students. i wouldn t be here now if it wasn t for law enforcement confronting the shooter in in my case. it is disappointing that ultimately somebody didn t go into that school that was there and armed to protect those kids. casey? [ inaudible question ] there was a colossal breakdown in the system locally. so there was a colossal breakdown. and we need to get to the bottom of this and how these breakdowns occurred from what steve just mentioned, to the armed officer who was in the school at that time, to the fbi who failed to follow up on a glaring tip, that this young man wanted to shoot up a school, so that s pretty profound. then we also know that there are problems in the system with background checks with people slip through the cracks. we already passed a bill to fix that. we want to finish by getting
breakdown in law enforcement. the f.b.i. had this guy s name on a silver platter. several said we think he will be a school shooter. he said he wanted to be a professional school shooter and posted under his name and turned over to the f.b.i. somewhere along the way in the f.b.i. s chain of command they let it go. i think we ought to ask those tough questions and hold people accountable. there are good people at the f.b.i. but clearly there are people at the f.b.i. that chose to let this go. i think we ought to know about this. then at the end of the day when you look at local law enforcement and the sheriff has been very outspoken in a lot of ways, but i think what angered me the most is there was a sheriff s deputy trained and armed at the school assigned to protect the school and he hid out instead of protecting those students and confronting the shooter. i wouldn t be here right now if it wasn t for law enforcement confronting the shooter in my case. it is really disappointing that
wasn t for law enforcement confronting the shooter in my case. it s disappointing that somebody didn t go into that school that was there and armed to protect those kids. kasie. your meeting with these students, you have a daughter that s that age, can you look at them and say that you are doing enough to prevent this from happening again? first of all there was a break down in the system. but they re asking you to do something. there was a colossal break down, and we need to get to the bottom of how these break down occurred. from what steve just mentioned from the armed officer who was in the school at that time, to the fbi who failed to follow up on a glaring tip that this young man wanted to shoot up a school, that s pretty profound. we know there s a problem in the system in the background check where people slip through the cracks. we already passed a bill to fix that by getting a final law.
have to tell you. nobody bigger for law enforcement than i am. but between the people that didn t go into that school and protect those lives and the fact that this should have been solved long before it happened, pretty sad. so we have to confront the issue and we have to discuss mental health and we have to do something about it. you know, in the old days we had mental institutions. we had a lot of them. and you could nab somebody like this, because they knew something was off. you had to know that. people were calling all over the place. but you used to be able to bring them into a mental institution and hopefully he gets help or whatever. but he s off the streets. you can t arrest him, i guess, because he hasn t done anything, but you know he s like a boiler ready to explode, right? is to you have to do something. but you can t put him in jail, i guess, because he hasn t done anything. but in the old days, you would put him into a mental
between people that didn t go into that school and protect those lives and the fact that this should have been solved long before it happened, pretty sad. we have to confront the issue and discuss mental health, we have to do something about it. in the old days we had mental institutions. you could nab somebody like this because they knew something was off. they had to know that. but you used to be able to bring them into a mental institution and hopefully he gets help or whatever. you can t arrest him because he hasn t done anything but you know he is like a boiler ready to explode. he just you have to do something but you can t put him in jail because he hasn t done anything. in the old days you put him into a mental institution, and we had them in new york, our government started closing them.