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We have been closing beds for 50 years. let's stop right now closing beds. then let's look for a way to replace them. we don't necessarily need to go out and rebuild the huge hospitals that were closed, but we need to have acute crisis facilities that are accessible to people who are in crisis. >> jeff gardere, 30 seconds. what's your one suggest? what's need to change? >> we need to see mental health have parody with the other medical issues wrnch even in the medical school, we need to step it up to teach our doctors so they can better treat our kids and our citizens, and that's what we do at...

Substance use and abuse. that greatly increases the odds of somebody committing a violent act. and men are more likely, actually, to struggle than women with substance use and abuse. and i think that also men have less access to emotional support when something is going wrong. they're not expected to be struggling and talk about it, culturally speaking in the same way that, say, girls of that age are sort of permitted to. i think they often become isolated and then they become angry, and it's sort of this angry disenfranchised and often slightly paranoid person, particularly if you use substan...

It's obvious this person was struggling. and nobody stepped in. >> and just as crucial experts say, curtailing their access to weapons. >> the problem with mass shootings is people who have suffered from a psychotic or depressive mental illness and have not been spotted and have laid their hands too easily at the peak of their symptoms on weapons. >> don lemon, cnn, new york. >> and here we go. we have experts on this topic from coast to coast joining us live right now. dr. drew pinsky from our sister network, hln. psychiatrist and author dr. gale salts. dr. jeffrey lieberman at columbia unive...

Because it does not, but in talking to people who have loved ones, husbands, wives, children, it's a slow descent. when you're so close to someone, you oftentimes don't see the signs to know to ask for help. >> well, i think people do see the signs, except they don't know quite how to interpret them and how to understand what they mean. even if they think, there must be something wrong with the person, we should try to get them help, they're not sure where to go and what to do. if you think someone is having problems with their mood, with their mental functions, with their behavior, and if -- ...