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captions by vitac www.vitac.com it is just after 9:00 p.m. eastern time, 8:00 here in uvalde, texas, outside robb elementary school. the community held a prayer vigil tonight. i want to play you video that occurred a moment ago as people there listened to amazing grace. [ crying ] a community in mourning. we ve spoken with parents of some of the young children killed here. most of them ten years old. and told some of their stories. there s so much we still don t know. we don t know the names of all the 19 children who were murdered here. we ll try to bring them to you as we learn them. there is still so much we don t know about what happened behind me inside this school and outside, as the shooter first got on the scene. we don t know, we re not going to speculate. so, we begin the hour with what we do know and cnn s ed lavandera. ed, so, there is, as i said, a lot we don t know. talk a little bit about where the investigation is. one of the key thing ....
21? you know, i hope so. i think there s a lot of opeople that don t understand the gun laws from the perspective of this. in america, you have to be 21 to buy a hand gun and 18 in most states. there s basically no federal minimum of 21 for long rifles. so, you can when the law was made, you can understand, long rifles weren t ar-15s at the time because they kept the age at 18. you have to be 21 we just federally raised the age to 21 to buy cigarettes, by the way. when you tack a look at this shooting, the shooting before it, there s an epidemic of young men between the ages of 18 and 21 that are doing these kinds of things. i think one of the easiest things we can do to begin to do something is to say you ve got to be 21 to buy a rifle in this country. you ve got to be 21 to buy cigarettes. we need universal background checks. we need red flag laws with teeth. these are things that we can do to have that discussion move forward. ....