hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york and we begin today as we have done so many times, too many times, on this show with a crisis that is uniquely ours, uniquely american. today our country witnessed the 129th mass shooting of this year alone, this one, like so many these days, took place at a school. three young students and three staff members were killed today. they were killed at covenant school a private school in nashville, tennessee, after a shooter walked in and opened fire. after law enforcement engaged with the suspect, the shooter was killed, according to law enforcement. the shooter was a 28-year-old woman. at this hour not much more is known about a potential motive but it is worth noting at the top here how rare this particular specific situation is involving the shooter. according secret service there were only five female shooters out of 173 attacks from 2016 to 2020. in washington, d.c., president joe biden has been made aware of the shooting called it s
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about freedom when dealing with parents who don t have the freedom to know their kids will be safe. i remember being on the air when uvalde happened. i called on some of the same friends standing by to cover today s tragic school shooting at covenant and i asked a lot of elected officials about all the kids who starting at 3 to prepare for mass shootings at their schools and the active shooter drills change as you go from 3 and 4 where you re hiding from a bad guy to 5 and 6 where you have a little more sense it could be someone with a weapon to 7 and 8 when you re helping other classmates and moved into closets by teachers to 9, 10, 11 hang on to your phone to is send the texts that become imprinted in every mom and dad s brains, sometimes the last messages from their children. what is it like to be a kid in tennessee right now and train
assault-style weapons and one handgun. some of those weapons were obtained legally. maps were drawn of the school and a plan of attack. he also mentioned some manifestos and writings and other things that we would be gaining access to soon. very forthcoming in terms of what they know now and what they know but aren t quite ready to release. right. so we had just discussed, you and i, right prior to the press conference don t be surprised if we find out that these weapons were legally purchased. and the spokesperson said at least two of them were lawfully purchased. what does that tell us? it s not so much an enforcement problem we re dealing with. she may have complied perfectly with the laws. but rather it s a gun problem. it s a gun problem, as state senator gutierrez said. we ve got to get our hands around this. and if it s incremental change and we re taking baby steps, understand while we re taking baby steps babies will be killed
shooter, the killer, thinking about how clinging to hate, we cling to it because we don t want to deal with our pain and it can make us monstrous. i m also thinking about what john said. and i think our brokenness explains our policy failures. and i ve got three things that come to mind, nicolle. greed, unbridled greed that overruns any notion of the public good. gun manufacturers. i m thinking about selfishness. don t take away my guns even though these families are losing their babies, even though people are being shot with bump stocks and weapons of war, i still have the right to my gun. to be damned you re dead, selfishness. selfishness. the second. the third, indifference. well, it s not my baby. i m safe where i am. and so when you combine greed, selfishness and indifference, democracy cannot survive. we re broken. and so we have to address the