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Those firearms get them out of the house or lock them up. steve: has that happened. >> absolutely. i have done that many times. >> steve there, seems to be some deficiency in the system where we have yet to establish a data base that we can provide information to that would do something other than verify the fact you havent been convicted of a felony. thats the whole criteria in obtaining a firearm in this country. thats one of the flaws. we spoke to this very briefly yesterday among ourselves. ...

>> we have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a gun getting their name into the fbi files and we need to concentrate on that. >> then he walked away. now senator grassly speaks in a sometimes elliptical manner. he can be hard to follow. he said we have not done a very good job of making sure that people that have mental reasons for not being able to handle a get getting their name into the fbi file asks we need to concentrate...

Florida and that went nowhere. >> thats right. this morning, from when he first told about it, they explained a little bit more what they did, and there was an internal data base search. they reached out to youtube who took down the posting, and interviewed the man who made the complaint, to the fbi. he forwarded this link, this tip to the fbi, and thats essentially where it stopped. they did open source searching, but thats it. there was no further investigation. they didnt do any other sort of...

The fbi conducted data base reviews, checks, was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment. >> reporter: no information related to the posting was shared by the fbi with florida officials. the school superintendent said the shooter was not on their radar. >> we didnt have anyone, no phone calls or threats that we know of were made. >> reporter: the 19-year-old student was expelled for disciplinary reasons issue and today, his public defender said he suffers from mental ...

Away because hes dangerous, but for him, its that more scary, i worked with him and i couldnt have done anything else, but, hey, you want to play basketball, thats just scary to think it could have happened at work or anywhere. >> reporter: the public defender says that as far as what the suspect is feeling right now, that he is expressing some sadness over what has happened, that he understands that there has been some loss of life, and that he is dealing with the shock. jake? >> thank you. my ...

No other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time, location or the true identity of the person who made the comment. the fbi conducted data base reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment. >> ben, your response to the fbi there today talking about how they were not able to identify the person who posted that. >> well, i think in todays on-line world it is very difficult to narrow down who does what without more infor...

It shows law enforcement. ever been involved in law enforcement. have you ever had a divorce? it shows just basic information about -- have you ever been arrested? have you ever been arrested for a violent crime? thats the type of information thats on it. ainsley: can this all be changed? >> yes, it can be changed. im sorry to say because i dont like more government bus that is a federal issue bawrts feds maintain this data base. ainsley: there is a reason it happens in this country and doesnt h...

Safer if we did it nationwide. >> look, i think it is clear that the questions going to be what should be put into the data base? when you do background checks. i think one weve learned is there were some warning signs with this shooter. he was expelled from school. there was a social media -- if we had a magical way of searching social media, there would have been some warning signs there. you were a former school superintendent, would you have been in favor of expulsion of a student means they...

About a comment posted to a youtube account by someone with the user name nikolas cruz spelled nikolascruz. the comment said, im going to be a professional school shooter. there was no additional information about the particular time, location, or further identifiers about the person who posted the comment. the complaint ant provided the same information to youtube. youtube removed the comment. after receiving this information, fbi jackson conducted an interview of the person who made the compla...

Readily available? why dont we need a professor of economics to have to go in to the data base for 33 years in arizona? why dont we know these facts? its like they are being purposefully kept from the american people. this drives me crazy. im always trying to find out the stalls of these people committing crimes like we cant report that. what? >> we have somebody in oregon age to get its those statistics, too. this is the first reports in any other state other than oregon that was able to do thi...