buy a gun in this country. and i hope that he informs us that part of the reason that he got it is because we don t have a good enough system for catching people like him and preventing them from getting a gun in the first place. and then i hope he then also challenges america to question, if we really can have these kinds of assault weapons, these military-type weapons, in the hands of civilians and if that really makes us safer. and susanna, you fear more gun control laws. tell us why you think the president should stay away from the gun control issue? well, particularly when you re talking about the mental health issue, my husband is a psychologist and he can tell you that approximately 10% of the population will seek mental health care at some point in their lives. you know, unfortunately, it s not illegal to be weird. we cannot predict when those individuals will snap. so i don t want to see people s rights stripped from them before
after that shooting. joining me now is tom mauser, who you just heard from. his son, daniel, was killed in the columbine school tragedy and he became a gun control advocate. susanna huff is a former state legislator who saw her parents gunned down 20 years ago during a mass shooting at a cafeteria. since then, she s taken the opposite road. she s fighting to protect the right to own guns. thanks to both of you for joining me today. thanks for having us, carol. thanks, carol. we have an interesting discussion of this from a different perspective. i m intrigued by what will be said. tom, it seems like the president might mention gun control tonight. after all, the parents of christina green, the little girl killed in tucson, has been invited to sit with the first lady. what do you want the president to say? i hope, first, that he acknowledges what i think a lot of americans are thinking right now, that the shooter in tucson never should have been able to