what is going on and what the conduit of information that s being released is. and so, i think it s a little bit incumbent on all of us as individuals to take the initiative to try to find out what s happening. and then, for that to be backed up, certainly, by official sources. sure, john, but as you just said, that last point was one of the most important points you made, which is the fact that there can be a lot of false alarms. you re looking an twitter and i looked on twitter plenty of times, we re in the middle of a show, and things will pop up and we think, my god, there s a shooting, and then we find out it was just a false alarm. and so right. so i m curious and concerned about our guest, damian escobar, saying he had no communication from inside the airport in that hour that he was pretty confused as to what was going on. he was rushed into a hallway, a child was trampled who was subsequently fine, but nonetheless, that s a scary 30, 45, 60 minutes with no
so nervous without a doubt. who were you traveling with, damian? my band. we came in town for a concert this evening and you just come to a city to play some music. and you never expect something like this happening. what do you make of the fact that this guy had a gun, this individual had a gun in their carry-on that was loaded? that s the thing. and i don t i mean, unbelievable. unbelievable. unbelievable. that s why how can that be an accidental discharge? absolutely unbelievable. beyond negligent. and it just kind of lends itself to just the disparities when it comes to weapons in this country as a whole, you know? it s something that shouldn t happen, and it happens far too often here in america. you know? like, things like this should not happen, and personally, i m just tired of it happening, especially being in the middle of it now, it really impacts me
truth, because that could have not been an accidental discharge, you know, especially when you have an agent yelling that he has a gun. how does i don t know. all i know, it was terrifying. i thank god that everyone that was there is okay. yeah, we re thankful that everybody obviously is okay as well. and it seems as if the situation at this point has been resolved at the airport, and that they have said it s all clear and they re going to resume flights. but nonetheless, damian, where were you standing when this actually took place? where were you standing and where did you hear he s got a gun coming from? how far away was it from you? it was pretty far from us. it was pretty far from us. the exact place where i was standing, i can only tell you, we were far enough to it being in the distance but literally, when we heard it, we were like, you know, what is that? we didn t think that we heard what we thought we heard until we saw people running. and then the next thing you kn
yeah. it s frightening. damian, before i let you go, i know you got a flight to catch, you need to recover. maybe get yourself a cocktail at one point, i don t know. oh, yeah. yeah. but did you have any communication from the airport while you were going through this? no. we no one had any idea what was going on. we were relying on passengers to let us know what was happening. no one had any idea what was going on. tsa had no idea. i mean and that s the thing that was frightening as well. there was no protocol. you know, there was no emergency protocol. there was nothing. there was no one to follow. tsa just ran out of the airport, and i totally get that, but i just feel like there has to be better protocol put in place for when things like this happen because no one knew anything and it was just pure chaos. how did you feel at that point that it was safe to come back in? i did not come back in. we didn t come back in.