They are fucking loving their guns more than peoples lives...

Shooter had 2 AR-style weapons and a handgun, police chief says

By Aditi Sangal, Elise Hammond, Maureen Chowdhury and Zoe Sottile

The suspect in Monday's shooting was armed with three firearms, Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said.

"We know there were two AR-style weapons. One a rifle, another was an AR-style pistol and the other was a handgun," Drake said during a news conference Monday. "We believe two of those may have been obtained legally, locally here."

Police have located a manifesto and a map associated with the shooting at the Covenant School, according to Metro Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake.

"We have a manifesto, we have some writings that we're going over that pertain to this date," said Drake at a Monday afternoon press conference. "We have a map drawn out of how this was all gonna take place."

He added that the school was the only location targeted by the shooter.

The 28-year-old shooter had drawn detailed maps of Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school, Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said during a news conference Monday.

“We've also determined that there were maps drawn of the school in detail of — surveillance, entry points, et cetera. We know and believe entry was gained through shooting through one of the doors, is how they actually got into the school,” the police chief said.

Nashville Mayor John Cooper said too many children are dying from guns — a point punctuated by a mass shooting at an elementary school Monday morning that killed six people, three of them children.

"The leading cause of kids' death now is guns and gunfire and that is unacceptable," Cooper said.

A recent study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in December backs that point, finding that homicide is a leading cause of death for children in the United States and the overall rate has increased an average of 4.3% each year for nearly a decade.

Cooper said he is “overwhelmed at the thought of the loss of these families, of the future lost by these children and their families."

He said the community needs to come together and support each other.