we know that this profile is one that salvador ramos fit. the shooter in uvalde. he was a deeply troubled young man. he was isolated, he was bullied at school. he cut himself because he said he liked the way it made him look. it made him look tough. the history of fighting, assaulting fellow students, threatening sexual assault of young women and torturing and killing animals. it's a familiar profile. this young man i think was crying out for help. but he got no help. notwithstanding the best efforts of people around him. this young man shot his own grandmother before he went to robb elementary school because she g wanted him to go back to e classroom after being out of the classroom for two years because of coded mitigation practices. so our goal with this legislation is to try to help people in crisis get treatment before they reach a point like salvador ramos. i want to w be clear, not everybody that suffered a mental health crisis is a threat to themselves and others. matter fact the opposite is true, many people suffer in silence but their periods, t thr fami

that includes stronger mental health resources which could have helped salvador ramos before he became so sick that he killed innocent children and he committed suicide essentially in the process. that will includes school safety measures which could have prevented the shooter from actually getting inside robb elementary school. and it includes reforms to prevent violence by criminals and other dangerous individuals. the national instant criminal background check system is one of the most effective tools we have to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people who suffer from severe mental illness. but it's not a perfect system. it's only as good as the information contained in the system. for example, 2017, the shooting at sutherland springs, a little town outside of san antonio, texas, my hometown, what happened there highlighted the gaping hole in the background check system. despite the fact that the shooter had a long and disturbing history of violence that should have been -- should have prohibited him from purchasing a gun, he was able to do so, because the air force, in th

salvador ramos habrÍa utilizado mapas para movilizarse dentro de la escuela.ete arredondo, a quien llamaron incapaz de tomar acciones para salvar vidas. "la horrible manera en que mi madre fue asesinada y arrebatada de nosotros nos destrozÓ por completo el corazÓn, pero hizo que el de mi padre se detuviera". eso dijo la joven de 16 aÑos. elyangÉlica: los investigadores habrÍan podido reconstruir los hechos basados en las imÁgenes de las cÁmaras de vigilancia. por eso vieron que posiblemente 11 policÍas lograron entrar apenas 3 minutos despuÉs que lo hizo salvador ramos. esperaron 74 minutos mÁs para poder neutralizarlo. en 4 semanas espera que haya un informe preliminar de esta tragedia. con esto vuelvo con ustedes. carolina: me quedo con las palabras de esta madre de familia desesperada, pensando en sus hijitas. cambiamos el tema, hoy martes arrancamos oficialmente el verano como atenciÓn con eso esperamos que una segunda ola de calor traiga temperaturas muy por encimas de esos 100 grados, y sin embargo, el resto de estados unidos no se salva con porque las t

people with mental health challenges like young salvador ramos in uvalde texas. like adam lanza in sandy hook. the profile is pretty well-established. young alienated disaffected mentally challenged boys who lack access to treatment which will help them manage their mental illness. and who descend into a pit of despair ultimately resulting in their desire not only to harm themselves but take other people with them . that profile is well-established . in the scientific literature and new york times did an excellent piece of couple of weeks ago on that profile. so i think that gives us a little bit of a roadmap for the sorts of things we might do to deal with that . what makes this more challenging than for example the fix nix bill is that was a single point of failure. here we see multiple pointsof failure . and i think we need to address as many as wecan . so as i mentioned the mental health issue looms large. we know during the two years where many students were isolated at home trying to keep up with their studies virtually , many of them have languished. many

and many of them can be saved from the fate of salvador ramos or adam lanza that they can get access to timely care in the medication that will help them manage their mental illness. they will represent the single largest investment in community-based mental health care in american history. that is huge but is enormously important that may be the most here. police officers answering a 911 call from somebody in a mental health crisis, they don't have to take that person to jail but they won't get help, they could take them to a community-based mental health delivery system to a clinic in a person experiencing a mental health crisis they don't have to go to the emergency room, they can go to a clinic and get the care ann the help that they need in order to manage for the condition whatever it may be. this bill will provide supportive services for our schools. our schools should be a century. a sanctuary for our children. not a place where they plan on what will happen during the next shooting and how they can hide under their desks or try to make their escape. schools should be a sanct

but we know that salvador ramos who went in at 18 years old and passed the background check. he was a ticking time bomb. everybody knew he was struggling with his mental health challenges and he was slowly circling the drain because he didn't get the help that might have prevented his self-harm, not to mention the harm to others. but if a person's record includes a criminal conviction that prevents them from purchasing a firearm as an adult, it shouldn't matter whether they were 17 or 18 at the time. that information should be available on the national background check system and that's what this bill will encourage. assure that disqualifying criminal convictions or mental health adjudications are available. unless a person is convicted of a crime or adjudicated as mentally ill, their second amendments rights will not be impacted by this legislation period. let me close by saying, i'm grateful to senator murphy, who's been a good faith partner. he'd like to do a lot of things in addition to what we've done here. but he was pragmatic and realistic enough to know that if we wer

que fallÓ en no dar Órdenes para que los oficiales entraran en acciÓn y eliminar la amenaza de salvador ramosoda culpa no la tiene pete arredondo. >> hoy demandamos al departamento de seguridad pÚblica de texas para que publiquen la informaciÓn de lo que sucediÓ ese dÍa. reportero: en este momento, un grupo de personas de uvalde estÁn llevando a cabo una especie de movimiento para pedir su destituciÓn. borja: gracias. en estas horribles condiciones vivÍa una niÑa de siete aÑos, a quien la autoridad en texas rescatÓ en una operaciÓn encubierta. la pequeÑa estÁ al juzgado de protecciÓn infantil y sus padres arrestados. en guanajuato, mÉxico, un hombre armado entrÓ a un lugar y comenzÓ a disparar. el cuerpo de una menor ya estÁ llegando a georgia con sus familiares. y queremos hablar de este rescate viral. andrea fuentes, entrenadora de nado hispana, se tirÓ al agua a rescatar a anita Álvarez, una de sus nadadoras que estaba inconsciente en el agua. [habla en inglÉs] borja: esta salvadora de nombre andrea fuentes, anteriormente ganÓ cuatro medallas olÍmpicas para espaÑa. anita se encuentra bien

evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight it was that aago today deranged teenager called salvador ramos' m murdered nineteen children and two teachers in an elementary school in texas. you know this because we've had seven days of full saturation coveragegeco. ve that's alld. deserved givent' that it's amazings what we still don't know about what happened that day. let's start this becauselear the most obvious with how the shooter could possibly have afforded the firearms used. sarahh ramos was eighteen years old . he worked part time at the drive thru at a local wendy's. yet police say he had atice leat four thousand dollars a brandng new weapons including two ar 15 rifles, sixteen hundred rounds of five five six ammunition, a ballistic vest and sixty magazines. one of ramos' rifles is a high end model manufactured by a company called daniel defense, according to a receipt that ramos' posted in a privated message i that gun cost two thousand dollars and he paid in full. now ramos' could have bought a effectively the very same rifle at any gun store for a third of the cost but apparentl

now, there is no way for us to know for sure whether one of those individual was salvador ramos because those records are not available to us. if it's not often we have an even bigger problem. if they are two additional young 13 and 14-year-old boys out there saying they're going to shoot up a school when they become seniors, we have an even bigger problem. one of the provisions we are discussing would encourage the state to upload similar juvenile records. this is standard practice in sum , but not all states. it is easy to see why it is important. eighteen -year-olds convicted of aggravated assault, a felony, will show up in his background check and prohibit him from purchasing a gun if a 17-year-old is convicted of the same crime, their record will not necessarily be uploaded into the criminal background check system. if he tries to purchase a gun at 18, the background check is likely to come back clean. again, because the system is only as good as the information in it. let me give you another example. an individual can be adjudicated mentally ill, on its 17 birthday be cynically co

in uvalde salvador ramos was able to pass a background check on the because no one had any insightt official insight into his tortured background. i said before before he was a ticking time bomb come somebody who mutilated himself, threatened assault, including sexual assault, against his fellow students. somebody who posted pictures online of weapons that he bought and threatened online to go shoot up a school. we need to know before somebody walks in and buys a firearm when they turn 18 what their mental health and criminal record history looks like, to the extent feasible. and then we need to incentivize more states like the state of south carolina and virginia that currently upload mental health adjudications even for juveniles. to be clear, we agreed on a press statement, a set of principles. that was very important and hard-fought. and now comes even the more difficult task of trying to a agree on legislative text to actually implement those principles. and that's what we are working on this week. my hope is that we can complete that job in the next few days, hopefully by the end of th

dijo que es probable que este hombre, salvador ramos, no tenÍa idea de que los niÑos que estaban en elnvestigar todavÍa, y que la comunidad merece tambiÉn tener respuestas a todas las preguntas, todas las inquietudes que hay en estos momentos, y que definitivamente lo van a hacer, que van a dar una explicaciÓn cuando se tenga toda la informaciÓn, y que por supuesto, que si se cometieron errores, que. deberÁn de asumirse. lo del negociador prÁcticamente acaba desurgieron las prÓximas horas, pero de gracia mente no se cumpliÓ el objetivo, al final de cuentas, lo que hicieron los agentes del orden, especialmente uno de la patrulla fronteriza fue el que entrÓ y dio muerte a ramos, de 18 aÑos de edad, terminando con la odisea al menos por ese momento. regreso con ustedes al estudio. borja: todo nuestro apoyo y solidaridad con nuestra comunidad. seguimos en uvalde, esta peticiÓn estÁ viral en redes sociales. kim kardashian le pide a las autoridades que liberen de manera temporal al padre de liliana cruz para que pueda ir a su funeral. eliana perdiÓ la vida durante la masacre de uvalde, y su

in uvalde this young man, salvador ramos turned 18, went and pass a background check, it was like he was born yesterday. there was no way for the criminal background check system to look back on any mental health adjudication's or criminal convictions, which would have barred him from purchasing a firearm, had it occurred as an adult. if a 17 year old is convicted of a violent crime or adjudicated as mentally incompetent that information should show up in the background check system if he tries to purchase a firearm when he turns 18. 87% of gun owning households in america support making juvenile records available and the background check system in this legislation will make that possible. the states will control what information they are willing to share. but, our legislation provides an incentive for states to upload the records that reflects on the suitability of an individual to purchase a firearm. allow them to upload juvenile records into the national criminal background check system to ensure that firearms are not falling into the hands of those under 21 who would be prohibite

salvador ramos showed up at the age of 18 and had a clean record, as far as the background check system was concerned, because it couldn't look back at his troubled history, struggling with mental health and law enforcement problems. so he showed up as if he had been born the day before, and nothing else previously mattered. because it wasn't in the background check system. there were disqualifying criminal or mental health information, that should show up in the nics system. in other words, if there are things in your life that would disqualify you if you were an adult, but that happened before you turned 18, i think that's the information we need and would want to have for purposes of determining who should be able to purchase or possess a firearm. so that wall that prevents the look back into pre-18-year-old records, is obviously a problem. four years ago, the uvalde police department received information about two male juveniles, 13 and 14 years old, who were plotting a school shooting for their senior year. that's four years ago, and they were plotting a school shooting when they g

at least 13 more people were killed, and with serious injuries in the hospital, the attacker salvador ramoshot by the police, and by shooting at the school, salvador killed his grandmother, and here is an important nuance of the registered weapon of a semi-automatic rifle was purchased by her boyfriend legally and joe biden he says the very idea that an 18-year-old boy can go into a store and simply buy an assault rifle and a pistol is fundamentally wrong and this position must be changed, we know that most republicans from the gun lobby they are against but joe biden says he will communicate with them let's listen to the artemension i have renewed efforts to get congress especially republicans to pass a new gun control law that would possibly expand background checks on more gun buyers and include other measures that they are there, so we see that they are used to something, the usa is the most loyal country to ownership well, but there they started talking very much for the sake of justice, so i was just researching it's just a question, the places where these mass shootings happened in t

contra pete arredondo por ser incapaz de defender la vida de quienes estaban bajo la amenaza de salvador ramos versiones apuntan hay que habrÍa entrado a la escuela sÓlo minutos despuÉs de que el pistolero y tardo casi una hora y cuarto para neutralizarlo. estos lo que decÍa el senador tejano rolan gutiÉrrez el partido demÓcrata. >> hoy demandamos el gobierno del estado de texas por medio de protecciÓn para la informaciÓn de todas las cÁmaras, toda la informaciÓn estratÉgica que suso ese dÍa. hasta el alcalde de uvalde allÁ dijo por primera vez que ya se va quitar los guantes, ya no se va a quedar callado. elyangelica: el senador gutiÉrrez informa que demandÓ al departamento de seguridad pÚblica de texas por negar una solicitud de registros relacionados con la masacre. el director del departamento de testificÓ que su agencia cree que la respuesta dirigida por arredondo fue un fracaso total, pero lo que el cenar quiere saber esas donde estaban los oficiales del departamento asegurar ubicados, que Órdenes estaba recibiendo, tener informaciÓn de sus cÁmaras corporales, todo lo que lleva una expli

. >> last week, the "new york times" had initially quoted a friend of uvalde killer salvador ramos who described the 18-year-old as a pot smoker who got enraged when his family expressed their displeasure about it. but mysteriously, the reference to his alleged drug use was deleted from future online editions. so we contacted the "new york times" for an explanation. was it a bad source? what happened? but they didn't respond. we tried again. called them again today. nothing. now, several studies have explored the connection between regular pot use and an increased risk for serious mental illness and even violent psychotic episodes in some cases. in march 2019, the prestigious journal "the lancet" conducted the case control study from 11 sites across europe and brazil. it found with daily cannabis use, there were increased odds of a psychotic disorder compared to those who never use it. when it comes to high potency weed, the psychotic disorder went up five-fold. today, ron kesler tackled the subject as well writing "virtually everyone ignores the obvious reason for the dramatic increas

. >> salvador ramos, who was hispanic, clearly had a lot of m mental issues going on as shown with him wearing eyeliner, cross dressing. >> jimmy: never happened, not true. hispanic has nothing to do with anything, but keep going. >> i think some of the most dangerous people in america are trans terrorists because these are the people that want to groom your children and talk them into changing their gender. these people are terrorists. they just want you to think that all of a sudden the entire population is steadily turning gay or turning trans, generation, generation, probably in four or five generations no one will be straight any more. everyone will be either gay or trans or nonconforming or whatever the list of 50 or 60 different options there are. >> jimmy: and happy pride month to you, too, marjorie. [ cheers and applause ] vile, disgusting, yellow headed melted donkey from shrek. [ laughter ] there has to be a back story. why is she so angry at gay people? marjorie taylor greene believes in traditional marriage. one husband, one wife, one personal trainer and one sex guru. sar

evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight it was that aago today deranged teenager called salvador ramos nineteen children and two teachers in an elementary school in texas. you know this because we've had seven days of full saturation coveragegeco. ve that's alld. deserved givent' that it's amazings what we still don't know about what happened that day. let's start this becauselear the most obvious with how the shooter could possibly have afforded the firearms

we need to try to figure out ways to make our schools harder to get into for people like salvador ramos. unfortunately, the mental health challenges of young, disaffected and alienated boys is a profile that's all too familiar. it's reflected in the shooter in uvalde. it's reflected in the shooter in sandy hook, adam lanza. they came from much different places in terms of the socioeconomics, but in terms of their alienation and their developing mental illness and their willingness to not only take their own life, but other people's lives, unfortunately it paints an eerily similar picture. the shooter in uvalde was isolated and bullied in school. he had a record of cutting his face, self-mutilation and abusing and torturing animals and he was known for fighting and threatening his fellow students with everything from assault to rape. he was a ticking time bomb, and many people, not all the people, but many people in this small community of 15,000 people knew it. certainly his mother knew it. unfortunately his mother was a drug user and he was living with his grandmother. but this is a yo

and in the case of adam lanza and sandy hook and salvador ramos, they know they're not coming out of this alive. they take innocent lives with them. so access to mental health support is absolutely critical. so, too, is the investment in our schools. this includes everything from physically hardening school buildings to training personnel to more effective violence prevention efforts. we know iew is valuedee -- we know uvalde, the door had a lock on it but it didn't work allowing the shooter easy access to this elementary school. all of our students, all deserve to feel safe in their schools. and no parent should send their child to school worried that they may not come home. they deserve to know their child will be safe at school and the peace of mind that goes along with that. that's why i think these resources for additional school hardening of that soft target is very important. the final portion provides targeted reforms to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who already by law should not have guns to begin with. our proposal includes resources for states to implement cris

you would have to assume salvadore ramos would have waited a week to commit this crime. think he waited a year. he may have waited longer as he, you know, they say he tried to buy his first ar-15 when he was 17. he waited until he turned 18. would waiting of one more week have stopped the evil intent? stuart: good question. >> we all want to do something. do something that works without restricting constitutional rights unnecessarily. stuart: i'm going to change the subject for a second because i need you on this , will. president biden is joining late night comedian jimmy kimmel for his first sit-down interview in 118 days. will, i hesitate to call it an interview. it's not, is it? >> no, it's not. it's not. look, if you're taking this issue on from the side of the administration, this is a perfect selection. it's going to be very soft. it's going to be comedic. it comes from a friendly host or interviewer who had his back for the better part of two years , not just in support of president biden, but you know, actively attack any opponent of president biden and jimmy ki

shooters seems eerily similar, in some cases, you look at adam lanza, sandy hook, you look at salvador ramos, in, uvalde texas, the new york times did a good job pointing out that in six of nine of the mass shootings, the profile is pretty familiar. if we were able to get community based mental health assistance to the young man, young boys really, and their families earlier do you think we could improve the outcomes for them, so they could maybe live productive lives, and not circle down the drain. out of despair, kill themselves, and others as well. >> my brief answer, yes. it is helping me out, thank you. my brief answer, yes. i think that we probably need to make sure that every body who interacts with a youth, whether that's an educator, pediatrician, police officer, is versed in trauma informed care. that type of training is available and goes on around the country. it is evidence based. i think if we could have every professional who interact with a child take that kind of approach, yes, increasing our access to mental health services through community based mental health schoolbus me

but we know that salvador ramos who went in at 18 years old and passed a background check, he was a tic ticking time bomb. everybody knew he was struggling with his mental health challenges and he was slowly circling the drain because he didn't get the help that might have prevented his self-harm, not to mention the harm to others. but if a person's record includes a criminal conviction or mental health adjudication that prevents them from purchasing a firearm as an adult, it shouldn't matter whether they were 17 or 18 at the time. that information should be available on the national instant criminal background checks system and that's what this bill will encourage. our bill incentivizes the states to upload this information to ensure that disqualifying criminal convictions or mental health adjudications are available. unless a person is convicted of a crime or adjudicated as mentally ill, their second amendment rights will not be impacted by this legislation, period. let me close by saying i'm grateful to senator murphy who's been a good-faith partner. he'd like to do a lot of things i

when you look at this, first of all, this is a failure before salvador ramos even showed up that day.hen you look at how the school is protected or not protected as we heard from dps, the teachers didn't even know if the door dprs outside the school were locked from the inside. most of those doors according to him had to be locked from the outside. the glass surrounding the doors to the school, there's no mesh there. easy for a bullet to get through. so even if the doors were locked, he could have shot through the glass, pop the door, he was still going to be able to do what he did. one of the, i think, key things about this, yesterday, mccraw talked about the fact, we've seen images of this particular classroom and school building that it appears that windows could have been used either for law enforcement to distract or engage the shooter. he confirmed that yesterday. it's not as if this was a closed off classroom and just the doors. and the only way to get in was just through the doors. in fact, that wasn't the case. there were windows outside. that's a key thing as i talk to exper

in uv bang, this young man, salvador ramos turned 18, and when he passed a background check it was likes born yesterday because there was no way for the background check system to look back on any mental health adjudications or criminal convictions which would have barred him from purchasing a firearm had it occurred as an adult. a 17-year-old is convicted of a violent crime or adjudicated as mentally incompetent, that information should show up in the background check system if he tries to purchase a firearm at 18. 87% of gun owning households in america support making juvenile records available in the background check system in this legislation -- and this legislation will make that possible. states will control what legislation they are willing to share but our legislation provides an incentive for states to upload the records that reflect on the suitability of an individual to purchase a firearm , allowing them to upload juvenile records into the system to ensure that firearms are not falling into the hands of those under 21 who would be prohibited from purchasing that gun if they w

the officer was armed with an ar 15 rifle and had a brief opportunity to shoot the 18 year old salvador ramose officer reportedly decided. not to open fire due to concerns he would hit children that were playing in the building nearby. the gunman then shot and killed 19 children and two adults in a classroom before being killed by law enforcement. officers. happening today. peninsula congresswoman jackie speier is going to host a town hall to fight discrimination. this is an in person event, and it's called coming together. stop a ap. i hate, she says hate crimes against the asian and pacific islander community increased. 77% since the start of the pandemic, and she's hoping everyone attending her town hall is going to share their experiences and work together to come up with ways to end violence and embrace diversity. that form will start at two p.m. at the millbrae community center on lincoln circles. and anton watson, the man accused of killing an 84, year old grandfather from thailand will stand trial in san francisco. prosecutors say neighborhood surveillance video shows watson knocking

the "washington post" reports salvador ramos, who killed 19 children and 2 teachers in uvalde last monthand a stutter. nikolas cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff at marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parkland had exhibited behavioral issues since middle school. adam lanza, who killed 26 people in sandy hook elementary school in newtown in 2012, was a loaner who spent much of his last few months locked in his bedroom communicating with his mother via email, even as they lived in the same house. the "washington post" spoke with a criminologist studying the lives of mass shootings. it reports, quote, when she has gone back decades later to sbrer view perpetrators who committed an attack in their teens or early 20s, they don't even recognize the person who did that. she said the perpetrators describe feeling disconnected from their murderous earlier selves. experts say in the case of shooters, quote, we're talking about boys who have been emasculated over a period of time. we were bullied or ignored or didn't have the dating life or popularity they wanted. this often leads to fan

elyangelica: 77 mitos pasaron antes de frenar a salvador ramos, es una cifra que casome de la masacrelyangelica: el comitÉ que investiga los hechos celebra hoy por primera vez una audiencia pÚblica, aunque sin oyentes ni familia, puede que analicen nueva informaciÓn que da cuenta de la supuesta presencia policial en el pasillo de la escuela, sÓlo nueve minutos despuÉs de que entrara el pistolero. una captura pantalla de las cÁmaras de vigilancia obtenida y la afiliada de la cadena abc muestra a por lo —2 oficiales con rifles de asalto y otro con un escudo antibalas dentro de la escuela 58 minutos antes que neutralizaron al tirador, funcionarios del distrito escolar y la policÍa ya testificaron ante el comitÉ, mientras la misma pregunta tortura a las familias. >> por quÉ no actuaron, por quÉ no entraron? que habÍan vÍdeos, no han enseÑado nada. elyangelica: la nueva herencia podrÍa mostrar que los oficiales tener suficiente poder de fuego para entrar al salÓn donde estaba el atacante mucho antes del momento en el cual hicieron, si ese merecido este relato tal vez no existirÍa. pienso e

estatal diciendo que 11 oficiales ingresaron al plantel tres minutos despuÉs de que el atacante, salvador ramosnutos despuÉs se ve en las imÁgenes a oficiales bien armados esperando o en la llave para abrir el salÓn siguiendo la llave del cerrojo, pero Ésta no era necesario ya que las puertas no estaban aseguradas, lo Único que impidiÓ que los oficiales entrarÁn fue comandante ausente, los oficiales tenÍan armas, los niÑos no. segÚn revelÓ el senador gutiÉrrez, arredondo no tuvo conocimiento de la crÍtica llamadas de estudiantes al 911 pidiendo auxilio, ya que dicen que esto sÓlo lleva la policÍa local y no la del distrito, estos testimonios y evidencias empiezan a contradecir las alegaciÓn zen de arredondo padres de las vÍctimas. >> me preguntamos por quÉ notado inmediatamente dijo que es que Él traÍa un arma de alto calibre y ellos no. [habla en inglÉs] marlene: una hora y 14 minutos, ocho segundos, ese fue el tiempo que esperara niÑos y maestros en el salÓn 111 para ser rescatados. fue hasta las 12:46 uqe pitt arredondo dio la orden de entrar al Área, este momento se ve a agentes de la patru

i yield back my time. >> we know this profile is one that salvador ramos fit, the shooter in uvalde. he was a deeply troubled young man. he was isolated. he was bullied at school. he cut himself because he said he liked the way it made him look, made him look tough. he had a history of fighting, of assaulting fellow students. of threatening sexual assault of young women, and torturing and killing animals. it's a familiar profile. this young man i think was crying out for help. but he got no help. not withstanding the best efforts of people around him. this young man was -- he shot his own grandmother before he went to robb elementary school because she wanted him to go back to the classroom after being out of the classroom for two years because of covid mitigation practices. our goal for this legislation is try to help people in crisis get treatment before they reach a point like sal ra dora mose. -- salvador ramos. the provision of the bill which represents the single largest investment in community-based mental health treatment in american history is drawn from bipartisan legislati

that includes stronger mental health resources which could have helped salvador ramos before he became so sick that he killed innocent children and he committed suicide essentially in the process. that will includes school safety measures which could have prevented the shooter from actually getting inside robb elementary school. and it includes reforms to prevent violence by criminals and other dangerous individuals. the national instant criminal background check system is one of the most effective tools we have to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and people who suffer from severe mental illness. but it's not a perfect system. it's only as good as the information contained in the system. for example, 2017, the shooting at sutherland springs, a little town outside of san antonio, texas, my hometown, what happened there highlighted the gaping hole in the background check system. despite the fact that the shooter had a long and disturbing history of violence that should have been -- should have prohibited him from purchasing a gun, he was able to do so, because the air force, in th