‘We Are Very Tired’ Of Covering School Shootings Week After Week

Fox News Channel anchor John Roberts paused during his coverage of the shooting at a private school in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead to reflect on the staggering pace of school shootings in America. “All right, so we are going to break away,” Roberts said after a woman—who said she was a survivor the 2022 4th of July parade shooting in Highland Park, Illinois—approached the Fox News camera and asked “how is this still happening? How are children still dying?”

Roberts followed the woman by saying “the woman said it quite succinctly, ‘aren’t you tired of this?’ Yes, we are tired of this. We are very tired of having to report on school shootings week in and week out,” Roberts said.

Roberts noted that just last week, Fox News correspondent Alicia Acuna had been live on the air from outside the Denver high school where two people were shot—the second school shooting at the school in a matter of weeks. Acuna’s son attends the school and was unhurt. He reunited with his mother for the first time during Acuna’s live broadcast.

“There was the Uvalde, Texas shooting,” Roberts continued. “There was Sandy Hook, Parkland, there were all of these school shootings and yes, I think as a nation we are tired of these. Sandra, I don’t mean to be speaking out of turn, but I believe as a parent that there are a lot of people out there who are sick of these school shootings.”