approach to a societal problem. that's what functioning democracies do. and you see mayor nan whaly who's been doing a phenomenal job turning dayton around. they've got so many positive things happening down there trying to rebuild that town and that community, getting them ready for the new economy, and then you get something like this. we need a functioning congress, a functioning democracy. we need to quit with the left and right. we need to get into new and better. we need to elevate the conversations. we need to find some common ground so we can get to some higher ground. and that's really what has to happen because, you know, we can talk about all of these gun reform laws that any nation with any lick of common sense would pass, and it gets held up because of the influence of the national rifle association that have mitch mcconnell and others bought and paid for. so until we break that, until people start putting the people -- until leaders start