NBC's Katy Tur spoke with Aaron Stark, who penned an op-ed saying he was "almost a school shooter" when he was a teenager, but the lack of access to an assault rifle — among other things — stopped him. "A bigger issue was love. I had a severe lack of love, and I really think this kid did too," he wrote to 9News.
He told Tur on Tuesday this is about "more than just guns," and that "love is what we should focus on. Focus on communicating with the people who we think need it the most."
The U.S. confirmed at least 83,010 coronavirus cases on Friday, the country's highest daily total since the pandemic started, according to data from the COVID Tracking Project.
By the numbers: Friday's total surpassed the U.S.'s previous record set on July 17 when 76,842 cases were recorded.
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President Trump has not attended a White House coronavirus task force meeting in “several months,” NIAID director Anthony Fauci told MSNBC on Friday.
Why it matters: At the beginning of the pandemic, the task force, led by Vice President Mike Pence, met every day, but in the "last several weeks," members have held virtual meetings once a week, Fauci said, even as the number of new cases continues to surge in the country.