Tim Walz revealed at the vice presidential debate on Tuesday that his son, Gus, witnessed a shooting at a community center while playing volleyball.
“I 100% believe that Senator Vance hates it,” he added, extending an olive branch on the issue — despite the Harris-Walz campaign having attacked the GOP vice presidential nominee for claiming school shootings were a “fact of life.”
“First of all, I didn’t know that your 17-year-old witnessed a shooting. I’m sorry about that,” Vance replied.
“I’m sorry about that. Christ have mercy,” he said. “It is awful. And I appreciate what Tim said.”
Walz said if America wants to stop school shooting — the US should look to Finland.
“They don’t have this happen,” the Minnesota governor said. “Even though they have a high gun-ownership rate in the country, there are reasonable things that we can do to make a difference.”