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alive, what goes through your mind? >> its heartbreaking. its heartbreaking, because we never see anything like this in this community. its hard for the families that lost a loved one to this tragedy. >> reporter: when you see this happen perhaps way too many times in our country, what do you ask yourself? what do you wonder needs to happen? >> i believe the government needs to get tougher laws on purchasing of guns. thats my main thing. >> reporter: thats not a new thought after this?...

Probably not legitimate. from that point, you make an assessment. its a a specific threat. who is judging that. if its a school administrator, you have a person who is well intentioned who is worried. i get that. maybe they dont have the necessary background training and experience to say this one we take seriously, this one perhaps not. >> if you close schools is that a domino effect? >> every year the kids take the s.a.t. on a saturday morning. you know how many schools get bomb threats? close...

>> those people in the village who thought they might feel secure might have a reason to worry. >> i see this a lot too, brian and elisabeth. the confusing of access control with security. what do i mean? a ticket to a baseball game or football game san access control device but not a security device. there has to be training and understand the rules of engagement if someone shows up with a ticket that is not legitimate. i dont know if there was the necessary background training, how to read the...

It down in law enforcement terms the aggressor or your subject and the officer. civilian terms the aggressor and the defender. okay. what you do is you look at the various levels of options available to that individual taking into consideration a wide variety of topics ranging from personal information, subject factors like their age, height, weight, things like that. moving through background training, experience, weapon availability, environment considerations. all these things come into a for...

>> i actually reached out to mr. omara when i saw the case unfolding obviously like erchs every one else. i reached out to him because i thought i had a unique perspective as to coming to a reallistic conclusion on things. being able to proffer and look at things and just render my background training and experience to him to see if it helped. my experience has been i wanted to ensure -- the most common question, i reach out to a defense attorney as a police officer or a former police officer, a...