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There needs to be tighter restrictions with regards to guns and mental illness. president trump actually undid an obama-era regulation that year involving mental health restrictions on gun purchases. congress went along and the president signed it. the nra was for undoing it, but so were some mental health groups as well. what do you want to see proposed? i would suggest something very specific. let me give you two examples. one, if there s an intervention program, let s say something similar to a gang intervention program for youth that have mental health issues, should we require a standard as high as a judge saying that person shouldn t have a weapon? i would say no. i would be happy with a mental health professional saying this personal shouldn t have access to a weapon. we don t have to go to a judge. second thing i would say, which will never happen in this country but i believe in it, if you go for treatment to a trained clinical individual for certain types of mental disorder ....
james, what stands out to you from what you learned? law enforcement s biggest nightmare is did we miss something, did we fail to connect the dots. unfortunately, anderson, we always talk about civil liberties versus total security. we also have first amendment protections here. a lot of people have been weighing in about did the fbi miss something with the social media postings. anderson, there are thousands upon thousands upon millions of postings every day on the internet, and you have to weigh a couple of things. did somebody say something in haste? was it rooted in impulsivity? could it be misinterpreted? was it satire? you have to weigh all of those things. the appropriate way to look at it here is the fbi conducts what we call knock-and-talks. if somebody posts something, in this instance it is sent to an fbi office. they would run it down, scrub it through the national databases, try to determine where this person, of is, does this person exist. if they knew who the indiv ....
Suspected terrorists to be investigated more before they could get a gun. that didn t go anywhere. then, remember, after the las vegas shooting at the end of last year people were talking about bump-stocks. there was bipartisan support, anderson, for a law that prevented semi-automatic weapons from becoming automatic weapons, and that didn t go anywhere. yeah, i mean the measure that president trump signed last year which nixed obama-era regulation aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of severely mentally ill, essentially people who couldn t even take care of themselves and their names would have been referred to and put on the background check that s right. if he had not signed it, the shooter may not have been able to actually purchase a weapon. ....
Violence. i think we need to take it away from people in order to make a difference. do you think change is possible. again, i can t tell you how many of these shootings there s been and each is horrific and great people s lives have been taken. it doesn t seem like it registers in washington. it s hard to say how different this one was because it s been so different for me because i was here. i feel like there s been a lot more live tweeting. i think people are seeing more what happened and my friend david took a video of me cowering in a closet. it s on the news. i want everyone to sthee aee th. you want people to see what happened to not gloss over the reality. if they don t see it, they re going forget. you agree with that? i do. i really feel like people need to understand that we ve kind of become numbers. like our test scores and how ....
Those steps about how much you re going to get into somebody s life. this is a really initial investigation, not even a preliminary investigation. this is just a look at things like public records. if you think this merits further investigation by the way, i completely agree with chief ramsey. the public tends to look back more and say what went wrong. practitioners say when you got 10,000 cases or 15,000 cases, you can t look at every single person who calls in a threat and say we re going to spend five days on this. my point is if you want to get more intrusive which it doesn t look like they did in this case are you going to go to a court and ask for intrusive measures? are you going to listen to somebody s e-mail? you couldn t have done this in a case that a judge would have thrown you out. final comment, anderson, don t tell me this was an fbi issue when you ve got neighbors saying there was a problem, the kid was thrown out of school for disciplinary measures. everybody sai ....