00:00Mr. Vice President, I know the parents want to honor the lives of their children and can we do that while we look into the root cause of some of these shooters? For example, this shooter was emulating the Nashville shooter who also identified as transgender and who also targeted Christian kids. What can we learn from that and should we be investigating people who are experiencing gender dysphoria and or exhibiting signs that they might be targeting kids? Well, certainly we should be investigating people who are planning on targeting kids and I think that one of the unfortunate lessons
00:29of this particular shooting is that this person who showed clear signs of derangement slipped through the cracks. And I actually talked to the families about this. I talked to the principal and the pastor about this. There is broad recognition and it's interesting. Every single parent I spoke to wants something to happen. Every single parent I talked to, you know, we didn't talk a lot about politics as such, but I get the sense they came from a wide diversity of political perspectives. But every single one of them, they were rational, reasonable people despite their grief. And I can't
00:59imagine what I would imagine what I would be like in this moment of heartbreak. And all they asked is that we look very seriously at the root causes that we look very seriously at ways to prevent crazy people who are about to shoot up a school from getting access to firearms. These are things that a lot of us have talked about for a very long time. These parents are grieving, but they certainly want us to look at everything that we can possibly do to so the next family doesn't have to deal with this.
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