that was a tacit admission these mat shootings are happening everywhere, the schools, the sin dogs and the grocery stores. it is so frustrating we don t even know what to call it when we are trying to respond. that worries me, and the numbers show it. we have seen a 50% spike as you have noted previously, nicolle, in active shooter events just this year, year over year. what is my one note of optimism on this? this feels different. after buffalo, after rob elementary, this feels different. at the top of the segment you showed what the nba is doing. you showed what people are doing on shows like jimmy kimmel. the reaction used to be after a mass shooting, don t politicize it. now the reaction i think importantly is different. it is politicized the hell out of this. why? because it is a political solution that is needed. politicians coming together to pass a law. so the response should not be, let s not politicize this.
fourth grader, you see a garcia was also killed, according to his aunt. evil morale is, a fourth grade teacher it rob elementary was also shot and killed, while trying to protect her students. as of today, the school is closed for the year. robb elementary school it s fairly small, it has fewer than 600 about 90% of the students are latino. a sign hanging from the school reads both welcome and ben vinnie those. the school sits at a town of only 15,000 residents, and uvalde is about 80 miles west of san antonio, a 90 minute drive from the major urban city. uvalde is even closer to the mexican border, 70 miles away from their. democrat from texas, who lives nearby describes you volley as a quote wonderful, tight-knit community. there s also a town where one third of the residents to live at, or barely above the poverty line.