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mothers, that they have is they do not feel safe to live in this country. i'm hoping that my republican colleagues -- but we took an oath to do is that we could protect and serve our communities, and hope that they would join us -- these are lifesaving moments -- right >> and to your point, congresswoman -- from april -- and not just over 50%, but overwhelming majorities of voters favor gun restrictions including background checks for guns, enforcing existing gun laws, legal age of 21 to buy all guns, require mental health checks, flight people who are a danger to themselves, requiring a 30-day waiting period. . so that waiting period support -- that's the lowest. why do you think, congresswoman, that even given that overwhelming public support, that your colleagues on capitol
had this pit in my stomach. wondering if today could be the wrong day at my kid's school. and i just came off the floor. we had a moment of silence to commemorate the anniversary. we had a moment of silence for the shooting in allen. we're having too many of these moments of silence. too many public places are becoming memorials. we have to change something. >> congressman, i want to share the numbers of americans who want something to change. i don't know that there are many issues where if you go deep and go behind the tabs, there's so much unanimous support for change. background checks for guns, 87% of all americans. this is a fox news poll. enforce existing gun laws, 81% of all americans. change the legal age to 21 to buy guns. require mental health checks, 80% of al americans. flag people who maybe a danger
right now for active shooter drills. and he decides to go to the bus stop. >> my 4-year-old had an active shooter drill in her school, and it's absolutely horrifying. there's nothing that's okay about this. i've got to say, these kind of stories make me crazy because it makes it seem like that's what the right is out for. and it is not. look at the polling, two-thirds of americans want stricter gun laws, 87% of americans want criminal background checks, 81% want to raise the age, 80% say that they should be able to have mental health checks. americans agree on so many issues here. this is the kind of thing that just makes it just seem like there's a side that is insane. and that's not the case. they represent a fraction of americans. and what i also want to say is a shame and scary, 54% of americans say that they have had one of these experience -- a close encounter with someone with a gun. this is not the america that we want to live in. this is not what the second amendment was about, and this
so, that's what jumped out to me about this one. >> so, scott, i'm just thinking with you, because you are, you talk to republicans, you are a republican, you're connected to republicans. so, when the fox poll, from, you know, two weeks ago shows the majority of voters favor these proposals, background checks on all gun buyers, 87%, enforcing the existing gun laws, 81%, legal age, going up to 21 to buy all guns, that's 81% of americans who require mental health checks. that's 80%. we're not doing that now. flag people, so, you know, red flag laws, that are a danger to the south, 80%, require a 30-day waiting period, not all states are doing that, 77%. why aren't republican seizing on this? >> well, there are some republicans that represent areas that don't share those views. i mean, that is a poll of americans. but you get into some areas of the country that are represented by republicans that are pretty red and pretty conservative, and they don't think that infringing on the second a minute, their second
had a possible gun reforms in the u.s. assist trucks out from fox news when asking what their favorite background checks for this, legal age 21 recurrent mental health checks, flagging for people from danger to self. all those for more than 80%. are they think she would consider in texas should consider on a federal level along those lines? level as you know some laws were passed last her to begin to address this. at the state level this is something we have been grappling with over the past year. there are some potential easy solution such as passing laws we are working on right now to get "guns out" of the hands of dangerous prep is for criminals who possess guns. and to recognize a reality. what we have seen over the past year or two and that is increased number shootings and
finally something violent happens, she does something violent. she gets forcefully admitted and gets stable and is fine a little bit later and counters the doctor who didn't admit her for all of those years. you son of a b you, left me out there to rot for ten years, if i was bleeding, my arm was bleeding, you would fix my arm but because it was my brain, you left me out there. >> yeah, and what's amazing is that, an amazing street psychiatrist told me that story. it was ultimately the police. it wasn't even this one psychiatrist or doctor who kept trying to avoid committing her in any way, and the people caring for michael, too, they wanted to save him from the system, not so much from his illness. >> it goes from hospitalization to criminalization, instead of doctors caring for these people, often times they end up in prisons and cops have to deal with them. we've seen this and had this conversation as well, it's not fair for cops to be doing mental health checks. >> absolutely. and in fact, there's an amazing
should require criminal background checks on all gun buyers. all of them. 81% support improving the enforcement of existing gun laws. once people understand we don't even support the ones on the books, 81% of all americans think, yeah, maybe we should do that and 81% support raising the legal age to buy a gun anywhere any kind from 18 to 21. you have 80% of all americans that support requiring mental health checks on gun buyers. 80% is a huge number on that, a lot of republicans like to throw out privacy concerns, 80% of americans think the freedom to live safely and send your kids to school trumps that. 80% think allowing police to take guns from those who are a danger to themselves and 77% support a 30-day waiting period for all gun purchases. claire, where are we when the
absolutely extraordinary. he was brilliant. he went to yale law school despite schizophrenia. someone who went to law school with me called me what happened, and he assumed michael would have resources when he didn't. they were allowing his illness to assert itself. >> this is a push back to mayor adams who has introduced a policy of trying to forcefully help people who can not help themselves. >> yes. >> has been that it's a civil rights issue. it's a civil liberties issue. you cannot -- you have to respect somebody's autonomy, and you talk about here that sometimes the people that are in these scenarios don't understand what's going on around them. there's a woman who was on the street for ten years suffering. and she kept getting mental health checks. and she wasn't admitted because she wasn't violent. she wasn't forcefully admitted because she wasn't violent.
being here. so jordan had a history with the police, he had a history of mental health checks. and now this ended in a terrible and tragic way, what is the latest and what might we expect to see in regards to the man who put him in the choke hold? >> good to join you. we got new reporting courtesy of jonathan dienst, the d.a. won't make a decision whether to present to the grand jury later this week. we know the d.a. has assigned a senior prosecutor to review all of the elements in this case, including the medical examiner's report which does in fact show that jordan neely died as a result of the choke hold. we know he's had a run-in with authorities over the years, and a couple of those instances involved mental health issues. now, his attorneys say he experienced the loss of his mother at the age of 14 when she was murdered. a lot of protesters have said this was a man who was troubled
shut all governments down. we turn to the story that led our program last week, and we noted it could be the top national story most of the days of the year. gun violence, a 33-year-old before police killed him at a mall outside dallas. you see that turning into a memoriam. the right-wing extremism and hate materials is now under investigation. we're on track for a report-breaking number of mass shootings, over 200. there's no single absolute to all of this, but no other country has this many deadly shootings, because most democracies don't allow easy access to guns and military-grade guns like this. a governor was dodging policy changes. >> when you asked people what they would favor, background checks, requiring mental health checks, flagging people with