ports so explosives, several items that could be used to create additional weapons. authorities doctor arranged for a mental health evaluation for that boy. joining us now to talk about the shooting in tulsa is democratic oklahoma state representative melissa pravenzano. thank you so much for being with us. can you give us the latest if there have been any updates since last night? certainly. thank you for having me. first i want to express my profound sorrow to the families of the victims here in tulsa. i can t imagine what it would be like to be in that situation, as well as sincere thanks to our tulsa police, the highway patrol, the county officers and our first responders, they got the call and three minutes later they were in that building and we just couldn t have asked for more. so far, you know what i know at this point. we are still just taking a look and seeing, they have not released the names of the victims and we re just kind of waiting with bated breath. i
it is notable where you are seeing so much gun imagery. john avlon with a reality check. you know the onion headline, right, no way to prevent this as the only nation where this regularly happens. it cuts to the heart of our bloody american exceptionalism when it comes to guns. how did we get here? well, we don t blink at the fact that we had more mass shootings than days so far this year, where the mass shooting last night at a hospital in tulsa, which killed at least four people, is the 20th mass shooting in america since the slaughter of 19 school kids in uvalde, texas, just over one week ago. this isn t about the second amendment, it is not about self-defense and it isn t going to be fixed by thoughts and prayers. we all know on some level the stalemate is because of our politics and culture, gun politics, gun culture. take a look at our political ads. because they have been increasingly gone gun nuts. this is a frog in a boiling pot of water problem. the ads are local, so it can