is okay, but it is not the same for many, many families across america every day. and a tremendous amount of helplessness i can imagine. that must be so infuriating as a parent. i would imagine mr. martinez is in a place none of us can imagine. we cannot we can sympathize and lend compassion and prayers and support, but we can t know his pain. no one can know his pain. and it is a sad, sad state of affairs in america when we cannot live free from gun violence. we all deserve to be free from gun violence and there s more we can do and should do. your daughter s survival prompted you to get involved, to take action and you have been doing a tremendous amount of work. you have been involved with the brady campaign. you have been involved with the public safety, all sorts of programs. does it infuriate you, frustrate
20-year-old cheng hong and 19-year-old george chen found dead with multiple stab wounds inside the gunman s isla vista apartment along with 20-year-old weihan wang. the three men, students at the university of california santa barbara were, police say, rodger s first victims before taking off in his black bmw to this sorority house. i saw a gunshot wound to her abdomen and her side and one to her head. reporter: this is where police say he shot 22-year-old katherine cooper and 19-year-old veronika weiss killed right in the front yard. less than two blocks away, rodger opens fire again at a deli mart killing 20-year-old student christopher martinez. surveillance shows customers diving and scrambling for cover as the bullets flew.
go back? into the responsible and the domain of the parents. and families know. you re talking about e lowering the bar in some cases to get committed because that s the word we use here. lowering the bar to get committed to a psychiatric institution or at least to get som kind of care. widening the bar to include parents? i don t think lowering the bar, but expanding insight. the idea of danger to self, it s the idea of defining a notion. it s appreciating that there are all kinds of aspects of what defines dangerousness. a person who is falling apart, who is homeless, who is rapidly deteriorating and at risk to themselves. that doesn t necessarily represent lowering a bar. it s appreciating the broader parameters of when a person is truly falling apart. and as mr. martinez said, it shouldn t have to happen that we lose so many lives because
there s more we should be doing and we can do it. you re involved in a lot of the work being done. i want to get to that in a moment. i want to take you back. it s difficult to watch mr. martinez. you can see his anger, his pain, his anguish. you got a phone call some seven years ago. give us an idea of what that was like to know that your child was in harm s way. well, you know, it s just indescribable and very difficult for any parent to get any call about their child. i recall the moment that my phone rang and i answered it. emily said, hi, mommy, i ve been shot. it sent my family down a path of recovery that we re still on today. it s thinking about the families whose loved ones were killed is just horrific. i recall so much pain and devastation witnessing from a front row seat that pain and devastation. i thank god every day that emily
horrific crime scene. from here investigators say he got into his bmw and just as he predicted in his youtube videos, would head straight to sorority. on the day of retribution, i am going to enter the hottest sorority house of ucsb, and i will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck-up blond [ bleep ] i see there. reporter: four blocks from the apartment, the al phi phi sorority. they heard loud knocking on the door and didn t open it. the gunman turned and shot and killed veronika weiss, katherine cooper, another woman seriously injured. less than two blocks away, the iv deli mart. another victim, christopher martinez who was just out for a