and irk circumstances you can own. that s constitutional and allowable. number three, you have to be in a position where you let them have a responsibility when you own a weapon, you have to care for it and make sure no one else has access to it. have to lock it up and have trigger locks and put it in gun cases and if not, you can be held responsible for that. we talk about the damage and people are required to make certain precautions and kept away. something that is potentially lethal. they are basic, basic things that the american people deal with and know that in fact are and then when you do have the right to purchase a gun because you had a background check, you shouldn t be able to buy certain weapons. because they have no rational other than. when i was campaigning i would go through southern delaware. a lot of gun owners because of
that you have a responsibility when you own a weapon, that you have to care for it. you have to make sure no one else can have access to it. you have to lock it up. you have to have trigger locks, you have to put it in gun cases and if you don t, you can be held responsible for that. we wouldn t say that about, i mean, everything else we talk about that damages people. you re required to make sure you take certain precautions, if something you own has the potential to be lethal that in fact, it is protected. it is kept away. and they are just basic things that the american people deal with and know that, in fact, are and then when you do have the right to purchase a gun because you ve had a background check, you shouldn t be able to buy certain weapons because they have no rationale other than like when i was campaigning on the assault weapons ban, i would go through southern delaware, a lot of hunters, because of duck hunting and they would be fishing in the tributary, joe,
there was some talk around the time the brady law was passed about making them mandatory but there was never any incentive to do that. and they never were made mandatory. some local jurisdictions do it. i don t know of any statewide laws, certainly not in texas that wire people to keep trigger locks on their weapons if they are at home if they have children in the house. a shotgun is one of the most commonly owned weapons for self-defense for the simple reason is that it sends out this cloud, if you will, of fast-moving metal shot, these little beebe sized pieces so you don t have to be terribly good at aiming the weapon. that s why it s commonly used for self-defense. pete williams, our thanks. standing by to talk with us on the phone is ken paxton, the attorney general of the state of texas. general, what can you assure our national audience will help as a
result of this tragedy today? look, i think you heard it today from the governor, from the lieutenant governor. they are going to get together. they are going to take advice and counsel from stakeholders across our state, from parents, from teachers, from law enforcement, from legislators, and we are going to start solving this problem. will we ever eliminate it completely? it s probably unlikely but we can do better and we are going to do better. let s take two of the issues pete williams just mentioned, trigger locks, gun saves, decidedly low tech, decidedly effective. look i m open to reasonable safety restrictions. i don t think that s enough. i think we are going to have to fine ways to limit access to skoochls i think we have to find ways to protect kids in schools. i think technology needs to be taken advantage of here. there may be technological ways of alerting people faster and potentially helping secure or schools. there are a lot of things to look at here. just talkin
belonged to his father. whether the father knew that his son had these or not, he didn t know. but the governor also mentioned or perhaps the lieutenant governor it was talked about trigger locks. we haven t hert much about trigger locks in the national dialogue since the 1990s when there was that initial round of school shootings carried out by very young people, some in middle school. and we heard a lot of talk at the time about people putting either trigger locks on their firearms that make it impossible to put your finger there and pull the trigger, it is a piece that fits inside or putting them inside a gun safe, a safe that keeps them locked up. we haven t really heard about those for a long time. and then the other thing that i thought was interesting is questioning two other people, one apparently to see whether he knew this was going to happen, and then the other because apparently of something he did suspicious after the shooting happened. we have heard varying accounts