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Tell you who is someone that's got a mental illness, who has been in a mental health facility. that's all protected by hippa. if the president were serious, wouldn't he want to loosen up some of those rules to find out who the nutjobs are who are on psychotropic drugs? >> the way it works is we have limited categories of people with dangerousmental illness that are prohibited from buying guns already. >> we don't know who they are. robin, i don't mean to interrupt you, but we don't know who they are. because we can't get their regards. >> if the states put those records into the system, the in...

Tell you who is someone that's got a mental illness, who has been in a mental health facility. that's all protected by hippa. if the president were serious, wouldn't he want to loosen up some of those rules to find out who the nutjobs are who are on psychotropic drugs? >> the way it works is we have limited categories of people with dangerousmental illness that are prohibited from buying guns already. >> we don't know who they are. robin, i don't mean to interrupt you, but we don't know who they are. because we can't get their regards. >> if the states put those records into the system, the in...

They know they have to weaken them to put in tighter gun restrictions, which only hurt law-abiding team. what we need in this country right now, we need well-armed, well-intentioned law abiding theme. that will seven as a deterrent and quickly stop these situations when they begin. >> sheriff david clark, thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> with me, robin thomas. good evening, robin. do you believe an executive order by president obama will take guns out of the wrong hands? >> thanks for having me on. and i do think that there is so many things we can do to improve upon our existin...

They know they have to weaken them to put in tighter gun restrictions, which only hurt law-abiding team. what we need in this country right now, we need well-armed, well-intentioned law abiding theme. that will seven as a deterrent and quickly stop these situations when they begin. >> sheriff david clark, thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> with me, robin thomas. good evening, robin. do you believe an executive order by president obama will take guns out of the wrong hands? >> thanks for having me on. and i do think that there is so many things we can do to improve upon our existin...

We can do a better job with it. i think it could be a stronger system, but there isn't any privacy protection that inhibits us from creating a better system. >> robin, are you saying that if someone is in a mental health institution and gets released, that is information that the local police department can get when they do a background check? no! >> correct. if you're involuntarily committed into a mental institution, that record should be going into the background check system. and when a firearms dealer runs a background check on you, that should flag you as being denied. the dealer won't k...