deserve a nation that is better and safer, join us at we are better than this.org. you have to keep talking and engage in the process otherwise, we will have the same conversation the next time a mass shooting happens. we can no longer keep repeating it over and over and the same c conversations, because we have to move forward with that and we have to do it together. collin, you were shot in 2007, and the tact that we are here in 2012, does it feel like we have failed you? your fellow survivors and those who did not survive that massacre? that is a tough question. i feel good about what i am doing today and the the people i am connecting with with, and the progress in capitol hill and ledgislatures across the kun tc. it has been an overwhelming experience, but it is one that is very rewarding. we are trying to take the horrible situations and put it towards something that is positive so that these things don t keep happening to other
liberties, and a gray area, but ve to as a nation decide, what is more important, a sorry about 20 children or a story about how we stepped over our bounds and have information that could have saved those children. i am confident that some of the things that we discussed and the recommendations that we made will go towards trying to identify and intervene in these things prior to them happening. let me also ask you this in t the context of the of the shooting at the sikh temple, there was so much conversation about the shooting, the motive of the killer, and how can we ensure that we have a focus on the survivors and the victims and not constantly talking about the perpetrators here? well, everybody wants to know that, and this is the very first thing, and in this situation, also. i saw some of the news reports,
so as the children become afraid of going back to school, which will happen, this is why it is important that we show and give as much stability as possible to these children, not just the ones in thele schools, but the ones in the town, and not just the ones in the town, but those in surrounding communities or anyone else that has been affected, because this will forever change how children look at school. joy, can you take what jeff is saying, and expend it out for mark and ari and i, and with the sleeplessness and the fear of going into public places and nightmares. what if this is that your normal and that violence has become your expectation? well, i was thinking as you were talking about a case in miami of a shooting that took place outside of an inner city school in miami and there was a body right outside, and that in this community, that is something that the children were
her sons to shooting ranges, and this was something that was very important part of her life. now, we believe she had purchased the guns, and there is some indication that adam lanza, the suspect, may have tried to get a gun, himself, but the guns that we know about that were used in the shooting were actually registered in the name of his mother, the avid gun collector. who is also a victim of this crime. thank you to michael isikoff. who is also a victim of crime, yes. and thank you michael isikoff in newtown, connecticut. join joining me at the table are ari melber, and joy reid, and managing editor of thegrio.com, and psychologist jeffrey qadeer. and i want to say, that particularly from my colleague
of what local law enforcement officials need to do to impact nationally to prevent this type of shooting occur again? i left there confident in the summit, because it was some of the most brilliant people i have ever met brought into this by ho homeland security, and john hopkins is facilitating it and basically a brainstorming looking on the prevention side, and the identification side. we had mental health officials, and university officials, and k-12 and law enforcement. what we did was to look at things and try to come up with the ideas on the front end of this, because there are models that people do identify things, and look at things, and one tof the issues that we found is that the interdisciplinary issues that we have, and sometimes we are separated and in our own world that we will look at things different ly depending upon your expertise and what it might be and we need to share that. that comes into play with civil