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Attack. let there be no mistake. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> sheriff, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> here's my first question four. when everyone, you know, takes your advice and draws their guns and starts shooting, how do you tell who the good guys are? >> well, you know, this is not anything that our team and law enforcement officers around the country haven't already been faced with when we look at the number of concealed permit holders, the number of states that allow open carry. what we know is that our citizens are arming themselv...

Checking that zach was talking about and we can do some original reporting but as you mentioned in the intro, that is difficult. i think there's 27 states that bar access to concealed carry records. there's some reasons for that. there are reasons about not wanting that data shared. there's a valid argument to a certain extent on the gun owner side. you can't see how many of those concealed permit holders commit crimes. we did a quick peace in ohio. the rule there was that journalists could go county by county, look at the records but couldn't take notes. you had to memoriyize what was happeni...

Mind. here now to explain his change of heart. that was powerful testimony. what changed your mind? >> actually, my mind change came from a reassignment. for years, i was assigned to chase bad guys. chase criminals throughout the state of maryland. and i dealt with gang members, homicide investigators and i chased bad guys. i was actually promoted into a division right after a lawsuit within days of a lawsuit where maryland for the handgun permitting scheme, they said it was unconstitutional. so i actually had to learn that role and learn why we were issuing permits, who got permits, and how a...

Why andy i think is a terrible person. some gun owners didn't like it when a newspaper published a list of permit holders. we did that story about 65 times. >> yeah. >> greg: isn't this the same thing in reverse kind of? >> i don't know. they are pointing out that really it can be used by both sides and it is a really interesting experiment. if it takes off you will have essentially segregated gun free zones and guns allowed zones and then in years or so someone can compile statistics and see which zone had more gun related deaths. where only outlaws had guns or where they knew the armed bad r...

District attorney make that decision, as david said to see an imminent threat. administrative perspective if they have a no tolerance policy in the school district, he should not be exception to that rule because the bottom line, it is not a teacher's choice unilaterally if the -- does school district does not allow it. we don't know his state of mind. we don't know how the children will interpret that. if he is leader of the class bringing guns in what message does it say. >> kelly: bob, he raises a good point. we don't know how students would respond to that. we were talking about the ccw la...