1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: Ah Richard Arnold, morning to you, gooding. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 2: So let me give a lot of grief, a lot 3 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: of hugs, a lot of tears, and yet another debate 4 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: about gunballs. Familiar story. A President Trump is ordered that 5 00:00:09,800 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 2: flags around this country flat half mass because of the 6 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 2: deadly shooting attack on children praying at a Catholic school 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. 8 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: That's it. 9 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 2: Two children, one aged eight and the other ten, were 10 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 2: killed when a young shooter opened fire through stained glass 11 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 2: windows during mass at the school. Eighteen other people have 12 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: been wounded, of whom one is critical at the minute. 13 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: Two others remain in serious condition. A ten year old 14 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 2: named Weston, who was in this place, has told of 15 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: another child saving his life by covering him. 16 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 3: My friend got hit in the back. 17 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: Who's like right beside me. 18 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 2: I was like two seats away from the steam glass windows. 19 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: I think I got a gunpowder on my neck. This 20 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: is a ten year old. 21 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 2: This is what he is living with. He says he 22 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: thinks his friend is okay. That remains unclear. The person 23 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 2: who is critical as touch and go, and while doctors 24 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: want to confirm it, this could be the one who 25 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: saved this boy's life. How does a ten year old 26 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 2: live with this? How do all the children who just 27 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 2: went through this terror live with this? We're hearing a 28 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 2: lot of folks offering thoughts and prayers, which has become 29 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 2: kind of cliche in these off repeated situations. The local mayor, 30 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 2: Jacob Frye, is saying of this response. 31 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 4: Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. 32 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 4: These kids were literally praying. 33 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: Prayers are righteous, he says. 34 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 2: But do something, is his message, says Carla Maldonado, whose 35 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 2: child survived this. 36 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 3: My mind is going everywhere like this is not the 37 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 3: first time. I'm not the first parents to express these concerns. 38 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 3: I'm not the first mom to say how many more 39 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: kids have to get killed? And so it's a little 40 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: bit like this is feeling like a broken record and 41 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 3: it's not okay. 42 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: You wouldn't know it from the deafening silence from many politicians. 43 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 2: A broken record, she says. I just pulled up a 44 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 2: list of mass shootings at churches and other places. 45 00:01:58,360 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 1: Of worship here over the past decade. 46 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: It is a type page full of them, including the 47 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 2: mass shooting at the Message Church in Charleston ten years 48 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: back by a twenty one year old white supremacist where 49 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,720 Speaker 2: he murdered nine worshipers and a preacher after praying with 50 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:11,679 Speaker 2: them for about an hour. 51 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: Do you think of other. 52 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 2: Situations Sandy Hook, which Obama called the worst moment of 53 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 2: his presidency, where twenty six people were shot dead at 54 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: an elementary school, including twenty children, many ages six and seven, 55 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,600 Speaker 2: is young enough. David Hogg survived the mass shooting at 56 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 2: Parkland in Florida, where a shooter killed seventeen students and 57 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 2: staff seven years ago. He now has become an activist 58 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 2: on the young subject and says to the president, now. 59 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 4: My message to Donald Trump is that you are a coward, Sir. 60 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 4: You are not going to do anything about this issue 61 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 4: because you were terrified of the na even though you 62 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,919 Speaker 4: have the power to save tens of thousands of lives. 63 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 4: You were the strongest president in modern American history, with 64 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 4: a chokehold over your party and both chambers of Congress. 65 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 4: You have the power to end this, but you are 66 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 4: not going to because you're a damn coward. 67 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: Media coverage of these is often similar. As you've indicated, 68 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 2: it could have been worse. This shooter, who took his 69 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 2: own life, had tried to get into the Chapel days earlier. 70 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,959 Speaker 2: We now find the shooter was trans and trouble a monster, 71 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: says the White House that they're briefing today. And yet 72 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: he was able to buy several weapons legally in recent days. 73 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 2: How do you buy several weapons or within days without 74 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 2: raising any concerns? 75 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: You know? 76 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 2: The shooter left violent social media posts, as so many do, 77 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 2: but unheeded. The Murdoch New York Post is emphasizing the 78 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 2: trans aspect, which plows into their politics. 79 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: Let me close with this. A new survey shows that. 80 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 2: In the past year here there were at least ninety 81 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 2: one shootings on school grounds. That is almost twice a week. 82 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 2: That's what children here are living with. The leading cause 83 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: of death for children and teenagers in this country is 84 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 2: not illness, it's not accidents, It is gun violence. 85 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 3: Richard Donold's sightside. 86 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 2: For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 87 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 2: news talks. 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