charles krauthammer. joining me now daniel krauthammer. charles' son himself a writer. great to see you. >> so good to see you too, bret. >> bret: such a great time when we do this every year now and to see emmet choose history, at least so far and grace choose psychiatry, both things that your dad just loved. >> yeah. no, it's incredibly appropriate, i think, in so many ways. you know, that my father was so passionate about learning. not only that but saw it as a duty that's what everyone should do is take it to the fullest. and the fact that emmet is history and grace psychiatry i couldn't think of two subjects closer to my father's heart. he would joke sometimes when young students ask woo ask him how do you get to this point of being a renowned journalist first you go to medical school. in all seriousness he thought that education really taught him something about what happened. makes life worth living. and then it was he saw what could put all those things that mattered at risk, which is politics gone wrong. and i think he would be very proud for these two rising s

back in september of 2013 after a mass shooting, the late charles krauthammer identify the problem. we have a lot of mentally ill people and we need to stop ignoring them. obviously we've ignored that warning, so here it is again. >> he needed help. 30 years ago the cops would have brought him to a psychiatric emergency room, he probably would have gotten antipsychotics that he probably would have been hospitalized for a couple of weeks. that's the way it was done in the '70s when i practiced psychiatry, but today that doesn't happen. the cops left, he was left on his own, he was a man who shouldn't have been on his own, he should have had the state looking after him, and he ended up killing people. look, you want to respect the civil liberties of everybody, but there is a point in which if you don't take control of people who are clearly out of touch with reality, you are damaging them, exposing them, and of course tragically exposing a lot of innocents around them. >> tucker: yeah, exactly. this stuff is complicated. the human mind is complicated, and if the environment changes, s

charles krauthammer had a terrific piece he wrote after the sandy hook shooting. i wish he was still with us. it talks about a culture of violence and how we have broken things down and we cannot pretend those things don't matter. >> judge jeanine: okay. let's take a listen to the texas department of public safety director and what he said earlier. i'll get back to you. speak with the benefit of hindsight, where i am sitting now of course it wasn't the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. no excuse for it. i wasn't there but i'm telling you from what we know, we believe there should've been an entry as soon as you can. >> the chief of police, he was convinced. i want to go back and say he was convinced at the time that there was no more threat to the children and the subject was barricaded and they had time to organize with the proper equipment. >> texas embraces and teaches the active shooter doctrine as long as there's kids, as long as someone is firing, you go to the gun. find him and neutralize him. >> judge jeanine: the active shooter doctrine,

here's charles krauthammer pointing that outha. we t had a decade of that assaut weapons ban from the mid 90s, lasted for a decade. and if you look at the studies had no appreciable influenceen on gun violence or the lethality of individual attacks. and there are three elements here. again, it's the shooter, it's t the web and it'shes the environment and all that liberals are mainstream media want to look atnm, of course, is the weapon.po are but there are other ways of looking at this . if you look at the shooteren himself and the mental health issue, the fact that you cannota get a commitment on these kinds of people, i'm thinking most of jared loughner, the shooter in tucson, arizona, everybody knew he was a grenade about to go off. who anybody who knew him was was in class with him said that . but you could only stop him after he killed in this charlest eric foxuc ryan kleckner is a lawyer and a former army ranger is thought a lot was abot this .r coming he joins us tonight. ryan, thanks so much on. for cog on . so dumb people

charles krauthammer, i had him on the panel and he talked at length about that. this is just a piece of that. take a listen. >> i understand this reflexive move to do this in principle i'm not opposed to it. the problem is we have some history with this. we had a decade of that assault weapons ban from the mid 1990s, it lasted for a decade and if you look at the studies had no appreciable influence on gun violence or the legality of individual attacks. it's the shooter, the weapon, the environment. and although liberals only want to look at, of course, is the weapon. there are other things to look at. if you look at the shooter himself and the mental health issue' the fact that you cannot get a commitment on these kinds of people, i'm thinking most of jared laughner, the shooter in tucson, arizona, everybody knew he was a grenade about to go off. anybody who knew him was in class with him said that but you could only stop him after he killed. and we have moved so radically last 50 years to making it difficult to commit people who are dangerous that there has to b

charles krauthammer wrote a really eloquent piece after sandy hook almost 10 years ago. and, you know, i commend it to people. i tweeted it out and put it on facebook. he said, you know, after every mass shooting it comes down to three things. it comes down to the killer, the weapon, and the cultural climate and depending on where you are, you gravitate to one of those three things. we, as a country, have to figure out how we can deal with all of that. to make sure that these things don't happen again. but they are happening. and we are the country that it happens to the most. rachel: yeah, it is fascinating. bret, we just had on a forensic psychologist dr. helen smith who talked about some of the things that are brewing and especially with young men curly and how can you recall --culturally andt you talk about talking about all the way back to columbine the lesson is you run towards the fire and you breach those doors and you get in and you take down the killer. president trump broached this topic yesterday when he spoke at the nra conference. one of the things that he