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
you can t have a conscience or a soul and do something this evil right. th let me be clear though. thereio is a solution. we ve got to talk about solutions. most people don t wanton t wan t get to the root cause ofo anything. but if we want to protect ours, kids, which we must do and prevent this thing from happening again, we need an honest discussion. ol we protect our politicians. they are secured with police, with secret service, with armed gunmen around them. for we pay for that and rightfully so. we shouldll protect our electeda officials, celebrities, athletes. they all have bodyguards. they can afford it.n as they deserve the protection as well. we just spent ll., what ,il 40 billion dollars that we senti to ukraine to protecti democracy. i think it s wells well past tie that we as a country maybe we should save a few of those billions of dollars and sendch them to every school in the country so they can hire well-trained, well qualified armed guards, particularly r