and i m the one that actually authored the bill after parkland with senator hatch putting some significant resources into school safety. so i have i believe in that. but i think that we all know this isn t just schools. it is happening in theaters, it is happening in grocery stores. look at buffalo, the dad going to buy a birthday cake for his son that never comes back. so, the thing that runs through all of these shootings and including the 13 that happened over the weekend, are these guns that are in the hands of people that shouldn t have it and that leads you to the red flag law idea and the back ground checks and the boyfriend loophole and that leads to you put limits on assault weapons. that to me is the threat that connects all of them. and yes we could do more on school safety and mental health. that investment goes way beyond violent crime. what needs to be done. but if you want to do something about people being gunned down in their classrooms and little
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outcry not only from democrats who want to tackle gun legislation but also from republicans who are trying to figure out other ways to tackle the situation and one other idea being studied at the justice department is to specifically make mass shootings a capital crime under federal law. the irony of the situation is that if these shooters in el paso or in dayton had used explosives to kill the same number of people, there would be the use of weapons of mass destruction as a way for the federal prosecutors to go after them in the case of the el paso shooter, he is still alive but obviously this is a federal loss situation, the federal law often plays second fiddle to the state because the states have homicide statutes they can use to bring charges against these shooters so, again, these are ideas being discussed at the justice department. there s also this red flag law idea that the president that senator lindsey graham has
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