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@sunny
: "Since 2020, guns are the leading cause of death of American children in our country — guns."
"Perhaps the approach is that we should think about this as a public health issue instead of a gun reform issue... because truly it's a public health issue."
After losing her daughter nearly a decade ago in the Sandy Hook tragedy, mother Nelba Márquez-Green tells
#TheView
how she’s helping families cope with loss following the mass shooting in Texas that took the lives of at least 19 children and two adults.
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@JoaquinCastrotx
to
#TheView
: "We can commit more resources to mental health care … [and] anti-bullying campaigns. But we should also be willing to make sure that people can't get weapons of war who are espousing hate and who are leaving all these clues all over social media."
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@JoyVBehar
: "Stop saying 'it's not guns that kill people, it's people that kill people' — it's guns that kill people."
"There's mental illness in every country in the world, and they don't have this problem."
Nelba Márquez-Green, who lost her daughter in Sandy Hook, shares with
#TheView
her message to lawmakers calling for ‘thoughts and prayers’ in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: “I am distressed by the blaspheming of God."
"Your God is the NRA. Let’s get serious.”
Texas Congressman
@JoaquinCastrotx
to
#TheView
with his message to families impacted by the Uvalde school shooting: "America grieves with you, we mourn with you and hopefully this will be a wakeup call to our elected officials to finally take action."
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@sarahaines
: "We have to fight for red flag laws in every state."
"Can't we all agree that people that have a problem or have threatened people should not have a weapon for a period of time?"
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@ananavarro
: "There is no reason why an 18-year-old should have access to weapons of war that can kill children in a matter of seconds."
"What happened after Sandy Hook? We didn't pass legislation. We taught kids how to do more drills and we invented bullet proof backpacks."
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott excoriates the suspect in the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde as "a demented person."
"It is intolerable and it is unacceptable to have in the state anybody who would kill little kids in our school."
"I am in physical pain for what they're going through right now."
The father of one of the Parkland students who was shot and killed in a mass shooting in 2018 expressed condolences and solidarity with the families of the Uvalde shooting.
“You are doing nothing!”
Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke interrupts press conference with Gov. Greg Abbott, other politicians on elementary school shooting.
Nelba Márquez-Green, who lost her daughter in Sandy Hook, shares with
#TheView
her message to lawmakers calling for ‘thoughts and prayers’ in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: “I am distressed by the blaspheming of God."
"Your God is the NRA. Let’s get serious.”