NBC Anchor and Colorado Native ‘Choked Up’ Over ‘Sickening’ Centennial Shootings: ‘Why?’

Noah RothmanDec 13th, 2013, 4:32 pm

NBC News reporter and Colorado native Tom Costello described his personal fears and frustrations over the repeated mass shootings in his home state on MSNBC on Friday. Anchoring coverage of an ongoing shooting incident in the Centennial State, Costello asked “why” his home state seems plagued by so much gun violence.

“If there’s any part of me that is – when you get to my core – this is home for me,” Costello told MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin. He confessed that he could see his childhood home in wide shots of the scene of the shooting.

“Why?” he asked. “We’ve had 14 years since Columbine to ask that question over and over again. Why did that happen? Why has every other school shooting across the country happened? Why did Aurora happen?”

“I’ll just tell you, it’s sickening,” Costello continued.

“There’s no school that is closer to my heart than this one and I was getting choked up watching this,” Costello added. “

Watch the clip below via MSNBC:

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An experienced broadcaster and columnist, Noah Rothman has been providing political opinion and analysis to a variety of media outlets since 2010. His work has appeared in a number of political opinion journals, and he has shared his insights with television and radio personalities across the country.