by what he did. you know what is disingenuous about the rubio argument? they say background checks don t work, let them vote for banning high capacity magazines because we know that in tucson, loughner fired 33 bullets. you know what? he better be hopping straight to a presidential race and primaries in new hampshire and south carolina. i tell you what, that position, 94% of people in florida, 94% of people in florida support background checks. 94% of people in my home state, willie, support background checks to keep bushmasters out of the hands of al qaeda and out of the hands of violent rapists.
today over 30 states barely report any records. reporter: take tennis maynard suspected of killing a sheriff ten months after being released from a mental hospital. he could buy a gun because the state was slow in sending his record. judge deemed cho mentally ill but that didn t stop him from buying a gun because those records weren t in the system. holmes and loughner fell through the cracks. advocates worry this debate is stigmatizing the mentally ill. mental illness is being equated with violence and that has a very negative impact on people, it s not only feeds right into negative stereotypes about people but it could serve as a deterrent to people being willing to seek treatment. reporter: athena jones, cnn, washington. what did you do when you were 14 years old?
to sit in the courtroom and look at the man that shot you through the head, what was that like? beady eyes. well, yeah, he had some interesting expressions on his face. yes. and she did not look away when she stared him beady eyes. did he look back at you. yes, yes, yes. did you get a sense that there was any kind of remorse, any kind of understanding of what he put you through and what he did to the six people who didn t survive? so sad. mentally ill. newly released court documents reveal that loughner s parents knew something was wrong, that he heard voices and exhibited other alarming behavior and they did not get him help. i am curious, have you ever heard from his parents? no. no. would you want to?
health. james holmes in california, and loughner in arizona, all with mental health problems and all able to buy guns to kill. would proposed new background checks stop others like him? the common ground rests on the simple proposition, the mental should not have guns. who is considered dangerously mentally ill? under a federal law it s somebody found by a judge to be somebody committed to any mental institution. but state standards vary widely and their health records don t make it into the base to make federal background checks. the senate bill makes it clear that sharing these records won t violate federal law. what we need to do is get all the records from the states into the federal system.
where he worked at the space center. this is the first home they bought and live in together. another plus, before giffords was shot, she had a rocky relationship with kelly s two teenaged daughters from a previous marriage. but sort of tense relationship that you had with your daughters, that s changed. yes, changed. that s a positive? yes, yes. that koz come out of this tragedy. a lot better. a lot better. they have also grown up a little bit, too, and as a family we have evolved because of certainly because of what happened, so it brought us all closer together. giffords now fully understands that six people died and 13 were injured because of did he ranged young man jaird he had loughner set out to assassinate her. she brought him up unsolicited. loughner. kelly spoke at his sentencing as giffords sat stoically staring loughner down.