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good to be with you, i m katy tur, as chris jansing just said, we are waiting for police in louisville, kentucky, to update us on the latest mass shooting four dead and nine are wounded at the old national bank sources tell nbc news the shooter is believed to be a current or former employee of the bank it was unclear how the shooter died the question is what does or does not happen now? kentucky is a split state. it has two republican senators, rand paul and mitch mcconnell, who sent tweets offering a version of thoughts and prayers. while its governor is a democrat, a democrat who is now not just professionally affected by gun violence, but personally. here is governor andy beshear in front of the bank this morning. this is awful i have a very close friend that didn t make it today and i have another close friend who didn t either, and one who s at the hospital who i hope is going to make it through joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ....
And i have another close friend who didn t either, and one who s at the hospital who i hope is going to make it through joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken derilanian. there s a lot to talk about as we await this news conference. first i want to get to the gun laws in kentucky, and what you can tell us about how you can get a gun there and what can lead to what we talked about today. they re about as loose as it can be, no red flag law, if you re legally authorized under federal law to purchase a weapon, and you re over 21, you can carry a concealed weapon without a license or a permit, and recently, just a few weeks ago the republican-controlled legislature passed a second amendment protection style law we re seeing this around red states that makes it a crime for state officials to cooperate with federal officials in enforcing certain federal gun ....