some of the things that he was thinking to somebody. and we need to get ahold of that ahead of time. governor ridge, what is your experience particularly with the virginia tech shooting aftermath? what does it tell you about where we need to start reacting particularly to senator feinste feinstein s comment? i think everyone has really focused on a word you used. i think the country needs to have it. let s have the conversation. let s start with the act and pull back to the actors. there s a profile here. and in the cho case, it was really rather dramatic. the privacy laws intersected with the inferior mental health delivery systems. what we know about many of these troubled young men, they often reveal their suicidal intentions. they often reveal their desire to kill. and so there s a we talk about mental health generically. but that s not a conversation parents have with counselors, and we run to it after the fact. and so i think the fact that we need a national conversation