“Fox & Friends” host Ainsley Earhardt fought again tears as she described a sense of bewilderment following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas this week that left a minimum of 19 youngsters lifeless.
“I’m just sitting here thinking — you hear the phrase in church … that we all put Jesus on the cross. It wasn’t just one group. We were all guilty in that because he had to die on the cross for our sins,” Earhardt, a religious Christian who typically speaks brazenly about her religion, mentioned on the community’s morning present on Wednesday.
“Is this all of our faults?” she requested. “I mean, as a country, we’re so divided. We are — you hate someone else because they vote a different way than you do? You know, what makes these individuals do this to pick up a gun and go in and kill our children? Why do we now have to worry about that?”
Earhardt’s voice broke, and she or he paused to collect her composure as she continued.
“And you think about what these parents are going through and they’ll never see their kids again, you know, and even if they have three kids, it doesn’t replace the one that they lost,” she mentioned, her voice quivering.
“But what about the mom who has one child, and she will never be a grandmother because this man went into these schools and did this. What do we need to do to heal as a country and make sure these gunmen like this … are stopped before they get to this point?”
On Tuesday, an 18-year-old attacker shot and killed a minimum of 19 school youngsters and two adults throughout a shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Authorities say the suspect, who was killed by police throughout a shootout, additionally allegedly shot his grandmother earlier than starting his rampage on the school.
The incident has sparked rising requires stricter gun management measures from Democrats, activists and households of school shooting victims. Republican politicians and conservative pundits have largely responded by saying the incident needs to be considered as proof of a necessity for extra school security measures.
Earhardt mentioned that oldsters ought to assist youngsters who’re struggling.
“Parents, take your children to church. I don’t know what’s going on in these individuals’ hearts, but they have a void. They have a hole in their heart and they are evil and they are unhappy. Help them to get help. And I know it’s not always the parents’ fault, because the parents are trying in many cases and when there’s mental illness involved, sometimes you’re at your wit’s end and there’s not much more you can do,” she mentioned.
“But I don’t know what the solution is. I don’t know how to fix this. But I do know love your neighbor as yourself. That’s what the Bible instructs us to do. It doesn’t say love your neighbor if he or she is a Democrat or a Republican. And our country has gotten so divided and I just am tired of all of this evil and I don’t know what the solution is, but we definitely need to love each other and come back to where we were after 9/11, when we were one country.”