don t die thank you for joining us this hour. i m a myth muddiness. 1 am on the east coast, midnight in uvalde, texas, where a mass shooting at an elementary school has left 19 children and two teachers dead, as well as a shooter. several more people are injured. that makes it the deadliest school shootings since the attack on sandy hook elementary school in connecticut, a decade ago, were 20 we are the only nation in the world that has so many school shootings, that we have to rank them by body count over years and decades. let that sink in. like today shooting, the sandy hook massacre in 2012 happened at a elementary school, and in the aftermath, there was such collective national horror what had happened, that it really seemed, for a moment, like something might change. that we might actually do something. we ve gotten so used to being in this country that it is hard to remember now, but there was this genuine sense that something had finally snapped. with 21st graders
the students that survived that attack rally the country in ways we had never seen before. the kids, many of them, too young to vote, or to buy a gun themselves, visited congress. they organized protests, pressed officials on national tv. they literally created a movement, and the moment, the parkland moment. they tried very hard to achieve change in this country. yet again, congress failed them. there is a person that kept on pushing. even today, his name is manual oliver. he s the cofounder of change the an organization dedicated to raising awareness about mass shootings and reducing the influence of that are a in gun manufacturers in american politics. it s a tough job, he knows that. but he can t stop. he says, his was killed in parkland. joaquin was a great writer. he was an athlete, he loved music. his friends walden he was murdered on valentine s