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| And a very good Thursday morning too. | ||
| You can go ahead and start calling in now. | ||
| This is the front page of the Star Tribune out of Minneapolis, the main paper there in that city. | ||
| Two children killed, 17 wounded in shooting at South Minneapolis Church. | ||
| The picture, mourners at a vigil last night in Minneapolis. | ||
| This is the Associated Press story about yesterday's shooting. | ||
| The story notes, a shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two wounding 17 people armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol. | ||
| 23-year-old Robin Westman approached the side of the church and shot dozens of rounds through the window towards the children sitting in the pews during Mass just before 8.30 a.m. | ||
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Police said the shooter then committed suicide. | |
| The shooter was identified, the Associated Press notes, as a transgender woman who, according to her social media posts, harbored a deep hatred for President Trump and religion and repeatedly wrote and said flamboyantly hateful things. | ||
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The children who died were eight years old and 10 years old. | |
| That's the story of the Associated Press. | ||
| That's the news yesterday out of Minneapolis. | ||
| We're taking your phone calls this morning, getting your reaction as you're calling in. | ||
| This was Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry after the tragedy yesterday. | ||
| Don't just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now. | ||
| These kids were literally praying. | ||
| It was the first week of school. | ||
| They were in a church. | ||
| These are kids that should be learning with their friends. | ||
| They should be playing on the playground. | ||
| They should be able to go to school or church in peace without the fear or risk of violence, and their parents should have the same kind of assurance. | ||
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These are the sort of basic assurances that every family should have every step of the day, regardless of where they are in our country. | |
| I'm so deeply saddened and I'm so sorry to the families that I know are suffering right now. | ||
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My ask is to everyone, stand by them. | |
| Love them. | ||
| These families have forever been changed and we've all been changed with them. | ||
| Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry yesterday, also speaking yesterday, was the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. | ||
| He offered these remarks after the tragedy yesterday. | ||
| Speaking with all the people here and grateful to our federal partners, Senator Klobuchar speaking early this morning and receiving a call from President Trump, who was with his leadership team of the Attorney General and the Vice President, expressing their deep condolences amongst the horror that happened and an offer to provide the support to the folks here in Minnesota of what's needed. | ||
| So there's a lot of cameras here, and unfortunately, we have been through these types of things. | ||
| They will be gone at some point, all of you. | ||
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You have to. | |
| You have to do your jobs. | ||
| But what happened here today will not be gone. | ||
| Minnesotans will not step away. | ||
| We'll stand with this community. | ||
| We'll redouble ourselves to do the best we can to understand what we can do to prevent any parent from having to receive the calls they receive today from any school dedicated to children having to respond to a situation that, | ||
| as we said, is unthinkable, but that's all too common, not just in Minnesota, but across this country. | ||
| It's Minnesota's day today, and it's my strongest desire that no state, no community, no school ever experiences a day like this. | ||
| So I ask the rest of folks around the country who are watching, keep us in your thoughts and prayers, but also keep us in the thoughts for action. | ||
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Keep us in the ideas that we can work together. | |
| And it's on these days like this, I think, and I hope we can hold on to it. | ||
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We are unified as a community. | |
| Everybody across the country today is part of the Annunciation Parish, and they're with those families. | ||
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, yesterday, as we said, President Trump ordered that flags around the country be lowered to half staff on federal facilities at military bases at all federal facilities. | |
| That's the scene this morning out front of the White House at his proclamation yesterday. | ||
| The president saying, as a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on August 27th in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by the authority vested in me, I hereby order that the flags of the United States shall be flown at half staff. | ||
| This is Thursday, August 28th, and we're getting your reaction to yesterday's shooting in Minneapolis at that Catholic school. | ||
| And again, our phone lines are split as usual by political party for you to call in. | ||
| We'll start with Jonathan in Rhode Island Independent Line. | ||
| Jonathan, good morning. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Good morning, John. | ||
| Can you hear me? | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Well, this is a tragedy. | ||
| This is an American tragedy. | ||
| My views on quote gun rights or quote gun control are actually rather nuanced. | ||
| I do not believe that there is an absolute right to bear arms as far as the Second Amendment is concerned. | ||
| I don't believe guns should be banned. | ||
| But the fact that it is a state-by-state issue and that it seems every almost every day we watch the news and we see these tragedies, these horrors. | ||
| For whatever reason, whatever the motive, whatever the grievances, there are too many guns. | ||
| And yet, yes, there are those that say it's not the guns that kill people, it's people that kill people. | ||
| But I'll be honest, I am very pessimistic that anything will be done for a very, very long time in this country about controlling these, you know, assault weapons, assault, fire weapons. | ||
| Remember in the 1990s, they passed an assault weapons ban when Bill Clinton was president. | ||
| And, you know, the lobbyists couldn't take that. | ||
| And it's just not, it is not purely a partisan thing. | ||
| I am an independent. | ||
| I'm kind of an old-fashioned, socially liberal New England Republican. | ||
| Well, if I was once a Republican, but I now consider myself an independent on gun issues. | ||
| I would just hope that one day we can fix certain things at the very minimum that what do they call that? | ||
| The NIC system. | ||
| So you can have the federal system to at least see these ghost guns, the Saturday Night Specials. | ||
| It's ridiculous because, you know, we need to have a more civil culture. | ||
| And I'm so heartbroken when I see these things, and I just hope that something can be done. | ||
| But I'm not optimistic, John. | ||
| Is in Savannah, Georgia, line for Republicans. | ||
| Richard, go ahead. | ||
| Good morning, John. | ||
| I've watched C-SPAN for probably since 1979, 1980. | ||
| These definitely don't get any easier, but we have a mental illness problem. | ||
| Of course, guns are a problem, but someone has to pull the trigger. | ||
| I think we have a huge media problem. | ||
| I sit here all the time, and I don't watch that much anymore, but I used to. | ||
| But the Trump derangement syndrome, the hatred, the spewing of hate, calling Donald Trump Hitler and a pedophile of this show, I've watched it, and it's allowed. | ||
| In Minneapolis, they're having the Democratic National Convention that ended yesterday in Minneapolis where the shooting occurred. | ||
| And I saw Tim Waltz spewing hate on Donald Trump, just hate, hate, hate. | ||
| And then my son showed me a video of the shooter, and he went to his bedroom with a clip of bullets saying kill Donald Trump. | ||
| And this child, I know he's 23, but he lives in a house with a lot of children and parents. | ||
| And probably up in Milwaukee, all he heard was hate. | ||
| That's Richard in Georgia. | ||
| Richard, were you done? | ||
| No, something happened to the phone. | ||
| Go ahead and finish your thought. | ||
| I'm just saying I would love to have the media stop the host of Donald Trump, the Trump deranger syndrome. | ||
| Stop getting clicked. | ||
| Stop wanting more money. | ||
| It's terrible. | ||
| And we need to do it on both sides. | ||
| Donald Trump needs to stop saying stuff about Gavin Newsome. | ||
| Gavin Newsome needs to stop saying stuff about Donald Trump. | ||
| This is America. | ||
| Got your point. | ||
| That's Richard in Georgia. | ||
| Speaking of President Trump, along with ordering flags to be flown at half-staff, he was updating the country via TrueSocial amidst the tragedy. | ||
| This is yesterday before 11 a.m. The president saying, I've been fully briefed on the tragic shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | ||
| The FBI quickly responded, and they are on the scene. | ||
| The White House will continue to monitor this terrible situation. | ||
| Please join me in praying for everybody involved. | ||
| To Rob in New York, the Independent. | ||
| Rob, go ahead. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| I, too, am a believer in the Second Amendment. | ||
| I personally own three shotguns. | ||
| That's all I own. | ||
| But I was going to ask C-SPAN to do the country a favor. | ||
| I believe it was in December of 1976 that Chief Justice Warren Berger gave an interview on public television. | ||
| If you guys could look that interview up and replay it for the country, because he had something very specific to say about the Second Amendment generally, but something about the NRA in particular. | ||
| And it was the first time that a chief judge of the United States Supreme Court went on public television and spoke both about the Second Amendment and the NRA. | ||
| And thank you for taking my call. | ||
| That's Rob in New York. | ||
| This is Mary out of Mission, Texas. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| In Texas, I think we will see that the gun shows are the crowds at the gun shows are going to pick up because they're worried after each school shooting that their gun rights will be taken away. | ||
| Nobody is going to take all your guns away. | ||
| Just take those automatic war guns away. | ||
| And 18-year-olds being able to buy the mental ill people, we need to do better background checks. | ||
| We have tried everything. | ||
| Nothing is working. | ||
| The other thing is with schools, RFK, when are we getting rid of him? | ||
| I mean, him on vaccines. | ||
| Look at measles here in Texas. | ||
| Now, the other thing, my grandchildren are in schools in an airbase in England. | ||
| Thank God. | ||
| There's no guns on that airbase. | ||
| And I know when they come back, they're going to be scared to go to school. | ||
| Think of how many kids in this country that are scared to go to school now. | ||
| Mary, what are you going to tell them if that's the case? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| What can we tell them? | ||
| Oh, you're safe. | ||
| Yeah, you live in Minneapolis. | ||
| You're in a church. | ||
| Oh, no. | ||
| You'll be safe. | ||
| It doesn't matter where you are. | ||
| You will be safe. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| And we have an absenteeism problem in schools already. | ||
| So we're going to have, what are we going to do? | ||
| The Congress, both the Democrats and Republicans, need to think this thing through. | ||
| You know, we had a ban on those assault weapons. | ||
| Bring it back. | ||
| You know, 20-year-olds being able to have an assault weapon is not it. | ||
| It's Mary in Texas. | ||
| It was FBI Director Kash Patel providing real-time updates yesterday amid the investigation following the shooting. | ||
| This is what he posted yesterday afternoon. | ||
| The FBI is investigating the shooting as an act of terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics. | ||
| There are two fatalities, an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old, in addition to 14 children and three adults injured. | ||
| The shooter, he writes, has been identified as Robin Westman, a male born as Robert Westman. | ||
| The FBI will continue to provide updates on our ongoing investigation with the public as we are able. | ||
| Kash Patel, the FBI director, yesterday on his ex-page. | ||
| This is John in Schiner, Texas, Republican. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| This is a tragedy. | ||
| We can pray for the children and their families. | ||
| But once again, I hate to say this. | ||
| The left is going after our guns while not addressing the main corporate. | ||
| I had a chance to read this guy. | ||
| He was a man. | ||
| He was a boy who thought he was a girl. | ||
| And his manifesto, he said he was very depressed. | ||
| He wanted to die. | ||
| He thought he had cancer from vaping. | ||
| He was one messed up kid. | ||
| And a lot of the reasons he was messed up because the Democrats and the left keep promoting this craziness of transgenderism. | ||
| So they refuse to do that, talk about that. | ||
| But instead, if you're a boy and you think you're a girl, you have a mental problem. | ||
| If you're a parent and think your kids got that problem and you don't do something about it, then you're the problem. | ||
| But what's worse, what's the worst of all, you have politicians promoting such tragedy with these kids who need our help instead of promoting it and saying, oh, it's okay. | ||
| It's okay to boy, putting boys and girls in locker rooms. | ||
| It's okay to have boys competing against girls. | ||
| And that's driving, what's driving this mental illness problem. | ||
| Let's face the fact. | ||
| Boys are boys, girls are girls, and we've got to stop this madness of that's John in Texas. | ||
| This is from the Washington Post reporting on the tragedy yesterday. | ||
| The assailant's name was legally changed from Robert to Robin about five years ago because Westman, quote, identifies as female and wants her name to reflect that identification according to court records. | ||
| The police have disclosed a few details about the three weapons that Westman carried. | ||
| He was armed with a rifle, a shotgun, and a pistol. | ||
| A lot of attention to those YouTube videos posted by the shooter since taken down by police and federal officials. | ||
| But from the videos that have been viewed, the shooter references suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts. | ||
| Doesn't lay out a clear motive for the attack. | ||
| The Washington Post notes later in one of the videos, Westman shows 10 magazines filled with ammunition and multiple firearms. | ||
| On the side of one magazine, Kill Donald Trump has written others carried slogans and sayings that were anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-Hispanic, anti-God. | ||
| Some of the reporting from the Washington Post on the investigation into the shooter. | ||
| This is Sue out of Pennsylvania, line for Democrats. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Yeah, I did some teaching in the past. | ||
| My daughter's a teacher in France at a Catholic school. | ||
| And when they got the kids together, my daughter said, well, what is your first impression of America and the schools in America? | ||
| This is a couple years ago. | ||
| And the number one thing they said was shooting in schools. | ||
| We don't want to go to America. | ||
| All the kids are getting shot in school. | ||
| And I've talked to people in other countries. | ||
| And that's the perspective they have on this country. | ||
| I don't mean to be shaky, but every time I see this, I get so upset. | ||
| Sue, what was your response when they said that about American schools? | ||
| What do you say to that? | ||
| I don't know what to say. | ||
| And my daughter doesn't know what to say. | ||
| She's been living there for 10 or 12 years. | ||
| I only have one grandson. | ||
| He lives in France. | ||
| And I'm almost happy he's living there that he hasn't, he's only three, that he doesn't have to deal with this. | ||
| I mean, this is just an ongoing thing. | ||
| And a lot of my relatives, they're all retired teachers, but I just can't believe this. | ||
| When I grew up, we had things to deal with in school, like bullying, but nothing like this. | ||
| This is horrific. | ||
| This is like something out of a nightmare. | ||
| And it just really gets me upset to see this every day. | ||
| And that's all I have to say. | ||
| That's Sue and Pennsylvania. | ||
| I do have one other comment. | ||
| Go ahead, Sue. | ||
| You know, they're cutting back on medical things. | ||
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And a lot of these people have mental health issues. | |
| Well, they should be pouring more money into mental health issues and pouring more money into the school so that kids can have this. | ||
| There's kids that are poor that can't deal with this. | ||
| And I don't think any of this is being addressed. | ||
| It's just being shoved under the carpet. | ||
| That's Sue in Pennsylvania. | ||
| This is the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal today. | ||
| One of their editorials, shooting madness in Minnesota, the alleged killer of children at church fits a too common profile, they write. | ||
| One subject, though, that deserves debate is a more aggressive identification and forced treatment, if need be, of the mentally ill. | ||
| The editorial board saying most school shooters have been disturbed young men who also should not have access to firearms. | ||
| The mental health lobby, they write, and gun rights advocates may protest, but a society serious about protecting its most vulnerable needs to have this debate. | ||
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That's how they end their editorial today on the shooting. | |
| Yesterday, it was Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar who was on CNN and talked about what she thought members of Congress could do. | ||
| This is what she said. | ||
| And there's one thing we can do to make this better and stop the angry rhetoric, start working on solutions that we know have worked in other countries or could work here. | ||
| And it's not just one size fits all, but we've got to be willing to do it. | ||
| And especially some of my colleagues who've been afraid to do it. | ||
| We did do one bipartisan bill for community violence, including with Chris Murphy and Senator Cornyn and a number of other people. | ||
| It included my provision on domestic violence and people that have been convicted shouldn't be able to go out and get guns. | ||
| We've done these things, but there's much bigger things we could do when it comes to background checks and assault weapons and having more national standards in place and being stricter about getting these guns out there. | ||
| And if a bunch of kids praying in a church and shot down through the windows of that church and locked into that by a madman isn't enough to make people move, I just don't know what is anymore. | ||
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Senator Amy Klobuchar, that was yesterday on CNN taking your phone calls this morning on the Washington Journal, getting your reaction to that school shooting yesterday. | |
| It took place in a church, the church connected to Annunciation Catholic School. | ||
| It's just south of downtown Minneapolis. | ||
| Two children killed, 14 more injured, three adults injured, the shooter dead by self-inflicted gunshot wound. | ||
| Robert, Indiana Republican, go ahead. | ||
| I tell you what, C-SPAN, why don't you get a subject on all this? | ||
| It's prophesied in the Bible. | ||
| And people don't realize that we're almost at the Battle of Armageddon. | ||
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It's not only this, it's drugs. | |
| Guns hasn't got a damn thing to do with it. | ||
| It's the people. | ||
| Look at the Democrats. | ||
| They will not help the Republicans do anything. | ||
| Robert, you think we're in the end times? | ||
| Each other down, get together. | ||
| These children that are supposed to be men or girls and ever-crazy such and we legalize same-sex marriage. | ||
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That's our problem. | |
| We took God out of this country. | ||
| All right, that's Robert. | ||
| This is Ronald, Oyster Bay, New York. | ||
| Democrat, go ahead. | ||
| Yes, good morning, John. | ||
| I think you know something about Oyster Bay, New York. | ||
| I've had the pleasure of speaking with you before. | ||
| In any case, I'm not a gun owner, and I don't care to be, but I do respect the Second Amendment. | ||
| And I'd like to point out something that I don't think has been mentioned, that in Switzerland, a neutral country, well, Switzerland is armed to the teeth, and average Swiss citizens have guns, and on a per capita basis, they have even more guns than we have in the United States per person. | ||
| But it's just about unknown for there to be incidents of this type in Switzerland because the culture there is very different from the culture here. | ||
| And also, what's different about the culture that creates this problem, Ronald, that keeps happening? | ||
| I think that there's more of a sense of right and wrong that is taught to Swiss citizens from childhood. | ||
| And I think there's a spiritual element that they have, which we unfortunately have lost so much of, which is causing this type of problem and other problems in this country. | ||
| And as has been mentioned also, that mental health, and I want to emphasize that with certain medications that are prescribed for mental health, problems like depression. | ||
| Well, if you read, if you open up and you read the insert in the package of some of these medications, the insert indicates clearly that these drugs can cause violence against oneself and against others. | ||
| And this hasn't been pointed out to people that these medications and the so-called mass shootings are actually a factor that has important that should be emphasized. | ||
| That's Robert in New York to gun ownership per person by country. | ||
| This article is a few years old at this point. | ||
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It's the CBC out of Canada, but they have the United States as the country with the most guns per person in the world. | |
| Their estimate at the time of this article, again, this was six or seven years ago, 88.8 guns for every 100 residents. | ||
| Yemen coming in second with 54.8 guns per 100 residents. | ||
| And then there's Switzerland, what you were talking about, 45.7 guns per 100 residents. | ||
| The CBC out of Canada with that report. | ||
| This is Deborah out of Salem, Massachusetts, Independent. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Hi, thank you for taking my call. | ||
| Should I take it off speakerphone? | ||
| I'm hearing you just fine. | ||
| Deborah, go ahead. | ||
| Hi, I took it off the speakerphone. | ||
| I want to start with one of the Supreme Court justices, Anthony Scalia. | ||
| I was interested when he started talking about it, it sounded like he was thinking about limiting these types of guns that can shoot a lot of shots per minute. | ||
| And I was thinking back to our Constitution. | ||
| It's supposed to be flexible. | ||
| And in the beginning, I don't think the framers envisioned these guns. | ||
| Those guns they had back then, it would take how many minutes just to stuff it and get it ready to load in one shot. | ||
| And so I think that that's one thing we have to consult. | ||
| Well, Deborah, we've reached that point. | ||
| I mean, automatic weapons are very heavily controlled and regulated. | ||
| Not as much as they could be. | ||
| I think one of the things is it has to be a mindset by Americans. | ||
| Why do we need those? | ||
| I mean, what I see is fear being pushed into the arms of the right, so to speak. | ||
| I mean, I listen to the people that identify as on the right, and they sound fearful. | ||
| They sound fearful of the left. | ||
| They sound fearful of transgenders. | ||
| They sound fearful of a lot of things. | ||
| And why are they fearful? | ||
| I mean, no one's going to take their guns away. | ||
| You know, I grew up in South Dakota. | ||
| I had guns as a kid. | ||
| My dad taught me how to shoot. | ||
| We went hunting for pheasants. | ||
| It's very much a respectful sort of thing. | ||
| And we cleaned the guns, we put them away. | ||
| We knew the difference between a toy gun and a real gun. | ||
| I don't think there's that respect for guns nowadays that there used to be a lot of people. | ||
| Deborah, when you say no one's going to take their guns away, and you say there's a lot more that could be done on the regulation side, then so what are you saying? | ||
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Okay, well, let's go here. | |
| Is that let's see what's happened. | ||
| We banned the automatic weapons, and then what happened? | ||
| It was allowed to lapse, right? | ||
| So it lapsed. | ||
| So, Deborah, you're talking the assault weapons ban. | ||
| Automatic weapons, something where you hold down the trigger and it just keeps shooting. | ||
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Those are still very much heavily federally regulated. | |
| But I think you're referring to semi-automatic weapons where it's one shot for every pull of the trigger. | ||
| Yeah, whatever. | ||
| I don't really care what it's called. | ||
| To me, it's all the same because it seems like these people can just shoot these guns. | ||
| They can get these guns pretty easily. | ||
| But going back to Scalia, I think he was trying to understand that the framers saw that we could change this. | ||
| But nowadays, what I see is the right seems fearful that all their guns are going to be taken away. | ||
| And yes, some of the far left get into that. | ||
| But when I'm thinking about all of these regulations that have been allowed to lapse, you know, up here in Lewiston, Maine, I think it was a couple years ago, we had a young man who was in the service who had some mental health issues and was allowed to get weapons. | ||
| Why was he allowed to get weapons? | ||
| Well, the very first law that President Trump passed in his last legislative session 10 years ago was one to weaken the law so people with mental health issues could get guns easier. | ||
| We have the bump stocks. | ||
| Didn't they just say, hey, you don't need the bump stocks? | ||
| It seems there's always a weakening of the gun laws. | ||
| But people talk about mental health issues. | ||
| And the one thing I have noted in all of these mass shootings, aren't they mostly white men, white boys? | ||
| Is it not white men and white boys that maybe have the mental health issues that need to own all these guns? | ||
| Why do they need hundreds and hundreds of guns in the House? | ||
| I don't understand why we allow people to own all of these guns. | ||
| They're addicted to them. | ||
| They just have to have their guns. | ||
| So amid all of this discussion yesterday, Minnesota is a state that does more than a lot of other states when it comes to controlling guns and a state with red flag laws when it comes to those with mental health issues or in crisis trying to obtain a firearm. | ||
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What specifically do you think could have been done to prevent this? | |
| To prevent this, young man? | ||
| Well, I think nowadays we all do the same thing. | ||
| We ignore it. | ||
| We all just mind our own business. | ||
| We don't talk to our neighbors anymore. | ||
| We don't get involved. | ||
| We are taught not to get involved. | ||
| And if we put more National Guard on the street, we're going to stay in our houses and we're going to be more fearful. | ||
| And I think we're going to have more violence because people are going to get more scared. | ||
| You know, hate and fear has been taught for a number of years now. | ||
| And I'm not going to call what side does it because a lot of people call in here and spend most of their time spieling hate towards the other side. | ||
| And that's all they do. | ||
| They spend their entire time blaming the other side. | ||
| It's something that, you know, I honestly believe that it could probably be accomplished if we had a lot more women in Congress. | ||
| I think there's a lot of posturing in Congress. | ||
| I think there's a lot of caving in. | ||
| I don't think they're honest at all with their constituents. | ||
| And I think it's men. | ||
| I think it's some sort of male ego that makes them spiel on and on with a bunch of lies and makes it impossible to get something done. | ||
| They're influenced by the lobbyists. | ||
| I mean, the NRA has influenced quite a bit of this when it comes to how they handle things because they get money from these lobbyists. | ||
| And it doesn't matter what side it is. | ||
| And it really doesn't. | ||
| They're not honest with their constituents. | ||
| I do think a senator like Klobucha is trying to be. | ||
| But when it gets back to the thoughts and prayers, that's not going to help us any. | ||
| And what I see out in one more thought. | ||
| And when I see out there in Minneapolis, it makes me think back to Sandy Hook. | ||
| And it makes me think back to when Alex Jones spieled his lies and kept saying that this was fake. | ||
| Now that's not going to help us either. | ||
| And he's a big Trump supporter, and that's all I have to say. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| It's Deborah in Massachusetts. | ||
| When it comes to gun laws in Minnesota, every town, the gun control advocacy group, has their rankings of states with the toughest and weakest gun laws in the country. | ||
| Their states that they note as extreme risk laws, states with extreme risk laws, the red flag laws that we were talking about. | ||
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| Minnesota's had success in passing gun safety policies, including passing laws requiring background checks for all gun sales, an extreme risk law, and laws blocking access for domestic abusers under restraining orders. | ||
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The state does have relatively low firearm violence, they noted in this research report, with a gun death rate below the national average. | |
| Of course, this report coming before what happened yesterday. | ||
| But you can take a look at everytownresearch.org and look into the gun laws in your states and other states around the country. | ||
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This is Neva in Oregon. | |
| Republican, good morning. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| Another sad day happening with the shootings in America. | ||
| My question is. |