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Actor Josh Brolin vented his frustration with the pileup of school shootings in America without any meaningful action from lawmakers on social media Monday in response to the mass shooting in Nashville at a private Christian school.
‘ENOUGH!!!!!!’ Brolin, 55, said. ‘Whether you’re a “It’s the people not the guns” or a “It’s the guns, not the people” to say that our country is actively doing anything in its power to help avert this absolute random slaughter of our children, categorizes you in either total denial or living some fantasy of ambush that should render you unfit to take care of yourself or others.’
The Avengers actor said that national and local officials have let down the youth of the country in the wake of the latest school shooting.
‘I thought all bets were off when children became targets,’ he said. ‘Whether pedophiles or shooters, end it f***ing now no matter what psychological/sociological manipulative spin any corporation puts on it.
Brolin said he would like to ‘make our country great again by having some people balls reinstated into the “By the people, For the people” system that was intended and has literally been bought out.’
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The Avengers actor said that national and local officials have let down the youth of the country in the wake of the latest school shooting
He wrapped up the passionate statement in saying, ‘F*** you, America, for not protecting your children.’
In the incident – the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country growing increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools – a person wielding two ‘assault-style’ rifles and a pistol killed three nine-year-old students and three adults.
The victims were identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all nine years old, and adults Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; and Mike Hill, 61.
The suspect, who was killed by police, is believed to be a former student at The Covenant School in Nashville, where the shooting took place. The shooter had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and conducted surveillance of the building before carrying out the massacre.
Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake did not say exactly what drove the shooter to open fire Monday morning at The Covenant School before being killed by police.
But he provided chilling examples of the shooter’s elaborate planning for the targeted attack, the latest in a series of mass shootings in a country that has grown increasingly unnerved by bloodshed in schools.
‘We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we’re going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident,’ he told reporters. ‘We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place.’
He said in an interview with NBC News that investigators believe the shooter had ‘some resentment for having to go to that school.’
A police crime scene tape is seen at the entrance to Covenant School in Nashville
A child weeps while on the bus leaving The Covenant School following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Monday
The website of The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the school since July 2016.
The attack at The Covenant School – which has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members – comes as communities around the nation are reeling from a spate of school violence.
Incidents include the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year; a first grader who shot his teacher in Virginia; and a shooting last week in Denver that wounded two administrators.
‘I was literally moved to tears to see this and the kids as they were being ushered out of the building,’ Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at an afternoon news conference.
The Covenant School was founded as a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church. The affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, where the Covenant School is located, is home to the famed Bluebird Café – a beloved spot for musicians and song writers.
President Joe Biden, speaking at an unrelated event at the White House on Monday, called the shooting a ‘family´s worst nightmare’ and implored Congress again to pass a ban on certain semi-automatic weapons.
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‘It´s ripping at the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of this nation,’ Biden said.
Monday’s tragedy unfolded over roughly 14 minutes. Police received the initial call about an active shooter at 10:13 a.m.
A group prays with a child outside the reunification center at the Woodmont Baptist church after a school shooting
Adults walk with a child at a reunification center at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a shooting at The Covenant School
A man walks with children at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a school shooting at The Covenant School
Officers began clearing the first story of the school when they heard gunshots coming from the second level, police spokesperson Don Aaron said during a news briefing.
Two officers from a five-member team opened fire in response, fatally shooting the suspect at 10:27 a.m., Aaron said. One officer had a hand wound from cut glass.
Aaron said there were no police officers present or assigned to the school at the time of the shooting because it is a church-run school.
Other students walked to safety Monday, holding hands as they left their school surrounded by police cars, to a nearby church to be reunited with their parents.
Rachel Dibble, who was at the church as families found their children, described the scene as everyone being in ‘complete shock.’
‘People were involuntarily trembling,’ said Dibble, whose children attend a different private school in Nashville. ‘The children … started their morning in their cute little uniforms they probably had some Froot Loops and now their whole lives changed today.’
Dr. Shamendar Talwar, a social psychologist from the United Kingdom who is working on an unrelated mental health project in Nashville, raced to the church as soon as he heard news of the shooting to offer help. He said he was one of several chaplains, psychologists, life coaches and clergy inside supporting the families.
‘All you can show is that the human spirit that basically that we are all here together … and hold their hand more than anything else,’ he said.
Children from The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a deadly shooting at their school on Monday
Metro Nashville Police officers gather near The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., following a deadly shooting Monday
A police officer walks by an entrance to The Covenant School after a shooting in Nashville
An ambulance leaves of Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, in Nashville
Jozen Reodica heard the police sirens and fire trucks blaring from outside her office building nearby. As her building was placed under lockdown, she took out her phone and recorded the chaos.
‘I thought I would just see this on TV,’ she said. ‘And right now, it´s real.’
Top legislative leaders announced Monday that the GOP-dominant Statehouse would meet briefly later in the evening and delay taking up any legislation.
‘In a tragic morning, Nashville joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting,’ Mayor John Cooper wrote on Twitter.
Nashville has seen its share of mass violence in recent years, including a Christmas Day 2020 attack where a recreational vehicle was intentionally detonated in the heart of Music City’s historic downtown, killing the bomber, injuring three others and forcing more than 60 businesses to close.
