the santa fe shooter there has been identified as seventeen year old student demetrius pago insists he stormed the school with a shotgun and a revolver he reportedly sped the people he liked and killed those he didn't a total of thirty one people have died and sixteen firearm accidents incidents i should say in american schools since january that's two more than the number of deaths in the u.s. military in the same period the worst of the school shootings happened in park and in florida three months ago. international nur attorney jennifer brethen says the problem of gun control is often oversimplified you know we have one side going for more mental health issues screening wanting to protect that and the other side we have just gun control in trying to demonize things like the n.r.a. and i think there are aspects to both you know there are these gray areas which in america we're sort of losing when it comes to these political talking points so i think there are some gun control issues that i do agree with for example you know allowing american citizens to hold firearms and to carry fir