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Our soldiers to register their weapons, we can control the gates to some extent, you know, not effectively with 150,000 people coming and going, but we have the legal authority to do all that. now in a country at large, half of us are armed and a significant number of us, 5%, pick a number you believe, have mental health. so how you get law enforcement and the mental health community to talk to each other and not violate the law, pretty tough challenge. this guy was not off gassing tremendous signals apparently of mental instability. he had only been in combat for a four month tour, really was...

Ivan lopez's mental issues which included depression and anxiety but are stressing the importance now of reaching out to those who suffer from those problems and getting them the help and the support that they need. military investigators have confirmed that there was an argument about leave shortly before the shooting and during that eight-minute rampage, ivan lopez allegedly fired more than 35 shots, some of the victims they believe were targeted. at least one of the dead was involved in that argument and at least one of the wounded. but the others they say were completely random. soldiers j...

Leadership of the entire chain of command to make sure that everybody comes together. and that's exactly what's going to happen in this particular case. like general mccaffrey says, they'll get over it, but get over it because they are all together, they'll feel they're all together in this and the commanders and subordinate commanders will make sure that happens. they're close to their troops. they may have to get even closer to their troops, but that's -- that closeness is what's going to take them out of it. >> general, the colonel is talking about the broader military family and how they c...

Ensuring that the people are taken care of and that anybody who has a problem is immediately identified and taken care of. that somebody with a problem like this who could cause this much damage could go untreated. it it's -- well, we'll get more about this when we hear exactly who this guy was and his relationship to the people who were shot. it's always shocking when people who depend on each other, wind up in a circumstance like this. >> thanks, colonel jack. nbc news is citing military officials who tell us there are three dead. two victims and the shooter. ft. hood is no longer on lockd...

Were told that under military regulations, had he been considered a threat, that psychiatrist would have been required to warn and protect by revealing that condition but since the psychiatrist didn't see any potential threat that was not passed along to anybody else, any of the military commanders. >> colonel jack, we know from the general last night who gave i thought a brilliant briefing in real time as this thing just evolved and were dealing with the victims. he was very, very direct and very transparent and he said that concealed deadly weapons cannot be carried on the base. that was one...