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
retired police officers, retired military. weke can do that if we choose to if we make it a priority to protect every stadium, every concert venue, every airplanee in this country that we all get on and use, weus can do the same for our schoolsth and for our children. without a doubt finding realio actionable solutions to protect our kids is critically important and we don t have to infringe on people s rights to do so. unfortunately, sarah s right. sadly, many on the left, they re not interested in a real solution.t, t in fact, they don t evenhey dony seem to care about gun violence at all and lessoning until if it s a preferred political narrative. now take look at your screen since 2019 five that fourth thousand five hundred and ninety eight children have been shotbe and killed in the united states. ofof those of that number, forty three of those deaths were school shootings and of