Raskin Ties Gun Violence to WHCD Shooting: I Hope We Talk About School Children ‘Who Are Dealing with This’

RASKIN: “So I just entered the room, and I was talking to some reporters who approached me from the Boston globe. Their table was right near the perimeter as I was entering the ballroom. Carrie Kennedy was there guest and we were in conversation when there were three loud booms, I heard some screams, plates, glasses, silver wear hitting the ground and then everybody was yelling get down. Someone pushed me from the back and we all ended up on the floor. When it was over carrie, who of course, lost her father to an assassin gunman and her uncle President Kennedy, she said I can’t believe that schoolchildren are dealing with this all across America and don’t have the resources to process their trauma. So that launched a conversation about gun violence and how, you know, somewhere between 275 and 300 people are shot every day in our country, and we lose more than a hundred of them every day. So even as this nightmare was unfolding at the White House correspondents’ dinner, dozens and dozens of people had been shot and killed in our country and so I hope this isn’t just an inside the beltway story. I hope we talk about the conditions for schoolchildren and people all over the country who are dealing with this.”

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Raskin Ties Gun Violence to WHCD Shooting: I Hope We Talk About School Children ‘Who Are Dealing with This’‘Don’t have the resources to process their trauma’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:RASKIN: “So I just entered the room, and I was talking to some reporters who approached me from the Boston globe. Their table was right near the perimeter as I was entering the ballroom. Carrie Kennedy was there guest and we were in conversation when there were three loud booms, I heard some screams, plates, glasses, silver wear hitting the ground and then everybody was yelling get down. Someone pushed me from the back and we all ended up on the floor. When it was over carrie, who of course, lost her father to an assassin gunman and her uncle President Kennedy, she said I can’t believe that schoolchildren are dealing with this all across America and don’t have the resources to process their trauma. So that launched a conversation about gun violence and how, you know, somewhere between 275 and 300 people are shot every day in our country, and we lose more than a hundred of them every day. So even as this nightmare was unfolding at the White House correspondents’ dinner, dozens and dozens of people had been shot and killed in our country and so I hope this isn’t just an inside the beltway story. I hope we talk about the conditions for schoolchildren and people all over the country who are dealing with this.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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