bernardino. there was the gun massacre in the latino gay nightclub in orlando. there was the bomber who set off explosions in the new york city neighborhood of chelsea and in seaside park new jersey and had other bombs discovered before they detonated in elizabeth new jersey. ali soufan, an fbi interrogator after the uss cole attack and in the aftermath of 9/11, he posted a list of the attacks and attempted attacks in the united states from 9/11 until the present. and he posted it to point out that all of those attacks and attempted attacks, when you look at those, right now we should notice one thing about those attackers and where they came from. like i said, the 9/11 attackers were from egypt, saudi arabia, united arab emirates. the other attacks in the perpetrators were british, nigerian, afghan american, chechen, pakistani american. today the new president ordered a stop on immigration to the
he did issue more money funding for mental health issues and care for example. as you said, your son was murdered by someone who had been to a mental institution twice. does that give you any hope t see that included? the mental health is something we should always invest in. it s an important social goal and one that we should cherish and work for. but it s just a red herring that the nra and the pro gunners throw up every time there s a gun massacre. the fact is mental health is not the reason we have people doing gun massacres who have mental problems. in all of the other developed countries such as ours, england, france, italy, germany, japan, canada, sweden, they have the same percentage of people with mental health issues as we have. but they don t have people with mental health issues committing
instances. one was the difficulty of trying to persuade the survivors, the people who had just gone through this gun massacre, trying to persuade them that it was same to come to police officers, that they could leave the back hall or the other areas of that building where they had hidden or they had ended up as survivors from that scene. it was hard as police officers to persuade people it was safe to come with them as officers in order to get oit of there. the other thing he described was just the sensory experience of being in there, the loudness of it. we had heard from law enforcement earlier in the day that tha one of the things that complicated that as a scene that needed to be cleared and ultimately as a scene that needs to be investigated was that the fire sprinklers went off. we don t exactly know why. the police chief had earlier speculated that it s possible some element of the sprinkler system had been hit by a bullet and maybe that set it off. but for whatever reason, as
walk around and choose to not help people who were hurt and who were calling out for help and who needed help. but they were trained. he s actually cited the columbine incident specifically. he said they were trained after that incident that what you need to do is not attend to the victims there. you need to find the threat and stop the threat. he said they believed at that time when they entered the scene that there were still according to reports between one and three shooters still inside. he said he had heard reports that there had been assailants who potentially left the scene in a black suv, they had heard those responses but he didn t know especially because there might have been multiple assailants if some people who were still inside who were the bad actors, the people who had caused this event. he said knowing that they had to walk past people who were hurt, people who were wounded in order to try to clear the scene, in order to try to find out fw the shooters were still ther
it will be interesting to see what he thinks might have prevented it or made it any better. the maybe this is the wildness of the american character. look at australia, a pretty wild place, a frontier society, a lot of there s mental illness there, just like here. yet after a gun massacre, they managed to get control of the problem, get control of guns. we can do this if we want to. the pro-b is we don t want to. and that was one of the examples the president used tonight without mentioning australia specifically by name. thank you all for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. coming up. president obama will get tonight s last word.