this, i don t know what the gunman s problem was, his motive, but it country mental health that killed these people. it was an automatic rifle with bullets. i m a gun owner, i have guns. former police officer, army officer, but these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening. condolences and prayers won t bring these people back. we need action at the federal and state level for better gun control. i m saying that as somebody who loves guns. what texas is doing in a big-time way, we are working to address that anger and violence by going to its root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it. we know that texas had been lagging in addressing mental health for years, and that s why, over the past three sessions, we ve added almost $25 billion to address mental health. we re in the waning days of a session right now where we will be adding even more funding. yeah. it s just really, right now, there are law enforceme
blue state, and they re actually thinking about having a child. said that they re going to have to stay in the blue state if there are complications. if there are complications, they don t want to be in the position that these women are in. people are picking colleges as it pertains to these laws. republicans are. this is not some democratic thing. again, at easter, we heard from republicans who all had a different story like this, talking about how insane these laws are. it is. charlie, final thoughts before you go today. you know, it s interesting listening to that conversation. in the 1990s, remember that book, the big sort, talked about how we were sorting ourselves out geographically by politics? i think we may be in the midst of a new big sort, a sort of cold civil war, where people are moving with their feet to states
disconnect in society and between the haves and have nots. has always existed but the gulf is getting wider. this may ultimately lead to the country s downfall. bill bishop wrote the book the big sort real quick, we drifted apart. no more elks club, no more rotary, et cetera, et cetera, when we re-engaged in the internet era, it was easy to associate with the like-minded. look at the fragmentation of the media. this weekend is an exception. we re all going to watch the nfl, right? but we don t have common experiences anymore. that s my scompexplanation. we want to know which poses a greater threat to the social fabric of the united states, differences in race or differences in class? still to come, new cdc data, booster shots sharply increase