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To be the last mass shootings. i was watching the news unfold on monday, i woke up in the morning wondering how another one of these mass shootings could have happened wondering what happened in el paso could have possibly happened again, and then i learned there was a shooting in dayton of a similar, horrendous size. i tried to cry. i don't think i can do that anymore. i've cried for too many people this year. i looked at southernland springs and i looked at how the shooter was shot several times before leaving. and i explored the good old fashioned good guy with a gun argument. i wanted to p...

The bullets for his students. i'm sure they are looking forward to him getting back to school. he's a remarkable young man, very inspiring. >> greg: juan, he came from venezuela for this. the irony of leaving a place that's known for incredible high crime and he wanted to be a professional soccer player, which isn't going to happen. >> juan: i hope it does happen. i hope he recovers fully. what struck me was i think it is something from the heart of american students. he says i just want to go to school and feel safe. i don't feel safe right now going back to school, is what he said. to me, th...

Protectors inside the school is something that we ought to have an open mind about. >> yeah. yes. and there is, listen, lots of discussion. people feel a number of ways about it, that teachers and coaches, their job is already big enough. do you any that this belies a whole good guy with a gun argument? >> this is so baffling that it's hard to get your mind wrapped around it. what i will say is i got a chance to work in oakland, california for a long time working with the young people in trouble. i would go to classrooms. they would have 32 kids in a classroom, six books, and no chalk. so when...

Hands of private citizens. why do we need military guns in the hands of private citizens? >> i want to ask you, because you already talked about the resource officer who did nothing. so i think you think that that sort of belies the good guy with a gun argument, correct? >> look, i think it debunks it, but there's also, you know -- look, i'm a social studies teacher, sorry to bring up some facts. there are also studies that show the higher incidence of gun usage in a community means that there are more kids that get hurt. lower incidents of guns in a community, like in australia, like in new y...

90 rounds a minute. how is it that anyone, even that great coach who may have a handgun at home, how are you going to set up and deal with kids who are running through the halls. how you going to find the shooter? how are you going kill the shooter? so what i'm concerned about, again, is that this is going to create or could create a false sense of security when what we need to do is keep guns out of schools and keep these kind of -- these kind of awful instruments that can kill people in a nanosecond. keep them out of the hands of private citizens. why do we need military guns in the hands of...