shouldn t be banning guns for law abiding citizens but making sure people who shouldn t have guns can t get guns. in this particular case there were a lot of breakdowns from local law enforcement to the f.b.i. getting tips that they didn t follow up on to school resource officers who are trained to protect kids in these schools and who didn t do that. that to me is the most stunning one of all. there is a lot we have to look at. we want to protect people s rights while making sure that people who should not get guns do not get those guns. teachers? look, as we have sheriff rutledge has a bill we re looking at. the sheriff from jacksonville, as you may know. we re laong at the rutledge bill but that s a question for local school boards and states. as a parent myself and a citizen i think it s a good idea. as speaker of the house i think
wasn t for law enforcement confronting the shooter in my case. it s disappointing that somebody didn t go into that school that was there and armed to protect those kids. kasie. your meeting with these students, you have a daughter that s that age, can you look at them and say that you are doing enough to prevent this from happening again? first of all there was a break down in the system. but they re asking you to do something. there was a colossal break down, and we need to get to the bottom of how these break down occurred. from what steve just mentioned from the armed officer who was in the school at that time, to the fbi who failed to follow up on a glaring tip that this young man wanted to shoot up a school, that s pretty profound. we know there s a problem in the system in the background check where people slip through the cracks. we already passed a bill to fix that by getting a final law.
on the books? we passed overall of the mental health system. we need to make sure that overhaul is going what it s supposed to be doing to make sure people like this don t get these kind of guns. that s where we should focus our attention. thank you. you have been listening to house speak r paul ryan at his weekly news conference answer i think almost every single question on what congress, what the house should do next when it comes to the gun debate after the parkland school shooting. we ll get to kacie hunt who was in that roam who questioned the house speaker. but before we do, michael steel, james peters is here with us. he talked about feeling very troubled by what he saw. i think this is very interesting, the house has passed this bill to strengthen
that morning, patry mckinley who represents the district. i called around and called mitch mcconnell and we got together and decided this is something we should do. we turn that decision around. the president called me as well that morning. between mitch, the president, myself and patrick we made that decision quickly. you rule out the house considering it you rule out expanded background checks do you support program funding arming teachers? and is there any way which you support going beyond the half dozen or so that s six questions in one. first of all, i m not going to micro manage this. second of all, i m not sure what pat and joe are doing in their bill so i can t comment on that. that s the senate bill. we know there are gaps in the background system that need to be plugged. we passed a bill to do that and
inklings of difficulty. the nra doesn t necessarily oppose to basically enforce the law on existing background checks. not expand them just enforce them and people with criminal records should be allowed to buy guns. that had some struggles already. the senator from utah says he was beginning to try to block this bill. a similar bill passed the house a couple months ago but that was coupled with a gun prorights to basically allow people with concealed license to carry them across state line. that s not going anywhere in the senate. the senate is basically, one lawmaker can hole up entire pieces of legislation, whereas if the house it s a majority rule situation. house speaker paul ryan his