friends. i know everybody has been hearing from loved ones. just shock. i got a note this morning from a friend in mississippi. his pastor wrote the congregation yesterday and said, as i write these words, the sun is rising on may 25th, 2022. another day of mourning in america after another mass shooting at another elementary school. as we pray yet again for those whose lives have been torn us under by a troubled soul wielding a deadly weapon, it seems important and necessary to me to say as a christian pastor that we try to find reasonable ways to reduce gun violence, and that is not political. it is moral. the church needs to have a moral compass which can tell the difference between that which is politically partisan and that which is moral. otherwise, our fear of being political may, at times, make us fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our
fall silent concerning matters which we should not be silent. as martin luther king jr. once widely said, the day we fall silent about the things that matter is the day our life begins to end. that s chuck poole, baptist preacher from mississippi. the preacher is right, of course. standing by and doing nothing after little children are slaughtered in classrooms with weapons of war that are designed to be the most effective means of reducing flesh to a bloody mush, that is not a political failing. that is a moral failing. we need to protect little children in schoolyards from assassination. we need to protect grandmothers shopping for their children and their family in grocery stores, from having a bullet tear through their brain. we have an urgent need to protect christians in their churches. jews in their synagogues.
now i m being punished. this is [ bleep ] up. speaking with msnbc s lawrence o donnell this week, the father of jordan davis made clear who he believed the victim was. michael dunn should understand that the victim was the one that had a bullet go through his lungs. a bullet tear his aorta. the victim is the one that was choking on his own blood and was dwapsing for air. the victim was the 17-year-old teenager that should have had his whole life in front of him, that was seeing his life go away in seconds. and he probably was so fearful and his friends were looking on, watching their best friend die in a moment of seconds. that s the victim. the law says both trayvon martin and jordan davis were tragic, and what both of their stories did was to spark a national dialogue about a particular kind of victimization, involving a very specific group in our society, a
threatened and therefore we have to acquit him. apparently, several jurors did follow that logic, which isn t the way the law is supposed to work according to florida authors. but it s the way it s working. well, i think we heard that jury confusion in juror number eight tonight when she said if you don t understand how we came out this way, you need to educate yourself on the law. i think what she s talking there is you have to listen to what we listened to from that judge. before we go, i just want to play one thing ron davis said when we presented him the audiotape of michael dunn claiming to be the victim in this. let s look at this. michael dunn should understand that the victim was the one that had a bullet go through his lungs. a bullet tear his aorta. the victim is the one that was choking on his own blood and was gasping for air.
through his lungs. a bullet tear his aorta. the victim is the one that was choking on his own blood and was gasping for air. the victim was a 17-year-old teenager that should have had his whole life in front of him. that was seeing his life go away in seconds. and he probably was so fearful and his friends were looking on, watching their best friend die in a moment of seconds. that s the victim. gentlemen, we re out of time for the segment tonight. thank you both for joining me tonight. thank you. ukraine police continue to kill protesters. and today, chris christie blamed all the problems with hurricane sandy said in new jersey on someone else. naen the rewrite tonight, vladimir putin pussy riot and edward snowden. the rewrite tr