this pattern. you know the kids, everybody said yeah, i knew the kid. he was a bad kid. in this situation, we re talking about a plough some of his social media footprint does have social connections to gun groups. nothing more nefarious than that. the lieutenant governor talked about the solutions in the early going here. what did they do now? governor abbott mentioned monday they ll have a roundtable to bring in both sides of the aisle to get some con common sense solutions. the governor talked about a 17-year-old that has been named dimitrois pagourtzis that walked into santa fe high school. he walked in with a rifle, a 38
bomb. pagourtzis walked into art class and said surprise and opened fire. texas governor greg abbott says damning evidence was found inside the teen s home. watch. the shooter had information contained in journals on his computer and cell phone that he said that not only did he want to commit the shooting but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting. as you probably know, he gave himself up and admitted at the time that he didn t have the courage to commit the suicide that he wanted to take his own life earlier. but in the run-up to the shooting there were few if any alarm bells indicating dimitrios pagourtzis posed a threat. social media account included pictures of guns and interest in gun groups and nazi symbol and a born to kill t-shirt that might look ominous in hindsight there were no apparent threats, vendettas or signs of mental instability. some classmates say he may
chronicle picked that up and ran it. they are focused on his social media footprint. that is the ston dard operating procedure standard operating procedure of the day. when this happens you focus on the social media footprint because it s so accessible and so telling. in this case, what is telling in the early hours we had this name a few hours ago and we started to scour like detectives would do his social media page. it s unusual that the facebook page was taken down. it was taken down 25 or 30 minutes after the shooting. the facebook page was gone. his instagram page, you find he was following gun groups and he wasn t a prolific poster on social media but he haddictures of weapons on the instagram page. it was filled with other people s comments so he wasn t posting a lot of stuff but we
rick: good question. i guess we ll find out. thanthank you for being with us. these young people say they will continue to make sure their voices are heard. so we ll keep hearing from them. thank you both. significant changes expected at the national security council as john bolton is set to replace h.r. mcmaster as the president s national security advisor and more on the massive anti-gun rallies sweeping the country today. how pro gun groups are reacting to the movement. we ll ask a director of campusreform.org about that next. everyone wants the same exact thing. we re all getting together to march for it and, i mean, i was told there was going to be a bunch of people but this is just seeing it is insane.
and ask them questions about themselves. yeah. do we still know whether the messages were coming from bots or people? we think people, right? we think it is people that were actually doing the direct outreach. right. the specifity of it around these particular events is, i think, very interesting and shows some sophistication. the messaging that was involved was sort of lacking in terms of how they were able to cajole people into doing this. you d be better at that. i d be better at that? that s what we re getting, right? they were able to target people and identify events, do all these things but, in the end, could they close the deal? could they get you to print something out and go to the rally? alli thinks i m a closer. gideon, thank you for that. if you thought the nra was bad for gun control, we re going to blow your mind. next, we are breaking down other gun groups, some with millions of members, and some even with more extreme views than the nra.