about half firearms. about half of all u.s. households have at least lea one gun at home, and many have. much more than that. plus, they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers, butg they are hardly an argument forn gun control. they re an argument, in fact, against ask yourself what would it require to confiscate allmmuo those guns and all that ammunition in turn, the united states into disarmed nation like turkmenistan or north korea? wellrea., it would take a police state and it would end in civil war. nono sam sane person wants eithr one of those things. but thankfully, we don t neehinn the fact that so manyirearm americans have a firearm withi n reach but never commit violence that gtbe that guns are no the problem. just as we can this country can be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can be trusted with cars and light aircraft t in andand electricity, basebaw and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shearsct and countless other objec
place on monday in nashville.ers the killer was a twenty eight year old female transgender iste who shot her way into a christian elementary school and murdered three ninede year olds and three adults. why did she do that?o th in a rational country? that is the very first fir question we would ask in our country. it s the last question.. in fact, often it s never askedse rare n at all on those rare occasions when somebods wheny finally man to wonder out loud about motive, our leaders immediately. start lying, which should tell you a lot. state here s the attorney general of the united states yesterdayit . i realize that the shooter is dead, but the shooter could have had collaborators. do you plan on opening a hate crime investigation? for the targeting of christians? the fbi and atf are bothscen, on the scene working with thel i local police. as of now,ce motive hasn t been
shooter. allowing for him to be apprehended. police say he is now being treated at a local hospital. the fbi is on the scene working in conjunction with local authorities as they are still investigating a motive. joining me now is nbc news correspondent emily acadia who s been closely following this story. jonathan, we re learning new details about the timeline and the suspects behind this deadly awful shooting. officers within two minutes of officers arriving at club queue were told that they were able to take the suspect into custody. such a swift response in large part because of efforts according to police from some of the customers inside the club. we re told that a 22-year-old man, the suspect, entered club q and immediately started shooting as he made his way through the club at least two patrons confronted and fought with the suspect. preventing him from causing even more harm in colorado springs. club q overnight releasing a statement on facebook saying in
to dispatch? this has been 12, one to victims. it s critical. 12, 12, 12 victims. you are just listening to the chilling police dispatches. we are back and following the breaking news out of colorado springs, where a violent shooting spree overnight at club q, an lgbtq nightclub has left at least five people dead and 18 injured. colorado governor jared paulus, the first out gay governor in the united states released a statement this morning saying quote, colorado stands with our lgbtq community, and everyone impacted by this tragedy as we mourn together. the fbi is on the scene working in conjunction with local authorities. they are still investigating a motive. we turn now to los angeles, where angelenos are celebrating
the country. this is a city of some 800,000 people, and this is a transit hub for millions of ukrainians as they try to get out of this country safely so that the population here has swelled. people consider themselves relatively safe here. they were out on the streets today en masse, you know, shop, eating, and i saw a wedding party getting photographed today a couple of hours before what you are seeing there, the airstrike on that fuel storage facility, and the smoke rising from it before the sunset, and the firefighters were on the scene working feverishly to put out the blaze. again, this is coming a short time before president biden gave his speech in warsaw, and just over the border saying to vladimir putin, don t dare touch an inch of nato territory and the president harkened back to history, and one thing they want to point out is that history is not the past for the people of ukraine. not at all. you don t have to go back to