information about people with mental health histories in denying access to guns. i think that s absolutely the right approach. we actually have some good examples there at the state level. so, connecticut tightened its weapons, missouri loosened them. in connecticut, gun homicides dropped 40%. gun laws do matter. there you go. let s just go with what works. forget the emotion, the ideology. go with what works and those statistics are telling. nicholas kristof, david gregory, thank you very much. now more on the texas church massacre investigation. the u.s. air force confirms that it failed to share with law enforcement about his conviction. that could have prevented him from getting guns. live in sutherland springs for us, diana, what have you
that s right, i think the calculus changed because the politics were getting worse and worse, frankly, by the hour. we had the first democrat mark warner of virginia senator, who called for her departure, for her to step down and you had some of the unions who are tarting to now call for her to go and frankly i think the administration realized she had become a liability. especially because the facts of this hack are just getting worse and worse. now we are up to 22.1 million people who are affected according to opm, that s 21.5 million background checks. this is intimate details about people s sex lives, about their medical and their mental health histories. these are things that are golden for a foreign intelligence agency that can use them for black hail. this is a serious hack. very serious attack on the u.s. government. i ll tell you archuleta sent out a statement this morning in which she said that this morning
own psyche that needs to be addressed. and i would also say in the contention that black media needs to be neutral there is a tacit criticism that white media has been on the attack but when we talk about cosby it is white families that have found the shattering of an archtype so hard that they haven t talked about it even though the allegations have been out for a decade. right. he got a free card. they mentioned it in passing the first round of claims that came in 2006. the other thing that has not been neutral is certain members of the right wing media have subjected these women to scrutiny as if they were on trial. these women, their mental health histories, professional
theill. we closed those institutions and no alternative was provided and the shortages that you hear about. they are commonplace. talk to dr. arcs blow how often it happens day after day. this is a broken roeshd. virginia tech shooter and newton. and a urora, colorado they had mental health histories. how do we intervene before the young men explode? we have to beef up the community health system. we have to beef it up and get the word out there needs to be a triage and a emergency rom or psychiatric facility identifies someone as a risk they are triaged in a way. gus deeds was identified as potentially troubled.
newport police report was never passed beyond the base there. never got to officials in washington about these complaints that he was hearing voices and people were following him and he feared they were using what he called microwave machine to prevent his sleep. and that he feared for his safety. all right, pete williams, thanks for that reporting. it is such an important trade-off wanting to monitor this incident while not disincentivizing people from getting treatment. how do we balance public safety and mental health privacy? 38 keep some type of mental health registry and some are caller for stricter checks before buying guns or month robust ways to catch problem case. while employers can access credit score and ask potential candidates about criminal convictions, under the american with disabilities act they are barred from acting about mental health histories.