'ENOUGH!': Josh Brolin furious over US 'not protecting children' after 6 killed in Nashville shooting
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE: Actor Josh Brolin, 55, unraveled his fury over the scores of callous school shootings in America, urging lawmakers to do something to stop the "absolute random slaughter of our children" in response to the Nashville school shooting at a private Christian school. Shooter Audrey Hale, 28, drove to The Covenant School and killed six people, including three nine-year-old children, before being fatally shot by the MNPD on Monday morning, March 27.
"ENOUGH!!!!!!" 55-year-old 'Avengers' actor fumed. "Whether you're a 'It's the people not the guns' or a 'It's the guns, not the people' to say that our country is actively doing anything in its power to help avert this absolute random slaughter of our children, categorizes you in either total denial or living some fantasy of ambush that should render you unfit to take care of yourself or others," Brolin wrote on Instagram.
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'F*** you, America!'
"I thought all bets were off when children became targets. Whether pedophiles or shooters, end it fucking now no matter what psychological/sociological manipulative spin any corporation puts on it." Brolin said he would like to, "make our country great again by having some people balls reinstated into the 'By the people, For the people' system that was intended and has literally been bought out." He concluded his blood-curling emotional statement by adding, "F*** you, America, for not protecting your children."
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Hale was a former student of The Covenant School in Nashville, where he killed three young victims identified as Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all aged 9, and Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak and Mike Hill, both aged 61. Hale, who was biologically a female and used he/him as pronouns, was shot dead by police just 14 minutes after the school first called police to report an active shooter.
'Audrey Hale planned to do more harm'
Disturbing footage of 28-year-old Hale driving a car and breaking into the Covenant School, wielding his firearm was released. Authorities also collected the shooters' manifesto, detailing the map of the school, and potential entry points, and said Hale had planned to do more harm. "We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this date, the actual incident," said Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake.
"We have a map drawn out of how this was all going to take place." Although a clear motive of behind the callous shooting remains unclear, Chief Drake said, the shooter had "some resentment for having to go to that school." President Joe Biden called the shooting a "family´s worst nightmare" while speaking at an unrelated event at the White House on Monday and urged Congress again to pass a ban on certain semi-automatic weapons. "It´s ripping at the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of this nation," Biden said.