these measures depend on people following the law and that law is becoming more strict for gun buyers and dealers. jarrett and the vice president say new resources will ensure that the people who need mental health treatment get it. >> the law that is on the books and has been declared constitutional by the courts, supreme court of the united states, that law should be able to function. and the way to make it function better is to make sure the people with a mental illness adjudicated shouldn't be able to have a gun, make sure that people who are felons shouldn't have a gun, make sure people who are abusers shouldn't have a gun. >> vice president biden speaking with wdbj from roanoke, virginia tonight. one of the other stations he spoke to in advance of tonight's town hall meeting was the local next station in hartford, connecticut, the station right outside newtown, where we all know what happened at the sandy hook elementary school three years ago. the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary happened december 14th, 2012. the congressman representing that district at the time of the