the other students on campus. and that was our primary concern. is there any afterthought now that maybe the school should have went a step further and tried to get some kind of a commitment order against this person? well, hindsight is always 20/20. i can t comment on all of the specifics. i don t have details of the specifics of this particular case. reporter: even if his behavior was alarming, loughner had not made threats, had not carried weapons to school and had not physically attacked anyone. here at the tucson store with loughner bought the glock semiautomatic pistol back in november, he didn t fit any of the prohibited possessor categories that would have prevented the purchase. he passed an instant federal background check and was on his way. he first tried to buy ammunition at this walmart start but abruptly left and made the purchase somewhere else. now an accused assassin was
brewing in his mind. it was just a matter of time before something terrible was going to happen. reporter: he was loughner as algebra teacher. i didn t want to take chances. i wanted to take action immediately. i took the first step of action and then they carried it out. reporter: school officials suspended loughner in late september but that was after five separate incidents involving campus police. campus police visited him and his parents but school officials say they couldn t do anything more. hamstrung by personal privacy rights. the school felt it had done what it needed to do to protect the other students on campus. and that was our primary concern. is there any afterthought now that maybe the school should have went a step further and tried to get some kind of a commitment order against this person?
it was just a matter of time before something terrible was going to happen. reporter: he was loughner as algebra teacher. i didn t want to take chances. i wanted to take action immediately. i took the first step of action and then they carried it out. reporter: school officials suspended loughner in late september but that was after five separate incidents involving campus police. campus police visited him and his parents but school officials say they couldn t do anything more. hamstrung by personal privacy rights. the school felt it had done what it needed to do to protect the other students on campus. and that was our primary concern. is there any afterthought now that maybe the school should have went a step further and tried to get some kind of a commitment order against this person? well, hindsight is always