>> i feel like he needs to take into consideration all this gun control. there's no reason that a kid, 19 years old, that's been investigated already and not even a year ago, being able to purchase an ar-15. >> the state that this country has been allowed to come to, through the work of politicians saying yeah, we're going to impose these ideas. we don't need ideas. we need action. we need action from our elected officials and from the public. because without that, this is going to happen again. >> mayor, gillham, what do you have to say to those students? >> the most salient voices we've heard in the middle of this tragedy have been from our young people. the student voices have been so strong. they have reminded and, quite frankly, embarrassed a lot of the adults in our state who have done nothing. these students have asked that they want to be kept safe. they want their elected officials to do exactly what we were elected to do, and that's