Fox News and other press outlets were covering the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennesee where 3 children were left dead on Monday when a passionate gun control advocate crashed the coverage with an impassionate speech about gun control. While most of the outlets gave her a microphone to speak on, Fox News tried but failed to pan away from the woman.
“Aren’t you tired of covering this?” said the woman as she boldly approached the press pool who has gathered outside of the crime scene to cover yet another mass shooting in U.S. history. “Aren’t you tired of being here and having to cover all of these mass shootings?” At this point, both the Fox News correspondent as well as the cameraman looked confused as to what to do next. While the reporter tried to block the woman from view as he stood in front of the camera, the cameraman briefly cut off the sound.
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However, when the rest of the press pool seem to focus on the woman, Fox News reinstated the sound and zoomed in on the woman’s face.
“(I was on) a family vacation with my son, visiting my sister-in-law,” she said. “I have been lobbying in DC since we survived a mass shooting in July. I have met over 130 lawmakers. How is it still happening? How are our children still dying and why are we failing them? Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens. It has overtaken cars.”
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Assault weapons are contributing to the border crisis and fentanyl. We are arming cartels with our guns and our loose gun laws and these shootings and these mass shootings will continue to happen until our lawmakers step up and pass gun safety legislation.”
At this point, the Fox News cameraman tries to pan away from the woman’s face but forgets to cut the feed or the sound, so the woman could still be heard talking in the background. “I am pretty sure this was an unsecured weapon that this teenager got a hold of. We can’t even have gun safety storage laws in this country to protect kids from getting a hold of weapons that they shoot each other with,” she added.
Finally, Fox News focused the camera back on their correspondent but he seemed to have some technical difficulties with his microphone and hence the feed was cut entirely.
