Armed Sros News Today

hi, thank you for joining me. im jessica dean in for fredricka whitfield. im joined by dana bash in uvalde, texas. president biden there to meet with the grieving community. dana, tell us what youre seeing there. >> reporter: well, president biden and first lady jill biden are here today. hes playing a role that he has played so many times before, comforting families following an unspeakable tragedy. right now the president and first lady are meeting with families at a community center...

♪ again you can see senator ted cruz there at the memorial. you can hear the emotion in that room and, obviously, right there you can see family members wee weeping. >> when we come tonight, we come with broken hearts. we come in disbelief and we come with pain and anguish. >> reporter: the pain here in uvalde being felt all over the country. 21 people killed in this attack. 19 of them young children. 17 others injured and it comes ten days after the max shooting in buffalo. cnn has ...

minutes of terror. officials say the gunman who murdered 19 children and two teachers was inside the uvalde, texas elementary school for 40 minutes if not longer. during that time, he murdered 21 innocent people. the families of the children you see on your screen, torn apart in a matter of seconds. their parents, brothers and sisters, friends, will never see them again. yesterdays attack has brought the number of shootings to four or more in the united states to 213 incidents this yea...

In another building and sitting there. no way. >> in texas, armed sros traded shots with a gunman and helped force him to surrender, but ten people were killed. at red lake high in minnesota, an unarmed guard confronted a shooter only to be shot and killed himself. nine died there. so in texas the attorney general wants more than just officers. >> we can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly because the reality is we dont have the resources to...

>> the only thupg that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> reporter: now up to an estimated 20,000 armed school resource officers, sros, are on duarte, paid for by close to $1 billion from state and local governments, hoping to stop violent attacks. but the justice policy institutes mark schindler says, there is a problem. >> listen, im a parent of high school kids. if there was evidence to show that school police officers would make their schools safer, i would be all for it...

Guilty because he did nothing wrong. >> reporter: scott peterson faces charges for his inaction. he says he just didnt know where the gunman was. >> there is no what i in hell that i would sit there aallow those kids to die in another building and sit there and no way. >> reporter: at santa fe high in texas armed sros traded shots with a gunman and helped force him to surrender, but ten people were killed. at red lake high in mince minneapolis, an unarmed shooter shot and killed himself. nine di...

Early on. 1,400 kids in that school. 20 or so hurt or killed. is that a sign that it worked on some level, having the armed sros in there? >> sure. and chris, recently, weve reported on that in cnn, in illinois, there was another case where a police officer responded immediately interdicted a subject. this is a complex topic. and taking the politics out of it. and obviously, where folks retreat to their intransient positions on the gun reform side. from law enforcement, were looking agent it fro...