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For domestic violence offending and restraining orders that lead to gun restrictions lead to fewer intimate partner homicides. we find that in places that have permeating systems that allow a comprehensive background check that you have fewer suicides as well as homicides. and we also had learned that one prescription that is often talked about is lets just make it really easy for everyone to carry a gun around with them. well, the data are in on that as well. and that simply lds to more violent...

Young men, alienated and potentially dangerous. well, there are a lot of those young men in our society and a lot around the world. why does the united states of america have such a high rate of mass gun violence? >> right. >> the answer is very simply that consistent with the second amendment we can tighten the rules that apply to gun purchases so there are background checks and restraining orders, for example, on men who have threatened women and who are convicted of that kind of domestic viol...

Everybody having a gun, open carry, the wild west? do they believe thats the way to have a society in the 21st century? do they say that to you in the back room? >> nobody is in favor of gun violence. whats needed is the political backbone to stand up to the gun lobby. there are hopeful signs. ive introduced with a number of my republican colleagues and democrats a modest exceedingly modest measure to improve the background check system that we have right now. we need to extend it to all gun sal...

>> its not going to stop unless we as voters, you want to change it for many reasons, not only gun safety laws but mental health, restraining orders, maybe mass violence prevention restraining orders as a suggest. i call it the tragedy triangle. my own view of it, after dealing with all my life. theres some kind of a mental episode that concerns someone. then theres firearms. and then theres some kind of a threat or interaction with the police. i call it the tragedy triangle. we see that. this g...

And it has to do with mental health, it has to go wido with generations. i think you called it setbacks in life. weve learned this gunman is approximately 18 years of age, various reports he may have attended the school, may be a past student. obviously there is a triggering mechanism when someone goes crazy enough to grab a firearm and go into a school firing and we have, what, 20 injured as of the latest count. but talk to me about this aspect ever mental health as youve watched it over the ye...

Staffer would have filled out, did he tell the truth? you are specifically asked about any record, any restraining orders, any domestic violence. do we know if he identified this on his initial forms? >> look, the white house has said they felt misled by how porter described it but the answer to your question is, nope, we dont know that, along with so many other things that we dont know at this point. >> all right. i lied about last words. matt miller, im going to let you weigh in on that. that,...

Record with police records and restraining orders and the top person in charge of controlling all his paperwork and everything and then it looked like his people covered up for it. >> it would be -- inexcusable. i mean, he would be pilloried. people would be screaming for his impeachment. what galls me is general kelly talking to the american public and journalists like were supposed to believe hes a dunce. this is a smart man who cleaned up a lot of things in the white house. for us to believe ...

Good with it. that is one thing. but if he said these are new to me, that is something very different and it goes to mike pence saying fake news when christine brennan accurately reports why he got pushed back from the olympian and didnt want to meet with him and fake news when the president doesnt like things and that has to be called out. >> and if this was known and they are not saying. that is a huge issue. and if they didnt know at all, you have to say why. because this is not an accusation...

Accidentally coincide with what i have. >> reporter: in fact, police and prosecutors were still doing everything they could to link those emails to michelle. >> we have a very skilled detective that was working on the case and he was in constant communications with the district attorneys office and trying to piece it together, to help prove a case and solidify it for court. >> reporter: problem was -- >> it just -- it wasnt coming together. these electronic messages were coming from -- from a di...

With this. >> reporter: it was may, 2009. ann and cara had each filed those restraining orders against the other. a district court judge heard them sniping at each other and erupted, threatening to have dcf, the department of children and families, take custody of brianna. >> if i see that come into this court, ill be on the phone to dcf so fast, theyll be here before you get out the door. >> reporter: it was a turning point. because of the judges warning, each woman now knew that one wrong move...