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Shepard Smith Is Fed Up After Florida Shooting: 'Forget Your Political Arguments'

Shepard Smith showed his frustration Thursday on Fox News when he discussed the mass shooting at a Florida high school on Wednesday that left 17 students and adults dead.

The anchor issued a desperate plea, his voice shaking at times, for study and reforms to help prevent these mass shootings. He repeatedly mentioned that there have been 25 fatal school shootings in the United States since the massacre at Columbine in 1999, which is no longer one of the 10 deadliest shootings in modern American history.

“It’s astounding, isn’t it? ... We have all the resources in the world, and we can’t figure out why this happens in our country and it doesn’t happen everywhere else. Forget your political arguments, why can’t we come together as a society and say, ’We’re going to study this; we’re going to research this; we’re going to put our best and brightest together. Put them all in a room, give them funds and give them whatever they need to figure out why are our children killing each other more in the United States than anywhere else in the world?”

Smith railed against the country for “failing our children.” He made headlines Wednesday when his initial response to the Parkland, Florida, shooting included listing all of the 25 fatal school shootings that have occurred since Columbine.

While Smith listed only deadly shootings, research shows America is averaging one school shooting incident every 63 hours in 2018. It’s only February.

Watch the Fox News host’s desperate plea in the video above.

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Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. 
Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. 
Medical personnel tend to a victim outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Medical personnel tend to a victim outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)
People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
An officer tells parents waiting at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway to go to the Marriott hotel to meet up with their kids from Stoneman Douglas High School.
An officer tells parents waiting at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway to go to the Marriott hotel to meet up with their kids from Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School.
A family reunites outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
A family reunites outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
A video still shows students being evacuated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A video still shows students being evacuated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students and adults leave following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Students and adults leave following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Parents meet at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel.
Parents meet at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A young woman who just walked out from the direction of the high school, who refused to give her name, gets a hug as she reaches the overpass at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A young woman who just walked out from the direction of the high school, who refused to give her name, gets a hug as she reaches the overpass at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are brought across Coral Springs Drive from the the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are brought across Coral Springs Drive from the the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
People embrace while leaving the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel after a deadly shooting at Marjory Soneman Douglas High School.
People embrace while leaving the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel after a deadly shooting at Marjory Soneman Douglas High School.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Rescue workers help a victim near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Rescue workers help a victim near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Police put a suspect in handcuffs near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Police put a suspect in handcuffs near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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