Protesting at the capitol after the covenant school shooting in nashville. you were trying to rally support for gun reform. we see this representative. it happened after uvalde, after other communities have suffered mass shootings. you see this ground swell of support. there is a movement that perhaps may crop up. and you may see some legislation kind of on the margins address this issue. and then it dies back down until the next mass shooting. how do you break out of that pattern? it seems as tow we saw this with parkland as well. the parkland shooting happened. there was a huge ground swell that came up out of gen-z. and then it dies back down. how do you sustain that momentum so you can see some changes that you re talking about? we re seeing this in our state. people are sick and tired. i want to say, do not accept thoughts and prayers from one of these politicians in florida who have passed this proliferation
Is condemning what happened, sending his couldndolences to t victims and the community of jacksonville and calling the shooter in this case, a scum bag. watch. i was able to speak with sheriff t.k. waters in jacksonville about the horrific shooting that took place. this shooting based on the manifesto that they discovered from the scum bag that did this was racially motivated. he was targeting people based on their race. that is totally unacceptable. this guy killed himself, rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions. so he took coward s way out. but we condemn what happened in the strongest possible terms. we ve offered support for sheriff waters and the city of jacksonville and we send our condolences to the victims and their families who are the victim of a very cowardly act.
Something to investigate to see if there s a larger apparatus that promoted this. that s a very good point. how do you as a law enforcement official deal with that? it seems like we re not doing enough. from a law enforcement perspective. penetrating some of these organizations. and getting out some of these hate groups where they can give birth to these maniacs. we re not doing enough on a lot of fronts. let me go back to another one. we re here now talking about this. it is a racially there s not a day that goes by where we don t have people losing their lives in neighborhoods. they may not make the network news, it s not a mass shooting. it s one person here or one person there. the gun violence in our country is out of control.
Three people were killed before the gunman turned the gun on himself. he is described as a white man in his early 20s. adding the swastikas on the guns, the shooting is being investigated as a hate crime. joining us now, tennessee state representative justin jones. he was expelled and reinstated from the state house for his outspoken protests in favor of gun reform laws in the wake of that mass shooting at a private school in nashville. representative jones, thank you very much for joining us. i know we ll talk about your efforts to get gun reform in the state of tennessee. unfortunately, and this is not really a surprise, i suppose. we re learning about another mass shooting, this time in florida. it is in jacksonville. you heard the horrific details that we re all learning about. what is your sporns? what is your response? i ve heard my republican colleagues tell us, there is no issue of gun violence. to be honest, i m frustrated.
it is just chilling that today is the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. this water shed moment that was for the fight for equal rights and also the fifth anniversary to the date of a mass shooting that happened in jacksonville. today, we re seeing and hearing from a black sheriff, sheriff t.k. waters, describing these manifestos that were found per the shooter that has not been identify. several manifestos intended to go to his parents, to the media and the sheriff s agency. can sheriff said it included the n word multiple times. he said the writing made it very clear it was racially motivated. plus the victims, three of them, were all black. he calls the shooter a maniac, that he targeted a certain group of people, black people. no surprise that the fbi has opened a hate crime investigation, and is investigating this as a hate