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May 27, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Don't Politicize Tragedy - May 26th, Hour 2
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We, of course, talking about the dominating story, uh, it's not only here in America, but it's across the globe.
As I said, I did BBC Radio the other night, where they don't understand the second amendment, why we have guns at all.
And uh look, I understand the the Monday morning quarterbacking.
Understanding I understand the human need for the why.
Why does somebody do this?
Why does somebody do Buffalo?
Why does somebody do Sandy Hook?
Why does somebody do Aurora?
Why does somebody do Littleton?
Why why why does somebody do this?
And that's an answer that we can get after we stop the person from what he's doing.
And what I mean is, do we have enough safety protocols in place that are uniform across our schools, our grocery stores, our movie theaters, our malls?
Do we have enough safety protocols that are uniform that we know will at least serve as a major deterrent to somebody doing this?
Left versus right crap can come later.
That can come later.
But when you see Uvaldi and 19 dead children, two dead teachers, and now one of the dead teachers, husbands dies of a heart attack.
His family saying that he died of a broken heart because he lost his his high school sweetheart.
He'd been with with for 24 years.
They've got four kids that are orphaned now.
So the why is certainly something we should ask.
But when it's happening, I want first reactors.
We talk about first responders.
I'm a huge supporter of first responders.
My father was a firefighter in the Air Force, was a firefighter in Copeg, New York.
My uncles uh all were as well.
My grandfather was the fire chief in Belmore, New York.
I mean, I'm I'm a guy who's a blue-collar guy, comes from civil servants.
I understand what these men and women do.
They put on the line to save lives, to preserve life.
But they're first responders.
They can't be immediate reactors.
It's gonna take some amount of time, whether it's five minutes or twenty minutes, to get to the scene of where something's going on.
What protocols do we have in place?
We know there was an unlocked door at this school.
That's been verified now from the press conference that was given by the DPS officer.
This guy got into the school through the teacher's parking lot, and there was an unlocked door.
He walked right in, started shooting.
Then police officers went in, they exchanged gunfire, officers were being injured, they backed off to make a plan.
Now comes into play the audio and video that you're seeing and hearing everywhere in this country and well beyond of frantic parents.
That looks, I understand.
I'm a parent of five daughters.
I get it.
Frantic parents saying, get in there and do something.
We're hearing reports of police officers specifically getting their kids out and maybe not going back in to stop the bad guy.
Now we're hearing the latest report is that it was an hour the guy was inside the school before police officers went back in, and he was eventually killed by a BorTAC officer who's a border patrol tactical officer, sort of like the SWAT team for the border patrol.
He's a hero today.
Here's a story from WOAI Radio, my flagship.
Police in Texas say the suspected elementary school shooter entered through an unlocked door.
South Texas DPS director Victor Escalon said the shooter shot his grandmother and wrecked his truck just before entering Rob Elementary in Uvaldi.
Escalon said the suspect then engaged in a gun battle with officers four minutes after he entered the school.
Officers took cover while reinforcements arrived.
The suspect was eventually shot and killed one hour after the reinforcements got to the school.
Escalant said the shooter was never confronted by a school resource officer when he entered an unlocked door at the school.
Police did try to negotiate with the shooter, but he never responded.
That's the latest that we have.
That's the breaking news.
If you're just joining us now, didn't hear last hour?
Let me re-re I'm just going to reinforce what I just said.
There was no school resource officer there.
It's been widely reported that he had a shootout with a school resource officer when he got there.
That's not true.
He gained entry.
Officers then went in after him.
Once they were called to the scene, his grandmother who got shot in the face by this guy.
She called 911.
So they go in after him, exchange gunfire, several officers injured.
He may have been injured at the time as well.
Then they backed off for an hour until he was taken out.
Now, in the video that has now been shown and the auto that you're hearing everywhere, there is no indication that gunshots are happening.
And what Escalon said today as I watched his news conference was that the bad guy did the murdering right in the beginning.
Now, is that to say that there will be no further information that changes that?
No.
We're going to keep on getting information as we go.
But let me go back to what I said off the top here.
The why is an important question.
As it's happening, I don't care why.
I want him shot in the head and dead.
I want him gone.
There's some things that we have to change.
And before I do that, my daughter Sam is my executive producer and uh and also appears on my show every afternoon.
Sam, you've got something about a big visit happening in Uvaldi, right?
That's right.
It was just announced that President Joe Biden and his first lady will be traveling to Uvalde this Sunday.
Okay, so this Sunday, the president and his wife are going to go to Uvaldi, and they're going to uh I would hope meet with the families and give them some compassion.
I hope this guy doesn't get in front of a microphone and start talking about gun control.
That's just stupid.
That isn't what these families need.
These families need the support of the nation of their nation.
These family need these families need help in mourning and recovering and getting to the next day.
That's really what it is.
I'm glad he's going.
He should go.
The president should go, and he should represent this nation in wrapping our arms around these families and that community.
But having said that, let me go back to what I said earlier.
The why doesn't matter.
It's time now to stop the political BS, to stop the woke BS.
The time now is to use common sense.
Let me give you an example.
This is an example that is nowhere near what we just saw in Uvalde, Texas, or nowhere near what we saw in Buffalo, New York.
But you and I have the same car.
We park in the same parking lot.
My car has an alarm.
There's a flashing LED inside of the car.
A car thief really wants a car like the ones we're driving.
They see the flashing LED in my car, they don't see one in your car.
Which car do they steal?
The path of least resistance is what bad people always take.
But so before San Francisco, LA, and the rest of California decided that you can steal up to $950 and we won't do anything.
People weren't walking into the CVS and the Walgreens with bags and duffel bags, filling up the bags and walking out, nobody stopping them, nobody questioning them, and nobody's gonna go in and try to investigate and prosecute.
Why did that start happening?
Because California said $950 or less is no longer a felony.
If they make it a felony again, that'll stop.
We have to put deterrence up.
When you put a sign out in front of a school that says gun free zone, and you say that proudly, the bad guy who just shot his grandmother in the face is not gonna see the sign and say, oh, damn, it's a gun free zone.
I'd better not bring my guns here and kill people.
Now he's gonna say, All right, nobody here to stop me.
Let me go and do what I'm gonna do.
There are schools in Texas, and again, I'm based in Texas if you didn't hear me earlier, about an hour and a half away from Uvaldi where I sit.
There are schools in Texas where there are trained gun carrying teachers inside the schools.
On the outside, it doesn't say this is a gun free zone.
On the outside, it says, we are trained to kill you if you try to harm our students or faculty.
Guess where we don't have things like this happen.
And you also have to be uniform with having one entry when school is open.
In Parkland, Florida, the guy walked in a side door that should not have been open.
In Uvaldi, the guy walks into a teacher's entrance that was unlocked.
It should not have been unlocked.
It should not have been open.
We have to do everything we can to put the deterrence up to stop evil from doing what it does.
You want to talk about violent video games?
We can.
You want to talk about the nuclear family breakdown in this country?
Let's do that.
You want to talk about fathers not in the homes, not taking responsibility?
Okay, let's go there.
But that's all after.
When it's happening, I want the person to think if I try this, they're going to kill me.
I better not try it.
And if they still don't care and still go and try it, then we kill them and neutralize the threat to children, teachers, grocery shoppers, whomever it happens to be, mall goers.
We have to make people who would do bad things think twice.
They're always going to take the path of least resistance.
We've seen that over the ages in human history.
If you put up a barrier, you put up some sort of resistance to bad to evil, evil will take the easier path and move on.
It's really that simple.
It's not complicated.
What is complicated when you have people listen?
I want you to do this today.
Do me a favor.
Yeah, you don't know me.
Trust me, I'm pretty nice guy.
Do it do it uh because you love Sean.
When you hear somebody today in the media, whether it's me, somebody on Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, whatever it happens to be, CNN.
When you see or hear somebody say something like, We have to pass HR eight, that would stop this.
Realize that that person who's saying it is protected by good guys with guns, whether it's Steve Kerr, the head coach of the Golden State Warriors, or it's Whoopi Goldberg on the set at ABC at The View, or it's somebody at CNN.
Trust me when I say, listen to me clearly.
I used to be on CNN all the time.
I used to, I went in on 58th Street in New York.
I walked in, I had to put my bag through the machine, and there were two or three armed guards standing there ready to take me out if I if I dared try something.
They're all protected.
These people are all protected by good guys with guns.
Who is it?
Andrew Cuomo, when he was the governor of New York said, You don't need more than two bullets to kill a deer.
As he was surrounded by seven or eight guys or gals with 15 round magazines willing to die to protect him.
Keep in mind who it is that you're hearing from.
Understand that what I said and what Andy Pollock said last hour, those are simple steps you can take to make sure innocence is looked after.
Little babies going to school should come home and eat dinner with mom and dad.
This never should have happened.
After Columbine, let's say we were surprised by Columbine, which we shouldn't have been.
We should have been, you know, on guard and we should have put resistance up.
Let's say we were surprised by that.
Twenty-three years later, it's still happening.
What is the $68 billion a year Department of Education done to help sure the safety of the schools?
How much safety could 40 billion send to Ukraine?
How much safety could that have provided to schools?
Do states have the funding they need to provide safety for schools?
And I'm at the point now where I'm going to give the recommendation to any parent who's listening that if you're about to send your kid back to public school after this summer, you better go and ask some questions at the school board.
You better ask some questions of the principal of the staff and find out what the safety measures are that are in place.
And if there's more than one door open and available during school day, do not send your kid there.
Find out how to do a public uh a private school, a charter school, homeschool them, do something else.
Because if they can't provide a guaranteed safe day for your child, why would you ever continue to send them there?
It's kind of simple.
Bottom of the hour, it's going to be um Ken Paxton.
He's the attorney general of the great state of Texas.
More safety measures that he says are available today to public schools, not only in Texas but around the country, and what you can do to make sure those things get into place.
We talked to him about what happened in Uvaldi and much, much more.
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I appreciate you taking the time.
It's going to be um, let's see, Tina, Oklahoma.
What's on your mind?
Hi.
You know, I I realize a lot of people are in pain and they're angry, and this is horrible.
But blaming the cops is not the answer.
You know, I wonder how much training guys in a little bitty town like youvaldi get.
They rushed in four minutes, seems like a long time when you're standing there scared.
But if they didn't know where he was, how many hostages he had, rushing in like that could have gotten a lot more people hurt.
It got officers hurt.
You know, they backed off, they waited for backups.
You had the training to deal with this, and the situation was resolved.
Well, I think you're right.
Well, uh I just want to jump in here because I think you're right.
And again, I'm a I'm a I'm a thin blue line guy, I'm a I'm a blue lives matter guy, but there's nothing wrong with asking questions.
There truly is nothing wrong with asking questions.
You know, did they wait too long?
Did they take action?
If they weren't trained well enough, how can we get them trained well enough?
I don't think anybody's saying the individual officers are to blame.
The bad guy is to blame, but I think it's it's fair to ask questions, don't you?
Yes.
But the parents yelling that the cops are not doing what they should be doing and that they should have stopped this sooner.
There are like you said, playing armchair quarterback.
You know, there are so many variables in this, it could have gone a lot worse than it did.
Uh I I can't disagree with you.
I think many would say, and I appreciate the call, thank you.
Um, many would say had it not been for them showing up and barricading him, he could have gone to the rest of the school and done even more mayhem.
And also many are saying, and the reports are coming out from the police saying this guy killed most of his victims in the first few minutes.
And the police were in there and they were trading bullets, and the last thing they wanted to do was get people caught in the crossfire.
So they have to come out for that.
Now, why it takes an hour, I don't know.
What were the negotiations?
I don't know.
Were there any more gunshots after they initially made contact?
I don't know.
And I say I don't know, not to be in a coy.
I say I don't know because I don't.
And I think that we as a society can ask questions, can be skeptical, but wait for the answers.
We don't have anywhere near the answers we're going to get in this case.
And again, a good guy with a gun, a guy who is trained a tactically trained border patrol agent, shot and killed this guy, ending the threat.
We can't forget that.
That man is certainly a hero.
But that very emotional video tape and audio that we're hearing from these parents.
It's understandable you would be freaked out like that.
You don't know what's happening with your baby.
But at the same time, we don't know that we're just seeing emotions and the police were still actively doing what they had to do, or there's something else going on.
We come back, it's going to be Ken Paxton, the attorney general of the great state of the great state of Texas.
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Great to have you along for the ride.
Thanks a lot for stopping by.
Really glad to have this man on.
He is the top cop, the top law enforcement um officer in the great state of Texas.
It's Ken Paxton.
Ken, good to see you.
Glad to have you on.
I know that it's it's not an easy time, but I do want to make quick mention of the fact that you were that you won the primary yesterday.
You beat George P. Bush, and uh it looks like you'll be you probably will remain our our attorney general here where I think you've done a very good job in Texas.
So good news there.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, it was a tough day for us.
We were very excited about the runoff that was finally here.
We felt like we were going to do really well, and of course, then the shooting occurred and it kind of put a damper on our day.
But I'm still grateful to for to Texans for giving me this opportunity because I think it really matters right now.
As the top law enforcement officer in the in the uh in the entire state, and again, I'm gonna say it again, you you do a great job.
And I thought I thought Greg Abbott did a great job before you in that office as well.
How do you find out about something like what happened in Uvalde yesterday?
You know, it's it's interesting because I was out at the polls, and uh it was kind of weird.
I was actually talking to uh Donald Trump.
He called me to see how I was doing.
Right.
And and then uh as soon as I got off, one of my staff members told me about the shooting, and that immediately puts us on notice because we're involved initially at least in dealing with any victims of crime.
So we immediately started sending, you know, getting our people together to go down there.
Um, and then we started getting reports just like you publicly.
Yeah.
Uh it wasn't it wasn't from other government officials.
We were actually just putting it together from what was going on in the media.
It is uh Ken Paxton, the attorney general of the great state of Texas.
And um, you know, when we hear about something like this, it takes me back.
I've been doing uh broadcasting for 32 years.
Television news anchor for a long time, news reporter, journalist for a long time.
I've covered a lot of these.
Columbine, Ken has been 23 years ago now, which is stunning if you think about it.
Twenty-three years later, I don't know that we've fixed it.
I mean, we certainly didn't yesterday for that community, and it's not your fault.
It's the fault of us as a an American community.
Why haven't we done something proactively that we can uniformly make sure we can we can send kids to school and know they're gonna come home safe at the end of the day?
You know, I think we've had such a debate about what would work, and you know, so much pressure always gets put on us to change the gun law so that you take the guns out of hands of everybody.
Well, and we end up fighting about something that actually never will work because you can't make laws for people like that if they're not gonna follow murder laws, they're certainly not going to follow gun law.
So we end up debating about the wrong thing and not getting the things done that will actually work, like fortifying our school, giving uh schools the resources to hire police officers, giving them the resources to train people that are there, like teachers and administrators to actually know how to use a firearm so they can react before the the police get there.
Uh making sure that our schools have less entrances so that it's harder for somebody to get in.
I mean, there's some really practical things we could do.
We just haven't done very many of them.
It's uh Ken Paxton, the attorney general, great state of Texas.
Ken, not 20 feet from me.
I've got five guns.
None of them is gonna do anything as we sit here and speak.
I'm a law-abiding citizen.
I have the right to have them according to the Constitution.
I've done what I have to do in Texas to be able to have these guns.
It's not about the gun.
You and I both know that.
Yet that's the red herring that is brought out every single time.
Is there a gun law that isn't on the books now that would have stopped this guy from going and doing what he did?
No, there's not a single gun law.
This guy didn't care about the any laws.
I mean, he he killed he killed you know 21 people.
And if you look at the places that have gun laws, like you know, strict gun laws, they tend to have the highest crime rates, the highest murder rates, because the criminals who don't follow the gun laws know that the law-abiding citizens can't protect themselves.
So, you know, we have the statistical data to show exactly what we would argue, and they they they just ignore they ignore the statistics, they ignore all the all the evidence in in favor of our point.
Well, I mean, that that's the point, isn't it?
Bad guys, uh, if they're willing to shoot their grandmother in the face and then go to a local school and shoot the place up, killing as many as they can.
He doesn't really care about a gun law, does he?
No, it's it's ridiculous.
Uh and that's that's why I don't even know why they get away with this argument.
It's so ludicrous to think that this guy is gonna follow Oh, oh, wait a minute.
There's a gun law.
I was gonna go kill people, now I can't do it.
I mean, that's an that is an insane argument.
Uh Ken, in our state and in many other states where people are listening and watching right now, there are signs in front of schools almost proudly saying it's a gun-free zone.
When you put up that sign, what is a bad guy gonna think?
He's gonna think it's an easy target.
There are also schools in Texas, there are a few that actually put up signs saying, hey, people in this school have guns.
And so far, none of those schools have gotten hit.
Because guess what?
If you're you're gonna do this kind of crime, you're gonna go to the school that's easier.
You know, we talked right before this um tonight, and you told me that there's actually a provision in Texas.
There's a law, there's a uh some sort of a system that a school can in fact uh go for guardian training, other training where teachers, people that we trust with our kids for nine hours a day to educate them, teach them social skills, to make sure that they're safe when they go home.
These people are people that we trust already with so much of our our kids' lives.
They can also legally carry and legally defend our kids.
Why aren't more schools taking you up on that?
So I don't know.
You know, we we I think it was in 2013 when I was in the Texas Center, we passed this, giving school boards the opportunity to choose to train their teachers and their administrators.
And it's really been up to them, and I don't think very many of them have taken advantage of it.
The ones that have are much safer than the ones that have it.
And in this, you know, as as what happened yesterday, had had somebody been armed in that school or several people, much less chance of those 21 people being dead today.
Is the program called the Guardian program?
Yeah, there's two.
There's the Guardian program, which is a lesser training than the Marshall Program, which is more like becoming almost a you know, many policeman.
A lot more training involved.
We offer both of those.
I was talking to the lieutenant governor yesterday, he said there are resources available since 2019 for schools, they get more money, and they have the choice of using that money for this or not, and they've chosen not to use it.
When you're talking about arming the teachers, and you're talking about a program that will help to fund and finance their training and make sure that they're safe.
There's something else you told me that I think would work very, very well against a criminal element because the criminal element wants the easiest pass, uh path with with least resistance.
You wouldn't even know who was armed.
I mean, they would walk in and have no idea if 30 people were armed or 50 people were, right?
And yeah, and they wouldn't know if it was the first person they saw or the fifth person, right?
So, you know, they would always they'd have to be watching their back a lot more than they do now when they walk in knowing that no one has a weapon.
Once they've gotten in, they're they're just you know, sitting ducks, literally.
When you see the people on the other side immediately knee jerk react, and it's Ken Paxton, the attorney general of the great state of Texas, and say, take the guns away.
We've got to revisit the second amendment, we've got to uh close this, that, and the other loophole.
You really don't hear uh anything that would solve the problem.
What you're hearing is people that I believe, and tell me if you agree, are looking for more power and control because in uh a disarmed good American society would be easy to push around by tyranny or by a government that doesn't really care about freedoms and liberties in the Constitution.
Do you agree with that?
Is this about is this a power and control grab by the left, do you think?
Yeah, this is a they use this as an excuse to to really get control of the country.
This is about power, government power.
This whole Second Amendment was set up by these constitutional scholars that founded our country that didn't trust government.
And so they know that.
They know that if that if America's armed, the government is held in check by that.
And there are people that want to control the country, and they want to make they they use these false arguments and fear.
Uh and any time there's a shooting, it's you know, of course, it's it's the gun law's fault, not not the fact that we didn't protect these children, not the fact that this person uh was evil and would have broken the gun law anyway.
None of that gets argued in.
They don't even get challenged on it, it's just assumed it's guns.
It's the gun, it's the gun lobby.
When somebody like Chuck Schumer comes out immediately, or Julia and Joaquin Castro or Barack Obama or Joe Biden immediately come out and start railing against people owning guns, these are people that are all safe and secure every single day.
They're protected by good guys with guns.
Do they think that we're that that that's missed on us?
I mean, it is hugely hypocritical, is it not, to say I can't protect my kids, but you can protect yourself?
No, it is hypocritical.
Yeah, I think a lot of Americans don't think about, well, oh, these guys that are saying don't have guns, they're all protected by somebody.
I mean, Barack Obama's protected right now.
Joe Biden's protected right now.
Right.
Chuck Simmers Protected right now with people with guns.
Why is it that the rest of us have to be unarmed and open to being shot by somebody that isn't following a gun law and just decides to shoot us?
I live in Texas, just north of San Antonio, as you know, and we've been talking for a very long time.
My kids, I've got one in elementary school, one in middle school, they're public schools.
There's only one way in.
You know, I'm somebody who is known in the community.
Even so, I still have to stop in the middle of two doors.
I can't go into where the student body is.
I've got to show my license through a bulletproof glass.
They buzz me in after giving me a tag that says I'm good to go.
That wasn't the case in Uvaldi.
This kid got in, or this bad guy, this man who's uh evil on earth, got in through a teacher's parking lot where the door was unlocked.
Is there a way to force uniformity on Texas schools to make sure that the process I have to go through is a process anybody would have to go through before getting access to teachers, students, administrators, because the checks and balances look, it's not the Uvaldi teacher's fault, it's not the school's fault.
I'm not saying that.
It's the bad guy's fault, and we have to protect against that.
Can we force uniformity or not?
Yeah, we can do it through the legislative process, and we do that because they provide funds for education.
They can say, look, if you want our funds, we're gonna you have to do this thing.
You have to protect your schools, you have to limit access, and you have to do this.
Matter of fact, we'll even give you money to do it.
Just like they're they offered money for protecting through uh having teacher training on a gun.
So, yes, the legislature has a lot of power to do something about this with control of the money.
And and as much as we could do that in Texas, you've got Joe Biden signing executive orders and pushing for let's ban this kind of gun or let's ban that kind of gun, and common sense gun uh reform, which is this this bill that's out there, HR eight that doesn't make a lot of sense once you actually read it.
How do you balance that?
Because again, the Constitution outlines specifically that I've got the right to keep in bear and it shouldn't be infringed, yet you've got the federal government continuing to try to infringe it.
Yeah, I mean, look, that's why I'm in 34 lawsuits with the Biden administration.
They're all about ignoring the Constitution, what's the first amendment, second amendment, fourth amendment?
They don't care about the Constitution.
They've made they they make that clear, they make that clear in law school.
When you take constitutional law, they most of the law school classes you take on constitutional law aren't about defending the Constitution as it was written.
It's about whatever we can make it today, and the Biden administration has no respect for what was written in that constitution, and therefore they're out trying to change it.
Yeah, good guys with guns show up and and nullify, kill the bad guy in uh in Uvaldi.
The one guy was a a a um a border tactical guy.
He's in this great, you know, very well-trained tactical team with the border patrol, and he's also he also works with the the sheriff's department in Uvaldi.
These are heroes that you've got six hundred students in the school, and nineteen is way too much.
One dead student is way too much, don't misunderstand.
But it could have been much, much worse had this guy not taken out the threat.
You on the same day or the day after you've got Joe Biden signing executive orders that are somehow limiting police.
You got Barack Obama who's tweeting out about George Floyd and how a police officer killed him.
Um you've got a real battle in this country, Ken, when it comes to law enforcement officers not being seen like they were when you and I were growing up.
You know, we wanted to be like them.
We trusted them as our neighbors who were keeping us safe.
You've got a full side of the aisle that's making them out to be to be the bad guys.
You've got impressionable young people that are hearing this.
What do you say to them today when it comes to those that saved lives yesterday while at the same time Washington is vilifying them?
Yeah, I want to go back to it.
You were talking about border patrol agent that came in and saved other lives.
I mean, Sulfur Springs Church was the same way.
There was nobody in the church with a gun.
Somebody came in from the outside and saved many of the people in that church.
Right.
So it's ludicrous to argue that law enforcement can't make a difference.
And I think it's the whole reason the left has vilified them, trash them over the last couple of years because they want to take them away from us just like they want to take our guns.
They want to make it less safe.
They want to create more chaos.
More chaos gives them more ability to control and create fear so that they can convince people, hey, you need to trust us.
You can't trust law enforcement.
You can't trust your guns.
You you can't trust any of the things that have worked in the past.
We'll take care of you, trust us.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just won the runoff yesterday.
He's uh going to be in the general, and and I'm hoping that you win.
It looks like you probably will.
I don't see why you wouldn't.
Um, one last question.
When it comes to what we just saw happen, we saw happen at the grocery store in Buffalo.
We've seen happen way too many times in this country.
Now that we're heading into summer break in Texas for for school children, before they start back in school in August, what advice do you have for parents about what school to send their kids to?
What checks and balances should there be?
We want to send our kids and then have them home for dinner, Ken.
What advice would you have for them?
Look, parents have a lot of power.
They they can take their kids out of school, they can send them to different schools.
So they need to speak to their school boards, and they need to speak in force.
I've seen parents doing this with critical race theory.
I've seen them do them with vaccine and mass mandates.
I've seen them doing it with sex education.
Parents are speaking up and saying, no, we're not going to put up with this.
They can also speak up on this issue and say, my kids aren't safe.
I want them to be safe.
I want teachers to be trained.
I want administrators to be trained.
I want a police officer at my school, and I want access to be limited.
That will create a much it won't guarantee that everybody's safe 100% of the time.
We can never guarantee that.
But we can make it a lot safer than it is right now.
I think you're absolutely 100% right.
And again, congratulations on the big win.
And uh we hope that you remain the attorney general for a very long time.
You're doing a great job for us.
It's Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of the Great State of Texas.
Appreciate you coming on, Ken.
Thank you.
Thank you, Jeff.
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