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Problem in addition to a violence problem in this country. >> sandra: and i know this hits close to home, i know, trey, you have shared with our viewer audience many times that your wife is a school teacher and i'm sure you have conversations about this at many different levels. there is a fear that this has happened again, and that, you know, the country moves on at some point and no change happens. what do you say to people who worry that might be the case yet again? >> well, i guarantee it's going to happen. it happened every time in the past. mass shootings have gone up dramatically in the...

Have the problem. >> yeah -- >> it's the violence problem. it's not necessarily a gun problem. >> yeah, sadly we're out of time. we're going to have to have you back. i think you would agree that the united states doesn't have a monopoly of people with mental health issues. certainly your state doesn't have a monopoly of people suffering from mental health issues. you saw from the graph, the numbers are going up. police responded within minutes, and still five people were dead. you know, perhaps you can come back and talk about the weapon itself and the role that it plays in this. >> colorado ...

Is much more of a mental health problem among people who are -- who aren't for some reason not able to deal with the circumstances that they r. it's not the issue of the guns per se, it's the issue of the fact that people -- there are a number of people who really should have treatment of some kind -- >> how do you know it's not the issue of the guns? >> i'm sorry, what? >> how do you know it's not the issue of the gun? you say it's mental health, and that certainly has a place in the conversation. now dismiss the issue of the gun, the only thing that every mass shooting has in common is the g...

Roblem that front? i think part of the problem is — that front? i think part of the problem is we _ that front? i think part of the problem is we look _ that front? i think part of the problem is we look at - that front? i think part of the problem is we look at this as | that front? i think part of the | problem is we look at this as a gun or knife a problem, this is a violence problem. if we keep focusing on a knives or guns, we need to have that focus as well, but if we keep the focus on night violence or gun violence, we are not looking at the underlying issues of masculinity, trauma in ...

When we underplay this, we're all at risk. i think that we as a nation need to treat our violence problem, and our white supremacy issue as a public health issue or else we're gonna continue to come up against these things again. what i like to see in this community, yasmin, what we know after a week of serious listening, in the interim we need grocery stores, there's no reason we should relegated just one grocery store in this community. we need on board mental health support, long after the story is no more leading headlines. and then in the long term, buffalo needs an economic plan, this pr...