buy a gun. well the facts are still not clear but in the situation like this if he was indeed involuntarily committed, that data should have been collected by the state and transferred to the system housed with the fbi. i think potentially the problem is georgia never collected that record and sent it to the fbi and we know that georgia is one of the worst states for reporting those types of records. that s my follow up. i mean what kind of checks and balances are on these different states these systems. we know he was in columbus he was in louisiana. are they talking to one another? they are talking to each other. for instance if you re selling a gun in alabama at a gun store and you have to do a background check, which is not always the case but a gun store you do they should then contact the fbi in washington and the way the system should work is that georgia would send that information to the fbi. i don t really know what
has changed their reporting requirements so they will put more records into the next system. and before that i think as of 2013 they just had a handful of records. they are making an attempt to get those records into the nix system. they are? they are. they are making that attempt, which is so important. joshua horwitz, with his opinion piece at cnn.com/opinion, thank you so much. you re welcome. coming up next it could be a game changer here. we re going to talk about what is happening in syria with regard to isis specifically discussing bashar assad saying he s simply running out of manpower. is that a strategy? stay with me. we ll talk to lieutenant general mark hertling.
happened but you could guess that georgia did not record that information. did not send it to the fbi. the system should talk but all of the records need to be in the system. that probably wasn t the case here. okay. you bring up this policy or law in california you write in this opinion piece, california has a way to prevent this. it s called the gun violence restraining order, the gvro. how does that work? california just passed a law that says if you re a family member or law enforcement and your family member is in crisis from drugs from alcohol, from mental illness, you can go to port like a domestic violence order and get an order temporarily removing that firearm so your family member or loved one can get treatment and if it s a substantial likelihood that that person could commit harm then the judge will order that firearm moved and law enforcement will temporarily remove the firearm so the person
ill. most mentally ill are not violent and function well in society. and i don t like that they are being being. targeted. yes. targeted. literally sometimes. yes. and it is unfair to them. this man is a former felon. they knew he had issues. he should not have had access to guns. i know the counsel was talking about hipaa laws but the fact of the matter is any therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist can report their patients to nix and ask they please not have access to guns. so we re not doing a good job as the nation on our nix system. we need to probably tweak our hipaa laws and becertainly needwe certainly need universal background checks. this is deja vu. it is the same thing. let me play devils advocate
from possessing firearms. those who are adjudicated mentally ill. the most important thing we can do as a nation and state by state is making sure there is a universal background check. since its inception, and that is the nix system, the background with the brady law, there has been approximately two million prohibited persons who have tried to purchase firearms that have been stopped. nearly 48% of those people have been convicted felons. i think it s one of the most important thing we can do. i think it s a thing that is going the pass in this state. i think that s why you see governors o malley and cuomo and others going forward on that. but it s most essential, most important for the united states congress to act on that. because you need uniformity in all 50 states to adopt this to make it really protect our citizenry the way it needs turkey, delaware attorney general beau biden with your father helming this issue at the federal level, and you taking this up along with your gover