keep them together, which is why he called me and why he had already been in touch with parents in parkland to try to figure out how to move forward and learning that you cannot. never fully. i told him, i cannot imagine what you are going through right now. while watching news coverage of the shooting that left 19 children dead, i heard people say the same thing i cannot imagine what these parents are going through right now. why do we say that? because it feels selfish to try to put ourselves in their experience. it feels proper to keep a distance, to give them space and time to grieve. but what if that is the problem? what if an attempt to be polite makes it far too easy to distance ourselves, to not feel their pain? and to keep it abstract and reduce the urgency of the issue?
out. representative turner, governor abbott is going to have a second attempt at a press conference in uvalde, tomorrow. would you like to ask him? when are you going to do something? three years ago, we demanded after the el paso shooting that left 23 people dead in a walmart that the governor call a special legislative section, work with democrats and republicans to pass common sense legislation. he did nothing. he waited for the moment to pass and moved on. so, when is he going to do something? when they see going to show some leadership? that is what i would ask. senator mcmorrow, what was it like for you to have one of these incidents so close to home in oxford michigan? for the past 48 hours since seeing what happened in texas, i ve been texting back and forth with a constituent of mine, a teacher at oxford who lost one of her kids. and it is just devastating. i lost someone i grew up with in the virginia tech shooting. the more people i mean to share this experience, thi
but he felt he had to try to keep them together, which is why he called me and why he had already been in touch with parents in parkland to try to figure out how to move forward and learning that you cannot. never fully. i told him, i cannot imagine what you are going through right now. as washington news coverage of the shooting that left 19 children dead, i heard either say the same thing i can other managing with these parents are going through right now. why do we say that? because it feels selfish to try to put ourselves in their experience. it feels proper to keep a distance, to give them space and time to grieve. but what if that is the problem? what if an attempt to be polite makes it far too easy to distance ourselves, to not feel their pain? and to keep it abstract and reduce the urgency of the issue? you have been called to this moment to do something. do not say that it is impossible. don t say that we cannot do
the cop barged into that classroom. the guy shot at the cop. and the cops started shooting. now, if that account is accurate and terrifying. if it s accurate, it raises the possibility that at least one officer may have unwittingly revealed the hiding place of a victim. but that that is far from the only question about protocol. all as families faced absolute agonizing torture. being held back by police with some parents even pleading to let them go inside themselves. now, what i m going to show you is hard to watch, but it s the reality of what happened. [ screaming ] [ bleep ] [ bleep ].
for an hour. greg abbott, and the republican elected officials, at that news conference, including a local mayor, and it is a simple, clean the story of a couple of good guys, stopping the bad guy with a gun. they need that, because that story is the republican policy for dealing with school shootings. that make sure that american mass murders of the best equipped mass murderers in the world. then, second, when one of those well equipped mass murderers, with an ar-15 shows up at a public school, the good guy with a badge, standing, presumably, is going with a bank card, and will pull out a handgun, immediately, shooting, and killing, the mass murderer who is alive at the school. that mass murderer is going to arrive with body armor now, we know that. everything is wrong with that republican plan. everything. republicans have extended their plan to include the idea that the two teachers who were shot, and killed in their classroom