dollar that would happen. yeah, you really could. >> reporter: now the father consoling a heartbroken community. >> we are carrying this together. there is not an individual loss. the community, we must grieve together. >> reporter: grieve and come to terms with the life of a public servant extinguished too soon. what was so special, his friends say, about david amos, was that he didn't seem interested in climbing the political ladder. as you heard, almost four decades of service to one community, his community. and that's what's at stake here, paula, because the conversation across this country is about much bigger than this incident. it's about the safety of lawmakers. it's about their ability to do their jobs and get home unharmed at the end of the day. some of them saying that this attack is not just an attack on one lawmaker, but on the democratic process as a whole. because this is something this country holds very dear,