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Background system has failed. virginia tech, where the shooter was adjudicated as a mental defective, it was not in the system. charleston, where the killer had a disabled felony or domestic violence, i'm not sure which one it was. he had a disables conviction. it was cataloged in the wrong county and the fbi said it was a mistake. and now this one, if it turns out to be a military one. so we have to fiction our own system of these background checks that would stop these killers at the door from trying to get the gun nep go right to the gun shop, buy the gun, buy all the ammo they want. if the...

Evidence behind it, really, is if everybody had a gun, this would solve itself, which is essentially the old west of the 1800s. >> harold, if you talk to people on the hill and say that have gotten money from the nra and you say, hey, listen, why don't we expand background checks to keep them out of the hands of terrorists and people who beat up their spouses and brutalize their children, they'll say the background system is broken. it doesn't work. yes. that's why i'm asking why don't we fix it? well, it doesn't work. right. so why don't we fix it? why don't we expand it? >> it's too soon to ...

On his wife and their small child. with this record, one would ask why is it that someone like this who was clearly a danger to society, why is this person walking around. why is this person having access to deadly weapons? >> that is one of the challenges of the day. i think so many times these cases do involve mental illness. whether that is the case here were whether they should have been barred from purchasing a weapon, there are great imperfections in that background system and one of the biggest ones those people who are seriously mentally ill, who are deeply troubled and have seen menta...

We can debate that. but is there an answer? those aren't answers. you know, you're smart. is there anything that would have prevented this? everyone is jumping up and down the insane, we could have prevented this if only congress had the will. i'm asking a very simple question. what could congress have done that could have prevented this? >> we shouldn't, as a nation, we focused on what could've prevented the last shooting, we should focus on what can prevent the next. >> tucker: a bunch of mass shootings, they are terrifying, and they hurt the country. >> they do. >> tucker: >> tucker: one wh...

We can debate that. but is there an answer? those aren't answers. you know, you're smart. is there anything that would have prevented this? everyone is jumping up and down the insane, we could have prevented this if only congress had the will. i'm asking a very simple question. what could congress have done that could have prevented this? >> we shouldn't, as a nation, we focused on what could've prevented the last shooting, we should focus on what can prevent the next. >> tucker: a bunch of mass shootings, they are terrifying, and they hurt the country. >> they do. >> tucker: >> tucker: one wh...