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Local News Anchor Confuses Footage of Two Different Shootings—and Everyone Had the Same Tragic Response

Local News Anchor Confuses Footage of Two Different Shootings—and Everyone Had the Same Tragic Response
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For decades, Americans across the country have implored Congress to pass common sense gun law reform in hopes of stemming the onslaught of gun violence and death that's become a uniquely American badge of dishonor.

Seventy-three percent of homicides in the United States are committed with guns. A 2018 Small Arms Survey found that the United States has more than 120 firearms per 100 residents. Even with the pandemic bringing everyday life to a standstill, nearly 20 thousand people died of gun violence in the United States last year.


But pro-gun lobbies like the National Rifle Association make for some of the largest campaign donors to Republican lawmakers, and Republicans have been largely successful at telling their base that even a modicum of gun law reform—such as limiting high capacity magazines or expanding the time allotted for background checks—is a violation of the Second Amendment.

As a result, daily life in the United States is peppered with news of mass shootings and new gun fatalities.

Such was the case in Tennessee on Monday. Details are still emerging, but we know that one student was killed and an officer injured after a student opened fire at Knoxville's Austin East High School.

One local news anchor was covering the incident, believing footage of a police helicopter to be pre-taped—until she learned the footage was live, and that there'd been another shooting a short distance away from the school.

Watch below.

The anchor said:

"I forgot about the other shooting. This is actually live, this is not our taped footage from Austin-East High School earlier. The Knox County Sheriff's Office has got their helicopter back in the air because again, we do have that other shooting investigation now underway about a mile away from the High School."

The short clip said a lot about the United States.






People once again begged for something to be done.



The shootings—one of at least four that occurred in Tennessee alone that day—came less than a week after its Republican Governor, Bill Lee, signed into law a bill allowing most adults to openly or conceal carry handguns without a permit or training—a term he described as "constitutional carry."

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