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The Megyn Kelly Show

Tragedy in Texas: Another Deadly School Shooting, with Charles C.W. Cooke and Neil Heslin | Ep. 329

The Megyn Kelly Show

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.632.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Charles C.W. Cooke, senior writer for National Review, and Neil Heslin, father of Newtown victim Jesse Lewis, to talk about the tragic mass school shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, remembering the victims of the unthinkable crime, mental health and bullying, what could have been done to prevent this crime and the next mass shooting, the policy questions about guns ahead, how saying "I don't know" after a tragedy is honest and frightening, whether background check legislation will make an impact, Biden's speech last night about the shooting and what he pushed, the pain of losing a child in a school shooting, the details of Neil Heslin's final day with his son, the political forces that exploit tragedies, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, how Megan Kelly? Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Such a sad day. I know

0:17.3

you're feeling it too. It's happened again. It's hard to believe it's happened again.

0:25.8

There's something different when it happens to children, when it happens inside of a school.

0:33.8

It's just every time you think this has to be the last time, we can't be living in this

0:39.8

inhumane of a society. And yet you get proven wrong.

0:47.6

Nineteen innocent elementary school children, elementary school children, and two teachers

0:52.3

gunned down while trying to learn. Probably sitting there getting excited for the end of the

0:58.2

year. Some are so close you can taste it. There's an extra happy atmosphere inside of school

1:04.6

these days, you know, amongst the teachers and the students, right? Can't you see it when

1:09.0

you drop your own kids off right now? And they went into their elementary school,

1:13.9

just outside of San Antonio, Texas. And they were murdered. Nineteen kids at a school

1:20.8

in a truly evil attack along with two teachers evil. There's no other word for it.

1:26.8

It's a story that's become all too familiar in America. A male, teenageed, loner, reportedly

1:32.4

bullied from a troubled family, absentee mom, absentee dad, posts disturbing content online,

1:41.8

warning signs to those paying attention, but who was? Who was in this case? Who then

1:47.2

goes on to kill? In cold blood mercilessly. Today we're learning more disturbing details

1:52.7

about this 18 year old killer and how he managed to obtain his guns. We will not be naming

1:58.6

him consistent with my own longstanding policy since studies have shown that mass shooters

2:03.6

typically desire infamy and we decline to help and others in the media would do well to

2:08.2

pay attention to that. But before we get to all that, more on the lives taken yesterday

2:12.9

in Texas, it's almost too much to bear. But what kind of a society are we if we brush past

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