get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. other fashions pale in comparison when it comes to gun violence. another shooting, another angry young man. w
attack. las vegas the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history. get down! get down! orlando three tense horrifying hours. hands up! it was unimaginable. all units. newtown 27 people lost their lives. 20 of them young children. a mass shooting at a fourth of july parade. a shooting in highland park, illinois. why? why? those horrific events and so many others like them have come to define the united states. the most recent figures show that every day on average more than 100 people are killed with a gun in america. in total, there were over 19,000 gun murders and 24,000 gun suicides in 2020. compared to other rich countries america s gun violence is on another planet. the united states has eight times as many gun homicides per 100,000 people as canada, 50 times as many as germany and 100 times as many as the uk. these countries all face the same challenges with mental health. they all have the violent video games. but other nations pale in comp
we ll read from that new piece. so much different legal angles are percolating with the jan. 6 and other issues with the election. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, july 8th. with us, the host of way too early and politico s jonathan lemire. associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and we begin with the breaking news. former japanese prime minister shinzo abe is dead after being shot twice this morning. officials is say abe was campaigning for a candidate ahead of japan s upcoming house of counselors elections, where he was shot from behind, once in the back and the other in the neck, with what appeared to be a homemade gun. this happened in the city of nara, about 20 miles southeast of osaka. the chaos from the shooting and the subsequent takedown of the man police say carried out the attack was all caught on camera. and we warn you, some of this video may be incredibly disturbing. [ speaking foreign language ] abe was immediately
giant. plus, weeks after the supreme court s ruling on abortion, is it still a top story in key states? we will speak with top editors in texas and georgia about that anymore and later, what is the fine line between informing and overwhelming you? we will talk about that with melissa, coming up, but first, how to decipher debates about disinformation. one of the dominant stories of our time, is a dramatic drift toward a choose your own reality , people are swimming or perhaps drowning in a sea of information, some of it straight up disinformation. meaning something that is made up, on purpose, designed to deceive you. disinformation is a real thing. a real problem. but it is almost impossible to have a conversation about it. this quote from the ap explains why, as trust breaks down polarization and anxiety increases, creating opportunities for people pushing their own alternative facts. in the case of disinformation, the term, the real throwing the real thing, that term has
i understand. it does. but we have so much to get to. and this incredibly tragic news out of highland park, illinois. we learned more about the victims. a toddler is without both of his parents this morning after reportedly being rescued from beneath his father s body. meanwhile the suspect is formally charged and due in court today as new information about his past raises questions about how he was able to legally purchase firearms. and new developments in the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. as senator lindsey graham and donald trump s former lawyer rudy giuliani get hit with subpoenas. and the date has been set for the next hearing into the january 6 attack on the capitol. we ll have the latest on all of that. but first, willie, so much, so much tragedy over the july 4th weekend. yeah. and we ve got new details this morning, mika. the suspect in the july 4th massacre in highland park, illinois, a fourth of july parade has