sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today and here at this vigil at the fair play here in valge county and the families that came here to honor the 19 children that died came here. they said a broken heart with just a need to be together in a time off mourning. you can see everybody leaving right now. we ve got t a lot of crowd behid us . but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town. people were hugging each other. they were saying, youay know,ha i knew a childt that went toad that school and it made sense. this is a population just over 16000 people. so everybody knew somebodyne everybody was connected to somebody i did know somebody in this town. i knew i knew a family here that i lived only about maybe a an hour and 40 minutes from uvalda here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughter s softball team had been killed in
our elected officials. but i also believe we ve got to protect our children also. and i also believe that we re not doing a good job here. lectf you ve always get lectures from politiciansro and the veryol same people that ignore the violence in chicagoen, baltimore and d.c. and l.a. and new york. i don t really think you need lectures from people that haven t cleaned up their own backyard.. a what dogr you think? no, i agree with you totally. i mean, i spent some time in chicago. i spent three months there when i went through cancer treatment and every weekend it was ten tod fifteen is you buy a gun in chicago, you can t buy bullets in chicagoyo. but yet look at look at what happens there every weekend. it s a tragedy we need to address. we need to address these shootings. we need toes addressssot a lot h things. but the gunun control they re talking that s not going to stop these people-cs n from getg those guns. they re going tot th get them however they want. we need to come to d t