Three children and three adults were gunned down in yet
another school shooting this time in Nashville, Tennessee.
This took place at a christian grade school in Nashville.
The three students who were killed were all nine years old,
and the three adults ranged in ages 60-61.
Now, the shooter has been identified as 28-year old
who was in possession of two assault style rifles and a handgun.
Audrey Hale is her name,
a Nashville resident according to three law enforcement officials on the matter.
Now, here is some sound from Don Aaron who's a spokesperson with
the Nashville Police Department.
Afterwards, we'll give you more details on what occurred.
>> Officers entered, the first story of the school began.
Clearing it, they heard shots coming from the second level.
They immediately went to the gunfire.
When the officers got to the second level,
they saw a shooter, a female who was firing.
The officers engaged her, she was fatally shot.
We know that she was armed with at least two assault-type rifles and a handgun.
She entered the school through a side entrance and
traversed her away from the first floor to the second floor firing multiple shots.
We now know that there are three students who were fatally wounded,
as well as three adults inside the school.
We are working to identify those victims.
>> So the name of the school is The Covenant School, again,
it's a Christian elementary.
And just to give you more details on the shooter, Hale, Audrey Hale, a 28-year old
woman who lived in the Nashville area and was once a student at the school was
the shooter who carried out the killings before she was killed by police.
According to the police chief, she identifies as transgender, Jank.
>> Okay, so there's a number of issues here.
Let's take them one by one and get the transgender at the end here.
So first of all, wanna congratulate the cops.
They were not afraid to engage in this case unlike Uvalde and
they got to her before more death and destruction.
So unfortunately, three kids are dead and
three staff members who are all above the age of 60.
So as usual, horrifically tragic.
Unfortunately as usual, nothing will be done about it.
The primary culprit, no matter what the identity of the shooter is,
is always the same thing.
It's assault weapons that make it much, much, much, much easier.
There's no way in the world that woman who did the shooting
could have killed three kids and three 60-year olds, and
61-year olds, etc with a rope and knife, a lawn mower.
No, it's the assault weapons that lead to far, far greater deaths.
It's the most obvious thing in the world.
We've proven it with 2800 different stats.
Every single time, we're the country with the most amount of weapons.
We're the country with the most amount of mass shootings,
the most amount of gun homicides, the most amount of guns suicides.
If you think that's a coincidence, you're math challenged, okay?
It's definitely the guns, definitely.
You don't like that, cuz it hurts your feelings, cuz you like the protection of
a gun, or you like to play around with it, or whatever it is.
Okay, it hurts your feelings, but it's still a fact.
And so that's definitely the number one issue here.
Now, Republicans will try to obfuscate with no, we need less doors,
we need mental health.
We're not gonna fund it.
Every time you propose mental health funding, they say no.
So Republican politicians are well-known liars.
By the way, it is in this case way more the politicians than it is
Republican voters, cuz a giant percentage of Republican,
over 80% of Republican voters want universal background checks.
That's the bare minimum.
>> Right.
>> Right, but Republican politicians go, I don't care,
I'm being bribed by gun manufacturers.
So I don't care that over 80% of my own voters want universal background
checks and they don't want criminals to get guns.
I don't care, cuz I'm getting bribed.
But by the way, Republican voters, why don't you challenge your own politicians?
Try it for a change, see how you like it.
>> Yea, let me just also reference, because what you're saying is right.
I mean, polling indicates where Americans stand on common sense,
gun legislation including Republican voters.
But at the same time, you have various state lawmakers.
For instance, there was a story we were gonna do today about Florida.
We'll probably do it tomorrow.
Florida has a scrapped the requirements for permits in order to purchase weapons.
And they've also decided that they're gonna do away with any type of training,
regulation, or training requirement when obtaining the weapons.
I mean, it's just gratuitous and unnecessary.
I mean, you could totally be in favor of law abiding citizens having
access to guns while also being against these types of weird
deregulatory efforts by Republican lawmakers.
I don't understand why they do this,
especially given what the polling indicates.
Well, I know why they do it.
Number one is the bribes as we explain.
Number two is unfortunately, even though a majority of Republicans want some common
sense gun regulations, the most avid part of the Republican base says I don't care.
I want a tank, I want to rocket fired missiles.
Tim Bull literally said that everybody should have nukes.
>> Okay, great.
>> So when you have the lunatic fringes of either party driving the debate,
this is the situation that we wind up in.
Because now look, to be fair to the Democrats,
they never listen to their base.
So that doesn't have anything to do with their base.
Okay, [LAUGH] that's to be fair to the Democrats.
The Republicans actually do care about their base.
Unfortunately, they serve only the most extreme end of their base.
Those two things combined makes any kind of gun regulation nearly impossible in
this country, even though the overwhelming majority of Americans want it, right?
So look, what's the bare minimum?
Universal background checks.
Over 90% of Americans want it overall.
And limiting the amount of bullets in a magazine,
super popular would easily pass if you actually we lived in a democracy.
And banning assault weapons is a little less popular, but still a great majority.
Near 60% want them banned.
Again, if we lived in a democracy, that would actually also be relatively simple.
But none of the gun manufacturers wanna ban and
they keep bribing every Republican politician.
And if you're a mainstream media reporter, you're not calling it a bribe,
you're not really a reporter.
Okay, so now, back to the identity of the shooter.
So lately, there's been this weird phenomenon where sometimes the shooters
pretend to be trans, this doesn't look like one of those cases.
But honestly, we have no idea.
Cuz it's in the first couple of hours here and there's always a fog in the midst of
this kind of a shooting in the immediate aftermath, right?
>> The details are still developing, and I think the identity of the shooter
in terms of their gender is honestly irrelevant.
>> Yea. >> I mean,
we don't know what the motive is yet, right?
So this is a Christian elementary school, this is a former student from the school.
I don't know if there was something that happened in the school that
traumatize the shooter and led to what happened.
We don't know, but my point is that identity might be relevant.
But as far as we know right now, it is not, we don't know anything else.
No, and look, it depends on what you mean by relevance.
So number one, in terms of shootings, no one should do them.
I don't care what your identity is,
it's a terrible immoral thing to do to go shoot kids.
There's never any justification for it, okay?
So number two on the identity, if it's a minority like so
sometimes my background is Muslim.
I'm atheist now, but I'm identified as Muslim and my family is Muslim.
So whenever there's a Muslim shooter or a Muslim bombing, we get all the heat.
We get our rights taken away, we get ostracized.
So it's the very worst thing a Muslim can do is to do some sort of violence,
right, cuz it explodes on all of us, right?
It's the most counterproductive, the most ridiculous thing to do, right?
And so if it turns out she's trans, she's done great damage,
great damage to that community.
Because you saw Tuck Carlson last week saying,
the only people who should have their guns taken away are trans people.
And now, if this turns out that way, the right wing is gonna lose its mind, okay?
So don't ever do violence in any category,
cuz it's horribly immoral and totally counterproductive.
>> So but that all being said, guys,
the reason why any of these people do shootings, Muslim, trans, straight,
white, the bottom line is yet they've got massive personal issues.
But it's a country with 330 million people, there's gonna be a certain
percent even if it was just 1% of us, that would be 3.3 million people.
And what do we do in America?
We hand all of them a giant weapon, a weapon of war and
say have that at us, that's the number one problem.
I know I'm not supposed to say this, but I have no hope left, like 0%.
Okay, we're gonna keep doing these stories, they're gonna keep happening.
More Children will be murdered, day in day out, endless shootings,
whether it's a mass shooting or otherwise, it doesn't matter.
There's gun violence all over the place.
You have one part of the country, or one area of, or one side of the political
conversation talking about abolishing police and prisons.
While we're simultaneously dealing with more and
more gun violence every single day, every single year, it's endless.
And then on the other opposite end of the political spectrum,
you have people who think their guns are more important.
And easy access to guns are more important than anything else.
That's their number one issue and they will fight like hell
to ensure that they protect what they think are their rights.
At the same time, I do wanna go to a woman who I think shares a lot
of the frustration that we're expressing on the show today,
because she and her son were mass shooting survivors.
And when Fox was covering this story, this latest mass shooting in Nashville,
Tennessee, she decided to use that as an opportunity to speak some truth.
So let's watch that.
>> We survived a mass shooting in July.
I have met with over 130 law lawmakers.
How is this still happening?
How are our children still dying?
And why are we failing them?
Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens.
It has overtaken cars.
Assault weapons are contributing to the border crisis in Fenton now.
We are arming cartels with our guns and our goose loose gun laws, and
these shootings and these mass shootings will continue to happen until our
lawmakers step up and pass gun safety legislation.
>> She was visiting Nashville for a family vacation and
this is what they had to deal with.
>> So we've been talking lately about now double victims and triple victims, and
how many mass shootings have you been through?
Cuz this is the insanity of this country, it is not normal,
which goes to the point that Ana and this woman are making.
The people in power will all lie to you today, and
they'll all pretend that they're outraged.
None of them are actually outraged.
I will explain why in a second, okay, cuz that sounds like, wow, really?
They seem really moved by it.
No, if you're moved by it, you take action, okay?
None of them will do anything about it.
They will all cover it up, and next time, it might be your kids.
And they're not gonna care that time either and
they're not gonna do anything then, they're not gonna do anything afterwards.
They're not gonna do anything afterwards, and
they'll all pretend every time like it's a big surprise.
My God, another shooting at a school.
What a big surprise, our hearts are broken.
No, they're not. So why do I say that?
The guys who want the guns just like Ana said, fight like hell for the guns, right?
The people who don't want the guns and who wanna protect our kids and everyone else,
they don't fight like hell, they don't.
>> Nope.
No. >> Okay, so first of all,
all the Republican politicians are guilty, 100% of them to make sure
we cannot protect our kids under any goddamn circumstance.
>> Certainly, the ones who are taking massive campaign donations from the NRA.
>> And show me one Republican politician that says, yes,
let's have universal background checks.
Yes, let's limit the number of bullets in a magazine, etc.
You can't, at the federal level, they're all corrupt.
They're 100% corrupt.
Republicans get it through your thick heads.
We're better than you on this.
You've spotted corruption first in my opinion, okay?
And the right wing was great in going drain the swamp.
I hate the swamp, then what did you do?
Then you totally dropped the ball.
You let corruption run wild.
You'll never challenge your politicians on corruption.
Here I'm telling you, Democrats are also corrupt.
We're the only ones who ever say it, right?
So what do Democrats do?
They go, okay, I can't believe this.
I'm so outraged.
My God, we're gonna fight next time.
No, you're not.
Shut up all of you,
including guys like Chris Murphy who make a reputation on this.
I will tell you what I am most animated by this.
I like going on TV after shootings and pretending that I care.
Really, what did you do?
Did you ever fight?
Did you ever fight anywhere near as hard as the people who want to keep the guns?
Nope, but your beloved colleagues, politically, rhetorically,
you need to attack them.
You need to crush them.
No, you wouldn't do it, nope, nope, nope, nope.
You care so much more about being polite.
And by the way, this goes double for Progressives.
Progressives, you're supposed to fight, you're supposed to fight.
No, nothing, you put out a tweet.
>> Okay, so let me give you guys an example of what the right wing did in
accomplishing the stripping of reproductive rights from women, okay?
So after Roe V Wade was decided by the Supreme Court in the 1970s, it would
take 5 years for a single evangelical leader to speak out against abortion.
Because it wasn't really about abortion for them,
it was about using abortion to accumulate political power.
Stay with me, I know this sounds like a really weird tangent, but
it will make sense.
Now, Paul Weyrich was the evangelical who really took the leadership role
in getting religious people in this country against reproductive rights.
And you wanna know how he did it? He would go to church parking lots and
just throw pamphlets full of aborted fetuses and
all this gory imagery to scare people.
And also in that case, to misinform people about abortion, okay?
And that started changing the hearts and
minds of people at these churches all across the country, that tactic worked.
Now, there is no successful, I mean,
there's no effort to message to the American people on this issue, right?
There's no effort to fight back against the false narratives that we keep hearing
from right-wing media over and over again when it comes to guns,
how everyone has the right to easy access to guns.
No one, no one's fighting back.
I mean, really think about it, okay?
Imagery of aborted fetuses was enough to convince religious people to be
against abortion.
We never see what happens to these children when they're
gunned down by assault rifles.
And to be sure, those are awful images.
I don't wanna see those images, incredibly difficult to see.
But I think by censoring that,
it's really sanitizing the reality that we're all living in right now.
>> 100%, they should, Ana, that's such a great point.
And the media is 100% complicit in this.
They should show every dead kid.
They should show every dead victim of every one of these massacres.
Because then you know what we'll do, we'll all throw up together and go goddamn it,
that's enough.
But right now, the Republicans are evil and they say we don't care,
we're not gonna do anything.
In fact, if you try to do something, we're gonna make sure we tear it down.
So don't tell me your heart broken.
Don't tell me you care when you are the ones preventing any action on this.
Then the Democrats, the corporate Democrats establishment there,
that's 90% of the Democratic Party.
They have no heart, they don't care.
They'll never fight for you, never.
And Progressives, they have no strategy.
Hey, is there a single progressive in the country?
Legislators out there, we got you elected.
Do you have any strategy to fight back on this here?
I'll help you out.
I know that'll greatly offend you, I don't have status, okay?
You do something simple like we did.
Point out how many Republicans want universal background checks.
Then say this son of a bitch colleague of mine is denying 80% of his own voters.
And then show a picture of a dead kid and say the republicans said this.
Vote them out, vote them out there for massacres of children.
Will you see anything like this by any goddamn legislator?
No, we elected a bunch of losers that sit around with no strategy,
no heart, no fight.
So this will happen again, and again, and again.
And next time, yes, it might be your kids, or my kids, or anyone's kids,
because there are no legislators here who actually fight for you and
who care about a goddamn thing.
So that all you get is stupid little lies today about how it's gonna be okay and
they're heartbroken.
They don't care about us.