Failing gubernatorial candidate, Beto O'Rourke, crashes a press conference by Texas Governor Greg Abbott to posture on gun control.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer refuses to hold any vote on legislation, and we examine the mass shooters copious red flags.

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Well, we are finding out more about the circumstances surrounding this horrific shooting in Uvaldi, Texas.

We have more about the circumstances. We know more about the shooter and his life circumstances,

which does give us some clues as to what we might do in the future prevents stuff like this.

Some of the circumstances surrounding this shooting look an awful lot like the circumstances surrounding the Parkland, Florida shooting, in which school security officers did not do their jobs in protecting the kids at Parkland.

Same thing appears to have happened here,

where you had cops who were arriving on scene and knew that there was somebody inside who was

shooting children and did not charge in. And it took a border patrol agent basically breaking

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