and more than 200 are wounded by them. and that s why it is a quintessentially american habit to wake up practically every morning to the news of yet another tragic mass shooting, like in texas, where a man decided to murder five people including a 9-year-old boy, after they asked him to keep his shooting down so that a baby could sleep. more than 250 law enforcement officers are looking for the gunman who is considered armed and dangerous. the manhunt currently has zero leads. the u.s. gun homicide rate is 26 times that of other high income countries. 26 times. that gun violence exceptionalism is not a good thing. what are we doing about it? nothing. or that s what texas senator john cornyn told us the last time a mass murderer shot three babies and three adults in tennessee. republican priorities are so out of whack, the northeast independent school district in texas has proposed canceling sex education, but the texas house is proposing legislation that would insure schools have
safer, we would be the safest in the world. we have a 26 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation. nation. it is easy access to guns.d u)j yet we see these gun extremists celebrating this culture of gun violence and gun deaths. the good news is we have elections again around the corner. theu our voices and our votes, we can effect change just like we passed the first federal legislation in a generation las■ year, but it will take everyone: i m 3%9 listening to this, text the word ask to 64433, and get off the sidelines. if gun violence hasn t come to your community, it will. according t the kaiser family foundation, guns are the american kids. shannon watts, thank you very much. and we re staying with the
things about these shootings are the same. they tend to have been young white men between 18 and 30. there haven t been many women. there clearly obviously haven t been many trans women. this is rare, but we re starting to see it broaden out. asian americans, african americans, it s so scattered that it can happen anywhere anytime, but once again, it s happened in a school. your thoughts. well, look, this is sadly the logical outcome of 400 million guns in this country and very few gun laws. if guns made us safer, we would be the safest country in the world. instead, we have a 26 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation, and if we look at the state of tennessee where this happened, this is a state that has had every single chance to strengthen gun laws and they have done the opposite. in fact, 2021, governor lee signed permless carry, a law that allows people to carry
country where this is happening, and it s why we have a 25 times higher gun homicide rate than any other nation. this is not how we should be living. we don t have to die like this. we should not have to live like this. that s why i started moms demand action, getting off the sideline and using voices and votes to change policy, statehouse, all the way up to congress, and we are doing that. but unfortunately, we are all only as safe as the closest state with the weakest gun laws. i live in california. i m in arizona today with hundreds of moms demand action volunteers demanding that lawmakers pass stronger gun laws because those are the guns that go into california. so it s all intertwined. i would don t this every day as a full-time volunteer for decade if we weren t winning, but at the same time, we need every single american to use their voice and vote on this issue. we really have come to this crisis situation where it requires everyone to demand
thinks laws will stop fentanyl death and will stop abortion, but somehow won t stop gun violence. and we simply know that isn t true. you can t be soft on guns and tough on crime. and voters showed republicans that at the polls. gun safety was one of the top three issues for voters in this country. but the reality is the data shows gun laws work. when we look at states with stronger gun laws there s less gun deaths. when we look at states with weaker gun laws. there s more death. that s pretty intuitive, yet we continue to hear that gun manufacturer rhetoric that somehow more guns and fewer laws are going to make us safer. and if that were true, with 400 million guns and very few laws in this country, we would be the safest country in the world. instead, we have a 25 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation. i mean, and look, i brought receipts, the wonderful producers here got receipts for you to back up what you said. 6 out of 10 states with the least gun violence deaths