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mourning, beset by grief after the massacre that left 19 children and 2 teachers dead at an elementary school. amid the devastation were also seeing an outpouring of support for the community. on saturday, you see them there, a long line of mourners waited to lay flowers at a memorial site that was set up outside the robb elementary school. 21 empty chairs placed outside a local business. one, of course, for each life lost during tuesdays deadly rampage. as the community and the nation...

and we do begin in uvalde, texas, a community still very much in mourning beset by grief after a massacre that left 19 students and two teachers dead. you see them there, a long line of mourners laying flowers at a memorial set up outside robb elementary school. outrage is growing over why a group of law enforcement officers waited so long to rush the gunman. >> we have seen a mix of emotions, anger, frustration and disappointment after that 911 call timeline became more clear. but fol...

the wrong decision. not my words but the description from the director of public safety. he said the officers responding made a serious mistake and not immediately going into the classroom where a gunman killed 19 kids and two teachers tuesday. this is coming after extraordinary briefing that provided more clarity about the time line but raised a lot more questions, many more questions. we learned teacher propped open the door. the killer would later enter. the school safety officer re...

Norms from the firearm-owning community around safe storage, around identifying people who are at risk of gun misuse. listen. 45% of americans are firearm owners. we have to make sure that firearm owners are part of the solution, or else whatever we do is not going to work. >> this is a tough question. youre on the front lines of this, but one thing everyone wants is to avoid the politicization. how is that done? have you had any success in doing that? >> to a certain extent there are people who...

We we have done for covid we are doomed to continue the see gun deaths rise. we can pass policy and we should. there are some policies that are tremendously affected but i does not fix a health problem. we covid. we also need community-level, structural change, involvement of trusted messengers and addressing the very real aftereffects of the bullets that have already been fired. lastly, we need to include the voices of firearm owners. listen, almost 40% of americans have a firearm in the home. ...