support. we appreciate that. i will turn it over to congressman keith self. thank you, chief. first and foremost, we need to keep the families impacted by this tragedy in our prayers. we will never know how many lives were saved by the swift actions of our first responders. what we do know is that we owe a debt of gratitude to first responders that ran toward the gunfire and acted swiftly to neutralize the threat. i will be followed by state representative jeff leech. i m state representative jeff leech from house district state 67 and resident of allen. my family and i reside about a mile from where the shooting took place. this community is home for us, and our hearts are
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ourselves to get to this point. state representative, your thoughts on that aspect of this in terms of where we are as a country. dr. andrews is saying that we are traumatized, and i wonder if for a lack of a better word, we are even thinking clearly as a country about this issue because we are so traumatized that we are finding ourselves in a state of paralysis to deal with this issue. yeah, i think we often forget that we are the only country in the world that allows this to happen. the united states is not an outlier when it comes to mental health. the united states is not an outlier when it comes to school security. we are an outlier in the number of readily acceptable weapons of war in our community, and so we got to remember that this is a choice. accepting the status quo is a choice apostate makers make, and we can make a difference. all right, dr. andrews, state representative james
have 87% of americans saying that they want and can agree on universal background checks, and lawmakers are not getting republican lawmakers not getting it done, that s not a problem just with guns, it s a problem of democracy, that a democracy is not functioning the way it should be. i totally agree, and if this is an issue that is that important to 87% of the american public, then they need to make the wish known at the bout box. if they don t have representatives that are carrying out their wishes with respect to this very important issue, that has traumatized americans, then they need to make those wishes known but making those representatives know that they may no longer represent them. that is not something that they can put on the backburner, if it is an important issue to them and family in the community, they need to let their representatives know. representative tory co-, i know you re talking about state representative lee, i want to