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Emerging. christopher harper mercer had an arsenal of weapons. the latest in the investigation. hi, dan. >> hi, elizabeth. gunman chris mercer appears to be like a lot of these mass killers. a loner who is depressed and also angry. he expressed a lot of sympathy and admiration for other mass killers and the infamy that they gained for their act. a student at umpqua community college. in fact, he was in that class where the shooting started thursday. most of the focus here in roseburg, douglas co...

Thank you for being here we heard the shooters father say this to our ryan young -- >> you want changes, you want the gun laws to change? >> it has to change. it has to change. how can it not? even people that believe in the right to bear arms, you know, what right do you have to take peoples lives? thats what guns are, the killers. simple as that. its simple as that. its black and white. >> ben ferguson, to you, is it as simple as that? >> unfortunately not. a couple of things here. so many peo...

>> they would yell at the judge. >> the antics that went on in the charles manson trial. had you ever experienced that? >> never. and i covered lots of trials. >> those antics deepened the pain for the victims families. >> sharons father sat in that courtroom every day. he wanted to think of this as justice. what he saw instead was kind of this circus where there were interruptions every day and the killers making a joke about it. >> then there were the more subtle distractions from manson. >> i...

Washington, courtroom, kenneth bianchi, in the hope of avoiding the death penalty, confessed to participation in the los angeles hillside stranglings and accused his cousin angelo buono of being his accomplice. >> kenneth bianchi, to a great extent, he was motivated because he was trying to show his older cousin who he revered that he was tough. and for angelo buono, he enjoyed the fact he had his younger cousin listening to him. and we saw this time and time again, pairs of killers who urge eac...

Event taking place, linda. but i did calculations for the city of charleston. when you take 15 inches of rainfall, up to 20 inches evening, half a meter, you put this over an area the size of the city of charleston, its equivalent to about 40 billion gallons of water coming down from the clouds in two days, 150 billion liters of water. its hard to wrap your head around those numbers. you think about niagara falls, seven days of water flowing over the falls would be whats happening in two days ov...

I know there are people that do. but you have to ask that question, how was he able to compile that kind of arsenal? >> did you know he had 13 guns? >> i had no idea he had any guns. i had no idea that he had any gun whatsoever. and im a great believer that you dont buy guns, dont buy guns, dont buy guns. >> even you want to change this, you want the gun laws to change. >> it has to change. it has to change. how can it not? even people that believe in the right to bear arms, you know, what right...

A firefighter like his dad. victims from 18 to 67-year-old the lone teacher but had many adults of different ages going back to school to change their lives around. >> all of those lives cut short too early. dan, are we learning anything more about the shooter here, possibly a motive? those kind of things? >> reporter: not really. weve got a very clear picture of chris harper mercer and its not very different from the portrait we see a lot of these mass killers, the loner self-absorbed, the guy ...

Different approaches to gun control, guns matter. lets not put that on the sideline. >> lets talk about the profile of the killers, doctor. often times young, white, alienated from society and often leaving behind notes and writings. what does this tell you? >> this group is 1% of the population is schizophrenic and paranoid and same demographics and symptoms. they are alienated and think people are out to get them. what do they do? have reverse narcotic sis m, im so important, the fbi is after ...

Hands of people like this shooter. i want you to respond to things weve heard since the shooting. one report i heard today, there are 300 million guns in the united states, what are you going to do? jeb bush said you shouldnt respond to tragedies with more regulation. donald trump, killers will slip through cracks despite our best efforts. what do you say to these? >> well, those are the usual expressions of futility. and you have to begin by saying, look, youre never going to be able to stop al...

Is nothing we can do to stop would be killers. mostly, he said, all he can do is talk. >> until the politics changes and the behavior of elected officials changes, so the main thing im going to do is im going to talk about this on a regular basis and i will politicize it. because our inaction is a political decision that we are making. >> taking a swipe at republicans campaigning through the place, president criticized the argument that mental illness, not guns, so to blame for mass shootings. o...