Caitríona Perry
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Um as people scrambled to get under the table.
Um I didn't go under the table, I got adjacent to the table and put my phone up uh to film what was going on.
I
Maybe I'm um old and cynical in my later years here, but uh
you know, I think honestly, because um, you know, what we all do, you're in scenarios that aren't normal and you're trained for them, like we all do hostile environment training and you become kind of accustomed to these scenarios.
And unfortunately reporting on Donald Trump now, um, in recent years.
These are not isolated incidents, you know?
So you kind of do almost not not become accustomed to it.
That sounds terrible, but you're ready for it.
Like your muscle memory is there.
Um now that's not to say that it wasn't scary and terrifying, and I I know a lot of people have been quite traumatized by what happened.
Um but I think because I didn't go under the table so I could see what was happening, so I knew that there weren't
gunmen in the room.
Um whereas I think if you had been deprived of that sense and you were under the tablecloth in silence, you know you're kind of on edge waiting, is someone gonna lift up the tablecloth?
Um and I could see everyone being removed and that there were agents there securing this situation.
You do, and I've reported on those mass shootings as well, and um y you you see people at the rawest stage of their grief and yet they will still say to you, which I've always found astonishing, um, but no, we should have the right to bear arms and we should have the right to purchase, you know, assault grade weaponry and so on.
And I think particularly
Particularly from us and this is where
You know, being foreign correspondents i actually gives you a sort of a a bit of an edge in a way over
Americans who've grown up in this, in that we come from countries where that's not normal, like that everyone's going around carrying weapons like that.
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