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"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit." 10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.

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These reporters are soulless. In an instant, these kids were changed and will grow up to be completely different than they would have been if this (preventable horror) had not happened to them. No one should be interviewing them. “What was that hug from your mom like?” Give me a fucking break.

Everything about this is a fucking catastrophic indictment of American culture. That it even happened; that the media are interviewing KIDS about their MURDERED FRIENDS for clicks; that nothing will change. It's all horrifying and just demoralizing and sad.

I just watched this live. This child, this beautiful little boy, did not "witness" this shooting. If you're underneath your friend who is saving you from being shot, and he gets shot, that's not witnessing that's being in a shooting. Yet another shooting. What is wrong with us.

We exist in a country where it is the norm to have school shootings, & yet people are outraged that we hear the grim & gruesome recounting of survial from the mouth of a child? Implement actual gun regulations, or keep seeing interviews like this. Less performative purity tests, more gun controls!

Not at all, I'm outraged that a "journalist" is interviewing a fucking child that just saw his class mate die. I'm outraged that, that childs parents are allowing that child to be fucking interviewed. Fuck it, just put body cams on the kids and we can live stream the next one

I hope they got his parents permission but even if they did, why are they asking this baby these traumatizing questions? Like leave these kids alone. Even though he's very well spoken. So now they have to practice shooting survival in church too?

’’practised it’’. America is so weird. How tf can you have kids practise hiding from gun fire instead of taking the weapons away. Probably 50% of americans shouldn’t even be allowed to own a gun. Eveyday i argue with americans online. Its clear a lot of y’all have menthal health issues.

I cannot believe children have to deal with this shit. Anyone who says we just have to accept it should be kicked in the nuts. Then remind them they have to accept random acts of violence as part of their life. But at least they get to walk away.

He has every right to speak what he saw as anyone else. Shame on those of you who would deny him his right to speak. He is a child and he is now a fucking expert. Listen to him. Stop trying to silence him because you are uncomfortable seeing him.

That is my initial reaction too. But I don’t know, will some people who need to hear the message listen better when it’s coming right from the child who had to endure this hellscape himself? Maybe. But then again I remember MAGAs attacking the Parkland kids so idfk 😣

Exactly, media will be going to Dems’ for comment (playing defense), instead of going to the source of this problem, GOP. That should be the message & narrative by D’s, “ask Republicans, they’re the one’s allowing this”, speak in unison.

I would just like to see a stronger media push to make people who have the power to toughen gun laws feel uncomfortable and be held accountable. I’m so tired of shock and awe reporting, and wonder why reporters had to push those kinds of questions on a child who just survived a traumatic shooting.

Even harsher sentences for violent crimes wouldn’t stop this guy because he ended up killing himself. It’s not like people didn’t know that he had a mental disorder. It’s just that society has accepted that people with that mental disorder are fine with owning firearms.

Was he an immigrant? If not, why not mention it? If he was an immigrant, you'd mention that. Why not the other way around? The subliminal brainwashing from corporate news outlets continues.

Trump's first executive order in his first term was to make it easier for the mentally ill to purchase guns. Trump's bought and sold by the @NRA. @GOP and @HOUSEGOP ARE COWARDS FOR NOT STANDING UP TO TRUMP AND THE NRA!!!

When our media put children who just went through a mass shooting on TV & ask them to recount for strangers the horror those children just experienced, those media are victimizing those children all over again. STOP IT! #Minneapolis

broken horrible stupid country, would rather let kids continue to fucking die than do a sliver of anything related to gun control

That kid hasn't had time to process what just happened to him. And his friend just got SHOT. I get the idea that "if it bleeds it leads", but this is just a massive violation of journalistic ethics. This is why most Americans hate our major media outlets.

Those kids are dead and wounded and traumatized because a bunch of selfish jerks think that the antiquated 2nd Amendment means anyone - even a nutcase - can own a gun for any reason they choose. Hell, 400 guns. Hell, 4000 guns. So what if he's an imbecile. Go get your guns!

No wonder so many young people are suffering from anxiety and depression these days. The constant threat of school shootings hanging over them and having to do shooting drills. Not how Gen-xers or boomers grew up.