this young man was known to the police. the police came to his house multiple times. and he got a gun. there should be more intervention. there should be more easier. and matching up with police records with guns. compel treatment for treatment who are seriously mentally ill and need for intervention for them. smud they be able to get guns. if they haven t been adjudicated gun ownership is an individual right. if i said to you the media is part of the problem we need to ban the media from talking about the shootings you would say, rich, there is a first amendment right you can t do that. that s the way this country works. there is a bill of rights. yes, there is a bill of rights. but then if congress or someone decided to do something about that, then we could talk about that. to do something about the bill of rights. yeah. or what rights. talking about the availability of guns. there is nothing that stops there is nothing that stops people from having convers
people on the terror watch list were not able to buy guns. republicans couldn t even come to consensus on that. because the terror watch list is a mess. everyone acknowledges that. if you clean it up. clean it up. fine let s clean it up and then we can have the conversation. do that as well. the fundamental fact, don is the second amendment that this country. you re saying people on the terror watch list in the interim while you clean it up they should be allowed to have guns. mentally ill people gun. again you re talking about something that has no interaction with the crimes. we care more about guns than we do children. and it s disgusting. and we need to change the culture that that ensh rierns guns a a kind of manhood. we are not entitled to ar-15ever. we are entitled to own guns, not entitled to own weapons of mass destruction. you brought the receipts all these guys, yes they ve been bought and paid for. they may now have come around to
but here is my question. and i want everyone to really think about this. why are we allowing pliken beholden to lobbyists to get in the way of what the majority of americans want. 68% of americans want a ban on assault style weapons according to a recent pew poll. according to quinnipiac 95% of americans want universal background checks. we talk about americans and guns being sacred. but most of the population doesn t even own a gun. pew found that only 37% of households report someone owning a gun. a study by harvard and northeastern universities found 3% of americans own half of all guns in this country. 3% of americans own half of all guns in this country. that is 7.7 million people who own an ample of 17 guns each. so a majority of the population actually own guns and a smaller a smaller percentage of them own half of that.
landed. that s the forensic work. and already 2,000 interviews or so conducted in this trying to gather all the information they can. the sheriffs department released a tick-tock ab, a time line of how the shooter came to the school, 2:19 he arrived in an uber. went inside the school with the black case. that had the gun inside. removed the gun and at 2:21, two minutes after arriving he began shooting in classrooms. there is a couple of interesting things that took place during that time line. the sheriff actually says he shot up two different classroom went to a third, and then came back and shot some more in the first two classrooms. he drops the gun eventually runs out blends with students. goes to a wal-mart, buys a drink and a sand wi67 only apprehended an hour later, don. drew, thank you very much for your reporting. i want to bring in cnn senior
shootings. they would stop some. they might have. poll. this is a circular argument. do you think the young man in florida should have had this gun? no but you can t but of course not i don t want murders to have guns. my gosh. but what law what law would you pass under these circumstances. so let s have a conversation next. what law can you pass that would prevent him from having a gun? okay then this is the conversation. what is it tell me. i m not a lawmaker. what s the this is the conversation. much more stringent. answer my question. there is more stringent background checks. there is an answer to the question. it s not necessarily passing laws or what have you. but there is an answer to the question. if the you want to say people around him should have been more concerned, i mean obviously they were concerned to some degree already calling the police. and they shouldn t haven t allowed him to have the gun. and take it away. rich, you concern