in mourning. vigils are under way and families are making funeral arrangements. a makeshift memorial with flowers and balloons is growing outside robb elementary school. u.s. president joe biden will travel to texas soon to visit the families of the victims. we must ask when in god s name will we do what needs to be done to if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of carnage that goes on in this country? to state the obvious like a lot of other people here i m sick and tired. i m just sick and tired of what s going on and continues to go on. and former friend says the gunman, salvador ramos, had a history of fighting as seen here in a video obtained by cnn. investigators say he was inside the school for 40 minutes to an hour barricaded inside two adjoining classrooms before he was shot and killed by a border patrol agent. more now on the investigation from cnn s ed lavandera. i m going to shoot an elementary school. reporter: that was one of the chill
And what the Biden Administration is actually doing. On its face a hearing this week with Donald Trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows revolved around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problem facing the former president hooch he wants to move his case from state to federal court, but what we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning has implications far beyond a potential Change Of Venue for his trial. In addition to giving us the first sense of what the argument may be from one of trumps other coconspirators of which there are many, the testimony was also another Flashing Warning Sign of what a second trump term could look like. I mean, lets zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. He argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of Election Fraud, the Pressure Campaign on georgia officials to find votes, the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power, he say
unfortunately, this is dumb is not set up for overnight wholesale change. i wish it was. it is more than one post, more than one policy, more than one protest. it is the unglamorous, heavy lifting of grassroots activism. we have passed over 500 good laws in this country, in the last decade. we have stopped henry s agenda state houses, for the last a year, but just in the last two weeks, we have passed sweeping gun reform legislation and what have been purple spates like minnesota and colorado and washington, including assault weapons bans. we are making progress. however, there are some gun extremists who have a hold over legislatures, federal and state. and we have to show them that there are consequences for inaction. there have been three mass shootings in the last two weeks in texas and there have been more mass shootings in this country this year than there have been days of the year, we have a 25 times higher gun
the country and gun homicides in the state of texas have gone up 90% in the last decade. when will the guns make us safer? the answer is never. and lawmakers know that. they want to debate prayers, they want to debate mental illness, they want to debate evil. the reality is that we are giving citizens unfettered access to arsenals and ammunition and that is why we have a 25 times higher gun homicide rate than any peer nation. it is the guns. and the question i have is, at what point does tourism get affected? i don t know how anybody would feel comfortable walking through a mall in the state of texas or virginia or louisiana or mississippi. i wouldn t. it s at this point not safe, right, to go out. you can t be in your home because they ll bust in there as well. i want to show you for a moment, this is an ad by tate reeds, this is the ad he put out. this is his launch ad. this is him cause playing as