Mpls mass shooting: Push for stronger red flag laws

We have gun safety advocates that are calling for stronger red flag laws after this week's mass shooting just on the outskirts of downtown Minneapolis. Fox 9's Korten Haagert is live at HCMC tonight. And Korten, that hospital has some victims who are still recovering and some doctors who say that they are suffering. They are really going through a lot right now, Korten. Yes, ma'am. They treated all of the victims here on Wednesday and now there are some doctors who are sharing stories about the trauma that they've endured. For the second time in almost a year, Dr. Tim Coomer dropped everything and reported for duty at a mass shooting. We are good at this and it is devastating that we've needed to be so good at this. The first doctor at Annunciation left back to school night Wednesday and started treating victims of Carlton Johnson II. He wants it to stop and believes lawmakers could help. In Johnson's case, court documents confirm he made shooting threats in 2018 and 2023 and he was accused again in a couple incidents just this summer. And for reasons I don't fully understand, you know, the guns were not taken out of his hands. Senator Scott Dibble helped pass the state's red flag law in 2023. It lets family members, roommates, romantic partners, law enforcement and prosecutors petition to temporarily restrict someone's access to firearms. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty says her office considered one after another June incident at the apartment. But Johnson never pulled his weapon and they found insufficient evidence for an extreme risk protective order. This tragedy tells us that we must strengthen that ERPO law. The DFL majority in the state senate passed a wide-ranging gun safety bill this year including an expansion of the red flag law as well as bans on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. It stalled on party lines in the Tide house leaving Dr. Coomer feeling somewhat hopeless. There's a self-protective mechanism where we might just stop trying to bring the evidence. I'm not sure anybody cares and I'm not sure it's healthy for us to keep trotting out our trauma time after time if no one's going to listen to us. We're not okay. I'm not okay. None of us are okay. And ER doctors do have the highest burnout rate of any medical specialty. That's according to the American Medical Association. Live in Minneapolis, Coren Hawker, Fox 9.