somebody else, whether it is i vouch for you to buy a home, i vouch for you to buy a car, i vouch for you to have automobile insurance. there is a liability that attaches to that and what it means is that if that person fails to do what they re supposed to do, use the person that co-signed that vouched for them and then they have to step up and take some kind of responsibility. so i would think at some point down the road, there will like by be some possibly some criminal, if not some civil liability here. and we still don t know a motive. investigators have said that the shooting doesn t appear to have been motivated by race or religion. yet obviously they re still looking into this. trying to get to the bottom of what motivated this man to do such a horrific thing. how important is it to the investigation to determine what the motive was here?
it is important just because people want to know. and people just can t believe that someone could do this without having some specific motive. but i will say this. in interviewing a number of offenders over 35 years, it is remarkable to me how often i would go in and i would say, why did you do this and unless it was obvious like i robbed a bank for money, i did this for because i was upset. they re remarkably not intuitive in terms of why they did it. and so we may not know specifically, but in other cases like this, these individuals, it takes a while because violence begins in the brain, they develop this hatred for the world and they want to take action against people that they feel have screwed up their life. that takes a while. that doesn t happen overnight. so the shooters oftentimes want to kill people because they hate them and their own life is
that a lot of a lot of the argument has to shift. what you hear after sandy hook and certainly after stoneman douglas, the david hoggs of the world are changing that everything can. they are saying, look i know we re going to disagree on a lot of this, but can we at least get to a space where we can begin to talk about the kind of common sense reforce, not control of your guns, right? we don t want to take anything away from you. we just want to put in place reforms to save lives. all we want to do is make an ar-15 as hard to buy as sudafed or rent a car, neither which a 18-year-old can do. let me put this up real quick because we re out of time. the worst mass shooting, this isn t even all the worst mass shootings since 1991, this shooting doesn t even rank at the to. this was the murder of a bunch of little kid. not even the top most deadly one an buffalo doesn t even come anywhere close. the only difference between us and the rest of the world is
any he ordinary homicide or crime, but on the other hand the wording of terrorism statutes are clunky and it s this the shooting doesn t necessarily fit exactly into the wording of michigan state statute, an intent to intimidate or coerce a government unit. it will be interesting to see how the prosecution succeeded on that front and whether that might be replicated in other instances like this. andy, given that the prosecutor in this case was asked about something related to somebody under age, owning a firearm, even though it was the dad that purchased it, it was some kind of christmas present for the son, could the parents face any federal charge? i think it s possible. but it s highly unlikely. i ve had about a half a dozen texts from my legal friends and that seems to be the consensus. any charges related to like a
a public vigil for family and friends grieving the loss of five people killed in a workplace shooting in the chicago is suburbs. loved ones paid respect s s to victims. now mourners laid flowers in front of wooden crosses in illinois. police say an employee who was being fired from his job there opened fire on his colleagues friday. the man who built those memorial crosses and thousands of others across the country is in aurora, illinois, carpenter. for him, this shooting doesn t just hit close to home. it is home. five more crosses, five more gun deaths in america. the miami herald detailing the human cost of this epidemic