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and get your friends out, too. that s tappy lightner. in this case with a couple of students at marjory stoneman douglas high school today during the shooting. tonight i m joined with a long list of tragic school shootings. columbine, virginia tech, sandy hook as well as a community college in rose berg, oregon. i m joined by matt bennett, co-founder of third way and the founder and director of americans for gun safety. anita cume mar from mclatchy and everyone what, do you think? i think the first question you expect any legislation to result from you this? probably not. i work very closely with the sandy hook promise families a month after the tragedy when they came down here. what i told them now and the case today, the likelihood is that congress won t do anything. there s been two moments in all of history where congress has taken action against guns. one was 196 after the
community college in rose berg, oregon. as i said just a few months ago, and i said a few months before that, and i said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. it s not enough. it does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. and it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in america. next week. or a couple months from now. somehow this has become routine. the reporting is routine. my response here at this podium ends up being routine. the conversation and the
city will forever carry a trace of gun smoke and death. by the way, sunday s carnage on the las vegas strip was the precise two-year anniversary, though i know that s not the right word for it, for a mass shooting in rose berg, oregon. a 26-year-old killed eight fellow students and a professor at the local community college. ironically, although that minot be the right word, this is where presidential land date robert kennedy spoke ten days before he himself was shot and killed. despite the local sheriff s warning about hostile demonstrate there s day, or more like because of it, bobby wanted to talk to the people of rose berg about gun control. i describe in my book that comes out this month, he stood before a crowd of united states hundreds in this lumberjack town and spoke of the outlandish case of a guy on death row in kansas, a murderer who killed a half dozen people who had sent away to chicago for a mail order