it s important for history to talk about who he is, but i commend you for doing that. my heart is hurting. everyone i spoke to today, their heart is hurting, and they feel helpless. i m going to talk to the audience about that in just a little bit. but we ve seen this all too often. yeah. you know, anybody at home can probably remember the names of the killers in columbine but not necessarily the people the names of people who lost their lives. i feel like that s the case for a lot of mass killings in this country. we all focus on the shooter, and people learn that person s name, and they want that. they want that kind of attention. i think it s important to report on them and their motivation and everything about them. but i just don t think we should give them that kind of extended coverage. and to call listen, we have to call it what it is. that s our job without fear or favor. but also i was sitting writing the opening to my show tonight, and you again inspired me
social media now. i think that technology has moved so quickly that people can t keep control of it, right? it just keeps going faster and faster and faster. law enforcement and even the people who run the companies, it s tough for them to do it. but we have to figure it out, anderson. we ve got to figure it out. every night, you and i will keep talking about it as long as it happens and calling it what it is, bringing attention to it. thanks, anderson. thanks. i appreciate your words. i ll see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight. look, we do this so much, right? then everybody sort of tiptoes around. what do you say about it? they don t want to, like, upset people or hurt someone s feeling or calling them left or right. the right doesn t want you to call them racist. let s call it what it is, and let s talk about who s actually perpetrating this. who s actually responsible for this? there s no other way to put this or to look at this shooting story except that it is awful