delaney, there s news today about sheriff s deputies an ryaning at the scene and not entering. it s a little unclear what happened. maybe as many as three who did not go in. the school resource officer who didn t engage. a lot of people make the argument this shows this was a failure of law enforcement and the family sis on guns and access 0 guns is misplaced. i wanted your reaction to that. well, it is somewhat his heartening to see another situation in which things went wrong. focusing so much on every other failure besides the main issue here, the gun issue, it almost uses a scapegoat so we don t have to have that conversation about common sense gun reform because he s a person, too. and using him as a scapegoat seems almost unfair in a way. huh. that s really interesting to come from you because there s lots of condemnation being hurled at this individual by
people who weren t there. you, of course, were. that s how you feel. i actually did discuss with my one of my teachers recently this morning actually. we talked about how we sometimes forget that the people in these situations, the good guys with guns are humans. i think him running into that building, he would have ultimately, he would have probably died. and i think that is probably a thing we have to take into consideration. i m by no means forgiving him. it is something to consider in a situation like this. governor, rick scott and the florida legislature who delaney has been lobbying and talking to made a real big break today. what do you make of that? long overdue. the reality is we had another tragic mass killing in florida not so long ago in orlando, a place i have visited. where was the reaction to that? you know, i understand the governor has his own political agenda, one of which is to
called for. for more i want to turn to delaney tarr, a student at marjorie stoneman douglas high school and who rearranged her baby-sitting schedule to join us tonight and dannel malloy of connecticut co-founder of the states for gun control coalition. delaney, there s news today about sheriff s deputies arriving at the scene and not erpting. it s a little unclear what happened. maybe as many as three who did not go in. the school resource officer who didn t engage. a lot of people make the argument this shows this was a failure of law enforcement and and the emphasis on access to guns is missplaced and i want to get your reaction to that. well, it is somewhat his heartening to see another situation in which things went wrong. focusing so much on every other failure besides the main issue
our fellow human beings in this country before we wake up to changing our culture. by the way, on changing our culture, this is what those wonderful students are doing. there s a great difference between the young people we lost at sandy hook and the young people experienced this death in their presence. and this is an unbelievably powerful movement about changing our culture. we should not be about killing one another. we should not be you know, distributing these weapons the way we do. delaney, let me ask you that. are you able to speak for yourself and to your own experience. when you re in tallahassee and talking to lawmakers about this issue, what are those interactions like? the interactions honestly, in the beginning we were having a hard time actually getting to communicating with a legislator. once we started getting to meet with them, they were relatively helpful. they gave us a sense of reality and told us the things we needed
powerful movement about changing our culture. we should not be about killing one another. we should not be you know, distributing these weapons the way we do. delaney, let me ask you that. are you able to speak for yourself and to your own experience. when you re in tallahassee and talking to lawmakers about this issue, what are those interactions like? the interactions honestly, in the beginning we were having a hard time actually getting to communicate with a legislate tore. once we started getting to meet with them, they were relatively helpful. they gave us a sense of reality and told us the things we needed to do, the things we were doing we could have improved upon. they told us the things we had facing us in the coming days and weeks and months. and ultimately, getting all of that advice did help us. we still know and we have realized since then this is a student-led movement. this is about the teens of america coming together for this. this is not necessarily about us