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That there our system is reactive. Something bad happens, we react to it. And what people are crying for now is how can we prevent this? How can we stop it? And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands. And so we're gonna have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're gonna have a conversation about keeping firearms out? It's always a young white male, almost always. I mean, did anyone this morning think, I wonder if that was a female? Did any of y'all think that? I mean, there's been one school shooting involving a female. Wasn't in Tennessee. Yeah, Tennessee. But other than that, it is usually young white males.

“While I didn't agree with his ideas, shooting someone that we disagree with, even if they're vociferous and loud and out there, is so colossally wrong headed.” “you won't find me shedding any tears.” “We cannot think or talk that way.” “That is not okay.” I lost my brother through gun violence. “There's no winning. We'll never win this way. There's no idea that if we cheer on our opponents being hurt or harmed in any way, that we win as a society. And we all lose.” This is a tragedy that not only the person who is killed experiences, but the entire family and community around that person. “Where do we go when violence is the only solution? … the final solution.” “People are walking around with weapons of war. This is a weapon of war.” “I don't know what killed him.” “But more often than not, we're seeing people killed with weapons of war … It was a sniper rifle.” “That's what these weapons are for.” “If that's why he was murdered. I'm assuming that's what it was. We don't know.”

Earlier today, just before 08:30AM, our city experienced an unthinkable tragedy. Minneapolis police officers responded to a report of a shooting at a mass that was happening at the Annunciation Roman Catholic Church on the block behind me. During the mass, a gunman approached on the outside on the side of the building and began firing a rifle through the church windows towards the children sitting in the pews at the mass. The shooter was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. This was a deliberate act of violence against innocent children and other people worshiping. Two young children, ages eight and 10, were killed where they sat in the pews. 17 other people were injured, 14 of them being children. We will stand together to protect our children, our schools, and our houses of worship.

Speaker 0 describes a mass shooting in a church during a ceremony: 'this was a man, a madman, acting alone, somehow knows about this ceremony.' An eight- and a 10-year-old were killed; 'an eight and a 10 year old,' and 'a total of 19 that we know of that were hit,' with 'seventeen injured, and of those 14 were children.' The gunman used 'three guns, multiple guns.' A child had to tell 'one of her friend's dads that the friend had been shot.' There will be stories of heroism and faith, but 'there are also adults that were shot.' The discussion acknowledges 'thoughts and prayers' are not enough: 'these kids were literally praying' and 'what can we do better with background checks or with assault weapons.' They mention 'a bipartisan bill for community violence' and 'my provision on domestic violence' to keep gun access from those convicted, plus 'national standards.'

That there our system is reactive. Something bad happens, we react to it. And what people are crying for now is how can we prevent this? How can we stop it? And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands. And so we're gonna have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're gonna have a conversation about keeping firearms out? It's always a young white male, almost always. I mean, did anyone this morning think, I wonder if that was a female? Did any of y'all think that? I mean, there's been one school shooting involving a female. Wasn't in Tennessee. Yeah. Tennessee. But other than that, it is usually young white males.

Speaker 1: Of course, as you all know, in the wake of Charlie's murder, there was an incredible amount of angry discourse from the right. Blaming the Democrats, blaming liberals saying, you're the reason this happened. Only to find out, surprise, 22 year old white dude, loved guns, raised by two parents, lived in a good home, dad as a minister, also a sheriff, didn't check it in boxes. Y'all thought he would check, did he? Speaker 0: Okay. First of all, a coat of mascara would be your friend. Speaker 0: That is disgusting. That was absolutely disgusting. Fuck her. Speaker 0: It's it's weird how she lost the points about him being a furry loving trans dating.

Why are we cheering for someone getting shot? He's dead. Like, no matter what political beliefs are, should not be cheering that someone got shot. He has a family. We do. We I value everyone's beliefs, but we should not be cheering as a class that someone got shot. He has a family. Yes. And who shot them? A transgender person. Oh. Oh. Oh. So that's what it is. Yes. Five males. It doesn't matter. You should not be cheering that someone got shot. Yes. You should not be cheering that someone got shot. Yeah. He's still, like, attacking you guys don't care what other people got.

"Talk to me about the environment in which a shooting like this happens." "we don't know any of full details of this. We don't know if this was the supporter shooting their gun off in celebration or so. We have no idea about this." "He's been one of the most divisive, especially divisive, figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups." "I always go back to hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions." "And I think that's the environment we're in, that people just you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place." "And that's the unfortunate environment we're in."

Kyle introduces himself: "My name is Kyle. I'm Antifa, and there's so much rage in me that I've had to record this, like, 15 times trying to get the message out." He says, "They fucked up. K? Go watch my other videos." He asserts that if listeners are not caught up, they’ve missed the fight, but if they are, it's time to "suit up. Boots on the ground. Nicollet and fucking 26th." He specifies, "My house is four blocks away. Anywhere between Franklin and Nicollet and 26th and Nicollet, show up ready to go." He states he is not talking about peaceful protests anymore and not having polite conversations anymore; he is talking specifically to his followers and asserts, "This is everything I have fucking talked about, and this is exactly what I said was gonna happen. This is exactly what I said was gonna fucking come when we didn't fucking go and march on fucking Whipple with guns." He proclaims, "Sorry, but welcome to America 2026 where second amendment is the only thing that's gonna keep you fucking protected from literal fucking Nazi gunmen that are killing innocent people in the street with impunity." He emphasizes, "This is not a fucking joke." He concludes with a call to action: "There's nothing fun to chant about it. Get your fucking guns and stop these fucking people."

Investigators spoke to the shooter's father, who said the shooter was in a romantic relationship; they were living together, but the shooter recently moved out and was living with a friend. The Minneapolis police chief has been trying to reach the shooter's mother, who once worked at the church; she hasn't been cooperating and has retained a criminal defense attorney. The attorney told me, 'she is completely distraught about the situation and has no culpability.' Police say the shooter fired more than 100 rounds through the windows of Annunciation School Church as children on their first week of school were praying at a morning mass. Investigators have been going through disturbing manifestos with anti religious references. Officials say the shooter had a deep hatred toward almost all groups and people, including African Americans, president Trump, and Jewish people. 'More than anything, the shooter wanted to kill children, defenseless children. The shooter was obsessed with the idea of killing children.' The father of eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel remembered his son as a young boy who loved his family, friends, fishing, and sports. 'Please remember Fletcher for the person he was and not the act that ended his life. Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today. We love you, Fletcher.' The second victim who passed away has been identified as 10 year old Harper Moyski. Her family said her, 'laughter, kindness, and spirit touched everyone who knew her.' Eighteen other people were injured and six remain in the hospital.

"The simple answer, in my opinion, is social media is wildly out of control, and there's too much clickbait in this country." "we gotta get more involved in social media and online platforms because that's where the folks, the assassins of this world get radicalized." "I asked for congress' help in doing so." "we were gonna use every resource we have to find every single person involved, and the investigation's still ongoing." "transparency." "We've produced more documents to congress than my last two predecessors combined by twofold, just to put it in perspective." "And this is how we got Charlie Kurtz alleged assassin so fast." "The Boston Marathon Bomber, which happened in Downtown Boston during the Boston Marathon, took five days and there was a police officer who was killed in that manhunt."

" And all they should be hoping to do is have someone to sit with at lunch or someone to play with on the playground, and they should be waiting to hear an update when they get home." "Having your child killed while they are sitting in a pew for a morning prayer service is not what any parent should have to worry about." "There is a shooting, then come the thoughts and prayers, and then comes the attempt to shift the focus." "We have seen this play out over and to over again." "We live in a country with more guns than people, where there are not universal background checks." "There are not bans on assault weapons, and it is far too easy to buy a gun." "It's the guns, everyone. It's not really a secret."

That there our system is reactive. Something bad happens, we react to it. And what people are crying for now is how can we prevent this? How can we stop it? And the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands. And so we're gonna have to have a conversation of freedom versus protecting children. I mean, how many school shootings does it take before we're gonna have a conversation about keeping firearms out? It's always a young white male, almost always. I mean, did anyone this morning think, I wonder if that was a female? Did any of y'all think that? I mean, there's been one school shooting involving a female. Wasn't in Tennessee. Yeah. Tennessee. But other than that, it is usually young white males.

"First of all, you know, I'd heard different things about his ideology." "He wasn't a registered democrat or republican." "He may have been a groyker, which is a follower of Nick Fuentes, who's on the right." "But I'll say this, it shouldn't matter." "This has happened to democrats." "This has happened to republicans." "The shooters were on both sides of the extreme." "And so what should matter is that we should all come together to, one, tone down the rhetoric, and two, keep our events safe, and and three, make sure that this doesn't happen again." "And so playing the blame game is not toning down the rhetoric." "Playing the blame game only makes the rhetoric and the problem worse."

"there's a man in custody." "I've really tried not to publicly speculate or say anything that I can't prove." "the guy's in custody." "If the FBI and the authorities in Utah, end this investigation by declaring Tyler Robinson a lone gunman with no accomplices whatsoever, without having done, you know, a truly exhaustive investigation, that will not be adequate." "I hate even to say that that could happen because, you know, it's my country, my government, I wanna trust the FBI, there's no reason to trust the FBI at all. At all." "how a guy who was by all appearances pretty normal kid, wound up murdering a stranger just a couple years later. Like he was radicalized." "Everything that you think about the FBI undersells it. It's, and I'm quoting, 10 times worse than you think internally." "I'm gonna need proof."

Speaker 1 describes shift on gun policy after Sandy Hook: "I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents. I've become friends with school shooters. I've seen it." He notes: "The NRA, I was NRA guy for a long time. They used to teach gun safety," and recalls: "I'm of an age where my shotgun was in my car so I could pheasant hunt after football practice. That's not where we live today." He cites Minnesota data: "The number one where the most firearm deaths happen in Minnesota are rural suicides," and argues "we have an epidemic of children getting guns and shooting themselves." He cautions against stigmatizing mental health: "just because you have a mental health issue doesn't mean you're violent." He states: "Sometimes it just is the guns. It's just the guns, and there are things that you can do about it." He calls for a "healthy conversation" that finds "solutions... that work, protect second amendment, protect our children."

- "And, we all lost, no matter what side of the political aisle you're on to, we lost something important in America today." - "But, the case goes on." - "The investigation goes on." - "There's a lot of piecing of evidence together." - "We don't have a shooter tonight." - "We have a couple leads, couple people that were released that probably aren't the shooter." - "They have a couple hot leads." - "There's a little bit of foreign intelligence." - "And I think over the next couple of days, we will learn a lot more and hopefully, we will bring to justice the evil person who did what, they did to Charlie today." - "I am hearing that they do have a couple of people of interest." - "That's the latest I heard from law" - "That's correct." - "Law enforcement." - "You're hearing the same thing."

Do not watch the rest of the video. It's a tragedy that he got shot, and it genuinely is. It just makes me giggle a little bit because this is the guy who's walking around saying that everyone has a right to own a gun, and he questions when people say that there we should have stricter gun laws. People say that we should not not have guns, just stricter rules, and he's against that. I think it's charming that he got a taste of his own medicine even though it is a tragedy, and it is very painful. And I I don't wish that on anyone, but I also think that if we had stricter gun laws, you know, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Just me.

This was an act of targeted political violence. Peaceful discourse is the foundation of our democracy, not violence or settling differences at gunpoint. Minnesota proved compromise is possible even in politically charged times. We must stand against all forms of political violence. This tragic act in Minnesota should serve as a reminder that democracy and debate in halls of congress, state houses, and school boards is the way to settle our differences peacefully and move society to a better place.

"the person who shot and killed right wing political commentator Charlie Kirk was like the majority of shooters in America, a young white male from a conservative pro gun religious background." "After being told for two straight days that the left had declared war on America, that the shooter was most likely trans, or in congresswoman Nancy Mace's words, pro tranny." "We still don't know the motivation for the killing, but we will find out more in the coming days." "We have a gun problem in America." "the two children who were shot in school the same day Kirk died were shot by a 16 year old who had been radicalized online by white supremacist groups and had easy access to a handgun." "The day Charlie Kirk died, the Republicans in the Senate voted not to release the Epstein files, something Kirk himself had called for them to do."

"Do you accept, Carrie, that this is a it's not just a one-sided problem? The political violence and violent rhetoric is a problem on both sides of the divide, and it's incumbent on everybody in a position of authority and influence to take the lead here in trying to to just tone things down." "There's been a few cases where it goes from from the right to the left, but there's been an exorbitant number where it's coming from the left to the right. And you can't deny that. If you add it all up, it's just more violence. I mean, president Trump was nearly assassinated. There's another attempt on his life." "The media has to take credit for what they have caused, the chaos they've caused in our country, and they haven't done it. And until they do, they need to be turned off, canceled, muted. They're absolutely abhorrent."

"Police officers from the Minneapolis Police Department immediately responded, entered the church, and attempted to provide first aid and rescue some of the children that were hiding throughout building." "Two young children, ages eight and 10, were killed where they sat in the pews." "17 other people were injured, 14 of them being children." "Two of those children are in critical condition." "The coward who fired these shots ultimately took his own life in the rear of the church." "We will stand together to protect our children, our schools, and our houses of worship." "This deliberate act of violence is just an a a sign of cruelty that is beyond comprehension." "Our hearts our hearts are broken for everyone that's been affected by this tragedy." "We believe it is one suspect, a sole shooter." "We believe he is deceased." "He is in his early twenties."

System is reactive; "Something bad happens, we react to it." To prevent it, "the only way to stop it is to identify the shooter ahead of time or keep the weapons out of their hands." A debate is needed on "freedom versus protecting children," asking how many school shootings before keeping firearms out. "It's always a young white male, almost always." There has been "one school shooting involving a female"—"Wasn't in Tennessee. Tennessee"—but "other than that, it is usually young white males."

"I'm a constitutionalist." "All I care about is my constitutionally protected rights and the future of my children." "we don't have a gun problem here in this nation. We have a problem with mental health and we have a problem with evil." "It doesn't matter if evil utilizes our gun, a car, a baseball bat, a machete, or a rock." "It's an operation to circumvent your constitutionally protected rights." "America, if you give up your guns, you're not gonna have any rights." "You need to stand up and you need to tell these corrupt career politicians to get fucked."

Consider the shooter, who came from an affluent background and displayed signs of hatred in his manifesto. Our children are being radicalized to hate the very country that has provided for them. Despite having everything, he resorted to violence. We must address the radicalization of young people, as I see a growing animosity among them. Celebrating someone's death, like having dance parties in response to violence, is not something I support. It's crucial to acknowledge and focus on these issues.