he said that california has one of the toughest gun laws in the country, but that the status quo was simply not working and i think that really cuts to the heart of the situation. as we have, time and time again on his conversations but we fall short every time and we keep seeing more and more mass shootings. we are going to continue the conversation, thank you so much for all of your coverage. over the past come our. we want to continue that right now by going back to monterey park for nga, and in that brief ten others wounded kathy park joins us now live from the scene. kathy, lots to break down for what we have heard from the last hour. give me some of the major takeaways in terms of how this particular incident has come to a conclusion with the suspect being identified in self inflicted gunshot wound in that white van. yeah, ayman, it s important to note that they re saying there is no longer a threat at this time. the suspect connected to this mass shooting has been
countries have all kinds of problems similar to the u.s.. but, it s one of the things, mehdi, in the conference it out to me it gets to the heart of what you re saying is what the. , sheriffs ed. the status quo is not working. he said that california has some of the toughest colors in the country. country, but that the status quo was simply not working and i think that really cuts to the heart of the situation. yeah, as we have ayman, it s important to note that they re, time and time again saying there is no longer on his a threat at this conversations but we fall short every time. the time and we keep suspect connected to seeing more and more this mass shooting has mass been shootings. we are identified, as going to continue the 72-year-old conversation, thank you so-year-old huu can tran much for all of, your coverage. over the so i want to past come our. we want to continue backtrack a bit. and talk about that right now by how we got to this going point. they back were
in right now. and this country, right now, god forbid if your child or to die under the age of 18, it would be mostly because of gun violence. and that s just unacceptable. it s a policy failure, we need to color leaders on that. our movement, march for our lives called diaz back in 2018. we need to continue to call bs on this issue. and it s completely unfortunate that we re having this massive loss of life, and we said it before, there s no other major country in the world that has this type of problem. this is the reason i decided to run for congress. tell us why, i know you ve only been in congress for a short time, why is nothing changing. you just heard from law enforcement official whose briefing the public. that the status quo is not working. this is a front line law enforcement official. who has to deal with the consequences of the lack of action that you are describing. and has not been solved in this country. he s standing there in front of
changing. you just heard from law enforcement official whose briefing the public. that the status quo is not working. this is a front line law enforcement official. who has to deal with the consequences of the lack of action that you are describing. and has not been solved in this country. he s standing there in front of a broken community, a country that s watching. that s yet, somehow it s not getting done, why is this not getting done time and time again? what s your understanding of why our policymakers continue to fail this country on this issue? i think there s many reasons, the one that rings true, the one that sticks out for me after being in this fight for over a decade now, is that it has to do with folks who value, profits over people. and i know a lot of folks talk about the nra all the time, we need to because the nra doesn t care about every day gun owners, they care about gun manufacturers it s not an advocacy group it s a lobbying front to make more money for the gu