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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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The recent shooting in Texas has triggered a renewed debate over gun rights, mental health, and public safety.
Already, several prominent figures on the Left are reacting to the shooting by publicly advocating for harm against conservatives and gun owners.
So what can be done to better protect our schools, and why does the Left continue to insist on only one solution which involves restricting Americans' 2nd Amendment rights?
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0:00.0 | We had actually planned to do a different topic today on making the argument. However, with the recent |
0:04.9 | events in Texas, we feel it's necessary to talk about this because obviously this is a horrific |
0:10.9 | tragedy. And the question is, is what do we as a country, as a community, as a society, |
0:17.0 | do about something like this, both to not only come alongside the people that are suffering as a result, |
0:22.7 | but also to do everything that we possibly can in order to prevent it from happening in the future. |
0:27.4 | And so we're going to talk as we're going to talk about this issue with the information that we currently have. |
0:32.9 | And to keep in mind, we are filming this on Wednesday. It'll be published tomorrow on a Thursday. |
0:38.3 | So some information will inevitably come out that we might not have available to us right now. |
0:42.2 | So we just want to make sure that everyone understands that up front. But the purpose today |
0:46.2 | is to have a conversation and to have a discussion with respect to how do we address this issue and also to |
0:56.9 | address some of the responses that have come out within social media, within various political |
1:01.9 | leaders, and to try to find some way where we can find common ground to be able to effectively |
1:10.6 | address this. That's what we're going to be |
1:12.8 | discussing today on making the argument. As always, I'm your host, Nick Fratus, member of the |
1:17.7 | Virginia House of Delegates. My wife Tina is here. We have Christian here as well, and then obviously |
1:22.8 | our producer, Nick Hamilton. Okay, let's go ahead and jump into this. Now, to give everyone some background, |
1:29.7 | obviously a lot of things have been going on in the news. Information usually comes out very quickly. |
1:34.3 | Sometimes it adjusts. But what we understand about this at this point was that a 18-year-old man |
1:42.1 | had legally purchased, U.S. citizen had legally purchased a firearm or a couple of firearms, |
1:49.2 | went into an elementary school in rural Texas and proceeded to go on a mass murdering spree. |
2:00.2 | At this point, I think there's 19 children that have been killed |
2:03.7 | and two teachers. From what we understand, I believe there might have been two officers that |
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