Ep. 5361: Getting your thoughts on the tragic shooting that took place in FSU campus Thursday.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Good morning, France.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
We'll go a minute or so long here as we
begin the Friday, April eighteenth edition of the Morning Show.
I'm pressing he is Jose. There are some that have
questioned that when Jesus was on the cross and he
looked up and he said Eli Lama sabactny, which in

(00:37):
Aramaic is my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
That somehow Jesus was confused and lost sight of his mission.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Let's go back.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
A few hundred years Psalm twenty two, My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far
from saving me from the words of my groaning? Oh
my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer,
and by night I find no rest. Yet you are holy,

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enthroned in the praises of Israel.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
In you.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Our fathers trusted, they trusted, and you delivered them to you.
They cried and were rescued, and you they trusted and
were not put to shame. And he goes on to
describe his mission. He said, many bulls encompass me, and
he talks about what was happening. I am poured out

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like water. All of my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax. It has melted within my breast. Jesus,
in that moment on the cross, was pointing to his
divine mission in Psalm twenty two, and.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
He laid it out.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
With that one expression. He unlocks the entire Psalm and
points to his own prophetic coming and saying, that's me.
Listen to what it says in Romans. Well, with the
heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth
one confesses and is saved. It's called good Friday because

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Jesus made it so. Twelve past the hour, it's the
Morning Show with Preston Scott on the iHeartRadio app. Welcome
to the Morning Show with Preston Scott. All right, quickly,

(02:54):
let's go inside the American Patriots Almanac, and then a
few minutes we'll.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Tell you about the show.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Day April eighteenth, seventeen seventy five, Paul Revere and William
Dawes and Samuel Prescott make the famous ride from Boston
to Lexington. Revere wasn't really the guy that God had done.

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I was at the spot where the British arrested him
and where the others got away. It's surreal to be
standing where it happened. Eighteen sixty one, as the Civil

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War approaches, Colonel Robert E. Lee offered command of the
Union Armies. He turns it down. Nineteen oh six Great
San Francisco earthquake rocks the Bay area, setting off fires,
ultimately destroying most of the city, killing three thousand.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
On this date.

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In nineteen forty two, sixteen B twenty fives, led by
Lieutenant Colonel James H. Doolittle, take off from the aircraft
carrier USS Hornet.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
To bomb Tokyo.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
It was the culminating moments of the movie Pearl Harbor.
But yeah, it was a bold mission sending B twenty
five's off an aircraft carrier. They had to strip them
down limited bombs. This was to do nothing but prove

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a point to Japan that yes, they could be touched,
and it was a devastating move. Nineteen seventy eight US
Senate votes to turn the Panama Canal over to Panama
by the year two thousand. Nineteen eighty three, suicide bombing

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terrorist group Jazbala killed sixty three at the US Embassy
and Lebanon. Today is Good Friday, National Lineman Appreciation Day.
National column.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
This day.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Is that what all writers are now? They don't really
report anymore. They just all put their opinions in their
news articles. National Poem in your Pocket Day, National Animal
Crackers Day. Let me be the first to say, not
all animal crackers are made equally. The little circus guys,
they are the best animal crackers ever. In the box,

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the circus, the train car box with the little string.
That those are animal crackers. The rest phony National Clean
out your Medicine Cabinet Day, National Exercise Day. So there
you go, sixteen past the hour, we are caught up,
and away we go.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
Next.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
All right, good morning, ruminators, and welcome. Quick reminder Prayer
at the Capitol on May first National Day of Prayer.
It's a Thursday event. I think it's the first Thursday
of May each and every year, and it will begin
with some praise and worship at eleven thirty noon two

(06:23):
one point fifteen is the prayer service, and then a
week from tomorrow simultaneous Bible reading at the Old Capital
from ten to eleven. So feel free to show up.
Learn more Florida Prayer dot org. All right, yesterday changed

(06:51):
today's show.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I can't I can't do. What's the beef. I can't
best and worst of the week headlines, satirical jokes.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I can't do that today. It just doesn't fit. Yesterday's
events at Florida State University. We're tragic on their own

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as a silo tragic. What went on during and around
and since is nearly as tragic. I got a press
release from a student group on campus. I was so

(07:47):
angered by it. I've had trouble. I had trouble sleeping.
And you might think, well, why that, why not the
shooting itself? Well, probably because those types of senseless tragedies

(08:11):
have happened since Canaan Able. We are sinful. This is
a reflection of it. These things happen, but the utter
and complete foolishness from reporters that are allegedly you know,

(08:36):
I mean Sean Hannity, for God's sake, five are dead.
We I got sources telling me five, so freaking irresponsible
people inside our own company go with it. Four or dead? No, no, no,
And so I feel a little bit like an honest

(08:59):
to God unicle so obscenely diverse in my mindset. I
will not use the name of the shooter. My heart
breaks for his mom. More on that from Walt mcneiland

(09:20):
just a little bit. But there's there's there's a there's
enough to talk about today, and I have all kinds
of thoughts on it, but I want to let you
share your thoughts. This is one of those rare occasions,

(09:51):
second time since I've been doing this show that we've
had to address an active shooter on the campus of
Florida State University. The last one was a even years ago.
Dear God Almighty, eleven years and we still haven't really
changed a whole lot. God blessed the first responders at

(10:15):
FSU Police because they saved lives. Their response was so
quick and so thorough. So my thanks to FSU Police,
Tallahassee Police, Leon County Sheriffs, FHP. The list goes on
and on, FDL, E, FBI. In this case, Florida Fish

(10:41):
and Wildlife were there offering support.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
But here's what I want to do.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I recognize that a lot of you that listen at
this time of the day, you can't participate later, you
can't take part in what's the bee for some of
the call ins because you're busy, you're you're you're working,
you're opening your business, you're on your way to doing
whatever it is that you do, and you're done listening

(11:09):
for the day. So I want to give you a
chance to talk and to share your thoughts. So what
we've done is we've cleared the deck. I've never I've
only done a rundown like this maybe maybe three four
times in five three hundred and sixty one shows.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
And it says calls.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
So I just want to get your reaction when you
heard there was a shooting on FSU's campus. What did
you immediately think? Where did your mind go? And what now?
Subsequent to finding out what we know? What are your
thoughts now? What did you think when you heard? What

(11:57):
are your thoughts now? I do not want to discuss
the name of the young man responsible. Happy to talk
about the person, but I'm not interested in the name.
Not going to happen here, not going to happen here.

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And I know I am fighting a losing battle.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
I know it. It's okay.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Eight five zero two zero five WFLA eight five zero
two zero five WFLA for you six am, five am
Central listeners. This is your shot to call in and
let your voice be heard and share what you were
thinking and what you think now. Eight five zero two
zero five WFLA. We'll get the news and more next.

(12:59):
I'm not in a very particularly jovial mood because we
had a really good show. I had been saving stories
all week long for today and then yesterday happened. But
I want to try to help you process everything, get

(13:19):
your thoughts on what took place. An active shooter Florida
State University campus happened in our hometown here in Tallahassee,
and many of you in the Panama City area. You
are FSU alum. You love the school, and so we're
just taking calls eight five zero two zero five WFLA.

(13:39):
What were your thoughts when you immediately heard and then
what are your thoughts now in the aftermath?

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Jay, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
Hey good, more impressed in hopefully I don't love you.
I'm kind of out in the woods go with Turkey
this morning, but I just wanted to say, first of all,
thank you for taking my call, and thank you for
your show. And uh, I guess you know my initial
thought was as a Christian man, uh, my, my, my prayers,

(14:10):
you know, and just everything kind of just third on
the people, uh that was involved in any capacity with
that uh, with that tragic event yesterday. But I guess
to add on to that, I just wanted to you know,
I've seen and heard a lot about this, uh with

(14:33):
the mother and the deputy, and UH, I just wanted
to just kind of share, you know. I don't know
if this will help out on any with any anybody
who owns a firearm. It doesn't have to be law
enforcement and be non law enforcement whatever. But my my
old man, he's passed away now, but he was a

(14:54):
retired UH investigator with Alabama Bureau of the Investigation. And
you know, he's a different time nineteen sixty to nineteen
eighty five. But Dad, I don't know what the policy
was then, but Dad had his He had his guns
all over the place, you know, and I never really

(15:18):
ever had a chance to ask him why, but you know,
he had them all over the place. And I don't
think too many of them were security that I remember.
But Dad believed in I do know one thing. Dad
believed in one thing. He was conservative, but he was
very liberal when it came to his hand on my
butt and his belt on my butt. And he talked

(15:40):
me also about growing you know, about guns, and you know,
he told me everything that I used to this day
and then teaching my son and probably about the only
difference is I do keep my guns secure, but just
because again maybe it for time than it was then,

(16:01):
but sure, but that you know, I just want everybody know,
you know, I mean, here's a man who had a
lot of guns law enforcement and again I don't know
what the policy was, you know, during that time, but
both but he never had I don't think Dad ever
really had an issue of worrying one iota about you know,

(16:25):
me and you know, regarding his guns or anything like that.

Speaker 6 (16:31):
I was.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
I was scared to death to get anywhere close to him.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah, Jay, I got a roll on, buddy, I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Thank you. Lance stand by.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
We're gonna come to you next weather in traffic real
quick and then we're right back eight five zero two
zero five WFLA. I really want to hear from you
when you heard about the shooting on campus, your thoughts
and now your reflections after knowing what we know. We
know quite a bit more about the shooter, and we

(17:01):
knew quite a bit at the press conference yesterday afternoon.
I was here, I was at the station all afternoon yesterday.
We were pushing out live reports.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
And we were, you know, we were doing our job here.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Then when when the press conference happened, we interrupted Sean Hannity,
thank god, and and brought the press conference. Offered some
thoughts before and after, So Land stand by you're you're
up next forty one past the hour, Friends, share your
thoughts eight five zero two zero five to b FLA.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
The Morning Show at Preston Scott On News Radio one
hundred point seven WFLA.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Opportunity for you to share your thoughts on what happened
at Florida State University yesterday. And for those of you
that you know you can't call in later in the show,
I wanted to give you the opportunity to to share
what you're thinking.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
I know that we got a lot.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Of listeners in the six o'clock hour that just cannot
call in because I read your email. I don't have
time to call in later in the show, but and
then I get the email. You're free to send me
email Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. But let's go to Lance,
who has been very patient.

Speaker 6 (18:18):
Good morning, Good morning Preston, Happy Friday. Thank you for
allowing us to call in and speak yesterday.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
When I heard about it.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
I was actually off campus. I normally would have been
on campus. My office is about thirty yards from where
a lot of the video was taken and mixed emotions.
At first, I was like, please make this be small
in scale. I immediately called my colleague across the way
and he was already being evacuated from the building with
his hands up. And the more I saw the interviews,

(18:47):
I was super impressed with the response and want to
thank FSU police police in the Sheriff's office, they were
there hearing the student accounts. Was at first, it was
just is troubling, and I was just really sad because
the maintenance workers, who I think are amazing, I know
a lot of them. They were putting their life at

(19:09):
risk to save those students' lives that go around that
campus that are young. And I'll be honest. The other
day I was walking campus and I had somebody wanting
me to sign a petition for marijuana and the only
I'll say about that, I looked at him and said,
I'm a Christian. I can't do that. We're supposed to
protect these kids, and as a faculty member, one of
the things we do every semester is talk about what

(19:30):
happens with active shooter. I've been through the training I
started in twenty seventeen, three years after Strosier. One of
the things they asked us to do is to make
sure that we will block the door to every semester,
and I did it this semester. I go through and
go through the protocol inside. What I don't say is
I will be angry if I hear pop pop pop,
because as a concealed owner, I do not carry on

(19:51):
campus because I do not want to break the rules.
I would not have handled yesterday very well because I
would have been there, would have probably went at the
sh shooter and put my life in front of them,
and wouldn't have been able to protect myself. One of
the two people I can't say I found out last night.
I know one of the people, and I want to
hear more context. My gut tells me he was probably
out there trying to save those students, and he's no

(20:12):
longer here today. So I hope when we look at
this that everyone remembers how helpless they felt, and that
the reason why this keeps happening is evil will continue
to happen. I agree with you on that we're gonna.
Schools are so soft, we got to harden them up.
People have got to wonder. I wonder if that person
has a concealed weapon. I want to be able to
protect my students, and that's where I stand. And I'm sorry,

(20:34):
thank you for letting me share this. I've never would
have shared this, but yesterday is so raw. And I
will continue to go to campus. I will continue not
to bring my weapon even though I am a concealed owner,
and I'll abide by the school's rules. But give me
the tools to protect.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
That's all I ask Lance. Hold on a second.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
I have heard that story that some of the maintenance
personnel did some heroic things.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
What have you heard?

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Give me just I've got about a minute here. What
details if any of you heard about who was not
by name, but who was doing what?

Speaker 6 (21:09):
Yes, yes, sir, the first hand accounts of the students.
So I'm just speculating, but I saw the first hand
accounts of the students saying what they saw out of
the student union, which was maintenance workers were leading people,
pointing them to safety. You had line of sight when
I saw the videos. You could if you were in
those buildings, you would have seen the shooter. The maintenance

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workers went to and put themselves in harm's way to
point people away through the back of the building, pointing
them towards the Catholic church over there. And that was
a student's account. Those maintenance workers saved lives. If those
people had walked to the right instead of to the left,
that shooter would have had access to a bunch of people.

(21:52):
I walked campus last night. I was amazed in the
two minutes that that shooter could walk. He walked a
lot of that campus without any any opposition.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Do me a favor, Lance, reach out to the president's
office and make a suggestion to find out who those
workers that stood out there that did that, to honor
them and to thank them.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yes, sir, I agree, I was on the same page
with you. I will be doing that today.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Thank you, Lance, appreciate you sharing. Lee stand by.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
You're going to be next forty seven minutes past the
hour eight five zero two zero five to b FLA.
We're taking calls here on the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (22:35):
This is the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Talking about the events yesterday on the FSU campus in
and around the student union and just want to know
your thoughts when you heard what happened, and your thoughts
now just a few hours later. Lee, thanks for holding
on with.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
Me, Preston. There's a lot of things I want to
talk about in the short time you can get me.
I definitely want to talk about the school's gun policies
and our public schools here in town and around the country.
But I do want to say first, I grew up
without my father around for most of my adult years

(23:17):
or teenage years, fifth like fifth grade through high school,
and that's I did not turn out. Okay, I'm not,
you know, crazy, but I definitely it definitely affected.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
My life and the outcome of my life by not,
you know, by living in a single parent home. I
know that single moms have a huge challenge ahead of them,
and I know too today who have done a pretty
good job with their kids today. But I feel like
with all the video games, social media, all the mental

(23:54):
disease out there, that it's even harder to successfully raise
a stable.

Speaker 8 (23:59):
Chip than a single parent household these days.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
But that said, my big problem with the schools is
that they don't allow.

Speaker 8 (24:07):
Should seal them carry on campus.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
There's not good people, there's not good people with guns
to stop somebody bad. My other big problem is is
that anybody can get on campus.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
With a weapon.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Anybody can get on campus with the weapon. We just
had the gun at the middle school here in Tallahassee,
a knife on campus that we call a high school.
Why are we not putting everybody through metal detectors to
access any building?

Speaker 8 (24:35):
Why are not?

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Why are public schools from high school down easy to
get in with the weapon. It should be harder to
get in and hurt one of our children than it
is to get a weapon into a prison. But we
don't protect schools like prisons. We don't have enough armed
people there to put somebody down the moment they show up,

(24:58):
before somebody loses their life.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
So that's my beef, Lee, thanks very much for calling in,
uh an impromptu what's the beef session there? I'm gonna
address some of that stuff. I appreciate you calling in, though,
but we'll we'll take some time, but I want to
get Michael in before the top of the hour.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
I'm Michael.

Speaker 9 (25:17):
Person.

Speaker 10 (25:18):
Thank you for picking Michael. I was I was in
the local host I'm knowing her name names and we
started receiving the ambulances and the cubs were coming in
with the with the injured. And that's when I started
calling my form up College of Medicine because that's where
I used to work for like eight years. Check on

(25:39):
my form my workers to see if that everybody's away.
But my problem is with the initial reporters, Like the
reporters just want to be the first person to report something,
you know. It's like, initially I thought it was like
two shooters, you know, so it seems that you're not
taking your time to actually quickly report the daily the events,

(25:59):
you know. So but I do agree with the other people,
like you always say, like good, good person with a
gun is the one that's top sick. So you know,
you never hear of any shoot I'm going to shoot
a police station, like because they know they're gonna get
received fire, you know. So we cannot just say let's
do a gun free zone and then the black guys

(26:20):
are gonna all idea to it. No, it's not possible.
So I do I hope that policies can change, that
people can actually like say, of course, to what point.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Is that, Michael, I gotta go.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
We're at the break at the top of the hour,
but thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. More
calls coming up if you'd like to join me eight
five zero two zero five to b F l A
eight five zero two zero five ninety three fifty two.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
If I pass the hours.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
An hour ruminators of the Morning Show with Preston Scott, Friday,
April eighteenth. I've got some things to share, so we
will pause calls at some point in the program, but
I really wanted to create an opportunity for those of
you who may not get to call into the program
very often, to do so and weigh in on what
your thoughts were yesterday when you heard about the shooting

(27:20):
at Florida State University, what your immediate kind of visceral
reaction was to it, and now that we know some
details what it is now your thoughts had a lot
of interesting things shared this morning. Back to the phone lines, Michael,
thank you for calling into the Morning Show.

Speaker 11 (27:42):
Good morning, Preston, How are you good?

Speaker 5 (27:46):
Real quick?

Speaker 11 (27:47):
The deputy sheriff. I've talked to friends and law enforce
about this individual. She's hysterical, she's not very good at
a job, and I'm wondering she'd get from it, just
because the and I wonder how Willie McNeill is going
to spin this to try to make her seem like
the best deputy Leon County has ever had. Well to deflect,

(28:14):
but that she that her idiot son use her weapon.
I mean, I know the kid is of age and
he can, you know, gain access to it, but you know,
if he has any kind of mental problems or whatever,
it should have been locked up.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Anything else you want to share, Michael.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
No, So that's it.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Thank you very much, absolutely, thanks for calling in. I'll
address that in part in just a little bit. Dan,
thanks for calling in.

Speaker 12 (28:46):
Hey doing Preston good. This shooting in FSU may wind
up being about like the one in Tennessee, a little
vanished quickly from the news cycles because the gum doesn't
the arrative that the mainstream media wants everybody to believe.
He was apparently at Trump protests at FSU. They're already

(29:07):
describing the information that was online available about him. They
had a comment in the FSU about him being at
a Trump protest, and they've already taken that down. They're
taken down a Facebook page, so you know, he's he
doesn't fit the narrative that they want to push right now.
So I got a feeling it's going to be out
of new cycle. I mean, it'll be important for the
people local, but within the next week or two, it's

(29:29):
probably going to be gone from the news cycle.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Wouldn't surprise me.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
They they tend to, like you mentioned Nashville, they tend
to just kind of overlook things intentionally and try to
get them to drop off the radar.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Any other thoughts before we.

Speaker 12 (29:42):
Move on, Well, that's as far as I'm going to
deep down that rabbit hole.

Speaker 9 (29:48):
I'm going to go right now.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Let's put it that away, gotcha, Dan, thanks very much,
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I've made a few notes on on on some things,
but let me let me address what Michael and Dan
had to say their first.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Let's go to.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Dan and then we'll work backwards. Dan was just talking
about the fact that he was at Trump protests. See,
I had learned that he was not a Trump fan,
but yet there are photos circulating of him wearing a
Maga hat. It doesn't really matter. It could all be

(30:26):
for show. The Maga hat could have been posing for
some kind of ulterior motive. There are other discussions that
this kid's autistic. I think if you look at photos,
even though they don't say everything, you could make the

(30:46):
argument that they are indicative of somebody that is challenged
in some way, shape or form. As it relates to
the comments Michael made. You know, we're not using names
for very specific reasons, and one of them is that
you know, I have just I don't know personally about

(31:11):
this deputy at all. My heart breaks for this was
not her service gun. It's not a weapon. It's a gun.
I make the mistakes sometimes too, but it's a gun.
A gun, like a rock or a hammer or a
baseball back, can be turned into a weapon, but it's

(31:32):
a gun. It was her old service gun. When the
Sheriff's office transitioned from one type of firearm to the next,
she was given the option, as all the deputies are,
of purchasing her gun, and she did, and she kept
it as a personal firearm. He gained access to it.

(31:52):
She may or may not bear responsibility for that. We'll
find out if he has issues that would cause him
to not have access to a firearm. But Sheriff Walt
McNeil said some things yesterday at the press conference we'll
get to in just a few minutes that would lead
you to think that that's not the case. But we'll

(32:13):
get to that and unpack that. But there's some other
things relative to yesterday that I want to get to.
But again, your calls are coming up. Eight five zero
two zero five WFLA. My questions are twofold. What were
your thoughts when you heard about the shooting and what
do you think now? Ten past the hour, eleven passed

(32:34):
the hour. Here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (32:38):
It's the Morning Show with Preston Scott on news Radio
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Speaker 1 (32:49):
The show got changed. Boy.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
We had a really good, kind of fun show mapped
out for the day.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Yeah, you got the news to talk about. And then.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
This shooting at FSU yesterday left two dad not students.
We are told six injured, five seriously, one critically, and
then the shooter himself was injured. He was neutralized by
FSU police. Just taking your calls, Okay, thanks for calling.

Speaker 13 (33:22):
In good morning. I work near FSU, and when I
first prefaced this by saying, my window in front of
my computer screen has got a bullet hole in it.
And two weeks ago, a couple of blocks from my
office there was a gunfight. So when I first heard

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about this shooting at FSU, not realizing it was actually
on campus, I just thought it was standard operating procedure
for that area. After I learned what happened, I was
really devastated, and I really feel sorry for this mother.
I can't even imagine what she's going through. So I

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feel for all of the victims, but especially the mother.
But as awful as that sounds to say that I
felt it was standard operating procedure, this is not the
first time that I've been subject to gunfire in that area.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Wow, bullet hole in your window?

Speaker 13 (34:29):
Huh Yeah, if I had been sitting at my computer screen,
it would have gone right between my eyes.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Well how long ago is that?

Speaker 13 (34:37):
That was about a year ago.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Did police ever collect the bullet?

Speaker 13 (34:43):
No one ever called simply because there's so much shooting
in that area of the apartments and everything that It's
like when we had the gunfight, nobody I said, should
I call nine to one one? And they said, now,
don't bother, it'll be over in a little bit. So,
like I said, I feel sorry for saying it was

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standard operating procedure, but that's it.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Think, Okay, appreciate the call. Let's go to Andrea Andrew.
Good morning, Good.

Speaker 14 (35:12):
Morning, Preston. My beef is with WCTV. I was watching
yesterday at twelve thirty. I turned turned on WCTV and
they were showing The Young and Restless with a ticker
tape at the bottom. I had to go to Internet
TV to the national channels to get lifeyed to see

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what was going on.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
What time was that that you saw The Young and
the Restless twelve thirty? Yeah, and I'm going to defend
him on that, Andrea. It takes time to get everybody together.
You've got your crew that just finished doing their midday
if they do a midday thing, and then you've got
to you got to assemble people, and then you've got
to get people on site.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
You know.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Bless his heart, the young man they turned loose down
there is just terrible at his job. He's not equipped
to do live reporting on the scene. But he was
the guy that was available. He did the best he could.
It was just not very good, but they I used
to work in a local newsroom and I can just
tell you it takes time to get people there.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
It takes time.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
They had a perimeter they had to work around and
deal with, and then they had to actually do what's
called set up the live shot, and that takes time
as well.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
So I'm going to defend him on that one.

Speaker 10 (36:31):
I get that, But.

Speaker 14 (36:32):
How did all these other channels get down there so quick?
And they're right here in Tallahassee.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Well, keep in mind that some of those outlets, which
by the way, were reporting irresponsibly, almost all of them,
they have people at the capitol covering the legislative session,
and so some of them have satellite trucks right then
and there, and so they were perhaps in a little

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bit better proximity and h and could just jump on
up and do it. Booking the satellite time and all that.
It's done with some clicks now. It used to take
some time. But yeah, so but again I can only
tell you that I don't I'm not sure that that
being first and being live and all of that really
served us very well, because I found a bunch of

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the information grossly irresponsible, inaccurate, all in the name of
being first, and it frankly upset me a lot.

Speaker 13 (37:28):
I do agree with that.

Speaker 14 (37:29):
I just think having some live feed for parents that
have kids there locally would have.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Okay, let me and I'm not trust me, Andrew. I'm
not angry at your comments at all. It's so just
bear with me, Okay, okay, what would you what? What
is a parent going to learn if you see a
live feed of the scene. What are you gonna learn?

Speaker 1 (37:51):
You're gonna learn nothing, You're gonna be true.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
And and so I think that we have gotten somewhat conditioned.
And I'm not saying you, I'm just saying as a culture,
and it's filtered into the news world that.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Oh my gosh, we got to have it right now.
You know, we got phones and all that.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
Did you see the video of the of the person
sipping a coffee with walking by a victim that had
been shot, videotaping the victim as they're sipping on their
iced coffee.

Speaker 14 (38:21):
I did, and I thought that was disgusting.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
It is absolutely disgusting. And now people are trying to
out that person. And it's irresponsible that part of it.
But it's like we're now in a culture where someone
feels the need to walk by someone who has been
shot and not render aid, but keep sipping their coffee
videotaping and walk on by.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
I was stunned by that.

Speaker 14 (38:47):
Yeah, my husband and I were too. It was absolutely disgusting.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Andrew, you bring up some really good points, though, and
I and I really thank you for calling because it
gave me an opportunity to share just a little context
on how these things happened. Look, it would be fair
to say, hey, you guys weren't live. No, we weren't
live until the press conference. Up until then, I was

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posting things on our X page. Jared was coming in,
we were doing video.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Updates.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
We did about three or four video updates that we
pushed out on social media because there was nothing to say.
I mean, I watched WCTV. They tried their best, but
they just repeated the same things over and over because
there was zero There was zero official information until the

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press conference, and so all it was was conjecture. And
I recognized that from not using the name of the
shooter to not being willing to throw out all that
I'm hearing the death toll is five, I'm hearing the
death toll is four, I'm hearing this that, but I
look like I'm not doing my job, or that we

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aren't doing our job. And I counter that by saying
we I believe were the most responsible of dealing with
this situation. We dealt with what we knew based on
confirmed reports by multiple sources, not single by god, Fox
News was out there with single sources. Well, you know,

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I have a source, a student on campus telling me
this a single source, and you're going on national television.
Not to mention they put out the safe word. The
safe word was being used for students barricaded and faculty
barricaded in rooms. The safe word is seminole, don't open
the door, and they're publicizing it across the airwaves of
Fox News nationally.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
I just sorry.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
The irresponsibility that took place yesterday just flamed me to
no end. And so I'm gonna get to more calls
their next twenty past the hour.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
I am woef late. Bear with me. It's the Morning
Show with Preston Scott. All right, let's get back to
the phone lines.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
We're talking about yesterday's shooting at Florida State University. Your
reaction and your thoughts now just about twelve hours b
sixteen eighteen hours now after learning more, and we go
to Gary.

Speaker 8 (41:26):
Hi, Gary, Hey, Preston, My immediate thought was the destruction
of faith and for those who are involved in something
like this, how damaging it can be to their faith,
especially if it happens at the same time as a
significant religious holiday. I agree with the previous caller Lee

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about security on school campuses. The lady who called and
talked about the bullet hole in her window. That just
proves that those of the neighborhoods around our campus here
in Tallahassee, or high crime neighborhoods. And it frustrates me
to know end when developers build student housing and high

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crime neighborhoods and then do nothing to protect the students
in those residentses worse, they'll allow people who don't even
go to college to rent those of residences. Or can
you know you have people conducting illegal activities there that
can put our students in danger. But so I agree

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with those previous college But my biggest concern what I
heard about this yesterday, is how this affects people's faith
when it happens, especially when it happens at a significant
religious holiday.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Thank you, Gary, appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Patricia. Patricia,
you are up. What are your thoughts?

Speaker 15 (42:52):
Well, my first thought was, I was I attended af
A shue A as a student there when Ted Bundy
came through town, and I just felt so heartbroken for
those students because I know the fear that they were feeling.
But one of the things that stood out to me
is that the police officers did not kill him. And

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I am so glad because they would be able to
just bury this whole thing. I want to know, you
know what in the world, Oh my gosh. And I
also feel so sorry for that matter I did.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Thank you, Patricia, appreciate the phone call. Let's go to Rick. Hi, Rick,
thanks for calling in.

Speaker 16 (43:33):
Hey, Preston, how are you good? Good?

Speaker 4 (43:37):
Hey?

Speaker 12 (43:38):
The thing I.

Speaker 16 (43:39):
Wanted to talk about was, and I think you just
addressed it a few minutes ago, was the gentleman who
had the video of him walking past the girl that
was on the ground and all was him sipping on
his frozen latte. And then there was another video that

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came after that of a female police officer attending aid
to that female and you could see the female with
on her side with her head up, so obviously she
was alive, maybe playing playing dead to you know, survive,
because you could hear the gunshots in the background. Yeah,

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but I'm a person. I have to watch what I say,
so I couldn't get on social media and respond to that.
But yeah, I think he definitely needs to be outed.
I guess you could say and face the public shame
of it, because that was atrocious.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Appreciate the call.

Speaker 17 (44:43):
Rick.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
I would be very hesitant to quote out that person,
because what if you're wrong? And I don't mean you personally, Rick,
I share your disgust as everybody does, trust me, there
are people that do not. Oh, and I'm quite certain
that person is shamed. But I worried as I saw

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this unfold yesterday. And for those of you that might
have missed it, someone walked by a shooting victim sipping
on their coffee and they just as they walk by,
they just turn their phone and just videotape it instead
of rendering aid or doing anything, just sipping their coffee.
What if you out the wrong person? And I'm just

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just I hesitate in that.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
We're really late here. Bear with me.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
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Speaker 2 (46:13):
All right, we're going to take one call here, take
a quick break, and then we're going to pause the
calls for a little while. We'll pick back up on
the phone calls at the top of the next hour.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
But Patsy's been patient. Good morning, welcome, good morning.

Speaker 18 (46:28):
I like you and frustrated with the coverage. However, I've
heard you mention it time or two and some in
the little news clips. But I think the ambulance service
is neglected. They go from the crime scene to they
were transported to the hospital. Well, what is not considered

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is that on that ambulance paramedics are rendering services that
probably could save another life. Sure, and I just I
don't think they get enough credit.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
Well, you've remedied that. Pardon me, you've remedied that. Well done.

Speaker 12 (47:12):
Well.

Speaker 18 (47:12):
Usually, though, the ambulances are there before the crime scene
is even secured.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yeah, they have to be, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 18 (47:19):
And you know, we got trained paramedics on there that
are rendering life saving efforts en route to the hospital.
But the news coverage just kind of says they were transported.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah, we we.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Mentioned Leon County MS in our news reports, which will
air six times during the broadcast, Patsy, But thank you
very much.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yeah, obviously, rendering aid saves lives. We don't know the
nature beyond one one victim and critical condition, five and
serious condition and that does not count the shooter. So
good on you for calling that out. Look, we're gonna
pause on calls, get back on time here, get to

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calls at the top of the next hour. We're not
doing what's the beef, We're not doing any of the
lighter content that we do on Fridays. We're gonna stay
laser focused on this. I've got some information for you
to listen to, some thoughts to share, an email I
received from a local group on campus, and more still
to come on the Morning Show with Preston Scott Morning Friends,

(48:44):
Morning Show with Preston Scott. It is a sad Easter
weekend due to the events that took place on campus yesterday.
Two died. We don't know their names at this time.
There are six additional victims that have been injured by gunfire,

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countless victims emotionally damaged.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
And scarred.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Note here from Julie already at the office, thanks for
the opportunity to write this. Too many el eos with
teen young adult kids need to look a little closer
at them. I've seen too many that are little bleeps
and bullies l e oh moms especially let it go
and even chuckle about poor behavior as usual. There were

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signs and they were ignored. I believe the demeanor of
eleeo's at the press conference say a lot. So I'm
curious about what will be allowed in the public purview
now with all the hate directed at law enforcement by
leaders in this country, these kids need a bit more.
Thanks to FSU, please for quick actions, other eleos for
their service. I will go nowhere. I cannot legally care.

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Got to help us.

Speaker 19 (50:00):
All.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Very sad day for FSU. I would love to know
what signs were there that were ignored. There may be,
I don't know. Experts in law enforcement with years of
experience investigating these types of events say there are almost

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always underscore, almost red flags, attitudes, comments, behaviors, postings on
social media that indicate actions to come. We'll find out.
And here's the thing we can find out without talking

(50:44):
about this guy's name. It's not going to happen here.
I'm going to read a statement that was sent to
me by the FSU College Debt Democrats respond to campus shooting.

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They sent an early release and then they sent a
final one and at the bottom it says for interviews
or media inquiries, and I wrote, I said, I would
love to have someone on the show to defend this.
It was signed by Madeline Propst Propst, the college DEM's president,

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and it reads, it happens on a campus across the country,
and it barely makes the news. It happens across the state,
and there's a vigil, maybe a protest, and if and
only if it's an election year, the Republican lawmakers fund
a memorial. Today, we ask how close to home does
it have to get for Tallasse lawmakers before they make meaningful,

(51:48):
to change, meaningful, to change? Okay, how many students have
to die just miles from the offices of the Republicans
super majority before they do something other than utter hollow prayers.
This comes mere days after the same legislature attempted a
bill to allow firearms on college campuses. College our campus

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was deeply unprepared for this situation. Emergency protocols failed, and
it costs lives. We must not let those lives be
lost in vain. We are a generation whose upbringing has
been defined by gun violence. Everyone knows someone who has
a victim in their family. Watch as our Republican lawmakers
down the street attempt to normalize this senseless massacre. It

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is not normal. It will never be normal. We will
not forget as the situation unfolds. We are sensitive to
those grieving in our student body and their friends and families.
For them, this is not a moment of politics, but
one of tragedy. It breaks our heart that this violence
continues to plague Florida schools. We will be holding a
village vigil to mourn this senseless tragedy on Saturday seven

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point thirty. Landis Green Madeline proopsed College Damns. I invited them,
I likely was the very first person in the media
to invite them to come on. I gave them the
studio line. I said, call anytime between six and nine am. Jose,

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have you seen that studio line ring once this morning?

Speaker 14 (53:26):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
No, sir, I have not. There you go, there you go? Why?

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Because I asked them to defend this why won't they
call Because it's indefensible what they wrote. And I'm going
to deal with that next forty seven minutes past the hour.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
We're going to go through it.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
All right, we'll get back to call's next hour. But
I want to talk about this statement by FSU College Democrats.
Kind of funny for them. This is not a moment
of politics. But we'll do it. We'll do the politics.
We'll we'll get we'll get engaged. But I want to
take this apart, and I want to I want to
preface this by saying I was really hot when I

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read this, and I had to remind myself. These are kids,
and they don't know what they don't know. They only
know what they've been programmed to believe. They don't have
enough life experience to have been to form an actual opinion.
Now they can have them. It's America, but it's not

(54:34):
an informed opinion. But let's let's take this apart. How
many students have to die? Let me answer that in
this case. None. Now we still don't have the answer
to the condition of those in the hospital. We don't

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have any idea how many are students, but we know
that the two that died were not students. But that's
getting almost a little snarky to reply to that. The
same legislature attempted a bill to allow firearms on the campus.
Our campus was deeply unprepared for this situation. Emergency protocols failed.

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Here was the first question I was going to ask, how,
because in reality I can agree with them on this point.
Lawmakers have failed. Senate Republicans for better than two decades
have kept the issue of allowing guns on campuses by

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legal concealed carry permit holders to not be brought up
in the Senate. Senate Republicans have stopped it. Let me
say that again, Senate Republicans have stoped John Thrasher. Eventually,

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president of FSU stopped it, killed it in committee. I'd
love to know how emergency protocols failed when FSU police
were there within three minutes and neutralized the threat. Borrowing

(56:30):
FSU's term, everyone knows someone who has a victim in
their family. That's just a patent lie. That's hyperbole, it's
a stupid statement. That's no, that's not the case, senseless massacre. No,

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because of the actions in the emergence and see protocols
that were that were flawlessly executed. It's not a massacre technically,
it's not even close. Is it a tragedy? Absolutely? When
anyone dies unnecessarily, it's a tragedy. But the ironic thing

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is you're dealing with an open city. Metal detectors, friends,
metal detectors. No, you're not gonna You can't function that way.
You can't turn it into a point of single entrance
and egress.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
You can't.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
So what you need to do is start asking yourselves.
Why didn't we give students and faculty a chance to
defend themselves? I asked a Florida lawmaker yesterday, what do
you think time to allow students and faculty to defend
themselves on campuses?

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Your calls are next eight.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Five zero two zero five WFLA. So reassuring to know
that a US senator cares so much for an MS
thirteen gang leader. It's just heartwarming. All right, We're not

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going to get sidetracked though. It's the third and final
hour of the program. No, what's the beef today? Today's
about reflecting on what happened yesterday.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
Get your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
Your reaction response at this point is maybe more appropriate.
The shooting took place just before noon yesterday. It ended
very quickly. Two dead, six injured, one critically, five seriously.
The shooter was neutralized and shot. He has invoked his

(58:53):
Miranda rights. He is not speaking about the action, at
least he didn't initially. He was taken out on gurney
with wounds and handcuffed to it and brought to a
local hospital. But we're getting your thoughts on your reaction
to what happened and your reactions since you've learned what
you've learned. We're not using the shooter's name. Please don't

(59:15):
make that mistake. Colton, thanks for calling in.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
Hey, good morn impressing. How are you good?

Speaker 1 (59:21):
So?

Speaker 3 (59:22):
I it was a terrible thing that happened yesterday, and
I wish that Florida State would have allowed people to,
you know, the right people to carry a weapon on campus,
and it could have been a little bit better. But
I'm also somewhat upset about the coverage that we're hearing.
I have a family member who works in the study union,

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and a lot of the information being shared is not
entirely accurate to the things that we were witnessed and
talked about with the FBI. With the news coverage teams
in the suit of union. Also the of the dead,
the death tolls. I've got another family member that works

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at the hospital, and a lot of these things just
aren't adding up to what the you know, trusted sources
are saying.

Speaker 8 (01:00:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
What do you mean?

Speaker 11 (01:00:14):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:00:14):
Well, so the two the two men that died worked
closely with my with my family member, but you know,
apparently there are more dead than their sharing. And I
don't know if that's a matter of I don't know
what that is about, but you know, confirmed yesterday from

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a family member who was on seen at the hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Okay, well, I would imagine that perhaps it's notifying next
of ken. Are we talking about those died the additional
died at that were brought in injured seriously or.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
Critically potentially, Yes, sir, Yes, I know that there was.
I know that there was the six that were taking
that we're in a critical.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Condition, but hospital listed one in critical five and serious. Yeah, yeah,
all right, Colton, thanks very much. You know, we we'll see.
All we can do is report what has been officially confirmed.
The rest is conjecture at this point, and while I

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appreciate it, I don't doubt your word.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Clearly I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Going to report what you said as fact because it isn't.
It's secondhand knowledge, even perhaps third hand. But thank you
very much for calling in.

Speaker 20 (01:01:33):
Tom You're up good morning, pressed in longtime listen their
first time caller, Good Friday to you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 11 (01:01:40):
I just wanted to start with so proud of the law.

Speaker 20 (01:01:43):
Enforcements response and how they did minimize the fatalities yesterday,
and just how quickly they got there and how they
coordinated response among all the law enforcement agencies. You can
tell they've done this before, and unfortunately our community, he
has gone through this before with I call it many
mass shootings. You had the hot yoga situation a bunch

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of years ago, and then you had the other Drozier
library situation.

Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
I don't own a gun.

Speaker 20 (01:02:12):
I never will own a gun. I don't get into
the politics of it. I have people that are in
law enforcement up north that you know, relatives of mine,
just one who actually handy handled the Sandy UK shooting
uh as A as A, you know, our top law
enforcement person up there, and I just just wondering what
it will all and you know, I just don't know

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what to do. I'm in a mental health field.

Speaker 19 (01:02:35):
Myself.

Speaker 20 (01:02:35):
Obviously this young man had some major issues, and I
just I pray for everybody involved here. I just fs
you strong and God bless everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
Thank you, Tom, appreciate the call. Steve, Alexandra, you are
next get to your thoughts. Here's what I can tell you.
Every public college, school, college, campus, and universe is a
quote gun free zone, and not one of them is.
There are two people that have guns beyond law enforcement.

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Two types of people, those that say, forget that, I'm
going to protect myself. Most are rule followers. We spoke
with an educator on campuses. I follow the rules. I
have my concealed carry, but I follow the rules. The
second group, and the group that you need to be

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worried about, or the group that say, forget what what
do you mean? Signs, policies, rules, whatever, and they're the
ones that will commit a crime. You cannot keep guns
off of campuses. But what you can do is keep
the people that ought to have them, that ought to
be able to defend themselves, that ought to have the

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opportunity to stop a mass shooting. You can keep them
from having a firearm because they follow the rules. I
want to remind you that studies have revealed that concealed
carry permit holders and more shootings quicker with less fatalities

(01:04:15):
than law enforcement because law enforcement have to react to
it and they get there after the fact. Most mass
shootings end in five to seven minutes. That's five to
seven minutes before law enforcement shows up. It is unconscionable
that politicians in this state with a supermaturity don't have

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the courage to do the right thing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Eleven minutes after the hour This Morning Show with Preston.

Speaker 7 (01:04:44):
Scott, Good morning, and welcome to the Morning Show with
Preston Scott too.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Sorry, we're gonna keep taking calls until the final segment
here this morning for as long as you want to
chat eight five zero two zero five to BFLA, your
reaction when you heard what happened and your response now
after the fact. Let's go to Steve. Hi, Steve go up,
Steve left us. Let's go to Alexander. Alexander, welcome to

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the program.

Speaker 21 (01:05:17):
Hi, good morning. So I just wanted to respond just
to a couple of the callers. I have a nephew
that's on campus and at twelve oh two, FSU sent
out alert. I think that's amazing and at twelve oh five,
my nephew texted me and said, I am safe. I

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am in doctor Parris's room. And he continued to give
me statuses when he was moved over to the Civic
Center securely. So FSU and protocols are definitely being followed,
and they were amazing. I did not rely on any

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TV or social media. I was relying on my nephew,
who you know, was my best source to know that
he was safe. There you go, and and and he
knew in his life with the I'm local. And I
was just so proud that he knew what to do

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and he felt safe in his in his professor's office
with the other students, and and so I did not
rely on any social media. I did not rely on anything.
I waited until the officers, the legal Walt McNeil and Revel.
I waited for that because I figured that would have

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been verified.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Yep.

Speaker 21 (01:06:48):
And and I used that to communicate with my sister
in law and with his siblings, and and so I
just protocols were followed. I was impressed. I mean, at
twelve oh two, alerts were being given to the students

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and they kept on coming yep. And so hogwash on
on protocols not being followed, and and you know what
I tell you, your family, this is what you do
in this situation. And that's what my nephew did.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Wonderful and I'm glad he's safe and well. Alexandra. What's
interesting about this, and thank you for calling in. What's
interesting about this is the students interviewed all over the place,
all over the place on Newsday, all of them except
the FSU Democrats are lauding the response of FSU police

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and the emergency protocols. The only group that's not FSU Democrats.
Take that for what it's worth. Jack, thanks for calling
into the program.

Speaker 9 (01:08:03):
All right, that's good to hear your voice.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
How you doing good.

Speaker 9 (01:08:09):
Considering everything? I understand. I heard a great idea at
dinner yesterday. What they said was as far as conceal
carry on campus, is that having an extra level of
certification permit if you will, through the FSUPD. And I
think it'd be a great idea to allow conceal carry

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on campus if they had some other kind of certification.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Thank you, Jack, I appreciate the call. I disagree. It's
a Second Amendment right. We extend that right to young
people serving in our military. Yes, they get training, but
a concealed carry chorus demonstrates proficiency.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
I just know this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
They are not able to properly. No law enforcement can
stop all this. You should have a right to defend
yourself with something other than your book bag. Seventeen minutes
past the hour. Can't get too far behind here. John
is next here in the Morning Show with Preston Scott.

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All right, lines opened up. Some folks you know, couldn't
wait any longer.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
That happens. You got to get into work and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
But if you'd like to call in, the phone lines
are open and I will take calls for a couple
more segments. We're talking about the events of yesterday. I
was infuriated. I am infuriated by the response of FSU
college democrats.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
They release.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
First of all, it was a grammatic train wreck. Memo,
young people, calm down, think about what you're going to
write before you write it, and then proof read. For
Pete's sake, you're college students. It was laughably poorly written,
but the context of what was written was not lost

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on me, and it was and is to me, patently
offensive because they do what democrats do they lob hand grenades,
and they offer no solutions. They ridicule the preparedness or
lack thereof of the school, the emergency protocols failing when

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by all accounts, the emergency protocols worked brilliantly. What fails
here is that we do not allow people on college
campuses to protect themselves. A college campus is a city.
It is a massive community of tens of thousands of people.

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And I hate to be the bearer of the bad news,
but people with evil intentions don't give a crap about
your rules and your signs and your policies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
That's why they're bad people. They don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
And so to all the sensitive out there that think
we just need to ban guns whatever, you clearly know
nothing of why the founders put that amendment in our constitution.
It's a foregone conclusion that we're supposed to be able
to protect ourselves. What that was about was protecting ourselves

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against a government that gets off the chain. It was
an assumption that, of course, you protect yourself. Remember this
was an era where if you insulted somebody, you are
likely to be shot, and it was considered justified because
your honor was besmirched. What do you think these people

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in that culture would have thought of somebody coming into
a college, a university, a house of learning attempting to
shoot people.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
You think they have.

Speaker 22 (01:12:16):
Said, oh, no, no, no, we cannot fire back. We
shall say stop, halt, do not shoot. Ridiculous FSU college
democrats should be shamed. I know they're kids, but they

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should be shamed. These are the kids that get told
at the dinner table speak when spoken to until then, Richard,
thanks for calling the Morning show.

Speaker 19 (01:12:52):
Good morning Presston.

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
You know, I feel for a.

Speaker 19 (01:12:56):
Sheriff Walt McNeil. I could just kind of hear it
in his voice to say that this one really hurt.
This is one of their own, you know, at their weapon.
I think he's a quality sheriff and I'm lucky to
have him.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
And I think this.

Speaker 19 (01:13:10):
Kid was involved in you know, the sheriff identified the
criminogenetic areas and and I just I really feel for him,
and I just hope he keeps his jab up and
I'm praying for him on this good Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Thank you, Richard, appreciate the call. We're going to share.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Sheriff McNeil's some of his comments. I'm not going to
share the parts where he identifies the name of the
shooter and the name of the parent who's a sheriff deputy,
not a sheriff, Fox News not a sheriff.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
A sheriff deputy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
But we'll share some comments that he made that some
have addressed this morning on the program. One more caller
here in this segment.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Ww Hey, good.

Speaker 17 (01:13:55):
Morning, How are you doing good? Just bear me with
me for a second. I'm a little nervous, which is
unusual people say, but I have a son at f
s U, and so it affected me immediately. Is like
I'm driving down Thomaslow Road and get caught up with
all this sarmonies going by, and then all of a sudden,

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I say, what is going on? And then here a
little bit of something of someone texts me this. Instantly
my son group Texas and said it he's okay that
they're locked down. And going back to what that lady
said a few minutes ago about her nephew and everything.

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As a parent, I'm just grateful for there's been a
lot of great strikes forward with f s U, and
there was how they put out alerts.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
It's great.

Speaker 17 (01:14:57):
There's a new chief police at f SU and his
commitment to training. Man, it paid off yesterday and Chief
Revel and the rest of them all over there, and
I know they get a bad rap, especially at the
city commissions. Chief Revel in them And as a parent,

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I'm going to try to be at the next one
to thank the mayor another two city commissioners that support
our police and good guys, because as a parent, Wow,
I feel sorry for the kids that were in the
classrooms where all happened. I know that we talked to

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our son last night and his roommates they were all
talking about it. They were kind of in shock. But
so there's thousands of people that's going through a lot
of trauma right now and absolutely the truth of everything.
You're really happy, but thank you for what you do.
And I want to thank the law enforcement guys. Yeah,

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law enforcement, appreciate you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
Well done. The WW thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
I'm glad your son's well and his classmates and friends,
the faculty. Yeah, and thanks to EMS has been pointed out,
they go into harm's way all the time. Twenty nine
minutes past the hour, more to come here in the
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 7 (01:16:26):
I am there, I am good.

Speaker 23 (01:16:28):
I'm a happy example, Glenn is on nine to noon.
I am stronger every day on WSLA.

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
Get to some emails here. We're done with the phone calls.
We've taken forty five calls this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
That's enough.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
We didn't put forty five people on the air. Some
gave their thoughts and hung up, some couldn't hang on.
But forty five calls, that'll do. I want to get
to some emails before I do. I want to you know,
we had a of a caller that said that a friend,
someone they knew at the hospital said that there were

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more that had died. The official report here from ABC
News is that last night the one with critical injuries
was upgraded with the rest of the injured survivors to
fair condition. So all are out of serious critical and

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now fair. So again that and now okay, does that
end up being wrong? Well, that came from the hospital.
I see no reason when there are two dead for
them to not say there are four dead or six dead.
That makes no sense. And I'm not mad at the caller,

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but this points to the very thing that we avoid
at all costs. We do our very best, and it
actually leads into one of the emails I listened to WFLA.
I was very disappointed there was virtually no local coverage

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of the shooting. Let me go back to that, and
we are not above criticism. We are not a news organization.
We are a radio station that offers news broadcasts, but
we don't have reporters. We rely on the reporting of others.

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There were interruptions during Clay and Buck and Sean Hannity
here locally about the shooting. There were updates at the
top and the bottom of every hour. There were inserts
throughout the one minute updates. We did social media posts,

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and then we went with the press conference. Why because
there was nothing to regurgitate other than the same thing,
there's a shooting on the campus. I'm just going to
be as transparent as I can be. Friends, I'm it.
We have support personnel like Jose and Jared that can

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jump into the other side, and then we have our
account executives and managerial staff that can print out a
story and run it back in here. To me, there
was nothing to report that was confirmed. So, with all
due respect, we are accustomed to this instant news cycle

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that is almost always wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
And let me get that set up front.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Almost everything that was pushed out, including by iHeart News
sources in other parts of Florida were wrong. The head
of our news division set out stating something to the
effect of for dead, go with this story. It wasn't confirmed.

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I was not going to go to that story. He
was wrong, and frankly it really upsets me. We will
be right and late versus first and wrong. I don't

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care about being first. I care that what we report
is reliable. If other things are not released by the
media and so forth by the law enforcement agent, I
have zero control over that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
More to come.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Forty one minutes after the arm you think some of
this might boil into Monday?

Speaker 7 (01:20:53):
Yeah, you have a story you want to share, Write
him at Preston at iHeartRadio dot com. Welcome to The
Morning Show with Preston Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Person who questioned our local reporting also wrote, as a
retired to MT in a big northern city, I know
the training of all emergency services. From what I've seen,
it was handled perfectly agreed between the unreported death's caller
and the FSU Democrats ignorance. I think conspiracy theories during
these incidents is disgusting. Thank you Rich for writing in.

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Appreciate you sharing your comments, Page wrote in frustrating and
shore at a lengthy note here, Frustrated we're not allowed
to carry on campus, especially since we were offered training,
but our superintendent is forbidden teachers from carrying. She goes
on to talk about young people carrying. Look, even if

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you stick with the twenty one under twenty one cannot
carry concealed, there's still enough people twenty one and older.
And then faculty put doubt in the mind of a shooter.
When you say gun free zone, you know what that is.
That's shooting fish in a barrel. You know that the
likelihood of getting shot back at is virtually nothing unless

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there happens to be an officer nearby. Thankfully they responded quickly.
On campus. My hunch is FSUPD are stationed relatively close
proximity to the student union at all times. Good they
did their job exceptionally. I have zero complaints with law enforcement.
They did their job. Let me get to something that

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I've been trying to get to, and this is Sheriff
Walt McNeil talking about the shooter and the deputy.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Some reports Mom. Some reports.

Speaker 24 (01:22:49):
Stepmom has been with the Lean County Sheriff's Office for
over eighteen years. She has a tremendous job that she's done.
Her service to this community has been exceptional. Unfortunately, her
son had access to one of her weapons, and it's

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a gun that was one of the weapons that was
found at the scene. It's gone and we will continue
that investigation into how that weapon was used and what
other weapons perhaps got he may have had access to.
The alleged shooter was also a long standing member of
the Leon County Sheriff's Office Citizen Advisory or Youth Advisory Council,

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so he has been steep in the Lean County Sheriff's
Office family, engaged in a number of training programs that
we have, so it's not a surprise to us that
he had access to weapons. This event is tragic in
more ways than youth people in the audience could ever

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offend him from a law enforcement perspective, But I will
tell you this, we will make sure that we do
everything we can to prosecute and make sure that we
send a message to folks that this will never be
tolerated here in Leon County, and I dare say across
the state and across this nation.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
Well that depends now, doesn't it. It depends on if
Florida lawmakers, notably Democrats or Republicans, have the courage to
do the right thing, to allow people to exercise their
Second Amendment rights in a location that they cannot protect
adequately any other way. Can't do it, can't do it.

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Those signs, those policies, those rules meant nothing and mean
nothing to someone intent on killing forty seven minutes past them.
Come on, come on, Florida Republicans, show some stones.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
Well, I think.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
I speak for all of us when I say days
like yesterday just suck. We can step back and say, boy,
could that have been a lot worse, But for the
families of the people that have been killed and injured.
Pretty bad day, for students that witnessed the shooting, the

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trauma of it, except for the one sipping a little
iced coffee walking buy videotaping. You know, maybe police want
a word with that person. They'll identify. I'm not into
outing that person, but an argument was made to me
that what if that person was a shooter just walking

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by documenting some damage. I just know that it's dangerous,
and if you don't know the video, I'm talking about
literally someone walking down a sidewalk videotaped one of the
victims shot bleeding, laying motionless. We later found out she

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was alive and just walked by and just kept turning
the camera as they're drinking their iced coffee. Didn't stop
to render it, didn't say are you okay, I'm getting
out nothing, it's walked on by. That person needs a
heart transplant. They don't even know it. But anyway, we

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did our best to just give you a chance to
talk a little bit and to share some information, to
share some information about FSU College Democrats that, frankly, it
doesn't surprise me at all talk about a group that
should be ashamed of themselves, my god, right there with
Florida Republicans. And not because they're not doing anything to

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ban guns. They've already done that. It's that they're not
doing anything to allow them because they're on campus the
wrong people have them. Monday, we'll talk more, but we're
not devoting the whole show to it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:35):
We're gonna we're gonna funnel our way back to normal
and catch up on a lot of other things.

Speaker 7 (01:27:42):
All right, brought to you by Barone Heating and Air.
It's the Morning Show on WFLA.

Speaker 1 (01:27:53):
There you go I got. I got nothing that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
I was here yesterday afternoon I had a luncheon meeting
and then I came right here and I spent the
rest of the day here. Not the normal amount of
sleep I'm used to a little tired.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
But that's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
That's what we do, and we did the best we could.
There was no reason for us to enter up programming
yesterday with no real information, and I apologize if you're
disappointed by that, but I promise you that what you
got fed elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:28:33):
Added up to big zilch.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
Because they did not have facts until four point thirty
in the afternoon. You want to fault me for that,
it was my decision. If you want to fault me
for that, I will live with that decision, and I
will sleep soundly at night knowing we did the right
thing because we presented you with the facts from the
mouths of the law enforcement officials, not conjecture, not guessing,

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not one source, not a person and a person and
a person told another person. So everybody just kind of recover,
and remember this weekend is all about Jesus