hello, everyone, and good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. it s happened again. we are waking up to the tragic realities of gun violence in this country. eight people are dead, seven injured over a mass shooting at an outlet mall in allen, texas. some of the scenes we saw captured on video, we warn you they are hard to watch. . you can hear the rapid fire there and see shoppers and employees scrambling into storage areas, they hid when they heard the gunshots. witnesses say some people sheltered in place for up to two hours as law enforcement cleared the sprawling area. my mom and i were in johnson and murphy s shopping and heard about ten pops go off. i look at the customer next to me. i was like, was that gunshots? and he was like, no, it s probably just construction or something and heard 10, 15 more shots go off. so i ran to the front of the store. we are like, no, that s shooting. we see the guy. he is dressed in all blac
we saw this in club q, there was engagement with the shooter. all of these are different. the fact that you are asking me this question means that we have a tolerance for this, which we shouldn t, and we are going to have to learn to adapt. but mostly, get guns that kill this quickly off the streets and out of the hands of people who walk into shopping malls and he knew exactly what he was to go. you saw those pictures. there is no alternative plan for him than to kill a lot of people. yeah. i think we are going to have more of this conversation, juliette, because if lawmakers are not going to do anything and it s unlikely on the federal level and certainly in texas at the state level it s unlikely there will be legislative change, what are we to do? what are the businesses to do? we talked about soft targets and does it make sense, is it feasible to fortify these places? we will get into more of that. juliette, stay with us because we will have much more. obviously, on the analysi
thak this weaponry for what it is, weapons of mass destruction, and treat them not as games. and if we can change the culture in some ways, because i do believe most gun owners are into responsible gun culture. what we see online is just a sliver of it. but that s the piece that gets radicalization, that gets people who may have other issues like mental illness radicalized or thinking that guns are simply the only solution. and so i do remain optimistic that there are things we can do. one is i see the polling. two, i see what we call generation lockdown. i mean, i see how kids who have grown up because we have not been able to do anything prioritize gun safety much more so than older generations. i hear you on seeing the polling, but, juliette, as you know, that has been the polling since sandy hook and this
basic information at this stage simply because it s part of the narrative every couple of days in texas right now. this is the second time i have been on in five days about a texas mass shooting alone. yeah. it s interesting that i was our website this morning and there is a little box on the side that said new details about the texas mass shooter and it was the last texas mass shooter because a few days we were covering this, a man went and shot the neighbors. can t keep up. there are so many happening. juliette, on the question of the re-releasing of information, you say there is no reason that will would be holding back these now. there is no practical reason for an investigation of any type to know if this person was maybe we don t use the word radicalized in this context of domestic shooter, but maybe it happens, there would be a reason
an allen police officer at the mall for anon related call. investigators believe that the shooter was acting alone. juliette kai em is back us with. if you are keeping tally, there been 200 mass shootings this year. we are not even 200 days into the year. i think like 120 some days in the year. i was doing the math. we were talking about this before the break. i mean, how do we learn to live with this? because this is america for you. yes. obviously, there is the defensive measures making self-targets soft targets less response, frtraining for response, training people not just about run, hide fight, and this is horrible, but stop the bleed, tourniquets, victims of gun violence. those are defects, those are sort of accepting something bad is going to happen because to a certain extent we are stuck on