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- Examining what journalist Pete Hammill called America’s “secret filthy heart” after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell analyzes the details of another tragic mass shooting in Texas.
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Don't pray. Vote them out of the office.
Gen Z is going to make that happen.
The wagons are already circling.
How about both.
Pray, that the find jobs that will lead to less damage and danger to all the rest of us. There. My thoughts and prayers for the Republican party of the United States.
Jobs, not political careers.
Mind Begs the Question:
Hitler falsely demonized Jews
As part of Sinister Plot to Rule
Guaranteed Evil Govts dont exist
Plan False Flag attacks,use Tragedy,to justify Draconian Laws?
Gov Abbott: "We need to find a way to stop the mental illness behind these shootings."
Also Gov Abbott: **cut $211 million from the state's mental health services budget**
Can we give a hand to Reagan? Destroying this country's mental healthcare system was a really great move.
Also, is Reagan a top 3 worst POTUS?
how about just making sure guns aren't allowed into gun free zones. simple.
@@user-dj6ul1ox7b And how about we make the U.S. a gun free zone?
@@dawnsmith9596 Ok. How do we keep the guns out?
I was in the 3rd grade when this happened and my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Black's husband was at the hotel, on duty when this happened.
I remember all of the sirens that seem to go on for hours that night; my parents glued to the tv, in tears
Mrs. Black was very quiet the next day and we read "independently" most of the day. A week later she apologized and told us she "didnt know if her husband was the officer who was shot."
I will never forget that week.
"as if Willie Mays could hit a home run without a bat"............ Thank you Pete Hamill. Thank you, Lawrence.
Thoughts and prayers are an insult if you refuse to do anything to stop the act from happening again
Actions speak louder than words 🙂 😮
People are pacified by their religion and hatred towards their fellow countrymen and it's all by design.
I'm so sick of "thoughts and prayers". They've become hollow words.
Texas has made itself a terrorist state by loosening their gun restrictions on everyone..Why not at least require a person to have a high school diploma and be 21 years old to get those weapons of war? Do something even if it's not enough. It would be a place to start. .
Yes. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lawrence O’Donnell, you need to do a nationally televised show about gun violence in America. You have a unique perspective and voice that needs to be heard by ALL!
Great job, sir 👍🏽
He does do a nationally televised show about gun violence. This one.
Mind Begs the Question:
Hitler falsely demonized Jews
As part of Sinister Plot to Rule
Guaranteed Evil Govts dont exist
Plan False Flag attacks,use Tragedy,to justify Draconian Laws?
Amen to that!
He is very well spoken but his perspective is in no way unique, lol.
YES
No one rips my heart out as eloquently as Lawrence O'Donnell.
I am not an American. But, I have just seen one of the most moving pieces of journalism ever. Well done Leawrence. Hopefully more folk in your country can rise up and remove the terrible blight you have upon you.
That blight is joe biden.
@@mooseantler* Republicans. Fixed it for you. You're welcome.
@@mooseantler Keep rooting for the killers.
@@mauricio2456 what killers do you speak of?
@@mooseantler and most definitely you too.
The only thing better than telling the truth, is listening to it.
We're listening to you, Lawrence.
How can we not?
Listening to the truth is good. Telling the truth over and over, that is this truth, must be soul destroying
@@mudmug1 Acting on it? That's illegal, doncha know?
Thats not the truth, no gun law or ban will prevent this from happening it will only leave more people defenseless
I'm Texan and have never voted (R), for anyone.
@xj 4low With that being said, what do you think of the Republican party now? As long as it doesn't effect some people, they just don't care. The gentleman who went to try and help a woman he thought was in the bushes praying, will never forget pulling her head back revealing that she had no face. Death is for the living.
Lawrence presents some of the most thoughtful - and honest - news coverage out there.
Agree.
There was nothing honest about this . Abbot Never said those words . This is typical left wing bs and you people are eating it for breakfast
Hahaha! You’re funny!
@@TheYamahog12 Better than stupid...
Everything he said was a lie attacks being carried out by Mexican cartel members
A very moving report Lawrence. As an elderly Aussie, I know there are many good and decent people in America, but sadly I have lost my respect for our most prominent Ally. We live in an unsettled and troubled world and I truly question whether your Allies feel safe with the relationship. I genuinely feel deep sadness for all the decent men and women and ALL CHILDREN, when you live in a country where you are unsure who you can trust. May God Keep you safe. My condolences to All;
Thank you friend.
Thank you, Margaret. I agree wholeheartedly.
U aussies get part of the blame... yep... Rupert is your fault... he has done more damage to the west than anybody... even more than tRUMP...
If your god didn't keep those eight people safe, why would he protect anyone else? More thoughts and especially prayers, please, because they work sooooo well...
Thank you for the prayer. We will need it.
As a 4th grader in 1963 my Mom gave me the bad news about JFk. We put our faith in Dr. King until April 1968. Then we put our faith in RFK until June.
I was in 4th grade too and I remember all the adults in school were crying when they learned JFK was killed.
Greg Abbott is saying that vacationers and tourists should avoid Texas indefinitely.
I’ll never step foot in Texas.
Going to Texas at your own risk - Highly Dangerous use CAUTION ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️
I was taught to stay away from texas as a child in a neighboring state. my grandfather always told me they were total nutjobs and he was right
Done!
I was offered an economy flight itinerary that had a two hour layover in Dallas…
I paid $200 more to fly on a different airline and AVOID even two hours in that particular city/state
Texas could have elected Beto. They chose not to.
My thoughts exactly.
Thank God!
When Beto spoke about taking people's guns, he committed political suicide in texas. Even liberals here like guns.
Yes that’s so true.
@@user-je4qz5fi4p Beto could've been the stepping stone to a change in all the Texas government. All it takes is one.
I hope the gentleman that described helping victims gets some mental health support. I can’t imagine the trauma that comes from seeing and experiencing something that awful.
Thank you dear Lawrence, the truth is bitter as well as rare, and much needed and appreciated…The team at MSNBC and the staff too must pay such an emotional price to research and report it daily… 👏🏼
Thank you for your eloquent and heartfelt reporting tonight Laurence.. I'm also tired of the hate and greed from the dark side of my country. We must be getting close to cleansing time 😔 and it's time to pick a side.. hate and fear or light and honor
Ignorance, fear...fertile ground for hate
I agree. We republicans cant wait.
I'm not American and yet I felt every word of Lawrence's monologue. It does amaze me though, that Americans aren't all out on the streets, because this has all gone way further than it should.
@@simmond08 you can't wait for what? More bloodshed?
@@sheilaboston7051 some of us are very unaware and perhaps complacent.. we must change as a group and I don't see it happening. The lies are also very strong
You nailed it, Lawrence. The majority of Texans voted for the pathetic excuses passing as "leaders" in the state and as GOP representatives, not only in the US Senate, but in the US House and the state legislature. Disheartening and frustrating.
Btw, I was not yet 13 when Bobby was murdered and I STILL mourn.
Propaganda networks gave them someone to hate and convinced them that diversity is bad. Those leaders are there because of dogma, greed, and supremacist ideology.
"Btw, I was not yet 13 when Bobby was murdered and I STILL mourn."
Is that because you've been watching Netflix? It's pretty strange either way.
There is a sickness, not only in Texas, but everywhere in U S A , in the minds of all.
Mind Begs the Question:
To support and aid an Apartheid State
Democratic,Fascist?
Wow your real old and can use the internet real good.
You must be one of those gaming elderly people like the Gaming Grandma
If I had to listen to someone express rage and bitterness, Lawrence, in the way you have, it would be you I would choose to listen to. Watching and weeping for the sadness that is America, from the relative safety of Australia but feeling it no less. All peace and strength to you.
Thank you friend.
Lol Australia is not safe.
I don't know why it is but in this event it's the loss of almost an entire Korean-American family that hits me the most, with only their 6 year old surviving. All loss of life in these tragedies is horrific but for some reason the loss of both parents and their youngest child haunts me on a whole other level.
Lawrence makes these points so intelligently and eloquently. Too bad this stuff is WAY over MAGAts heads.
They won't hear it as they exist in a total right wing bubble. That's all they listen to. Nothing else gets through or is heard. They have been completely propagandized.
You brilliant M0R0N. You proud ???
@@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings Is this spam?
Well, MAGAts would never watch Lawrence O'Donnell in the first place.
MAGA is funded by Russia.
Thank you for sharing these words from the past. Still ringing true, yet louder, harsher and more often in today's America.
Now, thousands more names join the uncaring heart of America.
Vote Trump
@@45xzy
you will have to write him in😂
@@45xzy for prison
@@45xzy Never
This was a wonderful, sad, moving piece in its own right, Lawrence. Thank you. For the depth, at least. 🙏
Heart-breaking.
I live in the UK, but feel so desperately sorry for all the Americans who know they too could be slaughtered by these sick people with their sick, monstrous weapons.
Lawrence I cannot express properly just how profound your words were tonight ! You always speak with passion and tonight you did hide the hate you felt, to your credit because I can't imagine how incredibly difficult it was for you! I didn't know about Pete Hamill until your broadcast tonight. I really knew very little about Robert Kennedy other than what I heard over the years and felt that he was a true and real person who cared. Pete Hamill's reporting hit me like none I've heard for as long as I can remember. How prolific and heart wrenching.....I'm at a loss for words. Thank you for reporting this as you are one of the few people who could make it so real ! Bless you Mr.O'Donnell 💞
I wonder why God isn't responding to GOP prayers.
1)They now worship Trump, not the God of the Bible. 2)God has standards for His people.
lol lol lol. Good point. Maybe, just maybe, there is no god ⚡
GOP in Texas also worships GUNS!
@@CycloneCyd seems obvious doesn`t it
You'd think after hearing Tre45on's deposition the evangelicals and "Christians " would realize the orange jeebus wasn't a "christian ."
" Men have been treating women like this for a million years " djt
Wow, that was some pretty profound journalism. I wish we had something like that today. No left, no right. Just anger at the life that had been sniffed out, all due to a government that doesn't care
Thank you Lawrence for your in-depth heart felt commentary . You have expressed the sorrow of most Americans in the wake of this most recent tragedy. The man who wrote about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy was correct about this spiritually dark and grossly evil nation. It (gun violence) will not end til this nation dies. I have no hope for it’s redemption.
It’s the guns and the right wing propaganda. People in America aren’t any different than any other humans ever born. Most people are going about their lives not thinking of killing or hating. Some of them were shopping that day. One hatefilled person with a gun changed the lives of everyone there.
Hopefully they will stop voting for republicans.
All orchestrated and financed False Flags by our own DOJ...But you're not intelligent enough to decipher this...obviously.
Thank you, Lawrence! So sad! My tears have been turned into anger.
Hit them by the money
Dont suppport turist Industry in Red State
So much pain. The gentleman who described trying to help the victims...he will never be the same. He will never get over what he saw.
The maniacs who murder the innocent people they gun down do so much more; they also murder the people who have to, or choose to, interact with the victims. They too have been murdered; they're just not dead yet.
Lawrence, your brilliant and soulful commentaries should be enshrined forever. There is absolutely no one like you. I hope that MSNBC appreciates what a gem you are in their pantheon of stars. You are Number One.
YES! AMEN! NO ONE LIKE LAWRENCE! HE IS THE BEST!
Yes, that man will never be the same as you said. Children killed. Parents killed covering their children's bodies to protect them. Was just reading about a Korean -American family that was wiped out by this gunman. All except one child.. A three-year-old child and two parents were killed. Only the six-year-old survived. Will grow up without a family. I think this man who was trying to save people said he also found a blood-covered but alive child underneath the body of his mother who died trying to protect him or her. Allegedly this gunman believed in the "great replacement" theory so often pushed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News. Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Trump voters, the "MAGA-GOP-NRA" Party ...destroying America. They will not rest until they've finished the job.
His pain is a real as Jan6th nothing he said is true.
@@ryanreyes4622?!?!?!?
Yeah, that guy in blue shirt, cowboy hat that came looking out for for his son is apparently a first responder by profession. What he had to witness here is horrifying
Powerful words and ever so true! 😢
Lawrence, you bring so much more to your words than just thoughts...you also bring a tear to the eye.
Hawkeye Pierce said it best: I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash-and-carry, carry me back to Old Virginie, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will NOT carry a gun.
Mr Lawrence does remind me of Mr Cronkite with his sincerity and expression of his values and goals. Always very well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼🇬🇧
Did you ever stop to think that Texas insiders some how rig the votes? I do
He makes the propaganda very palatable.
Walter Cronkite. The days when most journalists were not only great communicators and writers, but men of the highest integrity.
@@mooseantler the people claiming the shooter wasn't a n@z1 are the ones making propaganda.
Powerful commentary and something long overdue that needed to be said. Laurence on those times I lack the words you always provide them for me.
Now he needs to do one on how most mass shooting are done by african american males, 7% of the population 45% of homicides, and why the news constantly ignores it. The few mass killing by white supremacists is a drop in the bucket compared to that.
When America had Bobby Kennedy taken from them, a bright future was lost forever, it pains me to look from afar at what America has become, thank you Lawrence for these nightly chats to the American people, Rj in Oz
Just think… we went from almost getting RFK, and then ending up with Nixon in 68…. Something from which we never recovered!!!
Repeating history I what these stupid low lifes strive for.
Thank you for expressing this rage that so many of us feel.
Thank you for sharing that eloquent, beautiful, tragic writing from the past, Lawrence.
Republican answers of, "thoughts and prayers," has the same energy as, "Let them eat cake."
Then it must have the same consequences of guillotinising, eh?
Democrats answer. Prevent law abiding citizens from owning guns, and never prosecute or incarcerate the criminals that use guns to commit crimes.
@@landor7610 Better something than nothing. A bad solution is better than no solution. It opens the door to trying other solutions.
@@landor7610 I don't know where you live, but gun crimes are prosecuted a lot, and yes there are incarcerations. Don't know where you're getting such programming that suggests it doesn't. Why do you think there's such shock from non-right-wing talking points when some citizen or cop gets away with the murder of a citizen. It's because it breaks the expectation which happens to the typical gun violence perpetrator. In general cases, the ones that aren't prosecuted or incarcerated yet are only the ones who managed to avoid being caught.
And who said anything about preventing law abiding citizens from owning guns? They never said to take all the guns away. But you can definitely tell that in the more gun restrictive areas when there is a gun violence thing, it's almost always with a small handgun. Way less victims when it happens. Nuance in talking points. Don't believe the news that literally changes what other people are saying just to plaster a narrative to you. As Jon Stewart mocked of some talking heads at Fox, whenever they hear a talking point that might fit somewhere in the line of an ideology, let's immediately argue the point as if it means to suddenly take the ideology to the extreme. It's the best way to attack away any argument, no matter how good and originally nuanced it is, as long as it's coming from someone you deemed "the other side".
@@landor7610 GOP answer. Make everyone wishing harm on others unhindered access to any killing tool of their choice?
Not since Walter Cronkite do I recollect news reporting by any anchor to rise to such heights. Mr O'Donnell you are marvelous
Texas seems like ground zero for so many shootings. Over 50 plus years ago on August 1, 1966. The University of Texas tower shooting was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck. He shot and killed 15 people, including an unborn child, and injured 31 others before he was killed by two Austin Police Department officers approximately 96 minutes after first opening fire from the observation deck.
I was talking to a Republican supporter. I brought up all the mass murders in Texas. Her response people are killed everyday and everywhere. My thought was, if so, does that make it correct? Once she said that, I suggested we stop talking politics. I knew, once she went there, nothing I said would make a difference. I love her dearly, she is my cousin’s wife. We have had many good times that she had arranged. But I will be apprehensive to take part in future activities she may plan.
It's a defense mechanism so she doesn't have to feel the pain which in turn allows her to cking to the right and guns ..
I would drop her like a bad habit .
8 people were killed by a dude in a truck in Brownsville, do they matter to you or does the tool matter? Mass murder only matters when you can use it politically? You must be surprised to know that the government is the greatest mass murderer in the US? You should see how many children they have killed abroad? You should read our history to see how many natives were murdered. Be careful who you think should have all the guns.
Don’t trust her at all, since she knows your politics and feelings towards these domestic terrorist
I understand your point. I don’t believe they even have a gun in their house. But I wouldn’t snoop to find out. For me, my frustration is her attitude and it’s about herself and no compassion for others. For me it is appalling that people are killed needlessly and it hurts when it is children with a potential whole life in front of them taken away. Plus these weapons leave them unrecognizable and a slimmer chance of survival.
Wow! I love Lawrence for not pulling his punches.
❤ Love you Lawrence. Thank you for your EXCELLENT reporting .
Thank you Lawrence, for all that you do.
Bless you.
Gun violence in Texas costs $16.6 billion per year.
Forty-one percent of crime guns recovered in Mexico from 2009-2014 originated in Texas.
Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens (ages 1 to 19) in the US.
very year, 19,000 children and teens are shot and killed or wounded and approximately 3 million are exposed to gun violence.
Thanks for sharing that
Shouldn’t the party of “ personal responsibility “ ask the gun makers to pay that bill?
Such profound words from a man who was way ahead of his time! Thanks Lawrence 😔
hanging off Larry's nuts...lol...sheep
Thank you
I too have been thinking that we have to get beyond feeling 'sad' when these outrageous events happen. Instead, we need to get FURIOUS!!!
The moment I will never forget about Robert Kennedy's assassination is when it was reported that he asked if everyone was okay. There he lay dying and not one word of complaint about his own dire condition. Today, in America, it seems that that which was taken from us can never be replaced. We strike down those who work for simple justice for everyone. The Americans who waited silently and patiently for Robert Kennedy's funeral train to pass had already seen hope broken by the assassinations of Dr. King and President Kennedy. We have done this to ourselves.
They had a chance to vote for Beto O'Rourke and they chose hotwheels🤦♀️.
The most frustrating part is not those who voted,
but the millions that didn’t. Voter turnout was low.
Exactly
@@zendoragrey but that is the point of GOP election policies, to discourage/prevent any of the undesirable from casting a ballot.
Australia’s compulsory voting means not only can’t any political parties engage in voter suppression, access to voting must be made as accessible as possible (to extent of visiting hospitals and jails)
@@Kathdath Thule, you are absolutely right. Texas Republicans actively discourage voting in minority districts. They make polling places hard to get to by putting them out of reach of public transportation, they require often hard to get current I D, they close polling places on Sundays when that is often the only day that poor people can get free from 2 or more jobs to vote, they reduce the number of polling places in minority neighborhoods, so that lines are longer and access is harder. Those are some of the reasons why fewer minorities vote in Texas, and why Democrats are less likely to vote or win Texas elections.
Australian, and I have heard in numerous times over the decades I have been alive, on my local news about yet another mass shooting in the USA, and of course have heard the usual thoughts and prayers for the victims and families. I have also heard some of your politicians calling for action, that this has to stop. Yet at the end of the day nothing happens.
yes also from Australia - I think that we have better institutions - public broadcaster in addition to big money press, independent electoral commission, compulsory voting, greater trust in government, greater city dwelling populace - firearms used in farm communities by actual farmers not wannabes, welfare state, universal healthcare.
@@zoeolsson5683 Yah but all that stuff cuts into corporate profits - you guys don't want to let your corporations maximize their profits year after year after year after year after year ????? WHAAAAAA???
This is true. The rich people have bought off the politicians to make sure nothing does happen.
They dont wanna do anything to their 2A, over there. Ever since port arthur, we've hardly had any major mass shootings down under. But of course the NRA will make sure they'll never take away the guns.
Mr. O’Donnell I believe this is the finest piece you’ve ever done. I have shared it with all my friends. Thank you!
Dear Lawrence, your journalism on this most horrific truth brings me to tears. Your ability to target the heart of the matter was brutally truthfull, but always delivered in your elequent way. I feel your pain and see your invisible tears. God help America.
I surly love you Lawrence! Your an incredible human being. 💖☮️💖☮️
EVERY SINGLE MEDIA OUTLET MUST GET ON AIR & TELL AMERICANS THAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ADVISING THEIR PEOPLE NOT TO TRAVEL TO THE USA BECAUSE IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!
Unfortunately, for those that live in "middle America" this makes not the slightest bit of difference. Their minds are TOTALLY separated from the rest of the world. The United States is a VERY LARGE and VERY DIVIDED country.
Great Advice. Go somewhere else. However., if your skin is pale you have a 90 per cent chance of survival.
@@christinequinn5355 Born in the South, raised and spent 38 years in Middle America, and the next 35 in the Southwest. I’m still here to testify that the color of one’s skin is THE determining factor ACROSS America for fair equitable treatment, justice, the presumption of innocence, or escaping possible death IS the color of one’s skin. This is the real Amerikkka across the board.
Lawrence O'Donnell is a storyteller for our times. Devastatingly truthful.
Yesterday, from Australia, I listened to a man, standing in an empty congress, state that "no-one in America is safe no matter where they are"... How about that!
Mr. Lawrence O'Donnell, you sir are an American Treasure. You truly are greatly appreciated! You give me the sense and comfort remembered dearly from my youth when the voice of a great man was on the air, Mr. Walter Cronkite. Please continue to do what you do! 👏👏👏
A sad and beautiful piece. Thanks, Mister O’Donnell.
“I didn’t have any tears left for America.”
Neither do I.
I absolutely appreciate Lawrence's candor, thank you
Lawrence eloquently describes how it truly is. Listen to him.
Larry, YOU can make it unpredictable. Here is what YOU do:
After the next mass shooting with an AR-15, show photos and ads of republican candidates with an AR-15 and continue to talk about the mass shooting interspersed with photos and ads of republicans holding AR-15s. If republicans complain, ask them if you are now ashamed of their political ads with AR-15s.
Yes, Larry, YOU can make a big difference.
I know that you mean well, but…. This is being done on his shows and others on msnbc, I’ve seen it many times.
Show the wounds of the victims. Most people have a TV idea of one small, neat whole. These weapons disintegrate bodies.
or perhaps preface every report with the amount given by the NRA to each politician all the way down to local level. Then ask, do these people support the 2nd or do they just want to get a payout from the NRA. Defund the NRA, start other responsible gun owners groups. Take a case on the 2nd on the first clause and what it meant to the original drafters, after all if they are going back to the original with abortion then go back to a well regulated militia.
@@motherofcatsnz Add to that: give the NRA rating for each member of congress to every mass shooting story.
@@motherofcatsnz👍💯
Thank you for sharing Pete Hammill's words. I had never heard them before.
✓
No words can describe the insanity of gun massacres in America.
I disagree. The word that perfectly describes that insanity is:
Americans.
@Tri Arb I think the majority of Americans want change. However, certain politicians do not want to anger the gun lobby and their far right base.
@@GK-arcadia And the unmeasurable amounts of money poured into the RNC and Republican political coffers by the VERY LUCRATIVE WEAPONS MANUFACTURERS via their lobbying arm the NRA. That's their REAL focus.
Note to Republicans: hopes and prayers do not stop bullets.
Boom. Roasted.
They don’t wanna stop bullets…. They wanna keep them flying so more people run and buy guns!
Sadly, many believes that if the US "went back" to its "Christian roots", this gun violence wouldn't happen. And of course, they believe that increasing the ratio of White people in the country wouldn't hurt, either.
That was one of the most powerful thought provoking presentations I have ever heard.
Mental illness is not exclusive to America, it's everywhere where there are people. But every developed country understand that banning assualt rifles and have strict gun regulations are the ways to reduce gun violence, and it works.
Excellent reporting Lawrence. You make so much sense and say it so concisely. Thank you.
Well said sir, your rage is palpable - and Rightfully so. I say this as someone blessed to be living in a country with good, sound, reasonable gun controls.
May I ask where you live? Is it possible that an American could immigrate
The thing I hate the most is the predictability that the vast majority of gun violence in America will be completely ignored.
Mr. O'Donnell, you spoke what's in my heart. I'm voting the best i can when it comes time. I sign petitions, write letters, whatever i can think of.
I always love your show! Tonight I wasn't as prepared as I thought I'd be. I made myself look at photos but it made me sick. I thought seeing the photo would make it more real to people and perhaps, naively so, that it would shock them into re-evaluating their thoughts and 'values'. I know it won't. I saw a photo of a family before the shooting where only 1 of the 4 survived. I sat there staring for a long time... I tried to think of something to say , to reply to this photo on Twitter...I kept sitting there, tears rolling down my face wondering how that one left alone would survive without their 3 family members. Two parents, two children. I don't know which one wasn't assassinated and likely never will. I'm not an American and I don't watch much news. I know tonight as I sit here at 3am that I won't sleep. My heart aches and I think tonight it broke completely. I wouldn't look at comments by these deranged politicians that made excuses or were going to pray.....There comes a time in everyone's life , often unprepared, when we break. This is how I feel tonight as my mind sees a loving family of 4...now is one. I cannot ever ever comprehend the pain nor can I do anything to try to comfort them. Then I saw a warning issued by a few countries about traveling to the US and to not go. Our neighbor and ally... Never would I have imagined anything like this barring a world war. To be afraid to go out, go to work, send a child to school not knowing if today it would be their school, to go shopping, to a movie .....I still cannot wrap my mind around this and maybe I never will. I pray that things change, that justice prevails, that healing begins and life for my neighbors and allies can begin
EXTREMELY WELL SAID & FELT BY SO MANY. IT IS HUMILIATING THAT OUR ONCE BRIGHT SHINING DEMOCRACY IS NO MORE & THAT OTHER COUNTRIES ARE WARNING THEIR PEOPLE TO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA AS IF WERE A CRAZY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. NO ONE EVER THOUGHT THAT OUR COUNTRY WOULD BE TOO DANGEROUS TO TRAVEL TO. WOW
This is why I Love Lawrence..he makes me think and feel and remember. Your comment was heartfelt and I appreciate you sharing your feelings.💔 I'm a Grandma raising my 2 teenage Grandchildren. They are sensitive and aware that these are scary violent times. Staying positive and encouraging is getting harder. Even though COVID-19 has lifted for the most part, it feels like we are still hunkered down...but it must change. I don't want my Grandchildren to live in fear or not experience the beauty of our country or our people...😢
@@micheleroth1091 I think your grandchildren are very fortunate to have you! Your ‘job’ is not an easy one!💞
@@StarryNightKnitting Thank you Jo💞
Thank you friend.🫂❤️🫂
The obsession with those murders was mixed in with my life in ways that caused chaos.
Lawrence O'Donnell:s commentary this time is exemplary. Thank you, it was truly moving.
Lawrence O'Donnell at his very best. His commentary tonight was very powerful.
If I was payed seven million dollars a year I would probably spew propaganda just as eloquently too.
@moose antler. Of course, you must be talking about Fuc...uh, Tucker Carlson, the king of propaganda bullsh*t. And the word is paid, not payed. No wonder you people believe all the crap spewed at Fox "News". Simple spelling is beyond your comprehension.
Thank you kindly, Lawrence for bringing back the memories of RFK and MLK giving their lives for their ideals and ideas. Was at Berkeley and their deaths did a lot to politicize me and then develop a sense of futility. Am now in Texas and trying to get it together to return to California. My bro-in-law with 7 rifles and a pistol for snakes on the deer lease stabbed me in the back. He is a real Texas snake like the people in the state government here.
Texas Monthly had a great recent article on how 3% of the population elects the politicians in the state.
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That is sadly true. Texas Monthly got the facts about Texas's broken election system correct. Only 3% of Texans determine who is elected due to gerrymandering and efforts by Texas Republicans to discourage voting especially by minorities.
Yepit riged
Well spoken! Painful truth.
The first responders descriptions is going to give me nightmares I can't imagine what they are all going through ugh 😭
Oh, Lawrence, how to endure the ignorance and madness of part of our society spreading their hate through this type of violence.😢
It’s The American Dream, Lawrence. That political, moral and cultural vacuum that for some strange, unfathomable reason seems to consider itself a beacon of hope and goodness for others to aspire to. That noise you’re hearing from outside your borders? Not awe but laughter.
Not laughter. Grief. Grief for the victims, grief for a people who have so much to contribute, so much good, that seem so lost in a maze of misdirection, anger, and fear.
Thank you for telling it exactly as it is!
I am crying, weeping yet again. Please, please America stop this massacre of your little children , your babies, your future. Please please! 🇬🇧
People are losing their minds over 4 Texas children but nobody seems to care that the US lied its way into Iraq and Syria causing over a QUARTER MILLION CHILDRENS DEATHS. Where was your butthurt fake indignation then?
Vote out the GOP.
Trump 44% Biden 38% good luck
@@jordans9303 typical....counting oranges in a handbasket
The Democrats had the house of representative, the Senate and the white house for 2 years. Yet you blame Republicans. So you say the Democrats don't do anything and you just want nobody in the office?
@@goodstufffromdavidpaul2246 typical leftist juvenile comment
Predictable and inevitable as the tides.
If I could make a victim’s statement for all these things I’d say prosecute fully.
My native grandfather was killed in a hate crime when I was 3...63 years ago...nothing has changed
I'm so sorry for your heart-wrenching loss of your grandfather.
❤ Lawrence 🌞 such a kind hearted intelligent man. ❤
Laurence is by far the most brave and honest presenter in the world,from me from Australia
Profound Lawrence, thank you.
That summed up America Lawrence. How tragic, stark and knowing mass murder will never cease in the country whose "experiment" is tested by every event that now defines the utter loss of connection to itself. Sweet acceptance of your death, but never knowing when it is your moment... as a target...Oh America, tears are not enough, and your thoughts and prayers, do less than tears.
So powerful that was Lawrence. I remember that morning in June, listening to the reports that Bobby’s brain was swelling and crushing itself to death.
It feels like the horror never ends.
Great work as always, Lawrence.
That was superb journalism.
Wow
This is a singularly powerful commentary.
Very Sad day when I was 10 in art class the teacher wheeled in the cart with a tv on it , a voice on the PA system said students the president of the United States has been shot and has passed away. The teacher turned on the tv and we saw the murder. There were sniffles in the class room and the teacher wiped her eyes dry. I was a teen when Martin and Bobby were also murdered.
Thank you for sharing. Talk about a vivid memory😢I was almost 4 when my mom burst into tears and yelled at the television when JFK was assassinated. I have never seen her as distraught as she was that day. She felt he was the nations best hope and it wasn't long before her hopes were dashed again with the murders of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.. My mom never gave up on activism and politics...from community building to voting to social and environmental action...we vote blue on every ticket💙🇺🇸👵👵
I remember it all !i lived through both thier murders. Never forget!
So NOW everyone is tired of 'prayers and thoughts'? It's the dUmBeSt thing I've ever heard uttered to someone in pain. WHY would the rich care about the poor offing each other? I won't wait. Prayers and thoughts to you all.
Omg..... This video gave me goosebumps. What an impact. Everyone in the country should listen to his profound words. 👏👏👏👏👏
What a sad history lesson. Thanks Lawrence. I listened in Australia but I fear it will fall on deaf ears where it matters in the USA.
Australia has had almost as many mass shootings in the last 27 years as they had in the first 90. You are being lied to. Would you like a list of the 13 mass shootings, 15 before, in Australia? Just to give you a taste, Monash University. Hectorville, 2011. Monash university. Modbury High school.
@@Johann-uc9sn omg go away. Oz is a completely different class to America. Guns a just not part of men's identity like in the states. Aussie men have sport and women(or men if they bat for the other team) to occupy their time and don't need guns to feel manly. Guns are just not interesting to most Australians. Those Australians that like to shoot them for sport can but it's just not an interest for most of us. It's just not.
Monash the offender was an international student 2 people died the offender is in mental health facility. Hectorville offender is also in a mental health facility - 3 died. Modbury High School "In 2012, a year 8 student at the school took a revolver to the school and fired bullets. No one was killed or injured. The student and his father were charged with possessing an unregistered, loaded firearm, possessing an unlicensed firearm and unsecured ammunition.[3]"
@@Johann-uc9sn HOW'S THE BOT BIZ GOING COMRADE?
@@Johann-uc9sn hmm. You've had 160 this year alone...
@Joann That must be why Australian schools don't have 'active shooter drills' and why in 40 years of teaching in a metropolitan secondary college I never once experienced the threat of an armed intruder in the school in which I taught. Don't know where you get your statistics from but I would suggest you look outside your normal conspiracy bubble next time. Even if your stats are correct they don't hold up. Australia's population is about one tenth that of the USA. The USA is having more than one mass shooting per day. If Australia were comparable it would be having about one every ten days. So far in 2023 I don't recall Australia having even one so far. Yes, Monash University mass shooting was 2 people in 2002. Yes, and the Hectorville siege in 2011 did happen. I think the last mass shooting was in 2020. But get your facts straight, Australia's gun problem is minor compared to that of the USA.
Lawrence is saying what I feel