US Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz addressed the mass shooting at Apalachee High School while speaking at a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Thursday, September 5, saying the country has “work to do” on gun violence.“Our hearts go out to the two students and two teachers who were killed,” Walz said. “That community will never be the same.”“I, for one, am sick and tired of hearing about thoughts and prayers, rather than actually doing something,” he said.
“I know guns. IVideo transcriptAnd yeah, we believe in the freedom to send our kids to school without being shot dead in the hall.Hm.The news cycle moves on within a day from what we saw yesterday down in Georgia.Kids going to school the first week of school excited.Now we have four dead.So our hearts go out to the two students and the two teachers who were killed, their families will be in mourning.There’s many injured in winder and that community will never be the same.I said this in all of you here, both as a, as a teacher and as a student and as a dad I loved back to school season.Time of hope.
Excitement.Now, for those kids, it’ll always be a time of sheer terror and that will be a memory that they’ll hold forever.And it’s a reminder of the rest of the country.Um, we’ve got work to do and I, for one, I’m sick and tired of hearing about thoughts and prayers rather than actually doing something.And I, I say this to all of you.I know guns.I’m a veteran, I’m a hunter, but we can’t let them make this just about the second amendment.I defend the second amendment, but our first responsibility is to keep our kids safe.Yesterday.Vice President Harris said it doesn’t have to be this way.And I can tell all of you of someone who’s owned guns my whole life and hunted.
I can tell you, I can remember it with such clarity.I sat in my office in DC when I was a member of Congress and it was shortly after the Sandy Hook massacre.And I sat in there with all those parents.And at that point in time, I was, I was an nr a guy.Um That’s many of us grew up with that, but they were gun safety and I was the only one who took the meeting with them.They tried to get meetings with people who wanted to do this and to sit in there and listen to these parents.I think about it today.My son this week started his senior year of high school.Thank you.Thank you.And it’s bittersweet for me because um those killed at Sandy Hook would have been entering their senior year too at the same time.And those parents now are without those.So look.
