with gunshots going off. and the trauma this entire ordeal is leaving on such young children. their parents and a nation wishing to wipe away the pain. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start today with an absolutely devastating admission about the school shooting in uvalde, texas. for the benefit of hindsight, where i m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. it was the wrong decision, period. that statement coming from the thead of the texas departmet of safety. he said officers on the scene should have breached the classroom door immediately. he said the commander on scene decided no more children were at risk. and they allowed the shooter to stay inside the classroom for more than an hour, despite the fact that kids inside the room were calling 911 and begging for police to help. what efforts were the officers making to try and break through either that door or another door to get inside that classroom? none at that
challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues, but there will be committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws which will be passed in the state of texas, because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get passed to make our communities and schools safer. go ahead. [ inaudible question ] . let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks, if everyone wants to seize upon a particular strategy, and just assume, well, that s the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy whatsoever, because the killer took the gun from
i think that they should have secured that door. are you saying your brother went inside and stayed inside and did not retreat as some have suggested? right. they did not retreat until the shooter was down. they were in there the entire time. a bit of hindsight where i m sitting now, another it was a right decision. there s no ex-use for that. again, i wasn t there. i m telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. when there s an active shooter, the rules change. neil: the rules didn t change that fateful day this week when 19 students were gunned down and two adults with them. welcome. i m neil cavuto, this is your world. piecing together these days after a school attack. growing questions as to what authorities could have done. even the top most of those authorities acknowledging mistakes were made and in the heat of the moment, they lost the opportunity to seize and correct the moment. now questions from families w
that address the challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues. there will be a committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws that will be passed in the state of texas because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here and talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get past to make our communities and schools safer. [overlapping voices] universal background checks. [inaudible] governor abbott: let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks. if everyone wants to seize on a particular strategy and assume that is the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy w
neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. he ll be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass shootings only seemed to happen in this country. cruz s decision to appear at the nra convention just days after 19 of his youngest constituents and two other teachers were murdered, chose how the hard line stance on guns has become so deeply embedded in the gop. even as the nra is weaker than ever consumed by scandals and lawsuits. as the washington post quotes, nearly a decade ago the massacre of 20 children and six adults through the politics of gun violence into a state of suspension for a f