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American Voices With Alicia Menendez

backpacks for our kids they want to have classrooms that are bulletproof or have safe rooms within classroom so that if you do hear the alarm or the alert, you immediately run into the safe room they will spend billions and billions, if not trillions of dollars, on reinforcing our schools to make them like bonkers and make them the front lines of a war zone. but they don't to do anything about the guns. >> before i was a politician, i was a medical -- middle school teacher. i was in the classroom when the sandy hook shooting occurred. i remember thinking after that horrific massacre what i would have to do, as a teacher, if a gunman walked into my classroom. no teacher in the united states should have to be thinking about that as they're trying to teach our kids. like i said before, they are not an outlier, as a country, and school security. we are not an outlier in the number of doors that go into a school.

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in uvalde if they make that choice. the only reason we are living with these recurring nightmares is because our politicians have made the choice that the status quo is acceptable. we have to get them to make a different choice. >> congresswoman donna edwards, thanks so much for making time. press secretary -- james talarico, please stick around, we will talk to you again shortly. we just want to reset because it is the top of the hour. to any of our viewers who may be joining us right, now as i mentioned, it's 10 pm eastern, 9 pm in allen, texas. you're seeing a live picture there, the city of allen texas. we are expecting a briefing to get underway. good evening, everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin in new york. we are continuing to follow the breaking news of a mass shooting in allen, texas. as we await the briefing from local officials which we expect to begin at any moment now, here's what we know so far at this hour. police say they received reports of an active shooter just after 3:30 pm local time.

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vanessa gilmore for the southern district of texas. judge gilmour, thank you so much for joining us. let me get you the bases -- time speaking in hearing from you this evening. let me get your take about the briefing that we heard, perhaps unanswered questions, perhaps your big takeaway on another tragic day in the state of texas. >> right, i'm joining you right now actually from dallas, texas. on about 20 miles away from where the shooting occurred. one of the things that we know is that there are already a number of federal laws that address issues involving people who should not be owners of gantz. we can't sell guns to people that we know under federal law are mentally ill, undocumented persons aren't allowed to have guns. people that have previously been convicted of felonies on ability to own guns. i think that this is an issue that we have to take a twofold approach to. one side of the aisle wants to address mental illness, the other side wants to address gun

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mile from where the shooting took place. this community is home for us, and our hearts are devastated and broken tonight to no law enforcement official -- no elected official ever imagines or plans to, or hopes to, speak in front of a press conference like this. we but here we are, and we are resolute in our commitment to pray for praying and believing for the victims and their families. there are a lot of people in our community tonight who are hurting, whose lives have been shattered. and who are -- who need and deserve our collective prayers and they have them. tonight, people of faith around our community are mainstream to the families.

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and enough itself is pretty telling. i think you can convey a message of sympathy and say, this was a mass shooting that was carried out by a weapon. perhaps the journalist in me is that they didn't want that to be mentioned. they don't want -- because i know where the conversation is going to go. that if you are a mass murder, if you are a shooter, who is able to kill seven or eight people and injured several more, while you were being engaged by a police officer, according to the police, you probably had a pretty sophisticated weapon of war and not just a handgun or pistol. >> yeah, they don't want to mention gun -- go ahead. >> go ahead, doctor hunters go ahead. >> they don't want to talk about the fact that it was a gun or the shooting. there is a shooting at my workplace's weekly email we got from our later was, they called it a gun discharge, because they don't wanna talk about a shooting.

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tragedy to know that we will wrap our arms around you. we are here for you. the city of allen pledges to offer complete support we know you are grieving. we are grieving. rest assured, the nation and the world are also grieving. allen is a proud and safe city, which makes today's senseless act of violence even more shocking. however, i want to commend our police and fire departments for their quick response, they're thorough training not to hesitate to move toward the threat likely saved more lives today than what we could imagine. we also want to think long forsman surrounding municipalities and law enforcement agencies for offering their assistance at the scene. this collective effort is what makes our north texas communities united. we know the days ahead will be difficult and somber. while remembering the victims of today shooting, we want to

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conversation dr. any andrews and texas state representative james talarico, joining us as well as vanessa gilmour former united states district judge for the southern district of texas. judge gilmour thank you so much for joining us. let me get you on the basis since this is our first time speaking and hearing from you, let me get your take on both the briefing that we heard perhaps unanswered questions or perhaps your big takeaway on another tragic day in the state of texas. >> right, i'm joining you right now from dallas texas i'm about 20 miles away from where the shooting occurred, one of the things that we know is that there are already a number of federal laws that address issues involving people who should not be owners of guns, we can't sell guns to people we

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this was a mass shooting that was carried out by a weapon. perhaps the journalist in me is that they didn't want that to be mentioned. they don't want -- because they know where the conversation is going to go, that if you are a mass murderer, if you are a shooter, who is able to kill seven or eight people and injured several more, while you are being engaged by a police officer, according to the police, you probably had a pretty sophisticated weapon of war and not just a handgun or a pistol. >> yeah, they don't want to mention gun -- go ahead. >> go ahead, doctor andrews, go ahead. >> they don't talk about the fact that it was a, gun or shooting there was a shooting at my workplace this week. the email that i got, they called it a gun discharged. they don't call it a shooting. that is insulting to all of us. this is a crisis, gun violence is now a leading death of

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run into the safe room. there say -- they will spend billions and billions, if not trillions of dollars, to reinforce our schools a bunkers and make them like the front lines of a war zone, but they don't want to do anything about the guns. >> before i was a politician, i was a middle school teacher, and i was in the classroom when the sandy hook shooting occurred. i remember thinking after the horrific massacre, what i would have to do as a teacher if a gunman walked into my classroom. no teacher in the united states should have to think about that, that they are trying to teach our kids. like i said before, we are not an outlier as a country. in school security. we are not an outlier in the number of doors that go into a school. we are an outlier and the amount of weapons to vote for people to purchase very easily, and until we address that, never going to keep our students safe. i agree with you, it seems like the next step is going to be picking a moat with alligators

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information earlier. >> that's a very fair point. dr. andrews, i want to get your thoughts on something we discussed earlier on in our coverage and that was a few hours ago as the tragedy was coming into light and we are getting more clarity on it, when you think of how prevalent mass shootings are in this country, almost a shooting a day now, millions and millions of afghans are living in a state of fear about where we are going to go, what time, i'm sure we all at some point have walked around a mall or movie theater looked over shoulders just kind of scope the place out or case the place out and thinking we're not gonna run, what happens if something like this happens, you have these conversations with your kids know about the mass shootings at schools and active shooters. i'm wondering if you could talk about what kind of psychological toll this is taking on us as a country on our children, on our families, on our communities. >> we are traumatized, we are not name we are traumatized

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