This week has seen tragedy at a Catholic school in Minnesota and a frenetic pace of actions by the Trump administration to remake government.

For analysis on it all, we turn to Brooks and Atkins Store.

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Boston Globe columnist Kimberly Atkins Store.

Jonathan K. Part is away. Great to see you both. Good to see you.

Let's start in Minnesota. School year had just gotten underway. We already have a deadly

school shooting. Eight-year-old Fletcher Merkel, 10-year-old Harper Moiske were killed, 18 others injured

after a shooter opened fire during a morning mass marking the very first week of classes

at a Catholic school in Minneapolis.

I know you both have seen scenes like this. They're so familiar now to us in this country.

So is the political debate. I just want to play for you a bit of how we saw reactions from

Vice President J.D. Vance and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye.

When I see far-left politicians say, how dare you offer thoughts and prayers? You need action.

You know, I don't care about your prayers. I care about what you're going to do to prevent this from happening.

Why does it have to be one or the other? Of course, we're standing up with thoughts and with prayers,

but thoughts and prayers are not going to cut it. We need a statewide and a federal ban on assault weapons.

We need a statewide and a federal ban on high-capacity magazines.

David, from Sandy Hook to Parkland to Yuvaldi, nothing has dramatically changed to keep this sort of thing from happening.

Again, is it too cynical to say that there's a numbness that has set in to kids being shot in school here?

I think people still have the capacity to be appalled by somebody who shoots through children through stained glass windows.

And so I do think that, will there be action? J.D. Vance just said prayers and actions. I also have the capacity to be appalled by somebody who shoots through children through stained glass windows.

And so I do think that, will there be action?

J.D. Vance just said for errors in actions, well, what are the actions he's proposing?

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