because that is obviously a mass shooting where we do have details. the gunman had told his but his mother, had threatened his mother that he was going to buy off a bomb some years ago. now, you would think that that alone would have raised a red flag within the community, within the police force. and yet, it did not. so, i guess this is two both juliette and two neill, are there cracks in the way that things are reported and then logged? why are these red flags not going up? in this instance, we know that the gap in the law which would require the mother to come forward and file a complaint, so, she calls the police. then she goes quiet. might have might have triggered a red flag law. there is a lot of variances in each law. and then there is the jurisdictional issue of whether that particle jurisdiction actually enforces the red flag
what the motive is of the shooter or shooters, and then moving in a direction of but i think will prevent these from occurring in the future. i know we have been down this road many times before, and are probably going to have more. but we ve got to do the work of prevention. neill, you have obviously attended these mass shootings in your career. i know that you have retired from the police force. but to look at these mass shootings, you know, week after week. what is going on, you know, would gun violence in america? but well, unfortunately we have a society where we have grown. many people are dealing with mental health issues. and not just dealing with these issues. but they don t know how to mitigate them. but we have just gone through a period of covid shut down for a couple of years, which has accelerated mental health issues. i m not saying that that is the only reason. but as we investigate the shootings, we can come to learn
complaint. because you can have a law, but if you are police or others are not enforcing, it will not matter. so, what you had as an incident that less than a year passes. purchasing his own guns. his motivation is unclear at the stage. we have not seen the charges yet. we are meeting with hate of sometime. but nonetheless, that is essentially what happens. and so, once again, going back to what neill said, look, you can have laws, i want more laws, i want responsible laws. but you also have communities that are aware of this. and each case that are where this, and that we are dependent on them to make the judgment call for us that the person that they know might be a threat to others. and that is not an easy thing to ask. but it is necessary at the stage. none of these come at surprises,
ground, there would ve been so many other people dead. but you are talking about a society that, you know, we are grieving the loss of five people from the weekend, and now we have a another shooting. as you say, at a walmart, a supermarket, days before thanksgiving. that s right. and right before, that you had a killing at a virginia university, three football players. we are sort of now just in the cycle. and i think it is really important, to pick up on what neill said, in terms there are two solutions here. and if we focus too much on one of the other, we are not going to come to any solution. the first is of course the means. in colorado, the shooting was over within two minutes. and by fbi statistics, about 75% of active shooting cases and before law enforcement arrives. that s a fast they are occurring. and about 25% of them are over
good success by stopping this kind of killing. neill, if i can ask you about background checks, as you mentioned before that that is something that is desperately needed. public opinion will show that people are in support of something as basic as a background check. and yet, it is the politics that are holding this reform up. that must frustrate you to know and, to know that it is up to congress, at the end of the day, to passed gun reform. something that the majority of americans desperately want. you are absolutely correct. i live down in fort myers, florida. and i talk to people every day from the left, from the right, a lot of people from the right. i m not one has disagreed with me about reasonable background checks. not one has disagreed with me about having the age of 21