year anniversary in nashville, tennessee, six innocents losiv.t their lives, three of them nine year olds. the faces of-year-ol these beaul children are imprinted on my heart. heart.any parent s in thisof the country, i wake up i nnmilies the middle of the night thinking about these families and praying fo prayir them. i cannot conceive of the depthsd of their pain. as americans, we need to haveen an open, honest discussion about how to protectren, our children to morrow. not decades from now. tomorrow. what is the real practical solution? what would actually save liveses ? republican talk of menta l health has merit, but how dof you fix this legislatively?s it s hard to think about. it seems nearly impossiblefix th to fix the human heart or the human mind from the halls of congress. humanand as for the drumbeat fn control, let s say just the theory that you abolish the second amendment and ban guns entirel y, that would fix precisely nothing. there ar fix precie currently mi
that s enough to kill everythe t resident of the statate e of virginia. d yo you thinouk these measue you re taking will help to stymie thatymie? ve got t well, we have got to do something because we have seen fentanyl overdoses increase 20 times in ten years by five virginians die every single day. and when we re startingry to reach these kinds of overdose rates, it is truly an epidemic. and so, yes, we went to work today. we passekd legislation through our general assembly. i didn t get everything i want. our genet get evy wanted was tos able to charge dealers who deal fentanyl was a death. i want to be able to charge them with a felony homicide that senate democrats wouldn t give that to me. i m going to go back and get that next year. dealin but we were able to categorize dealing and distributing fentanyl as as a as a terroristo act. peand that opens up an enormousa number of law enforcement avenues for us . avenuein order to prosecute ande order to bring the full weight of the l