“We’ve been reporting this shouldn’t happen in a church,” Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt said during an interview with Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday morning following the deadliest church shooting in U.S. history on Sunday. But after talking with some of her Christian co-workers at Fox, she added. “We were saying there’s no other place we would want to go other than church, because I’m there asking for forgiveness. I feel very close to Christ when I’m there. So, I’m trying to look at some positives here and know that those people are with the lord now and experiencing eternity and no more suffering, no more sadness anymore.” In response, Abbott stressed the “necessity for us to come together under one God to purge evil and to rely upon the love that God provides.” According to the most recent reports, approximately half of the 26 people killed in Sunday’s shooting were children.
