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Tim Walz: “There's not hardly a week goes by where a child doesn't find…”

Featuring: Tim Walz, Democratic | Governor of Minnesota

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Gov. Tim Walz hosts debate on gun violence

Published | Video Starts at 37:03

And I just want to note is trying to get common sense link legislation through this legislature. We have courageous legislators who got this done. We couldn't even pass a safe storage bill. And 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 sibling. That's just irresponsible. And so this argument, and it's always something, you can't define what a assault weapon is. We have the right to have these, that they're to be used against an oppressive government or whatever it might be. (37:03–37:11)

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