, will i be able to sleep again? what do i say to my other children? what happens tomorrow? god bless the loss of innocent life on this sad day. may the lord be near the broken hearted and take those crushed in spirit because they are going to need a lot of help and a lot of our prayers. . god love you . >> texas newspapers this

morning. dallas morning news with their headlines, 19 children, two adults killed in school shooting, suspect dead. the massacre of young children with another gruesome moment for a country scarred by an almost ceaseless string of mass killings at churches, schools and stores. if you go to the american-statesman, the bold headline in bold type, enough is enough, the sub headline saying that officers reportedly killed the gunman and then from the pages of the texas tribune, as parents awaited news, residents processed their shock. somehow, the headlines played out in texas and other headlines with the president himself going for cameras, talking about the event yesterday, and this is the headline from bloomberg. resident biden domains u.s. "stand up to gun makers after

texas attack leaves 19 children dead." you can see that full statement from the president at our website on c-span.org from yesterday, but here is a portion. c-span.org . >> as a nation we have to ask when in god's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby. when in god's name we do what we all know needs to be done. this is 3000 -- 10 years since i stood up at a high school -- a great school in connecticut. where another gunman massacred 26 people including 21st graders -- 20 first graders at sandy hook elementary school. since then there have been over 900 incidents. marjory stoneman douglas high school. santa fe high school in texas.

oxford high school in michigan. the list goes on and on. it grows when you include mass shootings at places like movie theaters, houses of worship. a grocery store in buffalo, new york. i am sick and tired of it. we have to act. and don't tell me you can't have an impact on this carnage. i spent my career as a senator and vice president working to pass common sense gun laws. we can't and won't prevent every tragedy. but we know they work and have positive impact. when we passed the assault weapons down, mass shootings went down. when the law expired, mass shootings tripled. the idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong.

host: that's part of the statement from the president yesterday. you can see the full statement at c-span.org. you can comment on the events specifically occurring out of texas with that mass shooting had at an elementary school. you can reach out to us at (202) 748-8000 for the eastern and central time zones and (202) 748-8001 for mountain and pacific time zones. you can text us at (202) 748-8003 and as always you can post comments on our facebook and twitter feeds. one of the people also responding yesterday in the halls of congress was senator ted cruz. the business insider can up that story about comments made to cnn , saying senator ted cruz tuesday proposing in the wake of that shooting that more armed officers be stationed at schools. he asserted that he did not believe gun control was a

solution to halting gun violence. >> democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. that doesn't work. it's not effective. it doesn't prevent crime. host: jaclyn in ohio. europe first. caller: good morning. it's going to be a choice between morality and money. the manufacturers of these big guns are making multiple aliens of dollars in profits and the

lobbyists are funneling money into the campaign coffers of the politicians. and they like the money. the politicians love the money. and morality doesn't mean nothing. -- mean a thing. they can get up and talk about their thoughts and prayers. thoughts and prayers are going to do absolutely nothing to stop the carnage. they love the money and the money is going to win out again. we have no morality. we have no ethics. no compassion in this country. we have people like ted cruz who will take the money and smile all the way to the bank. or cornet or whatever his name is, the other senator from texas. i'm an old lady. i'm 84 years old.

host: we are going to go to sterling, virginia. andrew. you are next. caller: please hear me on this and please don't cut me off. i wish i could say good morning, but it's anything but. once again we wake up this morning to the news of another horrific school shooting that has left at least 19 innocent children and two teachers dead at the hands of another gun loving psychopath. only in america does this happen on a regular basis. no parent should have to worry about sending their child to school with the fear that they will be murdered. no preschooler should have to participate in active shooter drills as part of the school curriculum. once again, this massacre could have been prevented if not for the blind ambition, the quest for power and the cowardice of republican lawmakers. mcconnell and every republican in congress have blood on their hands this morning. their fealty to their nra donors

and their blood money for their reelections has resulted in this tragedy. for years democrats have attempted to pass common sense gun laws only to have it die in the senate without a single republican vote. these republican cowards would rather submit to mcconnell and protect these beautiful innocent children and the americans who have died from racially motivated gun violence. host: william in orange park, florida. good morning. caller: i don't know what to say to these idiots. i really don't. when i was going to school, i'm 76 years old. when i was going to school, you had to hit a bar to lock the door from the inside. then the door opened up. why can't they put them back on the schools? put the lock on the inside. it can't be opened from the outside.

these idiots saying guns -- are they nuts? what if one of the guys took a knife and cut everybody up? would that satisfy them? host: that's william in orange park, florida. a major debate on and control -- gun control -- chuck schumer will be under heavy pressure to bring a gun control measure to the floor before the july 4 recess. everyone of us should be put on the record. senator blumenthal -- the members of congress already taking heat for not having a

serious debate on gun control measures since 2013 after sandy hook. estella from oregon. go ahead please. caller: good morning. i don't think more gun control is going to stop any of this. i remember when i was a kid, everybody had their guns in their trucks. you got out of school, you took off, you shot at cans and stuff. those days are definitely over. i don't think more gun control is going to help, taking people's guns away or gun rights. i think instead of sending all those billions of dollars all over the world and we had just this lockdown over covid, they were so worried about kids breathing on each other. why don't they secure these

schools better? it shouldn't matter what grade or how old they are. they all should be very well protected. there's no reason why you can't nowadays with all the new technology. i think they just need to get together and do this. it shouldn't be republican and democrat. it shouldn't have anything to do with that nowadays it's always democrat, republican, black, white. it's how they keep everything stirred up and divided. they need to put their money where their mouth is. taking care of these kids. host: one of the reactions came from john cornyn yesterday. he's quoted saying the shooting is every parent and teachers worst nightmare. no child or teacher should ever have to wonder -- my heart goes

out to the hospital receiving care. the loved ones who lost their lives. as a parent the pain they must be feeling is unimaginable. i'm grateful to everyone who worked to stop the shooter and the medical staff working to prevent further loss of life. from new york, we will hear next from sean. caller: i have a 4-year-old and a 7-year-old. i'm in new york. it seems like these schools are definitely unprotected in terms of the doors being unlocked. anybody could walk into the schools. these schools are definitely not properly secured with armed guards or anything, especially public schools. not only that, i do believe there is a humongous problem in this country with kids who are on these psychotropic drugs.

they are taking all kind of pills. i listens to the president this morning and he didn't even address the fact that these people are taking very hard pharmaceutical drugs, and this is a humongous problem in this country in terms of just pharmaceutical drugs and how they are using them this country has a sickness at this point with how we are dealing with this. they want to bring up gun control and things like that the guns are a tool just like a car. you can do irrevocable damage with the car. it doesn't matter the tool really. i agree that it's a dangerous

tool, but in responsible hands, these are the people who need to be protecting the kids. caller: the state of south carolina has pretty much stepped up to the plate. we have 304 resource officers in every school. every other state should do the same. host: that's david's thoughts and south carolina. you can add yours as well if you want to give us a call. (202) 748-8000 eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8001 mountain and pacific time zones. hill reported that a compromise can control measure crafted in the aftermath sandy hook by senators joe manchin and pat toomey failed in the senate in

2013. that was a 54-46 vote. four democrats who are no longer in office joined republicans to block the legislation. no major national legislation to increase gun control has succeeded in the decades since despite numerous democratic politicians including president biden calling for bands on sales of assault style weapons and other measures. longtime gun control advocate senator chris murphy took to the floor just minutes after the shooting. here is senator murphy's comments from yesterday. >> what are we doing? what are we doing? just days after shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down african-american patrons, we have another sandy hook on our hands. what are we doing?

there were more mass shootings than days in the year. our kids are living in fear. everything the time they set foot in the classroom because they think they are going to be next. what are we doing? why do you spend all this time running for the united states senate? why do you go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in a position of authority, if your answer as the slaughter increases and our kids and for their lives, we do nothing? what are we doing? why are you here? if not to solve a problem as existential as this? this isn't inevitable. these kids weren't unlucky. this only happens in this

country. and nowhere else. nowhere else to little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day. nowhere else to parents have to talk to their kids as i have had to do about why they got slapped into a bathroom and told to be quiet for five minutes just in case a bad man entered that aldean. what else does that happen except here in the united states of america, and it is a choice. it is our choice to let it continue. what are we doing? in sandy hook elementary school, after those kids came back into those classrooms, they had to adopt practice in which there would be a safe word that the kids would say if they started to get thoughts in their brain about what they saw that day.

if they started to get nightmares during the day, reliving stepping over their classmates bodies as they tried to flee the school. in one classroom, that word was monkey. and over and over through the day, kids would stand up and yell monkey. and a teacher or paraprofessional would have to go over to that kid, take them out of the classroom and talk to them about what they had seen, work them through their issues. sandy hook will never be the same. this community in texas will never be the same. why? why are we here? host: you can see more from senator chris murphy at c-span.org. as far as initial reaction to the shooting in texas, from pennsylvania we will hear from ray. caller: i have a couple of things i would like to go over.

first of all, i don't know what i want to call them who came on a few calls before me and said psychotropic drugs was causing all the problems, in the 60's there were more psychotropic drugs taken than any time in history and i didn't hear many massacres back then like they have now. the second thing is i heard him say good guys with guns should take care of the bad guys. texas has millions and millions and millions of good guys with guns. what happened in texas? maybe they can explain that thirdly, if you want to stop the gun violence, you do what we do with other areas. we have shown dead babies in syria, dead bodies in war zones. the first persons to be in those schools should be people with cameras and they should show what these guns do to real bodies. show them on tv. show them to everybody. rick them see it. we never get to see it. we only hear about it. show them a few times. put it up in the senate when

what's his name, cancun cruz is talking. put it behind him. show the bodies and maybe something will happen. host: dug in staten island is next. caller: that morning. thank you for c-span. i don't know how much time you will allot me, that i want to say i'm a former educator. i used to work with elementary, early childhood and physically challenged develop mentally disabled children. i remember the trauma that they went through after 9/11. we unfortunately had three students that lost their parents. one of them lost both of their parents at my school. it stayed with them for a very long time. if i could dispel a few myths about what i've heard so far. good guys with guns stop bad

guys. we need more police officers. in buffalo, there was a retired police officer there who shot the guy, but because he was so kevlar vested, he wasn't able to stop him. at this shooting here in texas, there was a former sheriff who was there on the premises. he shot at him. two officers had responded and they shot him and this guy still got into the school. the school itself has a series of entrances and exits which you are supposed to be not able to get through. somehow he got through those. so all these things about your safety and more police officers and good guys to stop bad guys, it's really a false narrative. mr. cruz will be starring as the headline speaker at the national

rifle association on fridayweek. 275 miles away from the school where we shot in texas. senator cornyn was supposed to be a speaker, but he said he has something personal that has just come up and he won't be able to make it. he needs to stay in washington, d.c. -- the american public say something is rational, we should do it. we shouldn't be held hostage by one party of republicans in the senate. host: that's dug in new york. -- saying that governor greg

abbott at the time, including the list of senators cornyn and cruz were scheduled to attend the nra convention in houston. that's the story from the nbc affiliate in dallas. let's hear from susan in maryland. go ahead. caller: i just want to say that that last color makes a lot of sense. a majority of gun owners today, they really want to see something like background checks , but they are prevented i the senate. but the house has passed a number of gun check legislations but they have stalled in the senate did here we go again with another gun shooting. buffalo and those people who were killed because of their race. and now we have as many as 10 people are dead because of an 18-year-old kid in texas.

can legally go into a store and buy two ar-15 assault rifles. these rifles were specifically made for war. they weren't made for shooting. domestically. and all i can say is nothing will be done. they will be some legislation introduced in the congress but it won't pass. and a couple of weeks from now we will forget all about this and move onto to the next story. and nothing is going to be done until i think this generation dies out and maybe the next generation will actually do something. but right now the nra controls and you will have a number of congressmen including trump going before that thing and shedding their crocodile tears about how awful it was but saying, we are going to fight for you. host: here is jim in ohio. good morning.

caller: good morning. real briefly, i'm not making light of what happened yesterday in texas. i realized that with the nra being so strong, that what's going to happen is we're never going to have any kind of legislation being passed. my wife in her written letter to one of the senators from ohio, the fact that the vote went wrong against the automatic weapons. we should have a barney law. that means everybody is allowed one bullet and that's it. we can't aluminate these guns because of course the nra is so strong. but if we eliminate the bullets, then they can't worry about going into schools or grocery stores or anyplace. if they only have one bullet they are not going to do anything. that's all i have to say. host: that's jim in ohio.

scores of mass shootings have occurred since sandy hook including the 2018 shooting that killed 17 at marjory stoneman douglas high school in part, florida. the shooting the same year that killed tang at santa fe high school in new mexico. some of the sandy hook families say they can predict the nation's reaction, which veronica taylor osaka, the mother of the youngest child to die a new tenant described on tuesday as unfortunately a state of paralysis. because they involved children, they stoped anguished debate over gun policies and legislation. that's just some of the other related topics comes to the shooting. you can respond on our phone lines.

we will go next to gary from north carolina. go ahead please. caller: my point is this. there's not a lot of mass shooting. there are a lot of school mass shootings. it's gotten to be some kind of a cult thing to pick schools. if we were to go to harden these buildings, it would just move to shopping centers, malls, playgrounds some other thing. but the reason why it is schools is because it gets so much attention. when people want the attention, they target a school. and who's in school, kids. so what's happening is because

the current uproar about it and the way to get attention. by the time you harden schools, they can just move over to -- i'm not going to mention any names, but a store type things. and they get popular. the colts target will just shift. so it will be playing workable chasing around and planting a cop in front of the building to protect it, he's vulnerable. people can just walk up and sneak up on him. just his presence wouldn't be a deterrent because the nature of the attack is so sneaky. he wouldn't stand a chance. he would just be a sitting duck and that comment about the one bullet thing, there are so many bullets out there. what we need to do is get rid of these videogames, the music that

glorifies it. just the culture. it needs to start there because these kids are impressionable and they are all the same age that are doing it. host: lets you david in riverside, cal on you. caller: thank. it's a very sad thing to happen. it reminds you of sandy hook. any time someone comes into an elementary school and shoots children, it's incredibly sad. the problem is what to do about it. the congressman was saying in nowhere else in the world as this happened than in america. i wonder does it happen in china where there's 1.4 billion people? no. because they have no freedom at all. we have the second amendment that protects our freedom. that's for self-governing people. john adams said our constitution

would only work for of religious and moral people. it wouldn't work for people who tooviolent video games, yes. that didn't happen in the 1950's or 1960's. we've gone so far away from that. we are reaping what we sold -- so. host: we will continue on until 8:00. you can follow us on the phone or text lines, and you can post on her social media sites at facebook or twitter. we will report about president biden's nominees for the bureau of tobacco and firearms, and explosives. they write that this is the most public part of the effort to become only the second person to run the complement -- gauntlet.

a political high wire act that went over the senate judiciary kitty -- committee. there was a resurgence in mass shootings that will likely dominate the hearing. senators will question after a gunman killed 14 students at the time of reporting. the texas shooting comes a little less than 10 years after sandy hook elementary in newtown connecticut. a shooter killed 26 students and teachers, and there is more to that hearing, particularly with the president's nominee with the atf. stay close to c-span for that hearing. we will hear the nominees thoughts, much like the issue of the newsroom, yesterday, which will be brought up during the hearing. this is robert and marilyn. go ahead. -- robert in maryland created go ahead. caller: how are you? you just talked about $40

billion in the ukraine? why can't we take that money and send it to all of the counties and all of the school systems to allocate for private security and private arm securities. that is for every school in the country. it is pretty simple. after classes started, all of the doors are locked in order to enter the school, you must go to security to get into the school. it would be pretty simple, to me. my question is, what are young kids doing. how do they get here? they seem to be from another country. why don't we discuss that? host: governor abbott brought that up in his comments. caller: where they brought here by illegals? and the government is trying to manufacture a depression. they are destroying this country

from within and every which way. you have every bit of evidence with baby formula, gas, everything you need to know. it is a manufactured depression. host: will leave it there. joseph in virginia, go ahead. caller: good morning. punish the person, not the gun. where were the parents of both of these guys? the guy in buffalo and the guy yesterday? what do their families look like because this is where the problem is. you cannot legislate craziness. my gun rights are to protect me and my family from crazy people like that. the fbi, who were on the list, at the hospital. we have background checks. i have plenty of guns. you cannot buy a gun without

going through a background check. even if you buy a gun online, the online place has to send it to a physical location where you go through a background check. i saw the senator -- from connecticut. spouting off the mouth. we must give up our protections. you must give up the assault style weapon. your security detail carries this. if you're going to disarm us, you must walk down the street disarmed. there were crazy people out here, and you know what? i live in stafford, virginia. you know how many people got murdered with an assault style weapon last year? none. zero. host: ok. charlene in indiana. go ahead. caller: i just want the people

who have this pro-gun stance and assault rifle stance that their arguments are not holding up, and they sound lame and hollow. if guns made us all safer, we would be the safest country in the world, and we are not. one more thing. vote. vote these people out. if we can gain two seats in the senate, we can take care of a lot of things. it's not going to change until we vote these idiots out. thank you. host: robert is next. robert is in pennsylvania. hello. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: guns are not the problem. the problem is that the candidate, when it was burning down in 2020, he never came out to condemn the violence. not one time. his vice presidential running

mate, started a fund to bailout all of the troublemakers so they could come and continue to burn down the next day. he created mated that she created the environment and the atmosphere. the chickens have come to roost. host: how do you account for mass shootings before the bind administration? caller: it is still democratic policies. not pursuing crime. it's no jail, no bail, and get out the next day. that's been their motive. for a lot of this, it was created, and you can get up on a podium and scream and yell all you want, but i don't believe a word he says. i don't believe what a congressman says. he is a pathological liar. he is not happy unless he is lying to us. host: we will hear next from tom

in oregon. go ahead. caller: there was a caller a couple of calls back, and a couple of other ones -- the guns are the problem. if you put a gun on a table and have people walk back and forth and back and forth, what is the gun doing? nothing. so it is not the gun. i haven't heard anyone say anything about the criminals that have hardened in their intent to hurt someone. they already have guns by however they get it. it's time to either put the police back on the street since they are not going to do that, then give armed weapons to responsible people because of a

person wants to do any kind of a mass shooting, it goes into a building and has a pretty good idea that seven or eight people out of every 10 as some sort of a weapon. he is probably not going to want to go in there, and he is going to go where hopefully hardly anyone has a gun. it's time to arm the people so they can defend themselves, their homes, their families, and if someone else is in danger, then everybody needs to have a gun. host: let's hear from kelly and alabama. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am not going to go down the lane that everyone -- we can have eight gun debate. it seems like both sides.

this is a little bit of personal information. my husband committed suicide five years ago. when the toxicology came back, it shocked me. all of the things that were in him. i young man on the program on medication. i would like, maybe, i never hear certain things like maybe autopsies, possibly with this young man. possibly, i mean, there's the gun debate. everything. what was it exactly that caused him to kill his grandmother? were there -- was there math in his system? was there alcohol? was there psychotropic drugs? was theirs annexed? -- was there xanax?

there is a lot to be said about -- i mean, there is a lot to be said, but also, i think, what is in that person's system? you can look at their website or their social interactions. but i also think it is important for people who are substance abusers, a lot of them will tell you that they have said and done things that they absolutely cannot remember recall. i think this may be important. what is in the system? host: dennis kelly in alabama. one of the people responding to the news coverage history was greg abbott. >> however, that is when parents drop their kids off at school, they have every expectation to

know that they are going to pick their children up. when a school day ends. and there are families who are in morning right now. in the state of texas. it is in morning with them. the reality that these parents are not going to be able to pick up their children. our job is to multifold. we must address what exactly happened at this crime scene, and to take this information and do everything that is necessary to ensure that the crime scenes like this are not going to be repeated in the future. and we are going to ensure the safety and security of our schools. host: robert in louisiana. caller: good morning morning brad how are you? it is a sad day in america. all of these shootings. this has gone along. you don't even have to have them. you don't have to have an idea if you have a gun or maybe,

anybody can get a gun. this is washing across all of america, and our schools in the 70's and 80's, we did not have to lock down the schools just for people who were going to school. now you have to lock down the whole school. school is like a jail. this is gotten out of hand. they want to blame it on joe biden. they want to blame it on obama. they want to blame it on the nra. they just want guns or everybody to walk around with, like the wild wild west. if you live in the wild wild west right now, every -- this is not the last one. there's going to be another gun shooting. in the next couple of weeks, i guarantee it, because it could be in another school. it could be at the white house prayed we don't know.

but you have to barricade the white house right now because of the insurrection we had. now, we have a lot of people -- this country was attacked by insurrectionists. host: worthington, pennsylvania. you are next up. hello. caller: i hear this, and hello? hello? yes? they're all these shootings and stuff here. hello? hello. they're all these shootings going on. i'm going to keep blaming the gun and not the person. we have all of these ideas as to why this is happening. back in the 1970's, we never had the shootings. we were raised that if you did something wrong, you were punished at home for doing something wrong. now, i see all of these kids

being shot in the back. we have shootings every day on the news. it is really sad because those parents have feelings about losing their kids. we have these drive-by shootings . it is about -- it is not about the gun. if it wasn't the gun, it would be a vehicle or a knife, other than these guns. we have to get our country straightened out. our kids don't have rules anymore. they get to be the boss of the bus driver. nobody has authority over kids anymore. this is coming from -- we were not going to tell our children know anymore. you cannot discipline your kids. were wondering why we have such a problem. legislators don't listen to what the public is asking for or saying. there is no american dream anymore. we can't go by vehicle because we cannot afford it.

where are they american dreams for young kids? we need a reason to grow up and be a good citizen. host: wanda in pennsylvania. a couple of you are commenting via text and tweet. here's one from north dakota saying that we have drug commercials and media and violence. anything goes with entertainment. it contributes to a mental instability and disregard. this is joe louis off of arch twitter feed saying i don't want to hear people blaming video games or lack of religion or user. i don't want to hear them blaming mental illness. many people suffer from mental illness and they don't kill innocent kids. the problem is proliferation of assault weapons. and guns. if you want to comment, or if you want to send us a texas morning, (202) 748-8003. francis is next to michigan.

[indiscernible] you know they can, but they won't. i'm getting tired of hearing these kids getting killed all the time. thank you. host: we will hear from chris and eugene, oregon. caller: can you hear me? i have a question for this office here. since when is it ok, as a teacher, right? since when is it ok to go into a school and murder 19 kids and a couple of teachers? [indiscernible] guns don't pill people. of course not. since when is it ok for some lunatic in two days later, mark

my words, it never happened. move on. since when is it ok for some lunatic to go into a school and murder 19 kids, two teachers? host: this is iona in oregon. caller: hello. i want to extend my support to all of the school districts that have violence perfection programs, and the ones i am familiar with started in preschool and kindergarten. they identify students that are having trouble with behavior and empathy. from there, we have the first steps in the second step to

prevent with this program. it began in eugene, oregon, and it is a program that works. it is by research. the second part is, working with parents and doing the assessment. if the student needs a small group, it would be five students. the school counselor, one school counselor, one teacher -- works with teachers and parents, just for a small classroom. at the most, 10, depending on what the situation is with the student. so, yes, both times, counselors working with parents and teachers, and also consulting with the school psychologist. it works. it's something -- it's helped so many. host: iona giving us a call

about a shooting in texas. you can comment on the remainder of the time up until 8:00. for those of you in the eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8000, and in the mountain and pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. there were primaries in the west yesterday, and we will give you a snapshot of the results. here's reporting out of atlanta. governor brian kemp easily dispatched his hand-picked donald trump challenger and a republican primary that limited the presidents conspiracy fueled politics in a critical swing state. kit -- stacey abrams will face him in one of the most controversial decisions. the republican results combined with the loss -- the presidents backhanded rebuke for the former president prioritized almost all

others. the anger from the governor's refusal to overturn the election results in 2020 in georgia, because president trump to recruit someone to challenge the sitting governor. looking at the senate, this is from w mag. herschel walker reports that president trump wants to win eight primary, anti-incumbent will be facing walker, he he defeated five fellow republicans, including the erik paulsen culture commissioner and a former trump official and navy veteran. out of texas, taking a look at that. the last antiabortion democrat in the u.s. house of representatives declared victory in a narrow primary race.

they refused to concede as the race was separate by less than 200 votes with all counties reporting their votes. the election is still close to call and we are waiting for every eligible ballot and eligible votes to be counted. in a tweet short after, it was said that the representative declared himself a winner. their story from the texas tribune says it was just before midnight that the representative led by a narrow 177 votes. we will talk about those results, just to give you a snapshot of what is going on from yesterday. politically, this is richmond virginia, keith. hello. caller: i just wanted to chime in this morning. i got up this morning and listened to you all as you came on, and i was aware of this because it is all on the news, but i just want to say a few things if i could. if you give me a moment. i just want to say this whole thing about this discussion -- i

guess ludicrous. we talk about this year after year. month after month. now it is week after week we are talking about this thing with the shootings. i just think it is time that as americans, we just grow up and we try to come together. there are a couple of comments i want to make about this. i try not to be too harsh. i want you to understand that, first of all, from the other callers, we cannot turn out schools -- our schools into prisons to protect our kids. we don't want that in america. we don't want to have our kids going to schools and be on lock down until the end of the day just because we are afraid. what is america going to turn into? if this is the case, second, i just want to just prepare something for the conscious

understanding of what is going on right now. if you are a producer you could come up with all of the gun violence shootings in the last 10 years. the people could just really see what is happening in our country. you hear about a shooting and you forget about it. you hear about it and you forget about it. but if you had all the facts and put them in front of somebody, they might be smart enough to really say ok. it is time to do something. host: we will hear from doug in new jersey. hello. caller: i was just wondering, and maybe i missed the details, but in new jersey, you cannot walk into a school. it there was a lock, you would have to be buzzed in. i am wondering if it is different in texas, or how the shooter got in. i don't know the details of it after that. can you help me with that? host: let's go to maryland.

go ahead. caller: good morning. [indiscernible] the constitution protects all of us. i see stuff like this, and it makes me sick. in most cases, politicians say they are going to fix it. ordinary u.s. citizens will fix it. they won't let stuff like this happen. people sit there and say guns don't kill, it is the people. there are so many people in other countries that don't have these problems, but because they don't have access to guns, they don't die like this. they don't use a gun, and they key is knives or a car, but yes,

but how many people can you kill with a knife compared to a gun? it is only in america that everybody were almost everybody owns a gun. we are not any war zone. this is a free country where you can walk without thinking that somebody is going to shoot me. i should be free from that. this makes me think that this is not a police issue. this is common sense. it is not fixing the politicians. it is like minimum wage. if you paid a politician minimum wage, everyone would get a better pay. host: let's go to james in arkansas. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am a disabled combat veteran from vietnam. i've used weapons of the war. i've had them used on me. i want to say something about the first amendment.

a politician quoted the first to mimic, but they ignore the second part. it is a well regulated militia pretty here's what you do. if you go to buy a gun, you have to prove that you are a member of a militia as the constitution states. how many of you gun owners are in a well regulated militia? zero. you want to read the first part of the second amendment, but not the second part. it says in a well regulated militia. otherwise, you cannot own a gun. thank you. host: tonya from virginia, go ahead. caller: good morning pa thank you for taking my call. i am very angry and very sad this morning. we are discussing this again. [indiscernible] i remember watching the story about children being killed. we have a mental illness problem

in this country. i want families males, young men, who are lonely and need mental help, and i need them to get that help today because this cannot keep on going. how can an 18-year-old who doesn't have a job by a gun that is between 500 and $1200. we have a problem in this country. we cannot let our babies be slaughtered at school. i am angry and i am sad, and we need to get together and get our sick children help. that is all i need to say. [indiscernible] thank you. host: we will hear from cisco in wyoming. go ahead. cisco in wyoming. caller: it's a sad day here. hello. can you hear me? hear me? host: go ahead. caller: it's a sad day in

wyoming. i am talking. can you hear me? host: you're listening to your television. listen to the phone. go ahead with your comment. let's go one more call. catherine in illinois. hello. caller: good morning. i just have a real simple comment. i have a son who lives and works in the czech republic. yes a 3.5-year-old. he is already told me, mother, i am not going to raise my son in the united states and go to schools that have gun symbols on walls, and they do preventative drills for all sorts of things like don't shoot me, and the kids in the rest of the world, they go to schools to learn. they are not in fear. it -- how can we stand this? we are looking for people in the

united states. that is all i wanted to say, and god bless everybody. host:washington journal continu. host: joining us now is scott lincicome. thank you for coming on the program. guest: my pleasure. host: when you take a look at these larger aspects of economics and trade how do those things factor into what is going on with baby formula in the united states? guest: unfortunately, we have put to very high walls around the united states >> we are going to leave the discussion but you can find "washington journal" online. we take into this hearing on baby formula in the united states.