The news continues.

We want to hand it over to Laura Coates and CNN Tonight.

Laura?

Anderson, thank you so much.

I am Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight.

And listen, I want to be up front with you.

We're doing something different tonight, something, frankly, extremely difficult.

But we truly believe that it's important to do.

You know, there's a tendency to want to turn our eyes from what is difficult.

A tendency to just want to move on.

In this human nature, I understand and believe me, I understand that.

And sometimes the news does require a shift in focus.

But just because the cameras leave a location doesn't mean the quest for information has ended.

Or that the trauma has ended.

Or that if we simply close our eyes, that it can't happen, what won't happen.

This is especially true when we're talking about the pandemic of gun violence and the indiscriminate

nature of mass shootings.

None of us want it to ever happen again.

But the it is complex.

It's very multifaceted.

And how do we get there to where it doesn't happen again without full transparency, without

staying on the story?

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