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Tim Walz: “In Sweden, the firearm homicide rate is 25% of what it is in…”

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Gov. Tim Walz hosts debate on gun violence

Published November 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 46:54

You've mentioned, Governor, the comparison between the United States and overseas countries. Okay. And in particular, when we take a look at countries, the Scandinavian countries, because of our. A lot of Scandinavian background. In Sweden, the firearm homicide rate is 25% of what it is in Minnesota. Minnesota is a lot less than the United States generally. In Denmark and in Norway, it is one tenth of what is here. (46:54–47:02)

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Tim Walz

“The number one cause of death for children age 1 to 19 is firearms.”
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“We have over 400 million firearms out on the streets, 40,000 a day being sold.”
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“In the last 10 years, there's been 100% increase in the number of these mass shootings.”
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“In Denmark and in Norway, [the firearm homicide rate] is one tenth of what is here [in Minnesota].”
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“We passed enhanced background checks making sure that people who shouldn't have guns don't get them.”
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“We passed something called an extreme risk protection order.”
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“The data showed of those 390 some risk protection orders, we definitely saved lives.”
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“We're not getting a vote because it would pass.”
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“Every bit of data shows this. It would pass overwhelmingly.”
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“Our children have to live in fear and practice gun drills in their schools when we know there's things we can do about it.”
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“We have been prohibited from gathering data on gun violence.”
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“We are not in legislative session until February.”
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“We offered a chance to vote on mental health care, but you voted no on it last time.”
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“The House of Representatives is 67, I think 65 now because of the several members leaving to go to the Senate.”
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“If I call the special session, it will grind to a halt and will not move to this [the constitutional amendment on the ban].”
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“The courts overruled us on binary triggers and ghost guns.”
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“You can print a gun in your house now with no serial number on it.”
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“The binary trigger is the device that was used to murder two police officers and a firefighter last year.”
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“I cannot force the legislature and the division of powers to take this up [the constitutional amendment on the ban].”
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“We know what the numbers show around the assault weapon ban and things.”
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“This would be an opportunity for us to fund some mental health care that is needed.”
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“It would be the opportunity to fund some of these things that there's bipartisan agreement on.”
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“I'm going to continue doing this until we finally get a vote and most importantly, until we finally ban these weapons in Minnesota.”
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“No other nation in the world has this problem [of gun violence].”
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“We couldn't even pass a safe storage bill.”
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“There's not hardly a week goes by where a child doesn't find an unlocked gun and shoot either themselves or a cousin or the neighbor or…”
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“We have had restrictions since the 1930s on fully automatic firearms.”
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“The firearms industry has done a magnificent job of not asking physicians of people in mental health crisis to be able to ask if they have a…”
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“More people die when they have these weapons of war.”
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“Minnesota is one of very few states that does this.”
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“We do not need guns in the state capitol.”
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“We are prohibited from gathering a lot of this data.”
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“Everybody in Finland owns a gun. They do have gun ownership. They have. But it's responsible. They have it. They don't have these mass…”
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“Do other countries kill their children at a rate that America does? And then you look at the data and the answer is no.”
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“Other countries have access to firearms with reasonable guardrails around what that means.”
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“Extreme risk protection orders will save no lives. They have saved lives. The data is there.”
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“If we get a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, fewer people will get shot in Minnesota and die.”
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