shoo shootings. near a shelter for migrants sunday, and the day before, eight people were killed in a mass shooting at an outlet mall on the other side of the state. investigators are looking at whether the gunman was motivated by far-right extremism. an image of the shooter s body shows him wearing all black tactical gear and he had a patch on his clothing with the letters, rwds, which police believe stands for right wing death squad. he also apparently had a lot of neo-nazi and white supremacist social media posts. we re now hearing from a survivor who hid inside a bathroom closet with 12 other people. the gunshots, just, it sounded like a war zone. if it was horrifying and it felt like you were in a dream. like, just shock, but we were in a bathroom closet. and we were just in the closet trying not to be heard, crying, praying, people were trying to call 911. we couldn t dial out. i just remembered thinking, oh, god, he s coming in here next. and when i was crouching d
i don t know the circumstances. but that s part of it. and the response to the nashville shooting, the governor of tennessee has called for state action. that s right. and look at what rick scott did in florida after the parkland shootings there. you talk about states, so let s end on your state. the cdc data shows that louisiana had the second highest firearm mortality rate by state as 2021. 21.9%. over 1,300 firearm deaths in your state. do you want to see more done on this in your state? absolutely. and in the uvalde response bill, we created funds for the states, such as mine, to have more resources to enforce restraining orders, for example. the husband, who s estranged who walks in and kills his family. now, he s already got a restrainrestrain i i order. there s resources in that bill to address that. by the way, i ll point out, the administration was slow to put