perpetuated on the country for 30 years that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun was a gun industry fiction created to sell more weapons. there was one teenager with a military style assault weapon. there were multiple trained law enforcement officer outside. not just with high-powered weapons, but body armor and shields. if one teenager with a high powered weapon is so scary as to prevent all those highly trained adults from going in and saving lives, maybe we should try to stop the teenagers from having those guns in the first place. clearly, we can never have enough good guys with guns to stop an assailant if we couldn t get the job done in uvalde. you have been meeting with parents from uvalde and highland park this week. what can you tell them about
in other words, he had come to their attention before. exactly. that s exactly the thing we will want to know a lot more about. the deputy chief did say that they were not aware of any of the violent postings that he had made on various social media channels. he said that there was evidence that crimo pre-planned the attack for several weeks. he said he fired 70 rounds. 30 people have been injured. the high-powered rifle is similar to an ar-15. that s a military style assault weapon. earlier, jim kavanaugh said it could have been an ar-15. they mentioned police identified him by looking at his image in a photo. it suggests a good deal of familiarity with this person. it s not surprising. it s a small town. he had facial tattoos. he was known for riding around on a scooter and blasting loud
it. he is in the pocket of the nra. so, when you think about who would want to have a military style assault weapon, what is the point of them for anything other than killing? hunters do not use them to kill bambi, right? no hunter is going to go out and use a gun like that. what is the point of having them but for to kill? these weapons are meant for two things, target practice and killing people. let s be very clear. the federal government needs to create an assault weapons ban. in the alternative, the very least the texas senate can do is have age limits, restrictions on access, waiting periods, red flag laws, and set up your own a texas sized etf where we do extensive background checks. we have the money to do it. we just do not have the
weapon that our members of the military train for years on to use appropriately and safely. this individual should never be eligible for buying a military style assault weapon that with a clip from canada could kill ten people within one minute. that s the challenge here. we had a law enforcement retired law enforcement officer as the security guard. he was able to fight back, and police were on the scene within one minute. but despite all that, because of the weapon he had, he was able to kill ten people so quickly. we need to ban those military style assault weapons. i have lots more questions on that, but there are a couple other topics we need to get to. one of them, today, the senate veterans affairs committee is announcing a bipartisan agreement to provide care to veterans who were exposed in afghanistan and iraq to toxic burn pits you and republican senator marco rubio have been working together, out in front of this for a long time. how will this bill impact the
carrying concealed gun so they could walk into the top grocery store with a concealed weapon and use it, or walk into a bar at night. that is what we re monitoring and watching and truly hoping doesn t happen. in terms of what happened with this case yesterday, in buffalo, it was a gun it was an ar-15, a low magazine capacity. it doesn t have high capacity capabilities. that s illegal in new york. but what this person did, and too many people are doing this, they went to another state like pennsylvania ten minutes from the perpetrators home. going to pennsylvania and buying this capacity magazine that allowed 30 shots from one magazine. you buy, that you added to the gun, and now you have a military style assault weapon, which is absolutely illegal in our state. governor, well i have, you i would like to thank you again for relaying national action networks i m we would pick up funeral costs for those who lost their lives