>> SINCE OUR SO FRIDAY NIGHT,
THERE HAS BEEN 13 MORE MASS
SHOOTINGS ACROSS TEN STATES,
TAKING THE LIVES OF AT LEAST 17
PEOPLE.
IN VIRGINIA, SOUTH CAROLINA AND
TEXAS, SHOOTINGS AT GRADUATION
PARTIES KILLED TWO PEOPLE,
WOUNDED 17.
IN PHILADELPHIA, THREE PEOPLE
WERE KILLED, AND 11 WERE
INJURED WHEN A GUNFIRE ERUPTED
IN A CROWD.
THERE WERE SHOOTINGS OUTSIDE
NIGHTCLUBS IN CHATTANOOGA,
DENNIS TENNESSEE, AND MACON,
ARIZONA.
A 14-YEAR-OLD KILLED EIGHT
EARLY SATURDAY MORNING IN AN
APARTMENT IN PHOENIX, THREE
KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN GRAND
RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
THREE KILLED IN SAGINAW,
MICHIGAN.
ALL THESE WERE TRAGEDIES, BUT
NONE WERE HEADLINE GRABBING
MASS SHOOTINGS LIKE THE ONE WE
SAW RECENTLY IN UVALDE, TEXAS,
OR IN BUFFALO IN THE PAST
COUPLE OF WEEKS.
BUT HERE'S THE THING, MOST MASS
SHOOTINGS, AS TERRIBLE AS THEY
ARE, DO NOT GRAB ATTENTION.
MANY ARE INTERPERSONAL DISPUTES
THAT TEN OR 20 YEARS AGO, MIGHT
HAVE LEFT LED TO A FISTFIGHT.
BUT NOW, A GUN FIGHT INSTEAD,
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN
A COUNTRY WITH MORE GUNS THAN
PEOPLE.
AFTAB AFTAB PUREVAL IS THE
MAYOR OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.
HE'S A DEMOCRAT.
HE'S PART OF MAYORS WHO SIGNED
A LETTER URGING CONGRESS TO ACT
ON THE VIOLENCE IN THE WAKE OF
THE UVALDE AND BUFFALO MASS
SHOOTINGS.
AND MAYOR PUREVAL JOINS ME NOW.
FIRST, LET'S START WITH
CINCINNATI'S LIKE, AND MID
SIZED TO SMALLER CITY, BUT
CITIES ACROSS THE RANGE OF
SIZES AND DENSITIES AND REGION
IN GEOGRAPHY HAVE SEEN AN
INCREASE, SPECIFICALLY MOST LEE
IN GUN VIOLENCE.
ARE YOU SEEING THAT, AND WHAT
DO YOU ATTRIBUTE IT TO?
>> THIS IS ABSOLUTELY A
NATIONAL PROBLEM.
IT'S HAPPENING IN CINCINNATI.
IT'S HAPPENING IN CITIES ALL
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.
AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE IN
CINCINNATI IS TWO FACTORS
THAT'S REALLY LEADING TO THE
GUN VIOLENCE.
NUMBER ONE, THE UNIVERSAL
ACCESSIBILITY OF GUNS ON
AMERICANS STREETS.
AND NUMBER TWO, AS YOU
MENTIONED IN YOUR LEAD IN, THE
INABILITY OF EVERYDAY CITIZENS
TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES, THE
ISSUES THAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED
IN A FISTFIGHT, BECAUSE OF THE
UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY OF GUNS,
ARE NOW LEADING TO A GUNFIGHT.
SO, WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN
CINCINNATI, AND CITIES ACROSS
THE COUNTRY'S AN EVOLUTION OF
THE GUN VIOLENCE.
DECADES AGO, IT USED TO BE
CENTERED AROUND LOW INCOME OR
COMMUNITIES EXPERIENCING CRIME,
NOW, IT'S UNFORTUNATELY
EVERYWHERE.
>> YOU ALSO HAVE A STATE
STRUCTURE, IN THE STATE OF OHIO,
WHICH IS QUITE PERMISSIVE IN
ITS GUN LAWS, PARTICULARLY
COMPARED TO A PLACE LIKE NEW
YORK OR CALIFORNIA.
AND YOU HAD THE GOVERNOR SIGNED
A BILL ALLOWING PERMIT-LESS
CONCEALED CARRY, WHICH FROM MY
UNDERSTANDING, MEANS ANYONE CAN
BE CARRYING A HANDGUN ANYTIME,
ANYWHERE IN THE STATE OF OHIO.
IS THAT RIGHT?
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
WITHOUT ANY TRAINING.
YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT GUN
VIOLENCE IN THE OPENING.
MASS THINGS ARE TOUCHING ALL
STATES.
OHIO INCLUDED.
CINCINNATI INCLUDED.
AND PARTICULARLY, PROBABLY MOST
NOTABLY, DAYTON, OHIO.
IN 2019, SUMMER OF 2019, A
GUNMAN OPENED FIRE IN THE CITY
OF DAYTON, IT WAS AN ASSAULT
RIFLE, MURDERING NINE AND
INJURING 27, IN 32 SECONDS.
LEADERS FROM AROUND THE STATE,
NATIONAL LEADERS, CAME TO
DAYTON, AND SAID ENOUGH IS
ENOUGH.
WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING.
AND INSTEAD OF DOING ANYTHING