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After sandy hook, when are you going to be able to get it? the country has been emotionally scarred. we all feel for it. but these special interests are so entrenched in washington and politicians are so afraid to take that vote, how do we break that? >> you know what, after sandy hook, i tell you, i had -- i had a little confidence we would be able to get something -- something through. >> yeah. >> and when you talk about 20 kids shot at close range with an assault weapon, i mean, thats -- that...

Participation, if they were on the line, i think a lot of them are backing up now, saying, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on. i dont think i can do that. because im worrying about losing. weve got to look at the situations being bigger than that. weve got to make sure that we have reasonable gun laws to protect our people, and i think that its just very, very sad what happened here in d.c. my heart goes out to those families. but, you know, ed, you and i and many others, weve got to continue...

Children, sent them to schools, got them an education. and yet their kids are not going to have as good a life as they -- as the parents had. and so theres this sense that were losing the middle class in america. its being eroded. and by the way, vice president biden gave a great speech and focused on just that topic. about the loss of the middle class in america. i hear that more than i hear just about anything else. >> was that the case four years ago? as the -- of the american people, have th...

Meaningful gun safety legislation. and no doubt about it. but you and everything that you said, youre right. the -- we have a situation where the nra is influencing quite a few legislators, all over the country. both state and federal. and probably local, to some degree. and ive got to tell you, ed. when you think about the two colorado legislators that were just recalled, that sent -- im sure a chilling effect -- had a chilling effect on a lot of folks. in other words, even if he had people who...

To the conclusion that maybe he shouldnt own a firearm? can we move congress on that? well, weve got privacy issues, ed. really? lets go over to the nsa and see how the phones are working. dont give me that crap. we can do whatever we want to do in this country. and until somebody tells them people who have mental issues should not have access to firearms, were going to have more presidential speeches. were going to get better at grieving. lets continue to work together here. lets see, the paren...

Pistol. whether that was his or whether he took it from one of the officers he shot. but he wound up with three weapons, at least two long guns that he had in that building. and how did he get that in? well, were told theres no metal detectors. again, are you going to screen 3,000 people with a metal detector to let them in on what appears to be relatively secure facility? ed, just like we thought ft. hood was a relatively secure facility. and in this case, just like that one, the wrong person h...

And we started running. >> and then i heard two more shots, one of them hit him, he went down in front of me and i took off from there. >> this is a nightmare. >> the motive is still unclear and information is still developing as they receive medical treatment as medical facilities in washington, d.c. joining me now is nbc analyst and former fbi profiler, clint van zandt. clint, again, another massive shooting, but this one so different in detail in the fact that it was someone with military exp...

That -- civil security, armed, that is assigned to that facility, they all probably trained in the past, ed, on a shooting situation. and realize, we learned that terrible lesson in columbine, if there is an active shooter inside of a building, cranking off rounds, youve got to go for him. you cant take your time. you cant close off the building. you cant very methodically clear one floor at a time. youve got to get to the shooter, isolate him as quick as you can, stop him from shooting, evacuat...

Measures. your thoughts on that. >> well, i do this with a number of companies. i travel around the country, and i talk to them about workplace violence. and the question always comes up, ed, if you and i were in that building, what do you do if somebody comes in, starts shooting? and basically, you have at least three options. number one, the best option is to get out of that building as quick as you can. go out a door, go out a window, tell other people to go with you. but dont wait for them. ...

Overseas but in a mass shooting here at home. ed? >> peter, tomorrow is another work day. is there any conversation at the white house tonight about increased security at military installations tomorrow? >> reporter: its a good question. there have certainly been shifts in terms of the way the white house has gone about its events of this day. while they kept the economic speech on earlier today, the white house has postponed a latin music festival event that was to take place with stars like gl...