it s whack-a-mole on every slaughter, every time children get slaughtered. it s whack-a-mole. they have another excuse about why they re too weak to do anything to save our children. i was in the obama white house the day of the newtown shooting. i actually work in a gun control group 20 years ago and always thought, what will it take for america? it ll take small children being killed in a schoolroom, and that ll make the difference. newtown happened, and congress did not do anything, even with the democratic president pushing them. at that moment, you thought, this could happen anywhere. if it can happen in a first grade classroom, it could happen anywhere. five years ago today, parkland happens. i thought, it s not just that it could happen anywhere. it is going to happen everywhere. i mean, 67 shootings this year? it s february 14th.
child, 18 years of age, was able to walk in on his birthday to a gun shop and buy two assault weapons, two rifles, two of them. not one, two. he used one of those weapons to kill 21 people in the schoolroom. we have a united states congress where people come and appear before various committees, including yesterday, and they look into the eyes of members of congress elected to help people, and they tell them, my daughter is dead. but there are other children in this country who need your help. we need your help. what does steve scalise and many republicans, almost all of the republicans do? they shrug their shoulders and say, sorry, but we have to protect your guns first. we have to protect weapons
one teacher describes the tense moments in her schoolroom after spotting the gunman outside her class window. i just kept hearing shots fired and i kept praying, god, please don t let him come in my room. please don t let him come in this room. and for some reason, he didn t. abc news obtained a portion of video that appears to be audio from a 911 operator relaying information from a child inside the classroom. we have a child online. the child is advising he s in the room full of victims. questions remain focused tonight on the police response. the texas department of public safety director says it was the school district police chief, pete arredondo, who made the decision not to breach the classrooms earlier. arredondo, who hasn t been seen publicly since the shooting, is facing harsh criticism and a department of justice review for what officers didn t do. as kids inside the school
tuesday s massacre. we represent you first and foremost, father god. looking for answers into uvalde school principal pete arrendondo s decision to not confront the shooter for 40 minutes. while students and teachers inside the schoolroom called 91. of course it is not a right decision. it is a wrong decision, period, there is no execution for that. reports the suspect threatened raiches and schoolngi shoo platform. yubo responded, we cannot publicly share details on an individual user s data at this time. we re also hearing from the shooter s mother. i have no words. i have no words to say, because i don t know what he was thinking. angelica john and their 10-year-old jacob garcia came
smearing the blood of classmates on their bodies, playing dead so a gunman with an ar-15 won t kill them, too. poor little girl. you know, all of those children who we just heard from, willie, traumatized beyond belief. that little girl is going to go home with incredibly complicated, terrified feelings. how these kids go back into a schoolroom come the fall, i just don t know. i mean, they re going to have their own grief with their friends they ve lost. that little girl who said she knew all of them. her friends are gone. you know, her little group of friends have gone. they re all dealing with extraordinary levels of trauma. of course, the families with all of those questions. tom, one of the one of the things i don t know if you know it yet, is how frequently do they have active shooter drills in those police communities? when was the last one? because i imagine this is preparation that needs to be done regularly for it to be effective. it doesn t sound like it was effective in