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Elissa Slotkin: “The same problems that we were dealing with in a war zone…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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A Book Never Shot Anyone (with Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Cara Erskine)

Published | Video Starts at 31:47

But I have to say that school shootings, for me, rank right up there with some of the worst things I've ever seen or had to. Had to deal with. And it's because The same problems that we were dealing with in a war zone are now being handled in our schools. And I find myself, you know, when you go to funeral after funeral and vigil after vigil, when you're sitting with a group of 14 year olds, and they're describing this like, you know, how they're hyper aware and hyper vigilant, how they. (31:47–31:55)

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Asserts that the problems faced in war zones are now present in schools.

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