On the same day that you met with those parents and the survivors, surveillance footage was revealed of the shooter in the school in Uvalde. What we saw in that footage was the gunman walking down the hallway, police officers standing by for over an hour before taking down the shooter. And you took to Twitter.
You wrote, quote, "The Uvalde video puts to bed forever the question of whether the way to deal with bad guys with guns is to make sure there are more good guys with guns. We've always known it was a gun industry-created lie designed to sell more guns. Now we just have the gut-wrenching proof."
(shows surveillance clips of cops in school standing around)
SENATOR CHRiS MURPHY (D-CT): i thought a lot about whether i wanted to watch that video. i remember it being at the first of the Sandy Hook kids' funeral. it was an open casket. And this was a child who was unrecognizable, but his parents wanted political leaders to see what had happened. i chose not to go up to that casket and look at that child, and i always wonder if i should have.
i thought about that as i was deciding whether to watch the video. it's not as stunning and striking as looking into an open casket when a child has been killed, but it is still jarring to watch that young man walk into that building, and then to see law enforcement minutes later enter and do nothing for an hour and a half. And police officer after police officer arrived with more heavy weapons, more body armor, more shields, and yet they still do nothing. i understand their hesitancy. i understand why you wouldn't want to confront him -- someone who has a high-powered, military-style assault weapon who's willing to turn it on civilians. But that's their job. They should have walked into that classroom. They should have put their lives at risk. That's what they signed up for.
But it is frankly a reminder to all of us that if all of that high-powered machinery -- all of those trained law enforcement officers were so scared of that one teenager with an AR-15 inside that classroom, well, maybe the solution isn't more highly trained officers with guns. Maybe the solution is to just make sure that teenagers don't get their hands on military-style assault weapons and march into classrooms like that. So to me, it's proof positive that the solution here is to keep these guns out of the hands of bad guys rather than to think you're going to solve the problem by giving good guys a lot of guns. That didn't work in Uvalde.
HOOVER: President Biden has just signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The bill incentivizes states to implement red flag laws, closes domestic violence loopholes, enhances background checks for buyers under 21, criminalizes straw purchases, and allocates money on mental health services. What is the most important aspect of this law?
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Take on that argument, will, you? That there are already so many guns in the United States that if somebody really wants to commit a mass atrocity, they can get their hands on a gun.
Well, first of all, this argument that laws don