In the footage, a Fox News anchor mumbles to a camera man that films him. Behind him stands a podium strapped with microphones where the police just finished briefing the press on the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
They’re about to do a recap of the press conference when my wife steps up to the empty podium.
“Aren’t you guys tired of reporting this?” She asks the reporters and cameramen who were milling about, breaking down their equipment.
“Aren’t you tired of being here and covering all these mass shootings?”
She goes on to ask the big question, the massive elephant stomping around our national room.
“How are our children still dying (in school shootings) and why are we failing them?”
She called me shortly after.
“So, I took over a press conference,” she said. Then she sent me a link to the video.
I watched the clip. Immediately thought — this is going to go everywhere.
“How are our children still dying and why are we failing them?”
This wasn’t the first time. Ever since my wife and son were caught in a mass shooting in the Highland Park fourth of July parade…
