we know what works on this. it includes let s have an assault weapons ban. vice president made the remarks before attending the funeral for one of the mass shooting victims in buffalo just a day before president biden travels to texas to mourn the lives of 19 children and two teachers in uvalde, texas. there s growing outrage in that town about the police response at the shooting. that the police chief chose to wait to confront the gunman, a devastating explanation that shatters the narrative of a quick response. i was misled. i am livlivid. those who deserve explanations are the families whose lives have been destroyed. they need answers that are accurate, and it is inexcusable that they may have suffered from any inaccurate information whatsoever. for about 80 minutes, students and teachers in two classrooms sat helpless, tewhil the gunman was telling them they were going to die. calls were from young children begging to send the police now. the entire time the police
you want to do, then sandy hook happened and i cared. high school was bad enough. now this. when students are shooting students, you know, that s not understandable, it s not forgivable, but how can somebody look at a nine-year-old and shoot them in the face? how can somebody do that? how can somebody have the capability to do that? it angers me beyond comprehension, and i have a lot of displaced anger right now, don, i really do. it s just displaced so i should shut up, but it s just going to keep happening unless we do something, and i mean we, because the guys and women we have elected aren t getting anywhere. we as a people have to stand up and say, okay, son, okay, daughter, you re not okay. you are not okay. thank you. thank you. are you okay? i will be. better than these parents, that s for damn sure. thank you. thank you. thanks, kim. appreciate that. so there are major questions tonight about the police response to the elementary school shooting here
evacuating students and teachers from other parts of the school. even negotiating with the suspect. but they didn t have enough information on his exact location for an immediate take down. video from the school from outside the school meantime shows parents screaming at police to storm the school. the wall street journal talked to one parent who says she was put in handcuffs. police tackled another parent and threw them to the ground. and a third was pepper sprayed. police insist their actions inside the school did save lives. the american people need to understand that officers are making entry into the building. they do not know where the gunman is. they re hearing gunshots, they re receiving gunshots. at that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where this suspect was at, they could have been shot. they could have been killed. at that point that gunman would have the opportunity to kill other people inside the school. video posted oen facebook shows the
teachers were slaughtered. they took no action to get into those classrooms as they waited for more equipment. we pressed for more of an explanation, and the response was devastating. listen. reporter: sir, you have people who are alive, children who are calling 9-1-1 saying please, send the please. they are alive in that classroom. there are lives that are at risk. that s not protocol, is it? we re well aware of that. reporter: right, but why was this decision made not to go in and rescue these children? again, the on scene commander considered a barricaded subject, that there was time and there were no more children at risk. reporter: and what time was that? based upon the information we have, there were children in the classroom that were at risk, and it was, in fact, still an active shooter situation, and not a barricaded subject. reporter: right. sir, if i can follow up. reporter: what can you tell parents who were asking to go in? there was 19. like i
neverending tide of gun violence. the annual convention of the nra kicked off today in houston. the keynote speaker is the arguably the most president voice of the republican party, the twice-impeached ex-president. greg abbot pulled out of an in-person appearance to return to uvalde. he ll be holding a press conference there in a few minutes, but back at the nra stage there will also be a speech from senator ted cruz who recently stormed off when he was asked by a reporter why mass shootings only seemed to happen in this country. cruz s decision to appear at the nra convention just days after 19 of his youngest constituents and two other teachers were murdered, chose how the hard line stance on guns has become so deeply embedded in the gop. even as the nra is weaker than ever consumed by scandals and lawsuits. as the washington post quotes, nearly a decade ago the massacre of 20 children and six adults through the politics of gun violence into a state of suspension for a f