Walz says hes become friends with school shooters in VP debate gaffe

Tim Walz apparently fumbled a response about school shootings, saying he’s become “friends” with the shooters.The moderators asked Walz how he changed his mind about banning “assault weapons” over his career.“I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents.I became friends with school shooters.

I’ve seen it,” Walz said.He also said he used to have his gun in the back of his car so he could go “pheasant hunting” after “football practice.”Walz said if America wants to stop school shootings, we 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.”Walz suggested the federal government had a role in taking away “some of these weapons out there” — but didn’t specify which.“I appreciate what Tim said, actually, about Finland,” Vance responded, “because I do think it illustrates some of the frankly weird differences between our own country’s gun violence problem and Finland.”The Ohio senator said that the US, unlike the Scandinavian nation, grapples with higher rates of depression and anxiety....