in the brain. that s another way to look at it, mental illness is a physical illness. after the attack, how did you hear about what finally happened to gus? well, see gus was in just slash it away. and then suddenly you just turn around, i think he thought i was bleeding enough, i don t know. i staggered through the barn along a ridge, i just i didn t have much i didn t have much strength in my right side, my arm was disabled. soy didn t open the gate, i climbed it, staggered out to this road, my husband had taken some hunters back to the national forest, and he saw me coming through the field bloody,
go indepth in a way he s never spoken about it before. people have been so kind to me, they reach out and they don t understand sometimes that i just have to be left alone, because i have to focus on the good things. these pictures and the facebook page set up for gus. there s so many good pictures and good memories, that s what i have to focused on. i m determined that gus not be remembered just for his illness. he was such a good boy, a good man, he had a good heart, he loved people. gus was senator deeds only son, he was loved deeply by a father who did everything he could to get him the help he so desperately needed. this manning, a senator no less could not get that help. he failed his son and he s speaking out tonight because he wants you to know about the boy he loved, about the young man
people do agree with it. it is important we extend and expand this debate from just the congress because a lot of those people, frankly, have their heads in the sand. usa today has this analysis out today showing more than 900 people have died in mass shootings over the past seven years defined as incidents where four people or more have died. most were killed by people that they knew half involved family members. are background checks part of this and is the other part of this puzzle more focus on mental illness? absolutely. it is all of the above. there is no question that it won t just be universal background checks and high capacity magazines, assault weapons, illegal trafficking. we have to deal with mental health and mental illness. we should be making more investments in that regard. we need to make sure we have a good list of those people. we need to expand the list of people, for instance, who have a