panel. president of the bernard center for women politics. and michelle bernard. good afternoon to both of you. let's start with this associated press quote here. here it is in part. "in a world where amazon can track your next book purchase and you must register to buy allergy medicine, james holmes spent months stockpiling thousands of bullets, head to toe ballistic gear without raising any red flags with authorities. and here's a situation regardless of party where one would think that both sides would be able to agree on rework the system. but yet there doesn't seem to be at this point any political will to do that. >> this has been the case for quite some time. and it is i agree surprising almost every time there is one of these incidents, we have another conversation about how there needs to be another conversation and then there isn't one.