of american voices, live from texas, begins now. today, a push for accountability in this tight-knit community. until tuesday, uvalde was a quiet town where everybody knows your name, now the scene of america s latest mass shooting. around town, you will see uvalde strong signs hanging outside businesses and homes. families working to make sense of what happened, coming together to draw messages of hope on sidewalks with chalk on ministry. it is clear that the 21 lives lost here will never be forgotten. outside i take care, 21 chair sit outside to honor the 19 kids and two teachers taken from this town far too soon. live stolen from senseless violence. the daycares honors, like most uvalde, you many the students and watch them grow up over the years. we are learning more about their lives, their unforgettable personalities behind each face, big plans for the future. rodriguez had big dreams of becoming a marine biologist. she planned to study at texas a&m. her mom said that s
kids and two teachers taken from this town far too soon. live stolen from senseless violence. the daycares honors, like most uvalde, you many the students and watch them grow up over the years. we are learning more about their lives, their unforgettable personalities behind each face, big plans for the future. rodriguez had big dreams of becoming a marine biologist. she planned to study at texas a&m. her mom said that she was carrying and cold driven. her classmate lexi rubio wanted to become a lawyer. her family said that she loved learning about feminism and played volleyball in middle school. as we honor the victims, we are struggling to understand how a gun man was able to get inside or school in the first place, and why the gunman was allowed to stay inside for as long as he did. it is a question at the forefront in today s new york times. the editorial board examining the police response, writing, quote, 17 minutes elapsed after the gunmen walk inside before police, bel
inside the classroom, including repeated calls from a child begging them to send the police. those officers had been training for years for just such an attack. yet when the moment came, all that preparation did nothing to stop a gunman wielding and assault rifle in a school full of children. we will get into all of it tonight, including the missteps by police directly refute the mainstream messaging that we have heard over and over again, from republicans and the nra since the tragedy unfolded. we are talking about the gop good guys with guns argument, now dismantled. there is no doubt that we need to do more to keep children in school safe. we know from past experience that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus. the reality is how horrible as what happened, it could have been worse. the reason it was not worse is
the police response, writing, quote, 17 minutes elapsed after the gunmen walk inside before police, believing there was no kids at risk, finally confronted him. meanwhile, 9-1-1 dispatchers received several calls from inside the classroom, including repeated calls from a child begging them to send the police. those officers had been training for years for just such an attack. yet when the moment came, all that preparation did nothing to stop a gunman wielding and assault rifle in a school full of children. we will get into all of it tonight, including the missteps by police directly refute the mainstream messaging that we have heard over and over again, from republicans and the nra since the tragedy unfolded. we are talking about the gop good guys with guns argument, now dismantled. there is no doubt that we need to do more to keep children in school safe. we know from past experience that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed
and they track 600 russia-linked accounts to tell us what they re up to on any given day. over the last few days, they ve been tweeting relentlessly about this florida school shooting. now, often, these russia-linked accounts track an alt right agenda but in this case they appear to be on both sides of the issue tweeting both in favor of and against gun control. one expert tells us what they re trying to do here is sow division and discord and capitalize on a fault line in american politics. the other thing they do is tweet mainstream messaging and subtly eject russian propaganda. russia is taking advantage of american social media to meddle in american politics and there seems to be very little that either these companies or the u.s. government is able to do about it, ayman. you can imagine with how politicized the gun debate is in this country, it would not be hard to weigh in on the divisions that exist. ken dilanian live for us in washington, d.c. breaking with a longtime