Gun Violence Stats [MUSIC PLAYING] There have been more than 375 school shootings since Columbine. More than 350,000 school kids have experienced gun violence in their schools since then. List of School Shootings This is a list of school shootings since Columbine. I may have left some out. It's hard to keep up. In the U of All Day Texas shooting, we all heard about that 11-year-old girl who survived Uvalde Shooting Story by covering herself in the blood of her dead friends. Maybe you saw that on social media. But did you read the comments? I did. Lots of parents posting about how they had already been teaching their kids to do just what that 11-year-old did if they were ever in a school shooting. World War II Vets Let that sink in. Parents are teaching little kids the kinds of things soldiers used to do to stay alive in combat. State of Texas hands up DNA kits to school kids' parents. The politicians say it has nothing to do with school Texas DNA Kits for Kids shootings, but it's the kind of thing troops completed before going to Iraq and Afghanistan so their remains could be identified if they were unrecognizable. Airborne Veteran, WW II When I was a reporter in Cape Gerardo, Missouri, I once covered a ceremony honoring three veterans of the Battle of the Bulge on the battle's 50th anniversary. One of the vets had been in the 101st Airborne, paratrooper, the Screaming Eagles. He told me how he made three combat jumps in World War II. One at Normandy on D-Day, one in Belgium during Operation Market Garden, and the third Battle of the Bulge into Bastogne for the Battle of the Bulge. Now, if you know anything about World War II history, you know that the weather didn't allow planes into the sky for the Battle of the Bulge until the very end. He told me, I made the first two jumps from a C-47. The third one at Bastogne was out of the back of a truck. You can argue the technicalities, he said, Veteran's Quote but I fought the Battle of the Bulge, and any paratrooper who was there can tell you that four-foot leap from the back of a doosan-a-half was a combat jump. Every day in America, the doors open Combat Jumps on millions of minivans in sedans, SUVs and school buses, and millions of kids make a combat jump into every school in this country. You can argue the technicalities, but if kids are wearing bulletproof backpacks into math class, if parents are getting DNA kids to identify their kids, if their bodies are too desecrated to recognize, if parents are teaching 11-year-old girls to cover themselves in the blood of their dead friends and play dead to stay alive, that is a combat jump. And the list just keeps going. The List Needs to Stop You would have thought we would have ended it at Columbine, at Sandy Hook, at Parkland. It doesn't end. It just keeps getting longer. (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) (gentle music) you