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Tim Walz: “In the last 10 years, there's been 100% increase in the…”

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Gov. Tim Walz hosts debate on gun violence

Published | Video Starts at 35:51

In some cases, they were in your football locker. And then after practice, you went out and you could hunt. But what you just heard, the numbers, is In the last 10 years, there's been 100% increase in the number of these mass shootings. And what has really added to this is the ability of these cheap weapons that were designed for the battlefield, designed to kill human beings have made their way into civilian hands. (35:51–35:56)

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Asserts a doubling of mass shootings over the past decade.

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