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Police, law enforcement here, everybody working together to try and identify that the suspect vehicle. hen we hear this morning that a white van is stopped in nearby torrance and that it is surrounded by law enforcement. some kind of shootout takes place, and now apparently we re hearing from our sources that a bomb squad will be the there to help clear out the scene. again, we do not know officially if all of those, if all of those scenes, those incidents are connected, but the way that it s being laid out, hopefully, or we ll get some clarification in this upcoming press conference. gillian: very quick follow-up, christina. are you hearing anything about the scene in alhambra after the suspect there fled this in a white vansome do you know if anybody was hurtsome. reporter: i have not heard yet on possible injuries in that the, you know? if it is the case that they were able to wrestle with him and get this gun away, hank goodness for that the because people have already lost hair ....
Create waiting periods. i m not trying to take anybody s gun away. i own guns. i just want some reasonableness. you can t imagine what it s been like talking to these families. you know, every night i go to bed crying. the pain that these families have experienced is a million times more profound. i don t want any of my colleagues to have to go what i ve been having to do. i don t want any family in texas to ever have to undergo this. this is shameful that this man has had six massacres, seven massacres under his belt. he calls himself a christian. he s the antithesis of being a christian. what s happening here is godless. that is hard to argue with, but i would pause on that for a second. we will take a quick break and we ll keep this conversation going when we come back and talk more about texas and beto o rourke and what s going on there and the broader topic of ....
you know, i do not feel hopeless. i do not feel hopeless. and the reason being. so i say this a lot. for a lot of americans, the only form of gun violence that they care about is school shootings. they don t care about suicides, they don t care about children in black and brown communities who deal with chronic gun violence every day. they only care about school shootings. and if the only thing you care about is school shootings, the one thing after columbine, if we had changed one thing, and that was forcing gun owners to lock up the guns that they have, more than half of the school shootings in america since then would not have happened. if that was the only change we made. that is something that would not infringe on anybody s second amendment rights, it wouldn t take anybody s gun away. it would just say you have to be responsible with the guns that you have. that would save tens of thousands of children from having gone through school shootings. it would save a huge number of ki ....
She used indiana s red flag law to alert police. it you re going to red flag anybody, that would be one person to red flag. reporter: police did take her son s gun away, but prosecutors did not pursue a red flag designation that would have prevented him from buying any more firearms. he went on to buy two assault rifles a few months later, and used them last year to storm this fedex plant, killing eight, before killing himself. i won t grieve his death because he made a choice to take others. so that s on him. i ll grieve for the victims because they did nothing. reporter: indiana is one of 19 states that empowers a judge to take away a firearm from anyone who poses an extreme risk to themselves or others, but hole says a red flag law is only effective when it s enforced. one study shows in connecticut, for every 10 to 20 firearms removed, a life is saved. and in california, there have been at least 21 cases where a ....
Regulating any guns. is he out there on some periphery of thought where he going to take your lawfully possessed gun away? no, that s not steve. he s a law enforcement guy. he s a smart lawyer, a prosecutor. i have worked with him. of i don t to say these things, but i think he s the right choice for a very difficult position. you mentioned the atf hasn t had a director in over five years. that in itself should be a crime. they need leadership. amazing. fred, we ve put you in this role because you re the only person i think that can have authority on this front of i want to know if you feel optimistic. i mean, you ve both cited the broken congress and the failures to get congress to act after parkland, after newtown, after these horrific tragedies that break all of our hearts, and still nothing happens in congress. but you re both making clear that this move today will have an impact on the streets. ....