is the danger still out there that there could be copy cat incidents or other pages throughout? the simp answer is yes. there is no indication we ve received from the homeland security or department of just that all of his potential packages have been accounted for. the last 72 hours it seems we re finding more and more packages. i believe the last one was tom stieer, a known democratic supporter. we re still in that period where they re going to be looking at potential other target said he may have mentioned on any one of his social media posts to sooif there are any other targets. and often time when we see these violent incidents you have this copy cat phenomenon. oblamembers of the political establishment need be resolute and on the lookout potentially for people who are trying to
year, we have to do everything we can. we should focus on, if there are better gun laws that we can enact to keep the criminals and the mentally ill from keeping their hands on guns, we should do it. we should have better mental health protections and services for people in need. unfortunately, i think that mass shooting has also become a copy cat phenomenon, where everyone who wants to make headlines and is willing to commit suicide or die in the event tries to make a bigger and more high-profile mass shooting than has ever been done before. i don t think there s any other way to understand what happened in las vegas than that. why do you think this breaks down on party lines? well, the gun issue has really fallen on party lines, especially among the extremes. the democratic party has become very, very pro-gun control and the republican party as become closely aligned with the nra. we re seeing a strong partisan divide, but not just partisanship, it s how people
governor there in oregon. the two senators and a representative who came in from washington to tell us how this has ripped apart their community there and how maybe it s not day today to talk about solutions but in the very near future after the grief process of that will be done. let me bring in, mary ellen whod at these cases frequently. we were talking about the idea of copy cats. you were saying that has changed in your mind with these types of crimes. explain that again and why. well, the copy cat phenomenon is very powerful in these cases. one case will encourage another and will encourage another. what we re also seeing as the years have gone by is that current shooters look at other cases and they learn about, for example, police response. they learn from the kind of weaponry that prior shooters bring to the scene. it s prior cases now are not