CNN’s Kayyem: ‘Pronouns Don’t Kill Children, People with Guns Kill Children’

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LEMON: “Motive goes to the particular person, what’s their mental health situation, what happened at the school? Why did they choose that target? As Andrew was saying, what clues did they leave behind? What was their community scene, and then the means. And then that’s when you get the connectivity, right? That’s when you start to see these are all starting to look the same, right? I sort of think now, like, we don’t own guns in this country, guns own us at this stage, and this is where we have to now focus on an important part of an agenda, which includes mental health, protecting our kids, fortifying schools, but also the connectivity, which is a certain kind of gun. You know, look, pronouns -- pronouns do not kill children, right? People with guns kill children. And it’s going to be a distraction in our coverage and keep us from what we now know, which is each of these cases has a similarity of more than any difference."