i don t remember their exact language. and also, strong oversight by the parents. because of behavioral mental issues. so, those are my two intervention points. before i get all the kids locking down in clear backpacks, the adults never did anything. let s just focus on the adults. virginia has no requirement to secure a weaponry in a home with children. it s not even clear, in this case, that the law is going to cover this case because the law is complicated in terms of recklessness. the reckless law that you hear people talk about is only if the victim is under 14. not if the shooter is under 14. so, organ of to see if there s any legal claims or against the adults. i think we really need to focus on the intervention by adults at this stage. the six-year-old child who had issues before and the interventions were not taken. the focus ought to be as well on the children who were
there s two moments with their should have been an intervention. the first, of course, is, what the parents mean to say that the gun is secure? that s just not factually accurate. it can t possibly be. maybe they thought it was secure. it was not secure to their six-year-old. the second factual question we have, there is a time period that the school knows that there might be a gun on campus. they, at least by reporting, search his backpack, the child child s backpack, they do not see it. did they not go to him and try to isolate him? this is a child, described by the parents, not me, described by the parents as having educational disorders. i don t remember their exact language. and also, strong oversight by the parents. because of behavioral mental issues. so, those are my two intervention points. before i get all the kids locking down in clear backpacks, the adults never did anything. let s just focus on
domestic violence issues. people filed restraining orders against them. they may have to pay child support. but it s not just one motive. so, when we re investigating, for example, as an agency, when someone comes to our attention who we might be concerned, about we take holistic approach to prevention. so we look at everything that s going on in their life. that s based on the research. we know that the majority of these individuals experience stressors in the years leading up to their attacks. we know that they engage in communication behavior that elicits concern in others. what are the intervention points so we can get these people resources and care before they get the idea that they want to act. ainsley: the president has talked about not giving people with history of mental illness guns. not allowing them, at least having a thorough background check. have you found that all of these individuals had mental illness? i think you must in order to do something like this. we hear th
as opposed to less in the next couple of years. because, so in the last months of the obama administration, there was authorized, the cures act authorized a billion dollars, 500 million of that wentyear. $500 million is waiting to go to states next year. the treatment system in this country needs to be integrated into our health system. it s the medical community and doctors. 11.8 million people abuse opioids in this country. staggering statistics. the vast, vast majority of those, 11.5, pain reliever abusers. misuse fentanyl, oxycodone. talk about what the medical community needs to do. they obviously have a significant role. is it the number of prescriptions? is it more than that? we need to reduce the number of prescriptions and there s effort to do that. we need to work on intervention points. those would say, listen, those in pain, they need the drugs for medical reasons. absolutely.