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
guns in the suburbs. run on guns. run on military-style weaponry, slaughtering our children sitting in classrooms. and, you know, we like to talk about the culture wars of the republicans. they want to go after drag shows. we want to go after high-capacity magazines that are designed for only one purpose, to kill as many people on a battlefield as possible in a short a period of time as possible. we have no reason allowing anyone to buy a high-capacity magazine without frankly at all. they should be banned along with the assault-style weapons. so run on guns, especially in suburban areas. i think there has been a fear for so long in purple and red states that you can t talk about guns, that you can t run on that. this is our culture issue.
for active shooting that maybe feels more real after this shooting at covenant? the parents in that room were trying to figure out how they were going to talk to their other children and their surviving children about what they had been through, and the situation that you just described is just so sad. it s just so unfortunate that our kids are kind of growing up in this culture of terror. what do you want people watching to keep in mind as the community takes months and years to heal from what happened today? i want people to actually put their energy into making sure their elected officials are committed to common sense gun reforms. that s the only thing that is going to change this. you know, i m not against the second amendment, but we can certainly do something about the fact that the wrong people are getting ahold of guns.
kids would not be dead had there not been a gun involved. our friend and a regular on our show shannon watts tweeted this out and caught our attention, this is the tennessee member of congress who represents nashville, his name is congressman andy ogles, republican, this was his family christmas card. it feels like the district is represented by someone who isn t just an advocate for access to guns but fetishizes them. what is it like for that community to be represented by someone like that today? having spent most of the past year running for congress against andy ogles, i am i can corroborate that he is somebody who very much supports our gun culture in tennessee. look, you know, it s ann issue about freedom, but i can tell you right now, that it s not
even among gun owners, it s overwhelming he warned them we re going to lose the suburbs if we don t start doing something on guns and then personally voted for it. that was unthinkable. so that s the road to victory is continuing to peel off those people and frankly, we need republican voters, we need conservative voters in gun states, they are the key to put the most pressure on their senators and congress people. claire, i would love your thoughts as a former senator on everything dave is saying about the politics shifting in the last 12 to 24 months as well as a mom and grandma today. yeah. first of all, you can win in red states, in purple states advocating gun safety. nra came after me in every election and yes, i was defeated in my last election, but i won a lot of elections going toe to toe with the nra. second thing is, nicole, run on