parkland, el paso, pittsburgh, brooklyn. i ask the question so many of you are asking, why are we not protecting our kids? why is nothing changing? as a journalist, i ve had to cover too many of these mass shootings. perhaps we re becoming desensitized. as an american, a parent, you send your kids to school on an average day and never see him or her again. it s unspeakable yet that s what happened in uvalde, texas. i know this gets into background checks and red flag laws and other measures that advocates call common sense gun reform and opponents call a breach of the second amendment. there are also questions about how the texas police misled journal withists about school journalists about school security, about mental health, about social media radicalization and whether there s a way to stop sick, twisted men who just turned 18 as in texas and buffalo from legally buying guns. but the bottom line is that washington is paralyzed. it s highly unlikely that anything wil
howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage, guy benson, host of fox s guy benson radio show and podcast, and laura fink, commentator and democratic separatist. guy, it feels like we re stuck in this endlessly painful cycle. mass shooting, the politicians expression outrage, nothing gets done, and then another mass shooting. yep, you basically just summarized it. i think a lot of people believe that it is intoll the rabble. the question is why do we allow ourselves to maintain the exact same roles, the same scripts in this cycle. you can almost write out predictably what everyone will say, and it s like they ve got their positions memorized, they go to battle stations, and it start thes within minutes. starts within minutes. i just hope maybe at some point there s an opportunity for people to change the script just a little bit and say maybe we shouldn t do the exact same things over and over again in terms of the way we interact with each other, the talking
this texas tragedy until the next mass shooting seizes the headlines. and that, my friends, is sad and unacceptable. i m howard kurtz, and this is ooh mediabuzz. howard: ahead, an in-depth conversation with kellyanne conway, why she still supports donald trump and the one issue where she doesn t. president biden, who s visiting uvalde today the, seemed weary and emotional when he addressed the nation hours after the massacre, and the pundits were already ratcheting up their rhetoric. as a nation we have to ask when in god s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? when in god s name we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done. i am sick and tire thed of it. we have to act. and don t tell me we can t have
and extermination of all these nationalities. this is happening in the europe of the 21st century. so this is the torture of the whole nation. also today, zelenskyy made a plea to russian mother, asking how their sons became executioners. he said they have, quote, no soul. no heart. they killed deliberately and with pleasure. in a new column from the new york times, thomas freedman writes everyone is watching. in world war i and world war ii, no one had a smartphone or access to social networks through which to observe and participate in the war in non-kinetic ways. now anyone with a smartphone can view what is happening in ukraine live and in color and express opinions globally through social media. well, we expression outrage, russia says there s nothing to see here.