were in this park. we don t know if there are any witnesses but unlike the situation in alabama where officials say there is a active threat to the community in this instance, we don t kno that there were any suspects o they don t know the idea you re getting at the suspect may still be at large. i want you to hear for what we heard from local leaders there again, this is a community tha had to deal with a mas shooting on monday is dealing with the shooting now and one thing you continue to hear from multiple official there is that this gun violenc is something that thei community faces every single day. listen to what we heard from the mayor. this is not our city. this is not who we are this is not who we want to be. we as a community must com together and take action we must continue to support on another. we must continue to tell our friends, our family. our law enforcement. when people are struggling when we think people have guns that shouldn t have guns
stage at the nra convention. that is the reason we can t have new gun laws we can t have newlands they ve been passing new gun laws they have been doing just that because of the laws they are passing making gun violenc more likely, we are having wha you just described, katie, which is more violence i schools. for, and i got less than minute, but i want you to be able to and on a note for my viewers about what can be done we talk often, you and i, of a common sense gun legislation the majority of american actually don t want to hav looser gun laws. they want tighter and better restrictions what can be done to actually help finally turn the corner i this instance? we know what works so let s do it! i will give you an example tennessee governor bill le sadly it took him being touche by gun violence. that was his friend who died i that school, okay?
goal we do not need to be auctionin off illegal guns and confiscated guns and putting them back on the street to kee our officers safe. we have funds to do that through other means. you live with the rippl effects of what happened i your city. you know these people. could you speak to those rippl effects, you saw a picture of couple of the victims, a young woman who just moved back to louisville, and we saw a fathe who was now dead with two smal children, and his wife, we saw that picture the ripple effect of those people, those survivors wh will never ever get over wha happened yesterday the impact from gun violenc is enormous. it impacts the families an loved ones, as we were talking about, it impacts our entire community. and whether it is a mass shooting that happened earlier this week in the oval, o whether it is an individua targeted shooting that happens on another street corner somewhere else in our city o in the city, the impacts of gu
state, city, federal, i woul simply ask you to do something which is what we have been doing is not working according to the gu violence in our archives, ther have been 137 mass shootings this year. look at the calendar there it is only april a new poll from the kaiser family foundation says this. 54% of u.s. adults hav personally - been affected by gun violenc and nearly one in five hav lost a family member to guns just think about that. now, let s bring in our dear colleagues and get smarter wit the help of our lead off panel tonight. my friend and tony hilton is here, msnbc correspondent. senior vice president at the think tank - guns hefty has been a focu over his career and he currently serves as the vice chair of sandy - cofounder of the lincoln project, he has worked on number of gop campaign including jon mccabe, an
it is not teachers making kids liberal, it is the fact that republicans have failed to protect an entire generation and kids live in constant fear of being slaughtered in thei schools. i wonder what action do yo want your state lawmakers an your federal lawmakers to take to better protect your community and your generation. and listen it, is a few year between being a young person who is in school and being m and having kids who you ar sending into those schools it is a blip in your life an change has to happen very fast in order to close that gap what is it you want to see formula makers absolutely. we have known that gun violenc has been the leading cause o death for the young people - for years now, and we ve bee calling for this it is breaker than just school shootings, which absolutel galvanized a nation and it i something we all are afraid of but it is every day gu violence that is killing you kids to. so just like you said, i impacts every single community member and every sin