martinez went on to say lawmakers should have taken action after sandy hook, bub they didn t, and now his child is lost too. i m joined once again by cnn legal analyst paul callan and criminologist james alan fox. paul, a connecticut lawmaker is renewing his call for tougher gun laws after the shooting spree. we know elliott rodger bought his guns legally. we also know he has a long history of mental health issues. he d been seeing a therapist since he was 8. if someone like him who had never been admitted to a psych ward but was disturbed, plotting this spree for quite some time, apparently, if someone like him can get a gun what hope is there to prevent someone mentally disturbed from buying guns? sit frightening. with his prior history, you would think there s no way he would qualify for a gun, but in truth, the gun laws are very, very clear, that you have to be a demonstratably mentally defective person. that s the wording that s used in some of the statutes.
banfield. today, students and neighbors, the university of california, santa barbara, and the santa barbara city college, are trying to cope with it all. multiple crime scenes with three people shot and three others stabbed to death before the troubled killer, elliott rodger, took his own life. the president of the united states has been getting briefings. and the white house spokesman issued a statement saying the president and first lady s thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends who lost a loved one. alison kosic is right outside the santa barbara sheriff s office. are we getting a better idea of how others perceived elliott rodger? we are, because, you know, up until now we ve really only had that manifesto to get an idea of what was going through elliott rodger s mind, and now we re hearing from one of his neighbors. rodger lived at an apartment building at isla vista and this neighbor is saying what rodger wound up doing was closing himself off to others.
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barbara campus. he wrote, i will kill them all and make them suffer, just as they have made me suffer. rodger s mother discovered the terrifying threat in her e-mail at 9:17 that evening. she then discovered her son s last youtube video titled retribution. and i will slaughter every single spoiled, stuckup blonde [ bleep ] i see inside there. reporter: she called rodgers father and 911. frantically racing to santa barbara. both parents en route when they heard the news. shots fired. reporter: that they were too late. witness it was a dark colored bmw, white occupant, a male, wearing a white shirt. reporter: on sunday, the atf and county sheriff s office searched the mother s home. estair says rodgers parents feel a pivotal moment was missed last month. six police officers conducted a well being check on rodger in
professor of criminology, at northwestern university. also the author of extreme killing, understanding serial and mass murders. thank you for being with us. paul, want to start with you. we ve talked about this over the phone and, you know, police went to elliott rodger s house, they checked in on him in april. they wrote about it, if they searched his home and found his guns, his plans might have been spoiled. what are police allowed to do on welfare checks? could they have done more when that flag was raised a month ago? it s hard to say based on what we know now. here s the bottom line on it. the law is the same in most states. if there s evidence to believe you re a threat to yourself or others, you can be brought to a psychiatric facility for an inpatient evaluation. the question is, did he meet that standard. to answer that, we have to know what did the police know when they went to his apartment. now, they re saying they didn t know a whole lot and he acted in