schools, mental health issues and then also identifying those areas possibly where the ball was dropped, from an investigative and law enforcement standpoint to prevent a person with this kind of potential mental illness and these kinds of having the gun and being able to get into the school. chris: all of those are legitimate. what about the argument you heard from mark kelly when you get a disturbed nikolas cruz he should have been stopped long before gets into a school not with a gun, not with a knife, but with an ar 15 with high capacity magazines it becomes a weapon of mass destruction. again we re focusing on one specific gun. as you showed earlier in the segment, you know, handguns commit far more crimes or more people die with handguns. we have had mass shootings with handguns, not just the ar-15. so i think you ve got to balance all of those very real issues and i think that s why, you know, maybe there are loopholes that we can close. maybe there are some things that
schools, mental health issues and then also identifying those areas possibly where the ball was dropped, from an investigative and law enforcement standpoint to prevent a person with this kind of potential mental illness and these kinds of having the gun and being able to get into the school. chris: all of those are legitimate. what about the argument you heard from mark kelly when you get a disturbed nikolas cruz he should have been stopped long before gets into a school not with a gun, not with a knife, but with an ar 15 with high capacity magazines it becomes a weapon of mass destruction. again we re focusing on one specific gun. as you showed earlier in the segment, you know, handguns commit far more crimes or more people die with handguns. we have had mass shootings with handguns, not just the ar-15. so i think you ve got to balance all of those very real issues and i think that s why, you know, maybe there are loopholes that we can close. maybe there are some things that
schools, mental health issues and then also identifying those areas possibly where the ball was dropped, from an investigative and law enforcement standpoint to prevent a person with this kind of potential mental illness and these kinds of having the gun and being able to get into the school. chris: all of those are legitimate. what about the argument you heard from mark kelly when you get a disturbed nikolas cruz he should have been stopped long before gets into a school not with a gun, not with a knife, but with an ar 15 with high capacity magazines it becomes a weapon of mass destruction. again we re focusing on one specific gun. as you showed earlier in the segment, you know, handguns commit far more crimes or more people die with handguns. we have had mass shootings with handguns, not just the ar-15. so i think you ve got to balance all of those very real issues and i think that s why, you know, maybe there are loopholes that we can close. maybe there are some things that
but from a law enforcement standpoint, how tied are law enforcement s hands in trying to, you know, if somebody clearly has mental health issues, trying to force them to get help and/or have that record be on some sort of firearm database? that s part of the problem, being able to ge that information. not everyone who suffers from mental illness like you said is a threat. sure. to anybody. the vast majority are not. it could be anywhere from depression to someone who is actually going through a crisis, without actually looking to harm other people. we ve got to really sit down and think about, you know, and respect privacy, but at the same time not to the extent that we put others in jeopardy. so what is that line? where is that line? when we can actually get the information we need, have thorough background checks, not violate people s second amendment rights but protect the public. right now we are not able to do it. phil, you have been vocal
about one youtube video is the straw that broke the camel s back, i m going to say what about the other 100 straws we saw over years at his hometown. i don t buy it. chief ramsey, i mean, you know, one doesn t want to paint with a broad brush anybody with mental health issues. most people with mental health issues do not resort to violence. but from a law enforcement standpoint, how tied are law enforcement s hands in trying to, you know, if somebody clearly has mental health issues, trying to force them to get help and/or have that record be on some sort of firearm database? that s part of the problem, being able to get that information. not everyone who suffers from mental illness like you said is a threat. sure. to anybody. the vast majority are not. it could be anywhere from depression to someone who is actually going through a crisis, without actually looking to harm other people. we ve got to really sit down and think about, you know, and respect privacy, but at the s