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Identify those people and make sure they get treatment? >> most of the potentially dangerous people we can identify. you can walk into the police station in any small town in the united states, say, who are the potentially dangerous people that you know about? and say, well, john over on fourth street, we have to go and visit every two weeks because he gets a gun out and threatens to kill his neighbors. we know basica potentially dangerous people are, but we often, because the way the laws are written in most states, we can't do anything until they actually act. until they've actually committe...

What are our commitment laws and how hard is it for doctors to hospitalize patients, are there available resources when they need help and talking about areas of confidentiality and barriers to that. a law in florida was recently reversed about physicians not being able to ask about gun safety in the home. that makes it very challenging. as a psychiatrist we're allowed to ask about it in terms of suicidality and homicidality but physicians are looking at the fact that 1 in 25 pediatric cases are coming in in terms of trauma cases, that's part of the hat we wear about safety in the homes, so we...

The encouragement to go get a mental health clearance. so they did try to encourage him to access the mental health services. some mental health services kick the student right back to campus, 24 to 36 hours later and say what do we do now? the hind set is conjectural here, maybe that would have been helpful to refer him to the courts to go to the local police with the commitment laws in arizona. but given the circumstances and what pima was facing at the time, i think their actions were more than reasonable. >> there's clear indications that this kid was more than creepy if thaw looked at wha...

Identify those people and make sure they get treatment? >> most of the potentially dangerous people we can identify. you can walk into the police station in any small town in the united states, say, who are the potentially dangerous people that you know about? and say, well, john over on fourth street, we have to go and visit every two weeks because he gets a gun out and threatens to kill his neighbors. we know basically who the potentially dangerous people are, but we often, because the way the laws are written in most states, we can't do anything until they actually act. until they've actual...

Identify those people and make sure they get treatment? >> most of the potentially dangerous people we can identify. you can walk into the police station in any small town in the united states, say, who are the potentially dangerous people that you know about? and say, well, john over on fourth street, we have to go and visit every two weeks because he gets a gun out and threatens to kill his neighbors. we know basically who the potentially dangerous people are, but we often, because the way the laws are written in most states, we can't do anything until they actually act. until they've actual...