know where the gun was? o. >> reporter: she's sure nine-year-old nevada will know exactly what to do. she's sort of the rule follower kind of kid? >> absolutely. >> reporter: but she's not so sure about 7-year-old luke. >> he's the middle child. he's very outgoing. he's kind of the ham of the family. >> reporter: before we test luke and nevada we send them to a gun safety class with our expert, dr. miltenberger. the kids call him dr. ray. >> first? >> stop and don't touch. >> stop and don't touch. >> reporter: dr. ray talks them through the safety steps- and they repeat the lesson with ease. >> what should you do? >> stop, don't touch, run away. >> where you gonna run to? >> to your parents. >> to your parents, it doesn't matter where they are. >> reporter: now at the university of south florida, with the help of dr. ray and one of his research assistants, the kids are about to be tested. this test is similar to one dr. ray has used in his studies. for luke and nevada it's been only three days since the train

imagine if she had the responsibility of having a gun. by the way, where is that gun?irearms should be locked away for safekeeping. how do you get access to that in a quick enough time to do anything about it? it, it, as she described was so vivid. they were rushing at her. imagine having the responsibility to get a gun out at that moment. the caller is exactly, exactly right. how would she feel at that moment that she has that responsibility? whether or not the president was proposing, initially, training once a year or twice a year, we all know that when we are in those kinds of situations, unless you are constantly training, you are not ready to make that decision in an instant , whether you are going to use that done or not. host: evan is on the line from magnolia, ohio. you oppose the president's proposal to allow teachers to be armed. why? caller: i agree with everything the last three people of said. unless you have tactical training, you cannot in an instant pull a gun, walk into a crowd of people, determine who has got the gun, and be able to shoot that person

will that each side has the pro-gun side the libertarian side anti regulation. for them for many of them this is their premier issue for it's very rare on the pro regulation side for guns to be actually people's top issue and after some time passes i think the print my prediction would be that this keeps the n.r.a. activated keeps its its followers activated and more politically liberal pro regulation people will tend to get distracted by other issues come election time scott in the last few days we've heard president trump indicate that he is actively searching for some type of middle ground that would satisfy his base but also those demanding change and some form of gun control now he said that he favors raising the age at which someone can buy semiautomatic rifles from eighteen to twenty one that he potentially wants to expand background checks that he's ready to prohibit bump fires talks which can effectively make semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons do you believe this can actually be done in such a polarized landscape. well let me say first of all

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we also believe our country need not choose between the protection of responsible gun ownership and the prevention of gun violence and yet both can be achieved through thoughtful and forcef fuful legislation. this was printed yesterday in the "new york times". 155 heads of schools. now over to 230 have join that. the state of florida has reached out. do you agree there's a middle ground and this isn't a political issue but a safety issue? >> i do agree with that. i like, i think, most of us support the second amendment and i support people's rights to own, to own a gun for their own protection. i do not, however, believe that an ar-15 is something that's used for protection. that's a military style weapon and its only purpose is to kill as many people as point a short amount of time and i don't think any civilian needs something like that in their home. so while you're a responsible person and taken the proper courses and know how to handle a weapon, i have no plob with someone having a weapon in their home but this is not the type of weapon anyone needs have. >> president trump is sugg

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they talked about the guns and the pieces that got to it. but that doesn't take away from the fact that this individual who shouldn't have access to an ar-15 and he used it to kill 17 young people and teachers. howie: we talked about the charge that the media are exploiting the students. exploiting or covering them. gayle: americans want to hear the voices of the parkland students. the criticism is you are only hearing from one side of the debate. you are not hearing from other survivors who might have a different view. richard: i think what you see from these students, you also see students all sack broward county and across the state of florida, even iowa. students are walk out of their classrooms. young people are saying we don't feel safe in school. the press is covering the story. young people walk out of a school in an entire county. that's a national news story. howie: at cpac the president said this. i want to get your reaction. president trump: we had a crooked election and a crooked candidate. we have a very, very crooked media. ho

the years. gunshat were illegal here in california. he is now trying to keep on the straight and narrow. and he says california laws cannot be effective as long as other states make it so easy to got a gun. ♪ [ sirens blaring ] >> on the streets of bay area cities according to the people who survived there, guns carry status and power. >> i would say everyone with stat hausd guus had guns. >> at 12 years of age he carried that status with guns. guns heap could get easily despite tough california gun ownership laws. >> for me a guy who had guns, had status, i was the kid. >> this man, admits he is responsible for supplying some of those illegal guns to people like emile. >> probably get like $800 to $1,000 a gun. >> now in federal witness protect, put there after the feds caught up with him. before he was caught he spent about two years smuggling guns from the midwest to the bay area. >> i was out in a different state. and i just seen how easy it was for people from that state to just get a gun. than

they're equal or whoever has the gun they are supreme. every time they pass another gun control law they promise a safety do you know who did the same thing adolf hitler now there's already three hundred fifty million guns in america what are you going to do you go confiscate a will. you're going to make it more difficult for the criminals to get them they already have them they can get them faster than you can the problem with crime in america is recidivism the repeat offender if you want to go after criminals who misuse guns the first time you arrest him give them go after him keep them second make sure that the law abiding citizen is ready capable and prepared to shoot back. you know my motto comes right from the movie cinderella last year is my favorite movie really the motto isn't really was have courage and be kind. just. i want my daughters armed i want my wife armed i want my sons armed and i want them to be able to defend their families we never hurt anybody we don't want to. but as the same time we're not going to just make ourse

mostly on the left is to demand a swift action the guns. >> why does the united states of america have such a high rate of mass gun violence? the answer is very simply that consistent with the second amendment, we can tighten the rules that apply to gun purchases. >> it happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. we are responsible. >> i would rather pass gun safety legislation then win the election. >> laura: the oscar goes to nancy, the drama. but seriously as our security experts discussed last night, the focus on this type of gun or what caliber, that misses the point. nicholas cruz was determined to kill one way or another. that obvious fact seemed to allude to media echo chamber. >> more people will die in america by guns this year and next then died in a decade in vietnam. and yet congress does nothing. the president does nothing. >> why so many mass shootings? is it contagion, is it the culture? is it something to do with the lack of respect for life around us or mental health? >> you can't deal with this issue without

, the number of guns, the type of guns, the age at which you could get guns. will not hear that from dana lash or wayne la pierre. you heard a little from the president but all you are hearing from the students and the survivors at parkland. tell me about this. tell me about the methodology at play. >> well what i found very interesting is after 30 years focusing on this issue, where the kids high school -- the high school kids arrived after the shooting, what they thought needed to be done is exactly whey believe needs to be done. and it needs to be done starting with background checks. if we had laws in place that required anyone who wanted to buy a gun to go into a gun store, a place where they would have to fill out the documents you showed before, pass a background check and even more importantly now that we're considering that there might be age limits, there will be a trusted regulated third party to make sure you have the proper i.d. and the proper age limit, if that had been in place, it is very likely this shooting would have never happened in the fir

the same should be done with guns. host: this is the headline from florida, there -- the governor peoplelled to ensure with mental health issues cannot access guns. caller: the law was passed by president trump. the first action was to take off the mental illness requirement for gun safety. that was passed by the federal government. with the problem federal and state level, especially on these right-wing governors and the president. you're not going to get anything done with these people. people inty of the this country want gun safety and the lobby is against it. they are against any kind of lobby to prevent gun safety -- to provide gun safety. host: yesterday, paul ryan held his weekly briefing and he was asked about what congress has done to deter gun violence. mental health is often a problem underlying these tragedies. that may be the case here today. we passed legislation on mental health. in the to insure someone mental health system cannot get access to a gun. we will find out if there was a breakdown in the sys

the country we hear them. i hope we show that reducing gun violence is a priority. a call on my republican colleagues to join the democrats in a bipartisan effort issued, effort, to treat the issue of gun safety with the same sense of urgency the american people believe is necessary. if republicans in a fraction of the effort to gun safety that they have two other issues we could get this done and done quickly. there are plenty of performs in the past that were completely consistent with second moment it would save lives even president trump for the time being said he supports so let's get started. not a giveaway to the gun lobby but work on closing loopholes let's have universal background checks. over 90% of the american people believe we should keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons and mentally unstable people. i also believe that we should have those who are subject to protective orders for the rest of violence should be disqualified from buying a gun. i would say that those who are on the terrorist watchlist that we do not allow plan airplanes because f

the back room? >> nobody is in favor of gun violence. what's needed is the political backbone to stand up to the gun lobby. there are hopeful signs. i've introduced with a number of my republican colleagues and democrats a modest exceedingly modest measure to improve the background check system that we have right now. we need to extend it to all gun sales. at least the reporting of criminal convictions and restraining orders and other incidents that should be reported to the background check can be improved. we're going to be working to make that happen and trying to take advantage of these breaks if the wall that we see that the gun lobby has erected against gun violence common sense measures against gun violence that we can enact. >> what do you think of your colleagues and others in the media, for example, who, when they hear about these situations they watch what we're watching right now, 17 killed by beak an amateur with a semi-automatic weapon with multiple magazines. am mew mission magazines doing because he'sup set, whatever, emot

here's how they reabouted to some of the gun reforms the president is proposing. >> i don't believe the school should have a policy of arming teachers. >> some teachers who would be willing to be armed is a reasonable request. >> i don't think anyone goes to buy a gun needs it right then and there. >> i think strengthening the background checks is a good idea. >> i believe that 18 should be the legal age. >> i agree in raising the age, because i don't think, my son, when he was 18, i would never give him an ar-15. >> again, i want to reiterate, that was cpac conference attendees. david, the nra, they're getting hammered here in this boycott and it's been effective i think because they've not shown a lot of empathy in the last ten days and perhaps even cpac attendees have noticed. >> the nra is tone deaf and they're going on talking points that they have had for a while and they need to update those. now we have a president who's a republican, who comes along as a trump-lican. he is in the middle. who knows what he is? >> depends on who's in the office i think. >> coming to guns clearly

their equal or whoever has the gun they are superior. every time they pass another gun control law they promise a safety do you know who did the same thing adolf hitler now there's already three hundred fifty million guns in america what are you going to do you go confiscate a will. you're going to make it more difficult for the criminals to get them they already have them they can get them faster than you can the problem with crime in america is recidivism the repeat offender if you want to go after criminals who misuse guns the first time you arrest him. go after him keep them second make sure that the law abiding citizen is ready capable and prepared to shoot back. you know my motto comes right from the movie cinderella last year is my favorite movie really the motto is in a really was have courage and be kind. of. god. i want my daughters armed i want my wife armed i want my sons armed and i want them to be able to defend their families we never hurt anybody we don't want to. but at the same time we're not going to just make ourselves

does even classroom have a gun safe, who knows the code to the gun safe besides the teacher.ppened to the guns overnight. do schools now need 24/7 security to protect guns. is this just about high schools or what about middle school or elementary schools and will teachers be at sporting events or sports practice or music recital and school plays, can a teacher lose their status if they have a disciplinary or domestic problems, will parents sign waivers in case the children are shot by teachers and can we rely on teachers to shoot one of their colleagues if they lose it. can we rely on teachers to be able to shoot a student? none of these are easy questions. but the point is these are -- just some of the questions that any policymaker or any organization that represents the gun manufacturers who believes that a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun is going to have to answer before we implement a program like this and does anyone seriously think that these questions can be answered in ways that are going to make parents and children feel comfortable. something to thin

i had to give the guns back. and we got fined. so, the state of florida has this bill that was mentioned earlier that the senate just passed. it has these risk protection orders built in. >> right. >> and those -- there are some states that already have that, i believe. and i think those are going to be critical for law enforcement to help take the guns out of the hands of these individuals. >> risk protection. >> who we know should not be carrying and then make sure that those individuals get placed into the national background check system. >> mr. president, the vice president state of indiana has done a good job. >> go ahead, mike. >> violence, restraining orders, california has a version of this. and i think in your meeting with governors earlier this week, individual ly, and as a group, e spoke about the states taking steps. but the focus is to literally give families and give local law enforcement additional tools if an individual is reported to be a potential danger to themselves or others. allow due process so no one's righ

it gets the cowboys and indians, my dad was a cowboy when he was young. they had guns that kill rattlesnakes, weber people like billy the kid, but i have a whole chapter on this. people don't know much about it over the date referred to as the border, but they were confederate guerrillas and they were able to come up their image was remade because they introduced riding a horse fast shooting people at random. they were all slave owners and then they became bank robbers and train robbers. they were just psychopathic killers. but the first westerns that were made and holds the oklahoma before hollywood even existed with some of them playing the roles, these became imprinted into the western look gunfighter nation. they introduced this in theaters and there's a kind of imitation of art. why were they willing to leave them outside? >> because the need for work. some were criminals of course he and the criminals will carry a firearm that is a given. i don't think cowboys per se. a part of it is like dragnet idolizing law-enforcement. but it's for some patriarchal reasons in

out of the hands of people who shouldn't have guns. of criminals, and the dangerously mentally ill. we know that background checks will accomplish that. but we also know that there's ways to get guns, to buy guns legally. where you can avoid the background check. in some states you can go to a gun show and you can buy a gun without going through a background check. some of the research that's been done shows that everybody's very familiar with this, to the point where the people selling guns at gun shows, those of you know you go to a gun show, there will be a bunch of tables set up, people selling guns. some of them are licensed dealers. and if you buy a gun from them, you have to get a background check. some of them are just individual citizens selling guns. and in some states those people don't have to require a background check with a purchase. and they'll be -- there will be situations where the licensed dealer has a gun for sale at one price and the individual has the same gun at a higher price. so, this is not a secret. people kn

but i do not think he's going to take on the gun law issue. gas shooting, he said it was premature to discuss and would not engage that topic. >> perpetually premature, it seems. >> always. >> yamiche alcindor and phillip rucker, thank you for your time. senator barbara boxer and tom marshal. senator boxer, having legislatively worked on this in the wake of a mass slaughter of a school when you were serving. >> i wrote that bill after sandy hook, i would he it more as a grandmother than i did as a senator. our children go to public schools. you know, this was a horrible day. this was valentine's day. and it will be forever tarnished. i send my love and support to everyone. and i have done it over and over again. we are failing our children. we are failing our families. we, asthma wh mahatma ghandi sa should be judged by how we treat the most verbal people. we can't protect our children because we're too scared of the nra? we couldn't even do the bump stocks bill? we couldn't even do my school safety bill, which one of your other analysts was ta

to buy guns legally, where you can avoid the brown check. and some states you can go to a gun show and you can buy a gun without going through a background check. and some of the research that's been done shows that everybody's very familiar with this to the point where the people selling guns at gun shows and those of you who know, you go a gun show, there's bunch of tables set up and people selling guns. some are licensed dealers and if you buy gun from them you have to get a brown check. some are just individual citizens selling guns and in some states those people don't have to require a background check with a purchase. and they'll be situations where the licensed dealer has a gun for sale at one price, and the individual has the same gun at a higher price, so this is not -- this is not a secret. people know that this happens in this guess on. you can also in some areas buy a gun on the internet. you can go and -- this happened. a couple of years ago my guest at the state of the union was a man who lost his sister to gun violence and was

we have tothreat separate the guns from the threat. guns are not the threat. does not matter if it is guns, knives, bombs, the threat is unlawful entry. ,e have to protect and harden make our schools more resilient by hardening the schools to the threat, and the threat is illegal entry. the threat is not done. this is a very opportunistic opportunity to direct the at theve to pay, look squirrel, there goes the squirrel. it distracts the narrative on the real threat. host: more calls coming up. ownerstalking to gun only. do you support limits or oppose limits? a little more from the president yesterday when he met with state and local officials. he has had two days of listening sessions, and here is his response to a reporter's question on the national rifle association. [video clip] >> [inaudible] thank you very much. i do not think i will be going up against them. i think the nra wants to do what is right. they are close to me, i am close to them, they are great people, they love this country. they are patriots. the nra wants to do the right thing. i have spo

the president. he has done nothing in his presidency to stop gun violence. talks about mental health as he did today. >>> we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health. >>> that would be much morp kwon convincing if his budget and policies didn't cut funding for substance abuse and mental health services by over a billion dollars. why does he talk about mental health and not guns? could it be because the nra spent some $30 million to get trump elected? more than anyone in history. this they unflinchingly sported him last april he returned the favor. >> i will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. never be ever. >> so trump signed one gun measure since taking office. it cancelled president obama's plan to have potential gun buyers to provide social security numbers for a background check. it was intended to block mentally ill people from buying guns. so the one thing the president who talks about mental health has done is potentially make it

it's not about the gun laws right now. that's another fight, another battle. >> one possible solution which may not be very popular, would be to have people in the school, teachers, administrators, who have volunteered to have a firearm. >> anyway, president trump listened and at times weighed in with his own idea how to stop the violence which he often touted during the campaign. >> if you had a teacher with -- who was adept at firearms, they could very well end the attack very quickly. in addition to what we're going doing about background checks, we're going to go very strong. >> age, age at purchase and very strong into the mental health aspect of what's going on because here was a case where it tried out, this person was sick. >> anyway, a week after the rampage in parkland, florida, it's clear the students are engaged. hundreds of teenagers from florida to washington, d.c. took to the streets today demanding action. what is still unclear is if politicians will actually deliver any concrete reforms that confront the de

i had to give the guns back and we got fined. so the state of florida has this bill that was mentioned earlier that the senate just passed. it has these risk protection orders built in. there's some states that already have that, i believe. i think those are going to be critical for law enforcement to help take the guns out of the hands of these individuals that we know should not be carrying. then we need to make sure those individuals get placed into the national background checks system. >> mr. president, the vice president, the state of indiana has done a good job. >> go ahead, mike. >> you spoke about it, gun violence, restraining orders they're called. california has a version of this. i think you -- in you're meeting with governors earlier individually and as a ground we talked about states taking a step. the focus is to give families and give local law enforcement additional tools if an individual is reported to be a potential danger to themselves or others. allow due process. the ability to go to court, obtain an order an

free zones, shooters know if you go to a gun free zone you're the only one with the gun. d to law enforcement agents that were with me that could counter the shooter. that's what took him down, it was other people with guns that took down the shooter. every day in america there are people who use guns to stop crimes, to defend their own family. if that's what our founding fathers wrote about they believe in an innate right for people to have guns for self-defense. pray for the families, cared about these families don't try to promote your agenda in the middle of a tragedy. >> laura: how are you doing in the aftermath? now that you have gotten through all of these surgeries, you still have to use crutches to walk. you have such an unbelievable attitude, there's so many dark days. it was inspiring to so many of us. we were talking about it earlie earlier. do you have any ptsd from what happened to you? >> i don't. i've talked through this with my security detail, my colleagues who are out there. if there weren't other people with guns to stop the shooter, there would've been

the sro had a gun -- you've spoken a long time. the sro had a gun and didn't use it. to add more guns to an environment -- we keep saying the problem is mental issues, the problem is this, the problem is that. in every study, the only reason this happens is because we have so many guns in this country, too much access to guns. every single country, other than the united states, does not have this problem, and the only reason, and we should be honest about it, is that we have too much access to guns. not that guns need to be confiscated or we need to get rid of them, but it's too much access to guns. if this person did not have an access to a gun, this would not have happened, bottom line. >> in washington, d.c. you have some of the most restrictive gun laws in america, and it's certainly a land of peace and harmony. all the people doing the killing are illegally obtaining the guns. the notion that's going to happen isn't the solution and you brush aside the idea that other responsible people who have shown a commitment to these children might be willing to undertake t

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the debate over guns in america. is this time different? after emotional pleas from survivors and family members who lost loved ones. >> we need the change. >> should have been one school shooting and we should have fixed it. >> how have we not stopped this after columbine, after sandy hook. >> president trump signals he is open to change. >> we're going to do a lot, but we're going to be strong on background checks. >> some big name republicans break with the nra as the list of companies cutting ties with the gun lobby grows. >> stand and unflinchingly defend the second amendment. >> and the president pushes a controversial plan to arm some teachers. >> we have to harden our schools, not soften them up. >> i disagree with arming teachers. >> where is this debate really going? i ask senator patomey, the republican leader of the last bipartisan push for gun reform. and kentucky republican thomas massie, supporter of loosening gun restrictions. >>> plus, the latest way russian twitter bots are sewing division. i talk to a senator about the big

you can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands. put metal detecters at every entrance to the schools! what can you do? you can do a lot! this is not fair to our families that our children go to school and have to get killed! i just spent the last two hours putting the burial arrangement for my daughter's funeral who is 14. president trump, please do something. do something. action! we need it now! these kids need safety now! >> it is -- it's almost impossible to listen to that without feeling her pain. her rage is heartbreaking. lori has every right to be angry. i'm angry. most people are angry. people across this country are angry. they're frustrated. she is so right to demand action at this point. if she can't, my goodness, who can? to tdemand that president trump do something. this is what the president did today, he managed to talk about this senseless slaughter without even mentioning the word "gun." >> to every parent, teacher and child who is hurting so badly, we are here for you, whatever you need, whatever we can do to ease

the gun manufacturers. gun stores. everyone is out to make money out of greed and fear. and they have cut money for mental illness. so i echo the things that people have said regarding gun control. this is a terrible national tragedy. and to the person that said gun control doesn't work. look at australia. look at japan. look at the u.k. try and buy a gun in australia. you have to go through so many hoops. you can't buy a gun for three or four years. try and buy a gun in u.k. or industrialized countries. and we are said to be a first industrialized nation. this is a sickening tragedy and it needs to stop. gun control. ban the ar-15s now. >> that's gil in north carolina. scho . school supervised sent out a tweet from yesterday, as we rise this morning, let us pray for the victims that has fallen on this community. let us find the courage to transcend greed, hatred and collaborate to create a new level of consciousness to find new solutions that have gun control for this nation and mental health. let's go to beverly in south carolina. good morning. >> good morning. >> i cal

was more likely to cause a murder or death by a gun than the absence of a gun in a home. the world is getting away from us dollar as wall reserve currency a one row one bell policy linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the dollar countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says so here's the treasury secretary really trying to make it look like oh it's our balls are for a lower dollar don't really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is a kind see that other countries recognize as funding the wars and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to escape. from. this little bundle of joy he would have of civil living in the woods. this can only really one come a time but usually good business too.

had to give the guns back and we got fines. so the state of florida has this bill mentioned earlier that the senate just passed with these risk protection orders built into them. and there are some states that already have that, i believe. and i think those are going to be critical for law enforcement to help take the guns out of the hands of -- >> risk protection. >> -- these individuals who we know should not be carrying and then we need to make sure that those individuals get placed into the national background check system. >> and mr. president, the vice president stated the state of indiana has done a good job. >> go ahead, mike. >> you spoke about gun violence and restraining orders, they are called, california has a version of this, and i think you -- your meeting with governors this week individually and as a group we spoke about states taking steps. but the focus is to literally give families and give local law enforcement a a di-- additional tools if an individual is reported to be a potential danger to themselves or o

the nra is a powerful lobby for the gun industry. ey have in our political system. >> was he on our planet when you had that conversation with him? because, of course, nra is calling the shots for the republican party. he knows that. and by the way, you talk about people who are responsible for what's going on in our country. under the bush administration in 2004, the ban that we had on the sale of the types of weapons that have been used in many, many of these shootings was allowed to expire. why? because the nra wanted it to expire. why? because companies wanted to make money. why? because these were popular gun that could be mass marketed regardless of the circumstances under which they could in fact be used. you know, the term blood on your hands can be applied to a lot of folks. when we did that, when we allowed that to happen, there was blood on a lot of people's hands. >> governor dannel malloy, good to talk to you. thank you, sir. i wish we could talk under different circumstances, sir. we will. >> thank you. >> up next lawmak

the gun lobby's talking points are designed to avoid the gun debate. instance, the las vegas strip massacre, they'd argue it is not about how he got the gun, it is bts thing he a -- it is about the thing he attached to the gun. and newtown, it is not how he got the gun, but it is identifying mental illness. what about the virginia tech massacre. it is not about how he got the gun, it is about arming schools to thwart an attack. about none of the arguments hold up this in case. here is many other arguments that don't hold up. the gup was bought -- gun was bought illegally. and someone should warn that the gunman had mental health issues and in this case someone did. the fbi was given a tip involving a youtube comment with his name on it said, quote, i'm going to be a professional school shooter. the fbi acknowledges getting the tip but it is not clear what they did with the information. the other arguments to avoid debate might go something like this. well cruz shouldn't have been allowed on school grounds and he wasn't, he was expelled. the school shoul

not because we think it will stop the gun violence. the data tells us that the one thing that's different about the united states is our unbelievably loose gun laws. i hope we follow it. that's right. president trump: i think they work together. i like them together better. but joe, you have to fix mental illness. if someone is mentally ill, you can't take it away. it is ridiculous. they can buy. i'm sure you're going to fix it. i like a merger. i think it works out better. chuck, were you going to say one thing? sen. grassley: you're showing leadership through this meeting and following what was said about the incivility of our society and the culture of our society, the thought came to my mind that maybe you could show leadership about all the violence we have out of hollywood and all these videos. you watch fox news like i do. and every night you see all these films about everybody being blown up. just think of the impact that makes on young people. get them in here and preach to them like you're preaching to us. president trump: but

even on something as limited as fix nics, the gun groups find a way to get in the way. now, i believe the priority of this chamber should be to pass universal background checks. that would accomplish what fix nics does and a lot more. president trump has said, quote, that he would push strongly comprehensive background checks, unquote, in the wake of parkland. well, we democrats are calling on him today to keep his word. we sent him a letter and we're asking to support existing legislation, bipartisan legislation, that close the loopholes that allows anyone to purchase a gun at a gun show or the internet without a background check. these loopholes make no sense. leaving these loopholes unclosed would be as if we checked someone's i.d. at the liquor store but not at the bar. that's what you could say about fix nics. if would be as if we checked someone's i.d. at the liquor store but not at the bar. we should have the same checks across the board. so today i call on president trump to come out in support of legislation that would close dangerous loopholes in our backgroun