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“He wouldn’t have been able to go into the pawn shop and buy that gun as he did in another state”, said Jindal, who is also running for president in the Republican primary, during the Sunday morning talk show interview.

“Here in Louisiana, we actually passed tougher laws a couple of years ago so that, for example, if Houser had been involuntarily committed here in Louisiana, … we would have reported that to the national background check system”, Jindal said. “If he had been involuntarily committed here, if he had tried to buy the gun here, he wouldn’t have been allowed to do that”, Jindal reiterated. He wouldn’t have been able to buy a gun.

“Every time this happens, it seems like the person has a history of mental illness”, Jindal said.

Jindal said all states should have gun laws that insure people with a history of mental illness can not buy a gun…as Houser did, legally, in Alabama. We need to make sure that background system is working.

When a gunman opened fire in a movie theater, a teacher shielded a coworker from getting a bullet to the head, Louisana Gov. Bobby Jindal said. “Absolutely, in this instance, this man should never have been able to buy a gun”.

Prior to the shooter entering the movie theater, reports say he switched his license plates and kept wigs in the hotel room he was staying in, with intentions of disguising himself.

Authorities have yet to determine a motive for why Houser chose to attack people at the showing of “Trainwreck”, why he chose to target Lafayette and why he picked a Thursday evening.

Houser’s brother told NBC news on Saturday that the family knew he had mental health issues, but didn’t think he was capable of such violence.