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It did not name a time or a place the suspects name was not put on to it. how this is the same thing theyve struggled with with al qaeda and isis. how do they know when someone is a real warning of an act. >> it is theyve made their intention clear. if people are discussing their hatred for a particular group. theyre discussing political views not popular. those things are protected speech. i dont agree the language with. what theyre saying. people have the right to say those things. you may kno...

Qaeda and isis. how do they know when someone is a real warning of an act. >> it is theyve made their intention clear. if people are discussing their hatred for a particular group. theyre discussing political views not popular. those things are protected speech. i dont agree the language with. what theyre saying. people have the right to say those things. you may know that somebody is out purchasing weapons? that with speech that may be protected may be a trigger for law enforcement to get a sea...

Purchase firearms under the slogan enough cameron and his classmates organized protests across the u.s. . on march twenty eighth seen hundreds of thousands of people rallied in washington cameron said what was on many peoples minds. to the leaders skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and see stay silent wait your turn welcome to the revolution. to the parkland shooting american public opinion swung sharply in favor of tighter gun controls some individual states took action in florida the ...

At 17 kids are more mature and act more safely. i think we owe lawmakers than just more the polls. we owe them the data. we need to tell them if you raise the age for purchasing weapons it saves lives or we tell them it doesnt have any impact. we need to tell them this is how much impact it will have on the rights of law abid-abiding gun owners. if we dont provide the data were not doing our job. cdc is ready to do the job. it will take a long time but we should start that research now. >> thank...

>> what do you think of one of the proposals of increasing the age limit of purchasing weapons to 21? >> i think its common sense. >> to increase it. >> it doesnt really matter. its not a big deal. it shouldnt be that important to people. >> it seems like the president agreed with you. but then we understand he met with the nra and he started to feel a little differently. >> i dont think thats going to persuade him. hes a common sense guy, just like i am. its just common sense to raise it to 21....

97% of americans, majority of republicans, democrats, independents, believe we ought to have background checks that dont have loopholes, we know who are purchasing weapons. we find out whether they have mental health problems, criminal problems, whether theyre domestic abuse persons, whether theyre terrorists, cant fly on airplanes because of the danger to the air public. the fact of the matter is america wants action and we ought to have action. the speaker has said we will take on the tough is...

Must have firearms adept and have annual training. should get yearly bonus. shootings will not happen again. a very big and very inexpensive deterrent. up to states. thats a detail. alsoncdes an emphasis on mental health, and ending the sale of bump stocks like the ones used in las vegas. lets go through some of these proposals. theres actually legislation that stalled in congress right now that would improve federal background check system. the presidents support could help to move that along. ...

As you also know, the president is now signaling that he might be ready to come up with some changes in the nations gun laws, possibly including a ban on what are called bump stocks that could make rifles effectively become machine guns. talk about some of the steps youd like to see the president take. he may be open to tighter background checks. he may be open to a national age restriction as far as purchasing weapons are concerned from 18, lets say, to 21. are you encouraged by those initial i...

Gunned down. t the rate of fire might be slower with bump stocks but doesnt count for much in terms of how much slower it is compared to fully automatic weapon. the president considering raising the minimum age for people to either possess or buy a gun. currently its 21. to buy a handgun. to buy a long gun, its 18. but he may have to defer to states on that its a patch work across america. some states like massachusetts, you can be as young as 15 and possess a long gun with the approval of your ...

Prosecutor, we dealt with in 2007 a thing called intelligence policing. its not so much a police gun but computer terminal. doing tryiaging, red flags. so many points of data that this kid was in trouble and specifically that he would commit an act of violence at the school on a federal, state and local level. its confounding that it wasnt picked up. >> shepard: what could anybody have done? >> a good point. if hes not committed a crime, not much they could do. how about a welfare check? how abo...