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support. we appreciate that. i will turn it over to congressman keith self. >> thank you, chief. first and foremost, we need to keep the families impacted by this tragedy in our prayers. we will never know how many lives were saved by the swift actions of our first responders. what we do know is that we owe a debt of gratitude to first responders that ran toward the gunfire and acted swiftly to neutralize the threat. i will be followed by state representative jeff leech. >> i'm state representative jeff leech from house district state 67 and resident of allen. my family and i reside about a mile from where the shooting took place. this community is home for us, and our hearts are

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identified, even mentioning the gun to the public, i think in itself is telling. i think that you can convey a message of sympathy and say that this was a mass shooting that was carried out by a weapon. perhaps the journalist in me is that they did not 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 murder, 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, he probably at a pretty sophisticated weapon of war and not just a handgun or pistol. >> yeah, they don't want to mention -- >> go ahead, doctor andrews. >> yeah, they don't want to

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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 around every school of this country. we can do that, but until we address the readily accessible weapons of war in

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talk about the fact that it was a gun or a shooting. there was a shooting at my workplace this week. the email we got was that they called it a gun discharge. they don't the call is shooting. that is insulting to all of us. this is a public health crisis. gun violence is not the leading cause of death for children in this country, and we owe it to our kids in every single one of us you start talking about real policy change. we had to act in congress to pass laws, but the majority of americans want like universal background checks and red flag laws and secure stores loss. it's past time to change. >> i feel like secretary castro, who fear a jump in here. when people make that information, and i get that they may not have exactly the details, where if you are removed from it, but i am also willing to say, they could have offered more information about the shooter and the gun, but they perhaps felt that it would steer the conversation to an area where they don't want to go. >> yeah, let's hope, a man, that there is some rational reason that they are not be

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>> good evening, everyone, i am ayman mohyeldin in new york. we're continuing to follow that burqa news of the mass shooting in allen, texas, as we await that briefing from local officials, which we expect to

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law enforcement to make sure that they are putting out truthful, accurate correct information, and that we are not stopping their ability to do their job. i think that we just had to be patient and give them the benefit of the doubt with respect to why they may or may not have released the information earlier. >> that's a very fair point. dr. andrews, i wanted 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 about how prevalent issues are in this country, at least a shooting a day now, millions and millions of americans are living in a state of fear about where we're going to go, what time -- i am sure that we have all walked around a mall or movie theater and knocked around our salute to try to scoop the place our case the pace and thinking, where will i run? what happens if something like this happens? you have these conversations with their children now about mass shootings at schools and active shooters.

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i am about 20 miles away from where the shooting occurred, and one of the things that we know, there were already a number of federal laws to address issues involving people who should not be a nurse of guns. we can't sell guns to people that we know under federal law are mentally ill, undocumented persons are not allowed to have guns, people that have been previously convicted of felonies are not allowed to own guns, but i think that this is an issue that we have to take a twofold approach to. on one side of the aisle, they want to address mental illness, and the other side wants to address gun control. i think that we have to look at both of these issues in tandem and keep trying to come up with a solution that addresses both the mental health issues and the criminal possession issues as well as gun control issues. it's not going to be solved with just approaching one aspect of this issue, one aspect of this problem. >> what did you make of, or

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>> i am state representative jeff reach from us district 67 and president of allen. my family and i reside about a mile from where the shooting took place. this community is home for us, and our hearts are devastated and broken tonight. no law enforcement official, no elected official ever imagines or plans to or hopes to speak in front of a press conference like this. but here we are, and we are resolute and our commitment to pray for. praying and believing for the victims and their families. there are many, many people in our community tonight who are hurting, whose lives have been shattered, and who need and deserve our collective prayers.

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for offering their assistance at the scene. this collective effort is what makes our texas communities united. we know that the days ahead will be difficult and somber. we'll remember the victims of today shooting, we want to convey our appreciation for the condolences and know that we are receiving from all local groups. i have received calls from the white house, governor abbott and many other national state and county officials who have reached out to the city of allen to express their support and desire to help the armed community in any way possible. on behalf of our city council, are a lot of forsman personnel, our first responders and all of our city employees, we will remain strong and state united. please keep the victims and the families of the victims in her purse. with that, thank you for being here, and that includes our briefing. i will turn it back over to

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and preventative from committing from people leaving people to commit crimes in the first place , which means we have to invest in historically disenfranchised communities. we can't talk about guns and gun violence without talking about poverty. we need to spend as much as necessary to invest in historically disenfranchised communities to end poverty in our country, which deals with the trauma, which deals with the mental health, which deals with the substance abuse. need to see republican leadership on this. and democratic leadership on this third after the sandy hook shooting, we still could not ban assault weapons in our nation. and to byron's point, yes, democrats have to be more aggressive and ensuring that we do what we need to do not just legislatively, but with our voice to respond to the n r a and respond to those who continue to be second amendment parents peers and then lastly, republicans are sacrificing our children for the second amendment. our children, our

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