we want to bring in our cnn contributor, former fbi assistant director, tom fuentes. is talking about removing the right to bear arms. but there are 310 million nonmilitary weapons in the united states, that is more than one for every single american. first of all, is it even possible to try to limit the weapons that are out there. how do you even do that? >> hi, debra. it would be possible. it would be, have to be done over a long period of time. but when you look at the right to bear arms, you know, we're really looking at an issue that's on the continuum. where you might have a single-shot pistol on the one end of the continuum and nuclear weapons on the other. the right of a citizen to possess arms, does that mean they can go out and obtain nuclear weapons and automatic weapons and tanks and firepower, aircraft carriers? no. the government says that at some point, we're going to cut you off and you can't have a mour powerful weapon than what the government says. but the argument now is at what point on the continuum to do we make the limitation, do we say you can h

i want to bring in cnn contributor and former cia director tom fuentes. before we get to that conversation, let's talk about the conversation that people are having in the country when it comes to gun laws and the second amendment right. no one is trying to take away the second amount right. as a tax dee driver drove me to my hotel at 5:00 in the morning, the taxi driver said, what is congress doing about gun laws? it's time to act now and stop saying it's not responsible to talk about it after a shooting. this is the time to talk about it. >> don, i completely agree with you. we hear we can't talk about this now, we have to be in mourning and pray for the families and then a couple days go by, the emotion goes by and nobody cares to talk about it. so you're right. when is the time? there's no good time. no better time than the present, i think, to have at least have the discussion of what is reasonable for the number of firearms that are at large in society and not to mention that we still have the issue of the very inadequate mental health system in thi

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contributor and former fbi director tom fuentes joins us from washington. borah feyerick is joining us. tom, first you to. these are high-powered guns the there. you obviously downtown wan't wan the wrong hands. connecticut has strong laws on the books now. how did the young adam lanza, 20-year-old, get these weapons? >> hi, wolf. so far we don't know for sure how he got them. the reports are that his manager legally purchased the weapons and legally had them in the house, it followed all of the laws of connecticut. but if he went ahead and stole them from his mother and then actually used them against her and the other children, then that's where the problem comes in. she may have obtained the guns legally, but he didn't. he basically would have stolen the weapons. >> how popular out there are these three kinds of weapons? the two pistols, one rifle? how popular out there are they generally across the country? >> they're popular because the glock and the sig sauer pistols are professional, top-of-the-line quality. they're carried by most law enforcement off

. >>> joining me by phone to talk about the nra's reaction to the massacre, tom fuentes. president of the nra urging congress now to put armed officers in every school in the country. that is his solution. here's what he is suggesting. >> the budgets and you all know this, everyone in the country knows this, of our local police departments are strained. and the resources are severely limited, but their dedication and courage is second to none and they can be deployed right now. i call on congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation. >> all right, tom, i understand you're actually calling from virginia tech for your daughter's graduation and ironically or even appropriately, that is the place of the worst school shooting in american history where 32 people died. do you think the nra's solution of arming these schools would be helpful? >> well, i don't think you could do it, suzanne. i think as a practical matter it's just not doable. first of all, you have 100,000 schools in this co

we're joined by tom fuentes. tom, let's start with you.he bush master was registered to the suspect's mother, nancy lanz, a semiautomatic weapon in a state that is called a may issue state. it's not the easiest place to get a gun. particularly a semiautomatic gun. explain why we think nancy lanza had a bush master and was able to get one. >> good morning, ali. i think right now there's no clue why she would've gotten those weapons. she may have been in fear of being burglarized or robbed or somebody else happening. maybe she had been threatened, you know, once before in her life and felt like she wanted weapons in the house to protect herself. but, there's not going to be an easy answer to that question unless she told a friend or relative why she wanted to have those three weapons. >> you know, let me follow up, tom. how hard is it to get a bush master rifle? and if i can ask about the pistols for a second, what are the issues surrounding them? are they possible to load with these high number of round magazines with a lot of bullets? >> y

. >> tom fuentes is here. he's a former assistant fbi director and fbi firearms instructor. you heard that position. there are some who feel strongly now that teachers, if they had guns, would have been able to stop that school shooting. does that make sense to you? >> suzanne, frankly it does not. during my six years as a police officer, i was a firearm instruct instructor, during my 30 years in the fbi i was a firearm instructor and s.w.a.t. team member. i know what it takes to train someone to be proficient with pistols, shotguns, rifles, assault weapons. it taking many, many hours. what police officers and federal agents go through, hundreds and hundreds of hours, and they continue that training throughout their career. the idea we could take 7.2 million teachers in this country from preschool through university and train them to be proficient, the hundreds of hours it would take, it would be too much of a daunting task, i think. the second thing is that i hate to bring this up, but also six of the adult staff members in sandy hook were female. i know from my experience

. >>> let's talk to tom fuentes. >> it's amazing to me that two back up tapes about employees, informaow level contractor, carrying them like his lunch. it makes no sense that he would do it that way. you see the vice president or dignitaries in armored cars, black suvs, if the information was that sensitive, why was it not put in armored cars, and taken with armed escort to the facility in maryland where it would then be stored for later use in terms of continuity of government, so to me this makes absolutely no sense. >> have you ever heard of a blunder like this before? >> no, i have not. >> tom, it sounds, as brian said in his piece, it sounds like it's out of james bond or a "homeland" episode. are there protocols in place if this kind of information goes missing. >> there's protocols in place to keep it from happening. so the eye of it being carried around, or the story that it's encrypted that no one would no what it is, i think even in 2008, it would not have been hard to break the encryption, much less with today's technology. to later say no big deal, nobody was in danger, th

i want to bring in tom fuentes, the fbi's former assistant director. very much for helping us in a situation like this. i want to clarify what we earlier like other news organizations were reporting, that the suspected shooter was ryan lanza, age 24. we now believe the shooter was not ryan lanza. ryan lanza was taken into custody, we're told, earlier in the day. that perhaps his brother was the suspected shooter, perhaps the connecticut state police, lieutenant paul vance, will clarify this. but we're getting more information on what's going on. so we do know that lanza's mother was among those killed, found dead at the -- at her home near the school. she was a teacher at this school, the sandy hook elementary school. when you heard all these details coming in and you've studied these kinds of mass killings over the years, what did you think? >> to be frank, wolf, as i was hearing the early reports and you had many news organizations reporting who was where, who was killed, who was the shooter. and then when the police did their briefing, they wouldn't