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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 enf ....
And endlessly fascinating to me. and we re not done yet. here comes the news again over and over again. right. that s how we started, and that s where we ended up. so can you tell us what you found out about the backgrounds of these two individuals or their relationship, and then when the pro publica news broke, i take it you were probably already working on this, how did those revelations fit into everything you were finding? it s very interesting. what you discover about thomas in his life is that a set of resentments and grievances that grow out of rejection, rejection all across the board. when he was a little kid in georgia living in desperate circumstances. the other black kids made fun of him. his mother handed him over to his very stern and abusive grandfather. he goes off to the seminary to try to become the first black priest in savannah, georgia. ....
Can achieve extraordinary and historic things. georgia is at a tipping point. all eye also be on georgia next year. we have two senate seats up in georgia. this is where the senate majority will be decided. i m running against senator david purdue, a caricature of washington corruption. this is a guy in half a decade as our senator, despite one in three rural children in georgia living in poverty, despite the highest maternal mortality in the country, half of our counties having no obgyn, has not come down from his private island once to hold a public town hall. hours after i announced he issued a frantic statement saying he was an outsider in washington. he s a cousin of the u.s. secretary of agriculture, fortune 500 ceo, $2 million of corporate pac funding. the idea that he s an outsider is a joke. we don t have an unlimited amount of time. i want to get you on policy ....