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Journalists show emotion in the wake of a terrible tragedy like this? >> well, journalists are not robots, and if you are describing on the air thoughter of 19 -- the slaughter of 19 children and 2 of their teachers and you don't feel something and you don't catch a lump in your throat, then maybe you don't have a pulse. we're humans, that's okay. if it crosses a line into performance -- i'm i'm not alleging that here -- that's another question. i get the sadness, the human compassion, the anger when you find out there's officers standing outside this locked door for an hour or so while the ki...

Amount of attention that this horrible tragedy has received, i always note that there is a concern about copycats and i have heard of a few attempts anyway. his law enforcement talking about that? any kind of stuff like that, the copycat effect? >> they are not outright talking about it. i'm sure there's probably some language that they are using to sort of prevent that. i don't really hear them using the suspect's name or using the photo a lot when going into detail about that. that is something that we are conscious on out here to not glorify the person who is allegedly responsible for this....

Culture that gives us gun violence. there is one party, as the congresswoman alluded to, that is saying enough funds enough, let's at least try to do something. so of gun violence prevention, as we are today the democratic party is a national political party in what you find a home. >> mark, you have government shootings. and i learned a lot from your reporting on this. particularly about how we cover them, and i think actually in the decade have been doing this as changed, and formed by some of the research, we to spent, cover to suspend a lot of time on the shooters, and what they, the and i...

Events like the December 2012 Newtown massacre require that constitutional and complex cultural factors be taken into consideration and that policy be based on a serious study of all of the evidence.

For violent extremism or support for or obsession about other people who have committed violent acts, absolutely, that adds up. >> i do wonder, do you think the tragedies like in el paso and dayton, do you think it has made people more vigilant so they are reporting more, or do you think as we've heard -- we've heard in the past the fear after tragic mass shootings of a copycat effect after mass shootings. do you think either one is at play here? >> i think, yes, i think that's a good observation, kate. certainly there's limited research, but there is research that shows that a contagious effe...