boom. this is not a generalized gun violence problem. we have many more guns in the society than in the 1990s. gun crime has gone down. this is a specific problem involving people who don t have prior criminal records who are troubled, deranged or mentally ill. somewhere on the spectrum and the effort should be to stop them from getting guns. the best idea that i have seen in the last week is for enhanced gun violence restraining orders. where a family member or people who are close to the disturbed people like this horrible perpetrator in florida can go to a judge and say he shouldn t be able to possess or buy a gun. and there will be due process. you re respecting the right. if we had the ability in florida i m confident the people who dropped a dime on him would have gone. there was a piece by a psychiatrist. in the times. it was today or yesterday. she was confronted with a family brought in a young man who had
united kingd united kingdom had mass shootings, they took steps legislatively and through government action to reduce the number of guns out there. when we re talking about hardening schools, i think it s very telling that the people on one side of the debate are the nra who think we should arm teachers and donald trump who got $21 million from the nra in the last election and the other side are teachers, administrators and law enforcement. that tells you about whether that s the right approach. i think paul s point is correct on getting to the left of boom. this is not a generalized gun violence problem. we have many more guns in our society than we did in the 1990s. gun crime has dpoen dogone down.
hello, i m wolf blitzer in washington. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we re following breaking news on multiple fronts. former trump campaign official rick gates is about to plead guilty in robert mueller s wide-ranging russia investigation. the plea hearing is set to begin moments from now at the same time the president will be holding a big joint news conference with malcolm turnbull, visiting prime minister of australia, nation hailed, by the way, for addressing its gun violence problem. he arrives hours after president trump pushed once again for arming selected trained school teachers here in the united states. we ll get into the rick gates plea deal in a moment.
ied. we responded to mitigate the damage. the high armored hum vees. and the pentagon said it s not enough. to hope fewer guys get blown up. move left of the boom. that is on the time chart. let s get the before they place them. let s involve before the terrorists are killing our guys. that s what we need to do. hardening the schools i understand i really do. i m not against guards or cops. arming teachers is nuts. if we think hard about how to intervene in somebody s life. before he becomes a threat. how to keep guns out of the hand of troubled dangerous people. that s going to be a productive conversation. i would say that i think sometimes we re talking around this issue. because the fact is we have a gun violence problem in our country. that is obviously keeps surfacing with each one of the
that s the goal. these kids have got to go to safe schools. got two weeks left these two weeks after friday, we re going to get something done. last week scott told cnn that everything is on the table in the effort to solve the gun violence problem. joining us here, cnn political analyst julienne zeletzer, historian and professor at princeton. good morning. good morning. yesterday a couple of signals from the white house. the president saying that he s going to sign a memorandum of understanding telling jeff sessions, attorney general, to find proposals about bump stocks. and he s indicated on the ar-15 maybe he would be open it an age limit to buying an ar-15. listen to how sarah huckabee sanders says the president s positions are evolving. background checks are something that the president accep s supportive of making more efficient and looking batter ways to improve the process. the president supports not having the use of bump stocks and that we expect further