>> We begin the breaking news that we've been following today.
Yet, another mass shooting, Tony and I were sitting right here not too long ago,
days ago reporting on a mass shooting in this country.
Police say,
a shooter killed, at least four people at a bank building in downtown Louisville.
>> Yes, authorities also say that eight others including two police
officers are wounded and the suspected shooter also dead on the scene.
Authorities say, he appears to have been a former employee of the bank and
either died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or was shot by police.
>> Now, some of the details in that report have changed.
There were a total of nine individuals who were injured including two police
officers who exchanged gunfire with the shooter.
Four individuals were killed by the shooter and
the shooter is now also dead after exchanging fire with the police.
Now the shooting happened in downtown Louisville,
Kentucky at a bank that the gunmen had been working at and
all four victims happened to be employees of that bank.
Now it was National Bank on main street and
the nine people who have been hospitalized as I said earlier, included two cops,
one of the cops had rushed in as the shooting was taking place.
And he was shot in the head, but he is currently
receiving brain surgery at a hospital.
He is in critical condition.
Now, the four victims I wanted to just quickly mention by name.
The police have identified them as Tommy Elliott, 63.
Jim Tutt, 64, Josh Barrick, 40 and Juliana Farmer, 45.
Again, all employees at the bank.
Now, the story is still developing.
And so we'll fill you in as we learn more about it.
The shooter was a man named Connor Sturgeon who according to his
LinkedIn profile, again, had worked at that bank since 2021.
CNN has reported that he had gotten word that he was gonna get fired and
that's potentially a motive.
Although I wanna be clear that, that has not been confirmed and
it's really, really important to know that, but he apparently got word that he
was gonna be fired soon and do with that information what you will.
I do wanna just quickly go to Governor Andy Beshear's reaction to this,
because he disclosed something during the press conference that is
both heartbreaking and telling because this could be any one of us.
>> I have a very close friend that didn't make it today, another close friend
who didn't either and one who's at the hospital is going to make it through.
So when we talk about praying, I hope people will.
Our bodies and our minds are not meant to go through these types of tragedies.
>> Yeah, our bodies and minds are not meant to go through
these types of tragedies, but we do on a regular basis.
And I don't know what to say in response to this mass shooting that I haven't
already said in response to the, I don't know, hundreds of other mass shootings
that we've talked about on the show over the years that I've been here.
>> Yeah, I might say something a little controversial.
But first, I wanna clarify, luckily,
the second friend he was wrong about and his second friend is fine.
But his very close friend, apparently one of the dead.
>> Tommy Elliott was his close friend who passed, yes.
>> Yeah, so here's maybe controversy, I don't really care why they're doing it.
So we've now covered hundreds of mass shootings, right?
And so that guy is a white supremacist.
That guy is a Muslim fundamentalist.
That guy is trans, that guy was mad about office workers.
That guy was just randomly crazy and hated Chinese dancers, whatever, right?
There's one common theme, it's not their motivation at all.
It's the AR-15, it's the assault weapon.
The assault weapon that kills people very, very easily.
Kills a lot of people quickly, cuz that's what it's designed to do.
It's a weapon of war, it's used in war.
It has no purpose in a civilian life at all, that's why Republicans say
absurd things like, well, we should use it to shoot feral hogs.
No, you don't.
And by the way, we're allowing all of our kids to be murdered because you wanna
shoot feral hogs?
That's your best argument and then the Republicans,
they don't even have a proposal.
Less doors, ban train people like weirdo random things that make no sense
would never solve the problem, but the left has a proposal.
The left's proposal is ban assault weapons and
you know what happens in countries that have ban assault weapons?
They have almost no mass shootings.
Gee, I wonder if it's the doors and the feral hogs or if it's the assault weapons.
>> I wanna go to graphic five here, because it's a really good way to see how
much of a role assault weapons AR-15s have played in mass shootings in recent years.
So as you can see, handgun use related to these mass shootings
was really the major, that was the weapon of choice until there
were looser laws pertaining to assault weapons.
>> Well, assault weapons, we used to have a ban on them.
That's why you didn't have as many shootings.
>> That's right, so that's why- >> You kill as many people.
>> That's why you see that by the time we get to 2020,
the majority of mass shootings are carried out with AR-15s.
So I wanted to just give you that data to kinda buttress Cenk's point and reinforce
his point because he makes a good one there, that is a potential solution.
But of course, there's no real conversation about it.
>> Sorry, let me just jump in real quick again.
Number one, 60% of the American people wanna ban assault weapons.
In a democracy, we should get that overnight, but no Republicans will block
it cuz they believe that the most extreme part of their base and
their donors should control all of our politics and
they don't give a damn about what the rest of the things.
Yes, there are shootings still even when there were no assault weapons, but
a lot less people died.
So you don't have to solve everything overnight.
You could just do logical things as a first step.
There's no question that the countries that have banned assault
weapons don't have mass shootings like we do, it's a fact.
You want to ignore that fact, that's up to you, but
there's absolutely no question as to what's causing this level of carnage.
>> Now, a few other things I wanted to quickly mention in regard to the gun laws
in Kentucky.
So the state apparently passed a law in 2019 that removed the provisions
that mandated state gun owners pass a background check if they were going to
conceal carry their weapon.
Under the law, most adults over 21 can purchase and
carry a firearm and take them to most places in the state without any license.
This is a good time to mention that the gunman in this case was a 23-year old.
So he could easily purchase a gun without a background check in
the State of Kentucky with no issues.
Aside from laws that prohibit gun purchases by people with convicted
felonies, there are no Kentucky laws that prohibit gun purchases to state residents
who have mental health disorders, violent misdemeanor convictions,
domestic abuse-related restraining orders or anyone with substance abuse disorders.
So from what we've read so far, it could change as I mentioned,
the story is developing.
But based on preliminary reporting, it does not appear that the shooter
had some criminal record that would have raised some sort of red flag.
But nonetheless, I mean,
considering how lax the gun laws are in states like Kentucky, it's understandable
how someone like this 23-year old would get his hands on an AR-15.
Final thing I wanted to go to is an interesting argument made on
Fox News of all places.
One of their contributors came on,
and made an argument that you are not likely to hear on Fox News.
So let's hear from Ted Williams who's a former police officer.
>> There is information out there that has not been confirmed by me,
Neil or Fox News from what I understand that this shooter had phoned a friend and
said that he was suicidal and that he was going to shoot up a bank.
If that is the truth, then I think that we need to,
again, look at what is going on in our society.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and
over, and expecting different results.
Just two weeks ago, I stood in front of a camera where
you had some kids, some babies shot in Nashville,
Tennessee with a person who, by the way, had an AR-15.
I am sick and tired of standing in front of a camera.
Neil, you and I have been on, on numerous occasions where people,
young people have lost their lives.
Four people left home this morning and four people are not coming home tonight,
that is something that we need to take into consideration.
And when the governor says we need, well,
we shouldn't talk about certain things now.
Well, then I have to disagree with the government.
We have to talk about guns, AR-15 are killing our babies and
our citizens in this country and we gotta do something about it.
>> Strong message on Fox News of all places.
Cenk, he seems to be saying exactly what you're saying on the show today.
>> Yeah, 100%.
So look, I was in a fair in Kentucky a couple of years back and
they were selling assault weapons right in the middle of the fair, right?
And so anybody could go up and buy it, I didn't try to buy one.
So I don't know if they were gonna do anything Kind of check, but it's a fair.
They weren't gonna do a check, they don't have to do a check.
So by the way, that person could buy that gun, put the magazine in and
then shoot everyone at the fair and kill 20 people easily, right?
So it's a weapon of war, no other country allows it.
We're idiots for allowing it.
We're allowing ourselves to be murdered,
because a couple of right-wingers think it's fun to shoot AR-15s.
They have fun in their backyard or whatever they're doing.
And so since they basically masturbate to that, we were saying, yeah, go ahead and
kill us all.
Kill us all, because you have a fun little hobby that you pleasure yourself to.
It's madness, it's insanity.
Look, it's so easy to prove.
Another weapon of war is an RPG, the shoulder fired missiles.
Idiot right-wingers like Tim Pool say, yeah, that should be legal too.
He literally said everybody should be allowed to have nukes.
Cuckoo for coco pops, but think about it, the RPG.
I mean, look, I don't wanna put thoughts in their head because they'll probably ask
for it and the Republicans will probably give it to them.
The Republicans legalize it and they'll probably go open carry, open carry.
So what we're gonna just shoot RPG's into each other's freaking houses and
schools and hospitals and go, whoa, whoa, who freedom, man.
They sucking amendment, should b the RPG, should be constitutional.
No, it didn't, you're making that up.
In the Second Amendment, it says, a well-regulated militia being necessary.
You're not in the militia, you're not well-regulated and
the militias did not have RPGs or AR-15s.
You guys are out of your minds, so okay, but you know what's gonna happen?
The next shooting is gonna be in your neighborhood and I hate it.
I don't want it, I wanna protect you.
I wanna protect your kids, your right-winger and left-winger.
I don't care, I wanna protect you.
But they say nope, nope, but we should all be able to get tanks, man.
Tanks don't kill people, people kill people.
No, tanks are a more efficient way of killing people.
So are nukes and so are assault weapons.
These are obvious facts, but we have to deal with gun manufacturers,
corrupt politicians and local yokels going around.
[SOUND] your kids are dead.
I don't care, I don't care, it's interfering with my fun a little bit.
Okay, that's the kinda monster you are.