i can only do what i can do. i think there s a great appetite to do something with regard to making sure that mentally unstable, seriously ill people aren t carrying guns. and i ve never seen the appetite as strong as it is now. i have not seen it with regard to certain types of weapons. i am concerned about the rise of any group of hate. i don t like it. any group of hate whether it s white supremacy, whether it s any other kind of supremacy. whether it s antifa, whether it s any group of hate, i am very concerned about it and i ll do something about it. no, i don t think my rhetoric has at all. i think my rhetoric is very
to get your sense of the relevance. here it is. he was interested in what makes terrible people do terrible things. mass shooting? yeah. and he knew that they were bad, he knew they were horrific. and he wanted to know what led a person to do those things. so that s a red flag, right? no question leading up to it. but based on these red flag laws, the way they re written, with a girlfriend going to the cops and say he s talking about this kind of stuff, would that provide enough legal basis under these potential red flags law as as they re written for a judge to rule we re taking his weapons away? the red flag laws vary across states, so we would need to know a little bit more information whether it would rise to the level, but it is a really good example why things like red flag laws make so much sense.
oftentimes or most of the time these things don t come out of nowhere it s not something nobody absolutely saw coming. there are signs there are reasons to be concerned. and again whenever we re talking about red flag laws we re talking about arresting people or prosecuting people or putting them in skral, we re just talking about preventing their access to weapons for a period of time in which there s a reason to be concerned. whenever we think about what the threshold should look like, it should be a relatively minimal one because what we re talking about here is a basic public safety. susan hennessy, good to have you on the story. thanks very much. we should note as we re speaking to you now the president is speaking to reporters on his departure from the white house to come here to visit dayton and el paso, texas later today. when we learn those comments we ll share them with you. meanwhile this hour, not everyone in el paso want to see him this hour. many question if his visit w
appetite for any kind of a ban on assault weapons. he repeated that several times there, and that was a big criticism of his address to the nation a new days ago the president was talking about the aftermath of the shooting but the question is what he s going to do going forward. and he is saying there he s open to background checks. one republican who came out publicly for legislation banning weapons of war was ohio congressman mike turner, who has 100% rating from the nra. a near miss as nine people were killed behind me and he s now come out in support of that. will he be a singular voice? hel help me fact check. my criticerize political people, these are people looking for political gain. as much as possible i ve tried to stay out of that. the president uttering those words again before attacking joe biden. can he say that with any credibility? no, he can t, and he s of
this kill list, this rape list, some of his female acquaintances said he threatened them after they declined to go out on a date. this is something that s a red flag that we see in a lot of mass shootings. and that s the tie between mass shooters and individuals who have some ties to domestic abuse or issuing threats against women. more than half of mass shooters have had in the past decade, have had some sort of domestic violence red flag there. as we start to think of what sensible gun control measures might look like, certainly focusing on the link between preventing people who have serious red flags, red flags people noticed at the time, took action on at the time, making sure those are individuals who cannot get their hands on guns, who do not have easy access to weapons to perpetrate these horrific massacres. to that point we have some sound now from the gunman s former girlfriend. have a listen to that and i want