shot in the back by a masked gunman while he sat on a bench outside a rec center taken together, all of these incidents plus the recent shootings of ralph yarl, kaylin gi gillis, and payton washington paint a horrifying picture of a nation grappling with a toxic mixture of hate and anger and a population increasingly armed to the teeth. >> we are becoming a heavily armed nation so fearful and angry and hair trigger anxious that gun murders are now just the way in which we work out our frustrations this is a dystopia, and i'm here to tell you that it's a dystopia that we've chosen for ourselves. >> senator murphy will join me in just a few minutes. but first i'm joined by jackie mundry with wcsh in maine, nbc's maggie vespa is covering the latest out of liberty, missouri.
and eddie glaude jr. joins me as well, princeton university professor, and an msnbc political analyst. i want to start with what senator murphy just said, it's not just guns. it's the way we treat each other, the way we see each other that's contributing to this. is that a through line you see with all of these incidents? >> absolutely. our understanding of the common good has fractured we don't have one, i think we're all kind of siloed there are those who fall within the sphere of our moral concern, and there are those who have been completely othered. and then you add to that mixture -- and i think the dystopian, i think that's the right word that senator murphy used, that dystopian reality, you add that just the proliferation of guns and you get this horror. you get this terror it seems to me. >> jackie multiple crime scenes in maine, allegedly perpetrated by one man and the 165th mass shooting this year alone in this country. what can you tell us about what happened there where you are