the problem is the mental health system is not seeing patients until they are a danger to selfor others. the privacy laws kick in and it prohibits doctors from telling the fed who is too incompetent to have a gun. arizona is more lenient, if the patient is evaluated without a court order and if their experts want the ability to put patients into the national background check database. a mobile crisis team in phoenix. she is having thoughts to want to cut herself. reporter: responding to a call for help. my name is brett, how can i help you, what is going on. reporter: throughout arizona centers like this one handle mental health emergencies. what do they have the risk level at. reporter: when needed patients get immediate psychiatric care as opposed to other states where typically a crime must first be committed before a court will order them to see a doctor. a doctor will take a look at the paperwork, see if it meets the legal statute for the emergency petition and if it
abiding citizens would actually work. take a look at this poll and we ll put it up on the screen. nearly twice as many people think there would be less violent crime if more people owned guns than if guns were banned. is the president going at this the wrong way? not at all. the president is going the exact right way. he has comprehensive approach and he is focusing on background checks. we aren t saying we can prevent every single murder in this country. when my sister was killed at virginia tech on april 16th we learned that the gunman passed two background checks. his name was not in the background check database. if it was he would have been prevented from buying those guns. 40% of all guns in held in this country and what the president is proposing is to close that loophole and that is great first step. gregg: people like that idea. john, let me go to you let me
or 20 like me come in to buy guns from you. it s a way to avoid the federal requirement for a background check. the background check database isn t kept up to date, and the president by executive order could certainly do something like that. there was a disaster, a murder six, eight months, a year ago, a military guy. the military knew he had psychiatric problems. never put that into the database outside of the military. and he goes and kills people. so populating the database. having making sure that you stop the gun show loophole. those are the kinds of things that congress can do. and enforcing the laws. the alcohol, tobacco and firearms division hasn t had anybody in half a dozen years running it, four years. the president hasn t fought hard for somebody. i know it s tough to get people through congress, approved in congress. the president deals with that all the time. this should be one of his number one priorities. how much are you prepared to spend in the future to counter
requirement for a background check. the background check database isn t kept up to date, and the president by executive order could certainly do something like that. there was a disaster, a murder six, eight months, a year ago, a military guy. the military knew he had psychiatric problems. never put that into the database outside of the military. and he goes and kills people. so populating the database. having making sure that you stop the gun show loophole. those are the kinds of things that congress can do. and enforcing the laws. the alcohol, tobacco and firearms division hasn t had anybody in half a dozen years running it, four years. the president hasn t fought hard for somebody. i know it s tough to get people through congress, approved in congress. the president deals with that all the time. this should be one of his number one priorities. how much are you prepared to spend in the future to counter the nra? i don t know how to answer that. but when i care about something,
or 20 like me come in to buy guns from you. it s a way to avoid the federal requirement for a background check. the background check database isn t kept up to date, and the president by executive order could certainly do something like that. there was a disaster, a murder six, eight months, a year ago, a military guy. the military knew he had psychiatric problems. never put that into the database outside of the military. and he goes and kills people. so populating the database. having making sure that you stop the gun show loophole. those are the kinds of things that congress can do. and enforcing the laws. the alcohol, tobacco and firearms division hasn t had anybody in half a dozen years running it, four years. the president hasn t fought hard for somebody. i know it s tough to get people through congress, approved in congress. the president deals with that all the time. this should be one of his number one priorities. how much are you prepared to spend in the future to counter t