From New York, this is Democracy Now.

This was an attack deliberately targeted at the Jewish community

on the first day of Hanukkah,

which of course should be a joyous celebration.

And the Jewish community are hurting today.

Today, all Australians wrap our arms around them

and say we stand with you.

Australia's in a state of mourning after two gunmen, a father and a son, fatally shot

15 people at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. At least 42 people were injured in

Australia's worst mass shooting in nearly three decades.

We'll speak to journalist Anthony Lowenstein, who serves on the advisory committee of the Jewish Council of Australia.

Then we go to Brown University, where a manhunt continues three days after a mass gunman opened fire in a lecture

hall killing two students, injuring nine others.

A person of interest was detained, but then released last night.

We'll speak to a Brown sophomore who survived that shooting.

She also survived a school shooting in 2019 at a high school in Santa Clarita, California.

She was shot in the stomach.

Afterwards, Mia Tretta dedicated her life to preventing gun violence.

Those words never again that we say after ever shooting should have meant something.

Unfortunately, it didn't. To so many people, and it kept happening and kept happening.

It feels like America's the only country that takes gun violence and shootings as a fact of life.

And it doesn't have to be.

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