virginia tech, blacksburg, virginia. where were you that day? what do that to you about guns in virginia, and the issue of mental health? sen. kaine: when i was on city council, richmond had the second highest per capita at my time. i went to too many crime scenes and funerals, too many gatherings of victims in church basements to be supportive of them. so i had some scar tissue already. but that day in particular, worst day of my life, i had left to go on a trade mission with 100 business leaders from virginia to japan and india. and we had just landed in japan, and literally landed, gone to the hotel, checked in, i fell asleep, my security detail says you have to call back. there has been a horrible tragedy in virginia. this is now midnight, tokyo time. my chief of staff told the will is happening, unfolding. we still not really know. i said, get me back to the airport. ann and i are flying back. as we are sitting back in the airport lounge, the tragedy is unfolding. injured,led, 70 more is horribly deranged young person who had mental health

virginia tech dozens gathered at the april 16th mem to the 32 people kill on the blacksburg campus until yesterday it was the deadliest shooting in u.s. history. >> that's a mantle that we never wanted but we obviously never wanted to give it up because we never wanted anybody else to go through what we went through. >> the virginia tech campus stood in solidarity with orlando and paused for a moment of silence for the victims and their families. >> people on social media have been paying tribute to orlando using the # orlando united. twitter user says prayers continues for friends and family, may god hold them tightly. >> unbowed and unbent and unbroken. # orlando united. >> johnny says we have come together not as a commune but as a nation. the amount of donations, love and acceptance and support my community has received thh roug all of this is truly a blessing and warms my heart. thank you. and christina says there is more love than hate in this world, i still believe in love. >>> coming up tonight. dc area bars and restaurants, hopefully a lot of other new aerial footage aerial puls

i talked about the worst day of my life at blacksburg but the worst day in the senate was standing here on the floor in april of 2013 and having a debate about this very piece of legislation about background record checks. and we were surrounded in the gallery by the victims and the families from newtown. and they were watching us. there's a line in the letter to the hebrews that talks about being surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses and we were surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses and with them were virginia tech families. and they were together and they were watching us and they were praying i know for us that we would do the right thing and yet even with the family members who had suffered from your state, senator murphy and senator blumenthal, even with those family members hoping we would do the right thing, we couldn't get there. and as surely as night follows day, there have been other tragedies and now something i hoped would never happen, a shooting tragedy that eclipsed -- that eclipsed even this horrific tragedy in blacksburg in 2007. so the question that has to be as

blacksburg, virginia, 32 gunned down on the campus of virginia tech.some of the attacks america has endured. the president said america has a choice. >> we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. if we do nothing is a decision as well. >> reporter: today in orlando violence has left at least 50 more families in mourning. >> in the coming hours and days we'll learn about the victims of this tragedy. their names, their faces, who they were. the joy that they brought to families and to friends. and the difference that they made in this world. >> reporter: this evening some families are clinging to hope that their loved ones will be okay. the families who are learning that their loved ones have been killed are crippled by grief. lives forever shattered by one man. his hate and his guns. we have been here too many times before. and with no sign that anything will change, we fear this will not be the last. harry smith, nbc news, orlando. >> that'll do it for. >>> today marks the most deadly shooting in american history. this was an act of

blacksburg, we talked about virginia tech. single shooter. dorm, killed two people, and then went to the academic building and started shooting. killed himself just before the cops arrived. government installations. we have nine military installations. ft. hood, texas, a member of the military took a gun to work and started shooting, killed 13, injured 32 others. institute,aces gabrielle giffords, the shooting that took the life of one of our federal judges is an example of shooting in an open space. , with an worship example in south carolina shows howis review vulnerable churches are. the number of instances in churches are equal to that in malls. the chance of being in active shooter institute is the same in a church or in the mall. charlestonooting in that took the life of nine people in a church. others -- health care. where will you be when the shooting starts and what will you do when the shooting starts? before the shooting starts, we want to do a little planning. always be aware of your environment. locate the nearest exit. room, the

blacksburg, virginia, 32 gunned down on the campus of virginia tech.e president said america has a choice. >> we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. and to actively do nothing is a decision as well. >> reporter: in orlando, violence has left at least 50 more families in mourning. >> in the coming hours and days, we'll learn about the victims of this tragedy. their names, their faces, who they were, the joy that they brought to families and to friends, and the difference they made in this world. >> reporter: some families are clinging to hope that their loved ones, ones who survived, will be okay. the families who are learning that their loved ones have been killed are crippled by grief. lives forever shattered by one man, his hate, and his guns. we have been here too many times before, and with no sign that anything will change, we fear this will not be the last. harry smith, nbc news, orlando. >>> stay with nbc news and nbcnews.com for the latest on sunday's horrific attack in orlando. i'm dara brown. thanks for watching "early

dozens met at the memorial at the blacksburg campus to mourn the shooting victims. of talked about their new reasons to be afraid. >> virginia tech carried this mantle of being the place where the most deadliest shooting happened and that is a mantle we never wanted but we obviously never wanted to give it up. because we never wanted anybody else to go through what we went through. >> those new fears are sparked by the fact that a gay community was targeted. virginia tech pausing for a moment of silence in honor of the victims and families. >>> donald trump thinks that president obama should called the random shooting of act of radical islamic. >> matthew says it is radical islamic terrorism. that doesn't mean that every moslem is a terrorist but that radical islamic terrorism does exist. >>> sylvia rights no, it doesn't matter to me, people that died are still dead. the conversation on our facebook page. you can join in at any time. >>> a go fund me page 4 the victims and their families have raised more than $1.6 millions. organizers write that equality florida is

we learned a lesson in blacksburg and now we learned a lesson again. we can make ourselves safer. we can respect the second amendment. i own a gun. we can also have rules that make people safer. that day, in the senate, trying to enact background check legislation with the new town families sitting in the gallery like that cloud of witnesses watching us and sitting with them were virginia tech families. the fact we could not do the right thing, do the thing the american public wants us to do, extremely disappointing. i am not giving up. these tragedies are continuing to pileup. we had a journalist killed on live tv last summer. somebody with a horrible mental illness. we have to do a better job in this country and there are a lot of things i want to do in the senate. i hope we can embrace some common sense strategies that will end the scorch of gun violence in this country -- urge of gun violence in this country. >> as a governor, you had to --l with 11 sen. kaine: as a catholic, i am against the death penalty. i have never been a supporter of the death penalty. when i ran for off

but what unites all of the shootings from littleton to aurora to newtown to blacksburg to orlando is the weapon of choice in every case is a gun, often a very powerful gun, and aar fit teen style gun designed for the military, for law enforcement to kill as many people as likely as possible. what unites all of these incidents is our failure to do anything about it. no one mocking. t. they should anyone occur. no blog can allow us to say with certainty that there will still be killing in chicago and new haven and los angeles. there is no legislative guarantee that there will be another omar mateen. but the idea that we don't even try, the idea that we don't even proffer ideas on this floor, debate them as if sensitive to those of us who lived through this. i have great respect for the project that chairman shelby and ranking member mikulski have put on the floor. i know this isn't going to make the popular with many of my colleagues or with the of this body. but i don't think we should proceed with debates on amendment to this bill until we have figured out a way to come together on a

i said we learned a lesson at blacksburg and now we learn a lesson again. safer.make ourselves i own a gun. but we can make rules that make people safer. and that day in the senate trying to enact back ground check legislation with the new town family sitting in the gallery like that cloud of witnesses that spoken about in the letter to the he brews -- hebrews and sitting with us were the virginia tech families, the fact that we could don't the right thing, do the thing that the american public wants us to do extremely disappointing. but i'm not giving up. because sadly these tragedies continued to pile up. we had a reporter killed on live tv by someone who wanted to get publicity, somebody with a horrible mental illness. we've got to do a better job in this country. you know, there's a lot of things i want to do in the senate. i work on a lot of issues but i hope that we can embrace some common sense strategys that will send this scorch of gun violence in this country. i'm just going to do all i can to make sure we do. steve: let me ask you about as govern

i said we learned a lesson in blacksburg and again. we can respect the second amendment and peoples gun rights. i own a gun. we can have rules to make people safer. that day in the senate trying to enact background check legislation with the newtown families sitting in the gallery like that cloud of witnesses watching us and sitting with them were virginia tech families. we voted almost on the anniversary of the virginia tech shooting, the fact we couldn't do the right thing, the thing the american public wants us to do. extremely disappointing. i am not giving up. sadly the tragedies are piling up. we had a journalist killed on live tv last summer. we have to do a better job in this country. there are a lot of things i want to do in the senate. i work on a lot of issues. i hope we can employ some common sense strategies. >> as governor you had to deal with 11 executions. >> yeah. >> you are catholic. how do you deal with the public official obligations and your own personal faith? >> really hard. i am against the death penalty. i don'

that day, i got a phone call that a mentally deranged young people atrdered 32 virginia tech in blacksburg, virginia. ago, orlando two weeks that was the largest mass killing in american history. communityeek, my buried five young people from that one shooting. suddenly, this wasn't somebody else's problem. this was a problem that could affect us in our community like everybody else. this was an american problem. no other advanced country on the earth faces this phenomenon. year, 33,000 americans die at the end of a gun barrel. 66,000.o years, that is more that died in the entire vietnam war. think about the incredible disruption of the vietnam war years. it tore this country apart. -- it is no less so with this insidious phenomenon of mass gun violence in america. it must and. -- must end. we took a sacred of to protect these united states and defend the declaration of independence and the constitution, which talk about inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. thomas jefferson. let me tell you something, if you are deprived the first one of those rights, the othe

. >> i'll tell you, pat, i was this blacksburg after the shooting at virginia tech.nd i remember seeing people looking blank. there was this vacancy in people's eyes because there was so much shock. here we are almost ten years later and people are not as shocked anymore that these things happen because we've had so many incidents with so many people having been shot, but there is still this intense pain that you see from folks who are -- we saw people literally trying to hold each other up crying thinking about what had happened, looking at pictures of some of the memorials set up around town. and i think that was one of the overwhelming things that we saw down there. and then on the other side, as we've seen so many times before, this intense desire/need to help, people wanting donate money or volunteer time in some way. those are the two big things that we saw. >> and often after a horrific e like this or sandy hook or blacks about your, they give their thoughts and prayers to the victims and families, but what we're seeing now is more anger. there is always anger

facts is different, but what unites all of these shootings from littleton to aurora to newtown to blacksburg to orlando is that the weapon of choice in every case is a gun. often a very powerful gun, an ar-15 or ar-15 style gun that was designed for the military, for law enforcement to kill as many people as quickly as possible. what unites all of these incidents is our failure to do anything about it. no one law can guarantee that a shooting won't occur. no set of laws can allow us to say with certainty that there won't still be killings in chicago, in new haven, and los angeles. there's no legislative guarantee that there won't be another omar mateen. but the idea that we don't even try, the idea that we don't even proffer ideas on this floor, debate them, it's offensive to those of us that have lived through these. and so i have great respect for the product that chairman shelby and ranking member mikulski have put on the floor. and i know this isn't going to make me popular with many of my colleagues or with the leadership of this body, but i don't think that we should proceed with debat

blacksburg, virginia. 32 killed in that mass shooting 2007. newtown, connecticut 27 killed shootihooting good many of themm young children and so on down the line. there's the san bernardino shooting killed in that attack. an independent. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> host: go ahead. you're on the "washington journal." >> i believe this is anothered y attack sponsored by the u.s. government that we are currently going through. >> host: hold off on conspiracy theories. land for democrats. richard, good morning. >> i wanted to make a statement. [inaudible] congressmen -- how many people were confiscated after they drew down on law enforcement? >> host: congressmen commended you get that? >> guest: what richard is expressing as a concerned that the media rightfully has focused on the mass shooting spree that multiple deaths, but actually send sandy hook, we have had nearly 1000 mass shootings in this country that are just ravaging and terrorizing our communities. it is not always dozens of people who were killed. many times it is one

these innocent souls now join those lost at blacksburg, virginia, newtown, connecticut, killeen, texas, san bernardino, california, edmond, oklahoma, fort hood, texas, binghamton, new york, and aurora, colorado, as victims of modern warfare. 136 mass 6 has seen shootings, according to the gun violence archives. how can we countenance the continued ownership, availability and use of semiautomatic weapons such as the ar-15? what legitimate purpose can they serve? what legitimate need do they fulfill? how many more must die before a nation and reinstate the ban on such weapons in civilian life? would that have an impact? would such a ban save lives? we don't have to guess. we can look to the experience of australia, a nation with some significant parallels to the united states. in 1996, after the worst mass shooting in australian history, then prime minister john howard led the battle for what was to become the national firearms agreement which bans certain semiautomatic and self-loading rifles and shotguns and required all firearm licensed applicants to show a genuine reason for owning a

the number revised down to 49 with 53 injured, blacksburg, virginia, 32 killed in that mass shootingin 2007. newtown, connecticut, 27 killed in that shooting, many of them young children and so on down the line. san bernardino in 2015, 14 killed in that attack. manslaughter, a waiting in washington, d.c., an good inde >> caller: good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> hello. >> go ahead. you're on the washington >> caller: journal. >> caller: incidental this is another false flag attack sponsored by criminal element of the u.s. backed by this cycle we're going through. >> hold off on conspiracy theories, go to richard online for the democrats. good morning. >> caller: good morning. can you hear me okay? >> yes, go ahead. >> caller: i wanted to make a statement first. my statement is i'm more concerned with getting killed by road rage american than i am about a person that can walk on water. the other the other thing i want to ask my question of the congressman, how many people of the ranch guns were confiscated after they drew down on the people there. >> you're in and out. did you

we had a journalist killed on live tv in rogue close to blacksburg last summer by somebody who wanted publicity. somebody with a horrible mental illness. we have to do a better job in this country. there are a lot of things i want to do in the senate. i work on a lot of issues but i want to embrace some commonsense strategies that will and this gun violence in this country. i will do all i can to make sure we do. >> let me ask you about, as governor you had to deal with 11 executions. you are catholic and you talked about that. how do you deal with the public official obligations in your own personal faith? >> really hard because i'm against the death penalty. i don't think we need it. other nations don't have it and they're fine. i refuse to believe that the american public is worse than people in other nations. i've never been a supporter of the death penalty. when i ran for office, i ran to be governor of a system. i knew the first thing i would do is put my hand on the bible and say i would uphold the law. the law of virginia passed by the legislature is that the death penalty can

on april 17th, 2007, 32 people are killed at virginia tech in blacksburg, virginia.away from this area. >> when 14 people lost their lives in a mass shooting during a citizenship class. six months later, another shooting. this time in texas. an army major opening fire at fort hood army base. in july 2012, during a screening of "the dark knight rises" in aurora, colorado, 12 movie gores lose their lives. 58 more are injured. >> this is probably one of the worst things that's happened around here in a long time. and i'm just hoping it never happens again. >> five months later, the small town of newtown, connecticut, was forever changed. 20 of the 26 victims in the newtown mass shootings were between the ages of 6 and 7. >> every time i think of those kids, it gets me mad. >> in june of last year, nine victims at a south carolina church. >> is ththis is a tragedy that community should have to e are killed at a san bernardino california office. >> the worst mass shooting in united states history. police briefing us about 20 minutes ago, 50 people now dead. another 53 bro

facts is different, but what unites all of these shootings from littleton to aurora to newtown to blacksburg to orlando is that the weapon of choice in every case is a gun. often a very powerful gun, an ar-15 or ar-15 style gun that was designed for the military, for law enforcement to kill as many people as quickly as possible. what unites all of these incidents is our failure to do anything about it. no one law can guarantee that a shooting won't occur. no set of laws can allow us to say with certainty that there won't still be killings in chicago, in new haven, and los angeles. there's no legislative guarantee that there won't be another omar mateen. but the idea that we don't even try, the idea that we don't even proffer ideas on this floor, debate them, it's offensive to those of us that have lived through these. and so i have great respect for the product that chairman shelby and ranking member mikulski have put on the floor. and i know this isn't going to make me popular with many of my colleagues or with the leadership of this body, but i don't think that we should proceed with debat

december 14, 2012, 27 killed in newtown, 32 killed at that school shooting at virginia tech in blacksburg, virginia in 2007, now orlando on june 12, 50 people killed. that number could rise, 53 injured, reportedly. we will look for updates as well as we take your calls all morning this morning on the "washington journal." claudio is in leesburg, virginia. claudio, good morning. caller: good morning. donaldwanted to say that trump making comments about islam and mexicans, this is hate. he is calling radical muslims to come here and kill us, making comments like that. not a trump -- he is person to be a president of the united states. he is not a leader. a leader would not call to hate others. donald trump is calling radicals to kill america,. . host: donald trump put out a statement yesterday, saying in part nation was attacked by radical islamic terrorist, it was the worst terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11, and the second of its kind in six months. my deepest sympathy and support goes on to the victims, the wounded, and their families. he noted president obama's speech yesterday in

line of storms move through and likely very strong winds with it you see those temperatures 95 in blacksburgry warm temperatures and garden variety pop-up thunderstorms we are going to see. also humid so some of those thunderstorms just pop up in the afternoon. in towards the northern plains, a little bit of severe weather across areas of iowa and in to illinois. and then across north dakota and in to montana. that's where we could see a few tornadoes today in the afternoon. and down across parts of the southwest, little bit cooler than average. cooling back down in just to the low hundreds. not all that bad. all right, guys, send it back to you from belmont. >> thanks a million, rick. >> thanks, rick. >> a lot going on in the presidential race. we thought who better to talk to about it than herman cain who joins us live this morning. mr. cain, great to sigh. >> exood -- good morning. >> certainly you saw the opening salvos of hillary clinton getting pretty intense. we want to do play clips of it for our audience. watch this. >> when donald trump says let's make america great again, that is