Violence is the leading cause of death for children. and now, gun violence has come for our places of worship, our schools, and our shopping centers. jacksonville sheriff kiké waters said at a news conference a short time ago, a white man in his twenties, used a glock handgun and a ar-15 semiautomatic rifle in the attack. at least one of the fire in seven painted with a swastika. according to the sheriff, the shooter left behind writings that have led investigators to believe he may have been inspired by a shooting that took place exactly five years ago in jacksonville, when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in the city, killing two people, before fatally shooting himself. get nfl sunday ticket from youtubetv on us. a $449 value. plus, get a free samsung galaxy z flip5. only on verizon.
Speaker called out the dire threat, the scourge of gun violence in this country, shortly before the attacks to place hundreds of miles away. we must end gun violence! we feel the pain of living in a country, where gun violence is the leading cause of death for children. and now, gun violence has come for our places of worship, our schools, and our shopping centers. jacksonville sheriff kiké waters said at a news conference a short time ago, a white man in his twenties, used a glock handgun and a ar-15 semiautomatic rifle in the attack. at least one of the fire in seven painted with a swastika. according to the sheriff, the shooter left behind writings that have led investigators to believe he may have been inspired by a shooting that took place exactly five years ago in jacksonville, when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in the city, killing two people, before fatally shooting
To do is look at all facets of this. what are local communities doing, why are our school board members being? targeted we need to make sure that we are putting people in elected office who are using emotional telegrams to make decisions, and not some aspirational to a higher office. we ve got work to do, but if we sit there and take our heels in the, sand and go to our corners, absolutely nothing gets done. so, it s coming from the highest offices, but these are seeds that implanted not by now, seats have been planned for a while. but now we see what happens, when those seeds bear fruit. you know and, let s talk about the gunman. we will not be using his name on this program today. but the gunman in the shooting appears to have purchased his weapons legally. he did have a criminal record, he was held on the baker act for 72 hours, for mental evaluation back in 2017. now the sheriff says even though his racist manifesto
Centers. jacksonville sheriff kiké waters said at a news conference a short time ago, a white man in his twenties, used a glock handgun and a ar-15 semiautomatic rifle in the attack. at least one of the fire in seven painted with a swastika. according to the sheriff, the shooter left behind writings that have led investigators to believe he may have been inspired by a shooting that took place exactly five years ago in jacksonville, when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in the city, killing two people, before fatally shooting himself. we re gonna have more from florida at the top of the hour, don t go anywhere.
Quite frankly, the diary of a mad man. he was, i mean, he was just completely irrational. but, what these when they were rational thoughts, he knew what he was doing. in this situation in this case, there was nothing saying, there is nothing illegal about him owning firearms. police had already confirmed that the attack was, quote, racially motivated, with the sheriff added that the shooter quote, hated black people. racially motivated. this is a turn you ve probably heard before. racially-motivated is a loaded term, folks, a word salad. we need to be clear about what happened. this was a racist attack. so i propose we replace the phrase racially motivated with the word, racist. because this is a clear, more accurate description. today, another community is reeling from racist violence. the people in this community, they are hurting.