.i. visited him the following day but the bureau is sayingto today it couldn't be determined, the time, the location and actual identity of who posted the comment. now, our own cathridge noted today all the f.b.i. had to do was trace the i.p. address, routine practice, to determine the location of the individual. forr some reason it didn't happn in this case. the mayor of broward county is saying nikolas cruz was being treated at a mental health clinic but stopped treatment a year ago. take a look at these pictures. you can see the suspect seen posing with guns, knives and even dead animals. former classmates of cruz say he was a loner and obsessed with firearms. he liked to show off pictures of all of his weapons. "the miami herald" is reporting cruz had been suspended for fighting and having ammunition in his backpack. cruz wasas then later expelled r disciplinary reasons and was

attending a school in broward county for at-rific -- at-risk students. both parents adopted him and his brother. they're dead. his mother passed away in november. the suspect was staying with a friend's family. there are reports of nikolas cruz having ties to a florida-based white supremacist florida-based white supremacist we'll continue to monitor. what's also very troubling tonight is how students are describing their former classmate. now, this is what they say about the shooter, nikolas cruz. let's watch. >> he definitely had just some things a little off about him. more or less that he was aggressive and quiet and shy about when he got aggressive. >> personality was like, very, like different. >> he was a bit off. he would, like, curse randomly in the middle of lunch. he would just like scream out random curse words.

he always just seemed a little bit off, youtl know? just something was wrong with him. >> there was a lot of, like, crazy stuff that he did. just not right for school. he got kicked out of school multiple times for that kind of stuff. honestly, people were saying it was going too be him. all the kids would joke around like that saying he would be the one to shoot up the school. it turns out everyone predicted it. i that's crazy.. >> hannity: just like with other mass shooters, there were signs, there were warnings of mental, social, emotional problems, but all the pieces were never put together to prevent this tragedy from happening. likeen with many other shootings and terrorist attacks, nikolas cruz was telegraphing his intentions all over social media aside from the obvious fact that anyone would commit these horrible acts of evil or violence are completely deraged. was not commonality between the gunman to parkland, florida to the church, to sandy hook and

virginia tech are mental health issues and a mental illness. the president offered his deepest condolences and highlighted this issue of mental health today in a statement. >> we comfort the grieving and the wounded, and we heard for the entire community of parkland, florida, that is now in shock and pain and searching for answers. to law enforcement, first responders and teachers who responded so bravely in the face of danger, we thank you for your courager. we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schoolsec and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. later this month,, i will be meeting with the nation's governors and attorneyy generals. we're making our schools and our children safer. that will be our top priority. it is not enough to simply take

actions thate make us feel like we are making a difference. we must actually make that difference! >> hannity: profound words from the president saying it's not enough to feel better. it's got to make a difference. now, he's also, the president is, planning to visit parkland, florida, and offer comfort and support to the community. details haven't yet been finalized. also predictably, within hours, democrats, the liberal media, they race as they always do to politicize a tragedy and try to blame, believe it or not, president trump and republicans. let's take a look. >> step up. be a man. talk about it. stop thinking s about the nra ad your next campaign donation. justst stop. everyone knows what you're doing. and it's time. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhl picks up the coverage right now. >> thank you so much, mika. thank you, joe. dimarco rubio, you don't have to step up and be a man. step up and be a human. >> talk about mental health is

not enough. they must be followed by real action. the president has to lead or get out of the way. >> the people have got to say enough is enough.>> we're not continuing with all of these massacres. we have to have the people in the halls of government respond to that. >> hannity: this happened with republican administrations, under democratic administrations, but what you see there is shameful and disgusting, but s it's not surprising. it's so predictable it happens every single time there's a shooting. hollywood celebrities, they're all so quick to post their hateful messages, of course, aimed at the president. republicans on twitter. chelsey handler says "they have to elect candidates not funded by the nra in november. we have the opportunity to elect candidates who won't allow kids to go toch school and get shot. it's disgusting how many times this has happened and republicans do nothing. you all have blood on your

hands!" bette midler, "another school shooting, this in florida. congrats to the spineless cowards who do nothing to help us and this horrific epidemic in congress." and director adam mckay posted "normal person. oh my god, kids are being killed in schools, and churches, and concerts. let's do something. kids are being killed in schools, churches and concerts! let's not do one single thing." author stephen king writes "broward county, broward school shooting, there'll be prayers from blabber mouth don, pence, the grinch, and their rightwing cohorts. there'll be no call for any sort of sane gun regulars." of sane gun regulars." they want to point fingers and blame and use all kinds of vicious, horrificus rhetoric it never accomplishes anything. now, they shouldn't be what these tragedies are about here.

people rolling out the same, old, tired talking points and political arguments. liberals start blaming the weapon that the shooter used, in this case, an ar-15, but if they want to ban ar-15's, these mad men will use something else. we saw that atha virginia tech where a gunman used a pistol and killed 32 people. look, let's get to solutions tonight. i've been in radio for 30 years of my life. i've now -- this is my 23rd year at the fox news channel. i know all the talking points. i knoww it's all just noise. it's not going to solve the problem. here is a simple truth. you're not going to change people's minds with a political debate especially as it relates to the second amendment. i'm ag strong supporter of the second amendment. a my mind's not going to be changed. i've thought this through all these years of my life, and i doubt i can change the minds of anyi of these hollywood liberals and the anti-second amendment crowd. the problem this country is facing right now is school safety.

now, we can keep repeatingee the same talking points and talking over each other again and againn and again after something like this happens , or maybe it's trying to actually find a solution to this problem. the children of this country deserve to be protected. they deserve safe schools. as the president said, no child, no teacher should ever be in danger in an american school. we could all agree on that. no parent should have to fear for their son or daughters when they kiss them good-bye in the morning. ini want to lay out a solution i think is not political and frankly i believe any reasonable person could agree on. this is about the safety and security of students and children in our schools. and every single school in the country needs immediately a comprehensive, threat assessment done by law enforcement professionals. every school hasls a unique situation and for those that will say, oh, oh, where are we going to get the money for this? i would argue it's probably more

than likely local police, local f.b.i. p would be happy to help schools figure out the best plan of action to protect these kids andee keep them safe. now, you're going to have to secure the perimeter of every school. all points of entry must be securery. you got to make sure that there's a system that controls who is going in and out of the building, and in addition to that, you'll need a strong, physical security presence, and you can start by hiring trained, armed , former or retired police officers. trained, armed, former or retired armed military veterans. in other words, let's give our kids the same security that most politicians that they get. let's give them the same protectionon that actors and actresses get on the red carpet when they're at the oscars and pretty much everywhere else they go. we have plenty of retired officers. plenty of trained professionals.

plenty of trained military buy it. they could conceal -- military guy. they can conceal their weapons. their very presence, also with a strategy plan that is implemented will bring about a change. parkland high school has 3,000en students. it's one of the biggest campuses in florida. they'll need more than one person to properly assess and tee ter any potential threat at a facility that large. we need enough people to protect every single building, every point of entry and the entire perimeter. some of you will argue, ok, this is going to cost money. you're right. my answer is, yes. but is it not worth every penny so that we never ever have to turn on our tv's like yesterday and see this unfolded ever again like what happened in parkland? now, here's another point about the plan. now, we already know it works. i broadcast from new york city.

and post-9/11, you can not enter a single office building without a work i.d. i have a radio building i enter. i have a tv building i enter. if you're a visitor in any of these buildings, you have to present a valid identification or else you're not getting in, and youu have to be vouched for by people that have been secured and are already in the building or work in the building. every student could have their own valid i.d. before entering the school. and also where needed, metal detectors which have already proven to be effective in some schools in the country. here is the bottom-line, we're at a cross roads. it's time to either step up, do our job, create school safety that will work for these kids. give them the same safety our politicians, actors, actresses and famous people get, and instead of, you know, bringing out the same, old talking points and trying to score cheap political points and trying to outdo each otherto with the same argument, same attacks, no one's mind is being changed, maybe for once we can solve the problem,

and this should be all about solutions. now, i'm not saying this plan is flawless. nothing is ever going to stop 100% of these things from happening. there's t evil in the hearts of other people, unfortunately, in this world, but why would we try to do every single thing we can do in this case to prevent these tragedies from occurring and make them less deadly if, in fact, they to happen? here's a simple test and a question for you. everybody tonight,, i think they can ask themselves. if god forbid you ever found yourself in any type of administrative building and that building has an active shooter, would you prefer to know there are trained, armed, retired military and police already on site to give you a fighting chance? would you want to know that theree? was a complete threat assessment, security assessment on that building that was completed? my guess is you probably would. now, here's our final point. democrats,cr they say gun contrl

leads to less violence. well, if that's the case, i would like them to explain why cities with the highest murder rates have the strictest gun control and are one by democrats. look at these stats about the number of measuredners 2016. -- murders in 2016. all of these cities have democratic mayors and have been run by liberals for years. yet their crackdowns on the second amendment have done nothing to stop violence. liberals don't want to you know about these shocking statistic. during the obammatic presidency -- obama presidency, 18,000 people who were shot in chicago just during the last six years of his presidency. do you remember hearing this kind of outrage and blame by the left about the out-of-control violence? that's one american city. and liberals also love to say that giving people the right to carry doesn't c prevent crime. the figures say otherwise. let's take a look at some of the charts given to us by author morgan, less' crime from the crime prevention presearch --

research center. the right to carry laws were enactedd before -- before the -- here's another graphic on murder rates before and after right to carry laws were put into place also in the u.s. murders have plunged as a result and as john law jr. points out, as more people carry guns, you see further drops in both of those statistics. all right, a lot to absorb. the answer is we got to protect our kid. we don't need to tune into what we saw yesterday ever again. let's start solving the problem. here with reaction, the host of "justice" with judge jeanine piro. judge, any court you walk into inin america, i have to go throh a metal detector, any one i've ever been in i also have to present an i.d. in any court into every rnc,in any court dnc convention or every ball game iy go to and every office building in new york.

can we not do something better instead of the same, old arguments? >> jeanine: you know, sean, you're so right. what you said certainly rang true t to me where whenever something like this happens, we go to the oldve argument. the second amendment people say, you know, the right of the individual to possess or bear arms shan't be infringed. on the left, they say the guns kill people. i think shooters kill people. but let me start by saying, sean, number one, that as the d.a., i.a would often have to tl a parent that their child was a victim of a homicide. heart goes out to all of those parents and all of those people who knew the victims here. but we needpl to be very clear. this is notle a political issue. this is not an issue about the left and the right and the nra. actually, i'm sick of hearing the nra. and in the interest of full disclosure, let me say i have many guns. i have long guns. i have hand guns. h but this is really about the individual, and in this case, an individual who not only

threatened and posted himself on youtube as someone who wanted to beel a professional school shoor , but that individual has been expelled from school. he had all kinds of personal problems. and yet he was able to purchase a gun. why was he able to purchase a gun? because background checks, to be honest with you, are a joke in the sense that if you're on psychotropic drugs, if you've been in a mental institution, the law protects us -- i and and i used to signhe those -- all te whack-a-dos from adam lanza and all the school shooters, au au error onra, columbine, they could get the gunsot from anywhere. although some got them from their parents. we p need to protect kids. we need to have metal detectors and experienced d cops. i don't care if they're retired or still cops working in the schools and we've got to be able to have perimeter controls.

we've got to have police -- teachers who could carry a weapon and react to this kind of nonsense because our kids deserve our protection, sean. >> hannity: look, i'm not saying it's -- i know schools that right now if you're a parent, there's only one door you're getting inor that they do have security at these schools. there's only one door. even if they know you, i've gone into schools where hi, mr. hannity, i need your i.d. first thing they would say. >> jeanine:ld yeah. yeah. you can do that at a building in new york city. they'll say, hi, judge jeanine, do you have your i.d.? wait a minute, we'rewa in new yk city. you know who i am! but i agree with you, sean. what we had here, though, was a warning we haven't had in other cases. with all due respect to the f.b.i., if they deserve it, based everything i'm hearing about i don't want to hear another f.b.i. agent go up to a microphone and say, we had no

further identifying information. wait a minute, you're the f.b.i. some guy didid the right thing d he called you and said this kid is on youtube saying he wants to be a professional school shooter. how many people in this country have the name nikolas cruz? how many people in this country have the name nikolas with a "k?" how many of themem have bought a gun? if we learned anything from 9/11 is the federal agents don't connect with each other. this kid, all the warnings were there. all they needed to to was connect the dots and they didn't! >> hannity: i think, judge, you couldn't say it any better. all right, we appreciate your insight. we'll be watching you this weekend and you're in for me tomorrow night. people will be watching. thank you, judge. when we andnd back, president trump -- we have a lot of breaking news -- vowing tough action omental health following the shooting in florida. we'll introduce you to the heroes from yesterday straight ahead.

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now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. >> i talked to my teacher and said, "i'm scared." a then we all heard gunshots. he unlocked the door and let us in. i had thought he was behind me. >> this is mr. beigle? >> but he wasn't. whenne he opened the door, he hd to relock it so we can stay safe. he didn't have a chance. >> hannity: a student describing how her geography teacher was killed yesterday protecting her and her fellow classmates during this shooting. the only incredible act of heroism we're learning about tonight. joining with us more is our fox news trace gallagher. a lot of heroes here that have come up. trace?

>> a bunch. on most schools including this one have active shooter drills giving teachers and students guidelines on how to react. during a genuine attack, instinct takes over. in this case, instinct of aaron feis was to throw himself in front of students to shield them from the bullets. the coach was shot and later dieded in surgery. those who knew him say he died the same way he lived, putting himself second. watch. >> i mean, he was a big man. he sprinted with everything he had toward it to make sure everyone was safe. i heard he got in front of a couple of people and shielded them. heie actually took the bullets r them. >> i don't know when aaron's funeral is. i don't know how many adults are going to go. but you'll get 2,000 kids there! the kids in this community loved him.. they adored him! he was one of the greatest people i knew! >> and witnesses say that geography teacher you mentioned, sean, scott beigle, knew kid in the hallway were in danger.la

he opened his classroom door to let them in. when he tried to relock the door, the shooter walked by that very moment and he was shot and killed. students inside his classroom say he got in the way of the killer and likely saved many lives.s. several other teachers also barricaded their doors and hid their students. then there was the story of the unnamed janitor who witnesses say helped save the lives of students who were unknowingly running toward the shooter. they say the janitor told them to run the other way and ushered them into a classroom for safety. listen. >> he stopped us. he got us into . [ indiscernible ] into her classroom. i would h say 30 to 40 students into this teacher's classroom at the same time and as a result tf their heroic actions, they saved probably all of our lives, about 40 of us. >> amazing to think, amazing to think within seconds, many students witnessed both the epitome of evil and the height

of heroism. many other stories we've yet to hear about. sean? >> hannity: amazing heroism. thank you, trace, for that report. we appreciate it -- for that report. we appreciate it earlier today, the president said he plans to travel to parkland, florida, in the coming days. love from pompano beach in florida with much more is our chief national correspondent ed henry. ed? >> s reporter: sean, you.reporter: sean, you want to talk about heroes? this time last night at this medical center i was standing in front of, there were fears that the death toll, 17, were going to rise, and there were still people in critical condition. people here working around the clock to save lives, doctors, nurses, first responders. i can tell you, tonight, there's a glimmer of hope. there's only one patient left in critical condition. they're still rallying around that patient. the president giving his thanks certainly today grateful for everyone springing into action but also trying to heal the nation as he spoke from the white house.wh listen. >> we're committed tott working

with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. later this month, i will be meeting with the nation's forevers and attorney generals -- governors and attorney generals. we're making our schools and our children safer. that'll be our top priority. it is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we're making a difference. >> now, remember after that horrific shooting in las vegas, the president and first lady, melaniamp trump, didn't just tak to families of victims. they also went in, met with doctors at a medical center, the nurses, the first responders, to thank them. i'm told by the doctors here today that without the emt technicians jumping on this quickly and stopping the bleeding there would have been many, many more lost lives, and so the president will be here at south florida in marrow -- maro

lago. as early as saturday morning, the president is likely to be at either this medical center, the high school, somewhere in this region wanting to show more directly his thanks for everything that everyone on the ground here has done. sean? >> hannity: ed henry, thanks so much for that report. we appreciate it joining us now with more. we have former lapd detective and fox news contributor mark furman. mark, i know you a lot over the years. we don't often disagree. you've seen a couple of flaws in what i thinkou -- you just will never convince an anti-gun person to be pro-second amendment.nt similarly, a i have carried a weapon almost my whole adult life. i've had carry permits in new york, california, alabama, georgia and rhode island. it's part of -- i was trained since id was 11 in the use of a firearm. so i -- you're not going to win on that debate. but securing the schools with the professionals to me is 1000%

doable and we owe it to the kids to do this. >> we do. we do. the only thing that i -- i don't disagree with you, i just think there's a better approach. when you have retired personnel, they have the best part of their career behind them and you need a generational gap that isn't two or three generations, perhaps the better part of one. these officers on the school need to be able to interact with these students and get that information thatat a guy like cz would have surfaced and they would have actually confided in the officer. you need to get some kind of a system where you have protocols foroc all of these schools so everybody is working off the same sheet of music. and you need to harden the inside targets so the suspect can't get in and you create the tactical situation for a shooter on thehe outside which allows responding officers and the

security officers too take out the suspect with no danger to the students. ii think this is all possible without gun control. >> all of it is, strategically and tactically, look, my guess, manny, is you're going to have retiredd military, retired polie or maybe active. and i think you could even work in conjunction with local law enforcement to get this done, and, again, it would be conceal carry. i would think these, probably a lot of people, a lot of these students would become friends with these guys over time. mark is right, we can get a lot of intelligencet from them. strategically, tactically, you surround the perimeter and you have a full security assessment. we know the entry point. no one that is not known gets into that school, period. end of sentence. it seems doable if we choose to do it. >> i totally agree. having the experience of former military, former law

enforcement, we just had a wonderful piece where the coach from this high school saved lives. this is a coach that knew these students. he was a father figure perhaps. certainly an adult figure to these y young men and women. that is what we need. we need people that these young people will respect, look up to if they have problems whether it is a active shooter situation or a more day-to-day basis. drug condition, criminal condition, bully condition. they'll go up to the former military role models or law enforcement and be able to discuss with them what they can do to help the situation. it'll be a win-win-win on a daily basis. >> for everybody! mark. you said. something, if they're there every day, look, i was a kid smoking in the bathroom. i got to know the janitors, everybody, because they wouldn't

rat me out for when i was young and stupid, but in all seriousness, they're going to get to know these kids. those kids will open up to them. all the things we heard t the ks saying post-shooting, these guys will have heard earlier. they have the training and the knowledge on how to intervene in a situation like that. >> agreed. >> no, i agree, sean. when you have somebody that is inside a system like a school, you have to not only have security, you have to be able to have investigative skills to be able to very effectively and sometimes under the radar investigate some of these problems that you see or that are reported to you. but just noter that all security -- but remember that all the security from the protection of the president, everything the f.b.i. does, the israelis, they'll tell you security is a laird even.

-- layered event. you always contemplate a failure of one or something that fails or something is taken out, you need a layer of security no matter what andit a school especially. >> hannity: all right, thank you, both. if every american demands this in their district, we'll have safer schools. 1,000% safer. when we come back, we'll have a heated debate. dan, geraldo who is down in florida as we continue. stay with us. ♪

it never gets old. alright everyone, 2 truths 1 lie. i was going to be on the real world, i play the oboe, and i saved a kid's life. you definitely never saved a kid's life. i'm serious, last summer i donated bone marrow to a kid who had leukemia. saving a life, the truth is, it's easier than you think. learn how at dkms.org who knew we were living with a hero? a hero who plays the oboe. (laughter) >> hannity: all right, following yesterday's deadly shooting in florida, democrats, members of the media so quick to politicize a tragedy. take a look. >> the pattern will be perfectly predictable. there'll be a moment of silence. people will wish everybody thoughts and prayers and sympathy for the victims and then the congress of the united states will do absolutely nothing. >> and that city you're in, washington, if you match it

against public opinion polls of their constituents, lawmakers in that city are failing american people every day. >> i just really don't know what the body count needs to be before people in washington d.c. give a rat's ass about the people in this country and their children. >> this one is the 18th school shooting just this year, but also the day-by-day deaths that aree preventable and we have an obligation to prevent congress -- congress has been complicit. congress bears responsibility! >> hannity: joining us now with reaction is geraldo rivera and dan bongino. geraldo, last night you got a lot of reaction. this has to end. i share your compassion. i know how sincere you are. then you went into the ar-15 argument. i don't want to change this into a gun debate. i think we better transcend it quick.me i will never convince you on the issue of guns. i own ar-15's.

you are never going to convince me, so if we get rid of the ar-15, virginia tech was the worst shooting in u.s. history and that was a pistol. get rid of the ar-15. get rid of the pistol. what about securing the schools? what about the retired military? trained? armed, police military guys securing the perimeter. a real plan like we have for actors and actresses and politicians? know, brother, i totally campaign to harden our schools. i think that detective fuhrman laid it out in very explicit terms in the layout. i can't top that. i'm 100% behind you in that, sean. i think people need t to get thr arms around a harsh reality, that in the state of florida and many other states m, a psycho disturbed, expelled, 18-year-old who is talking about being the next school-yard

shooter could legally purchase an ar-15! military-style assault weapon! thisis is a kid who can't buy a beer in this state! i think that it is outrageous and illogical, sean! and listen, and we have to remember one thing, that ar-15 was banned. sale of that weapon were banned in this country from 1994 until 2000! >> hannity: it didn't help. >> under the brady ban. for 10 years, we didn't have it. >> hannity: it didn't help! >> i mean, let's do something. we can't have the kid who's fermenting all of this evil inside him have such easy access. not only did he get the machine -- >> geraldo, listen. i appreciate your emotional, you know, involvement in this as well. it was a tragedy, but let's talk reality! the assault weapons ban, the department ofpa justice's own study on the assault weapons ban said it did almost nothing to

reduce firearms violence. what you're suggesting -- to be clear here -- is what? that legal, law abiding american citizens like me, right? i own an ar. frankly, geraldo, i like you and respect your opinion but i don't care about your opinion about what weapons i should have. why should i stop because you want to reinstitute a ban that the department of justice itself said had almost no effect on anything at all. >> dan, wait a second! holdd, it, dan. have you heard from the children in this school? have you heard from the children going up to the news teams and telling them how disappointed they are in the adults and that you have to do something? you have to -- or get off the pot! stop the thoughts and prayers. if i hear one more politician tell me about the dead 17 kids are in their thoughts and prayers, i don't care about their thoughts and prayers anymore! i care about what they're going to do to keep my kid safe!

>> you were a war correspondentr at onene point! i was a police officer. i've actually been shot at. you know what? i had a firearm to defend myself and suggesting somehow that we're going to make these kids, some of whom are dead, safer by disarming and making them sheep in a school and by stopping legal law-abiding people from getting guns is not the solution. it's entirely disingenuous. taking the moral high ground on that. >> hold on i've been in fox news for 17 years. i understand howy my feelings on this are not in sync with the majority of my audience. i apologize for that. but you have to know how deeply feel about this. when an 18-year-oldd who has ben expelled from school, whether he's orphaned or he leaves his foster family or he's shooting in the backyard and he's telling other friends, you have to come see my guns! when that kid can go up to this gun seller here and legally

purchase an ar pf15 with 30--- ar-15 with standard round clips and buy a half dozen of them and extra ammo and this is the same kid, this is the same punk, psycho, loser kid that can't buy a budweiser because he's under age, if everyone doesn't see how illogical that is, i feel sorry for people. if your embrace of the second amendment is so fervant and blind -- >> hannity: one at a time! remember, 32 -- the worst u.s. school shooting, 32, it was a pistol. but let me go back. i think i'm proving a point here . we're not going to convince either side in this debate. you're not going to convince dan. you're not going to convince me. we're not going to convince you. i think the answer, i'll throw it to dan first is to protect the schools. full security markups of every school. secure perimeters. entry points only and armed, retired military police.

dan? >> sean, it's the only way. you know, i was a cop. when i used to sit in the cells, sometimes i would talk to the criminals we arrested on gun crimes. america, are you listening to me? criminals don't care! they don't give a damn about your gun laws. as a matter of fact,te they love your gun laws. you know why? they get to prey on a bunch of innocent sheep out there. i'm not disputing geraldo's authenticity here or his genuine passion for this at all. i'm simply suggesting the solution he presents is irrational one that we both agree, geraldo this kid should have never been in possession of firearms. i'm simplyn saying your solution will not work. it is entirely irrational! >> hannity: real quick, we have 20 seconds. >> i'm not going back to guns. i've got five kids. i've got a 12-year-old who is in middle school. i want her protected the way my money is protected in the bank. i want her protected the way we we go into airports.the way we i want our most -- we always

say, what's your most precious possession? my most precious possession are my children. we always say that. let's put our money where our mouths are. i hope that the president as he'sn coming town -- and i know he's comingth here to park -- coming down, and i know he's coming down here to parkland will also voice his concerns about this in a deep and heartfelt way and sincere way -- >> hannity: we all agree on that. we must do this for our kids. good to y see you both. appreciate it if you're a parent, you definitely want to see this next segment. we're going to tell you the warning signs to look for and others. if you see it happening, see something, say something. what should you be looking for next.

>> all right, so many other horrific mass shootings. nikolas cruz placed serious warning signs including t behavr to bad he was expelled from soon. radio talk show host dr. gina lowden is here joining us. we got into this last night. all the signs were there. people, you know, -- see something, say something. they said something. f.b.i. was brought in. evidence was all over social media. an inkling something was very wrong with this young man. >> yeah, you know, sean, i've been on the ground enough here that i've spoken with a lot of the students. with my own children who go to school not too far from here. and the thing that everybody is saying is, yes, they want something done. as geraldo said in your last

segment, but i think we need to thinknk about what we can do takingng politics maybe off the table and really honing in on what is practical to prevent the next shooting? i would submit to you it doesn't have anything to do with the about.e're talking it has to do with the marshall -- i'm sorry, the military like you're talking about.li coming, being available in the schools. retired military, sean. and maybe we can -- >> i'm not talking about military guards. >> hannity: from -- >> take politics out of it. let'sat do what we agree on, right? let's find solutions for these students. then let's deal with the guns, mental health and all the other stuff on the table. >> hannity: doctor, let me go to you now. i want to ask you this. i heard from everybody there's going to be a lot of grief counseling. but when you got a kid that you have to throw out of school because he's got ammunition in his backpack it would seem in everybody's best interest -- and i know some colleges offer this and maybe they have more of the

resources to be able to do it, but it seems that schools should be able to intervene in a way to offer the mental health as soon as you see these signs. >> sean, you know what? you know, a lot of people talk about mental illness. they talk about guns.th you know, this was the perfect storm that came together. only 4% of firearm homicides are committed by people with mental illness. mental illness is really i not a risk factor for violence. the people who are mentally ill are much less riske.en they tend to be more -- risky. they tend to be more of the perpetrators and victims. as far as guns, we know most people with guns aren't violent people. but if someone is hell-bent on doing destruction and hurting a lot of people, it's going to happen. so there's very little we can do to preventre these types of instances. >> hannity: i disagree in the sense that we saw every sign and symptom. social media footprint.l what the kids knew about him.

getting expelled from school. >> so maybe we take -- >> hind sight bias. >> maybe we take what we know about this particular instance and look for that perfect storm and those signals and put that child in some sort of counseling. we have to consider, sean, 70% of americans are tying nosable today with some sort of mental issue. are we going to evoke second amendment rights of all 70% of americans? that would be a problem. military, by the way, rates even higher. >> hannity: we have to pay attention to the symptoms. thank you, both. we appreciateat your insight. you being back with us. more "hannity" after this. my name is jeff sheldon, and i'm the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it's great when you see

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♪i'd lie for you ♪walk the wire for you ♪yeah, i'd die for you ♪you know it's true ♪everything i do ♪i do it for you >> hannity: race to politicize such tragedy is not new. we heard all thehe arguments. this time, it's time we can protect all of these students if we truly want to. and there are people ready, willing and able to do so. any way, we'll have more on this tomorrow night.

thank you so much for being with us. unfortunately, that's all the time we have left for being with us. this show will all be fair and balanced. we are not the destroy trump media. we almost always hope you set your dvr so you never miss an episode. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. the one and only laura ingraham is standing by. miss ingr >> hannity: we can protect these kids, laura. there's a way. we can secure anything we want.. we have to have the desire. that'sav not political, protectg kids. >> as you pointed out, hannity, israelis deal with stuff. they had this problem. they dealt with it. and you don't have any more israel.don't have any more you just don't have it. so we got to learn from the people who actually do it right. h season sean, thank -- sean, thank you so much as always.