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Roof then went on to murder a total of nine people. the new bill expands that time frame to ten days. the fbi says between 2000 and 2017, there were 250 active shootings people. there were 2,217 people were wounded and killed. in 2017, alone, there were 30 active shooter incidents in the u.s. 138 people were killed and 591 were wounded. >> robin thomas is joining us now. robin, good to see you again. give me a sense of your reaction of these two bills being passed. we do not know where they stan...

Anything at all to work against us. so its a bit of a protection racket. i want to introduce a couple of our guests. robin thomas, executive director of the giffords law center to prevent gun violence is, a position shes held since 2006. here on set with us is julian, a junior at stone man douglas. he spent that terrifying day hide anything a closet with his classmates. his friend joaquin oliver was one of the 17 victims. he had a funny nickname. im trying to remember it. it. >> was guac. >> you...

Guacs parents today. >> yeah. >> robin, help me characterize the nra for people who dont know what it is. the fact is its more than just donations. >> absolutely. part of what the nra has done really well over the last few decades is to put the money into politics, which we know is what buys the votes for them and they also show up. they do have a very hard-core base that shows up to the local hearings and legislative hearings and they make their voices heard. theyre a very kweeky wheel. part of...

Boat, a scooter, a snowmobile, a drone, even cold medicine and puppies. all of those things need registration. you also have to get a license for hunting, fishing and, of course, marriage. >> some interesting stats in there. lets go to robin thomas, executive director of the giffords law center to prevent gun violence. thanks for being with us. a new poll taken after last weeks deadly rampage in parkland, florida, shows 77% of americans say congress is not doing enough to stop mass shootings. 62...

Has been in the senate before this shooting happened, now seems to have a little bit of momentum behind it. unfortunately, the fix nics act right now is attached to another terrible piece of legislation called a conceal carry reciprocity bill. at this moment, theyre linked together. if there was support for fix nics, itd be attached to a terrible, dangerous bill. the question of where the momentum is and where it might go, weve often found the best progress happens at the state level. after the ...

This is our opportunity to talk to president trump, governor rick scott, and state senator marco rubio to make sure that they know we are talking directly to them and all other members of the united states government that are being funded by the nra to tell them now is the time to get on the right side of this. >> so i will not feel safe going back to school myself, until reasonable mental health care legislation and gun control legislation is passed. >> students at the marjory stoneman douglas ...

>> i hope its not. >> it is not insurmountable. yasmin, dont give up. the worst enemy is fatalism. dont accept that. >> i hope youre right. >> we can find a way out of this. we will. we will. let cdc do the work. >> mark and robin, thank you to you both. come up the president goes after the fbi saying it mishandled warnings about the florida shooting suspect because it was spending too much time in russia. was this another attempt to undermine the agency? now that 13 russians have been indicte...

Prevention and control. robin, were learning this week president donald trump will hold a listening session with floridas high school students. is this an attempt you think to tamper some of the backlash that hes been receiving since the shooting? >> i mean, i think its great that president trump is going to sit down with these students. they are angry, theyre hurt, they are frustrated, just like the rest of us, that nothing has been done after sandy hook elementary school, after las vegas. our ...

I think it could be a stronger system, but there isnt any privacy protection that inhibits us from creating a better system. >> robin, are you saying that if someone is in a mental health institution and gets released, that is information that the local police department can get when they do a background check? no! >> correct. if youre involuntarily committed into a mental institution, that record should be going into the background check system. and when a firearms dealer runs a background chec...

Got a mental illness, who has been in a mental health facility. thats all protected by hippa. if the president were serious, wouldnt he want to loosen up some of those rules to find out who the nutjobs are who are on psychotropic drugs? >> the way it works is we have limited categories of people with dangerousmental illness that are prohibited from buying guns already. >> we dont know who they are. robin, i dont mean to interrupt you, but we dont know who they are. because we cant get their rega...