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Look, mental health is an issue, one of the underlying issues in all of these shootings. but republicans typically use mental health as a way to distract from dealing with guns. and don't actually ever offer a mental health solution. they eventually just walk away from this issue. you know, it's been a tough 24 hours. and don, i was thinking -- i would like to share a little bit of kind of good news. an example of how we could find a way forward. it was my experience in congress. there was a gun control group that started targeting me. on my office door i was one of the members who slept in my...

Steve: the dallas police department is facing a shortage in police officers. the chief there says millennials are partly to blame. >> we have nights, weekends and holidays and those are some of the things that are not necessarily attractive to the millennials who want all days off and to be the chief in six months. so we recognize that that is a challenge for us. >> steve: no kidding. to increase interest, chief renee hall is even looking at eliminating some of the automatic disqualifiers like past minor drug use. is lowering the admission requirements the right idea? here to weigh in is forme...

Big call for gun regulation and push back guns are not the problem. we might have had something to agree on that these bump stocks need to be looked at. things that were put evidently for the disabled to be able to shoot a gun easier is now being used way too often, apparently by people looking to make a semiautomatic an automatic. >> so an automatic weapon you just hold the trigger down and it just keeps firing as fast as it can. the semiautomatic is legal. the automatic is illegal. you have to actually pull the trigger. this was a device that was approved in the obama administration to actua...

32nd floor were fired. so they found the ar-15-type rifles, at least some of which had these bump stocks attached. then they also found some high powered sniper rifles that have the b ipod legs on the front that allow the weapon to be stabilized. that's what gave him the great deal of fire power that he had. couple of other things -- i should say these bump stocks are perfectly legal. they are legal because even though you put it on, this is another type of bump stock, the rifle is still firing with a single pull of the trigger. the trigger pulls are just coming very, very fast. infers an effo...

20s, 30s, early 40s. the medology, it's a local resident. he knew who was going to be there. he probably requested that hotel room so he'd have a good view. he turned the concert into a killing field. as i listened to the chilling sounds of the automatic rep ri weaponry, i never heard that unless on the range or overseas. i never heard something like that in a situation like an american city where he had to have police confirmed ten rifle there is. each one of them were loaded with a drum or 30-round magazine and had had to have one that maintained that rate of fire. >> for people who want to ...