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OneLegUpAlex News - Pope Leo XIV Reaches Out To Annunciation Catholic School 8-28-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I've had about twenty four to forty
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  Speaker 1: eight hours to digest what happened yesterday at Annunciation Churches
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  Speaker 1: Catholic School, and I want to highlight how the religious community,
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  Speaker 1: the Catholic community, is coming together. I don't care what
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  Speaker 1: politicians said yesterday. I mean, you might, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to know how the community is coming together, excluding the
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  Speaker 1: elected leaders who just say what they feel they need
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  Speaker 1: to say in a press conference when the cameras are on.
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  Speaker 1: But did you know Pope Leo reacted to this horrific
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  Speaker 1: shooting that had two kids shot dead and many injured.
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  Speaker 1: Pope Leo sent this telegram to the Archbishop of the
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  Speaker 1: Annunciation Catholic Church, and his name is Archbishop Bernard had
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  Speaker 1: Here's what the Pope wrote to this many Appolis church
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  Speaker 1: and this Catholic community.
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  Speaker 2: I was particularly pleased today to receive a message from
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  Speaker 2: Pope Leo. If you'd bear with me, I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: share that with you. It comes directly from Cardinal Pietro Pauline,
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  Speaker 2: who's the Secretary of State, and it reads like this,
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  Speaker 2: His Holiness, Pope Leo the fourteenth was profoundly saddened to
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  Speaker 2: learn of the loss of life and injuries following the
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  Speaker 2: shooting that took place at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, and
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  Speaker 2: he sends his heartfelt condolences and the assurance of spiritual
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  Speaker 2: closeness to all those affected by this terrible tragedy, especially
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  Speaker 2: the families now grieving the loss of a child, while
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  Speaker 2: commending the souls of the deceased children to the love
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  Speaker 2: of Almighty God His Holiness praise for the wounded, as
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  Speaker 2: well as the first responders, medical personnel, and clergy who
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  Speaker 2: are caring for them and their loved ones at this
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  Speaker 2: extremely difficult time. The Holy Father imparts to the Annunciation
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  Speaker 2: Catholic School community, the Archdiocese of Saint Paul Minneapolis, and
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  Speaker 2: the people of the Greater Twin Cities metropolitan area his
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  Speaker 2: apostolic blessing as a pledge of peace, fortitude, and consolation
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  Speaker 2: in the Lord Jesus, my brothers and sisters. That gives
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  Speaker 2: me some hope. We know that the Holy Father, Pope
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  Speaker 2: Leo did his hospital training right here in Minneapolis, so
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  Speaker 2: he knows our community, and he's been reminding anybody visiting
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  Speaker 2: from Minnesota that he spent some time here. Were very
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  Speaker 2: grateful for his blessing, but I like those who have
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  Speaker 2: spoken before, ask that you would continue to think look
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  Speaker 2: for those ways of supporting those who have been impacted today,
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  Speaker 2: not only with your prayers but also with your action.
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  Speaker 1: Ken prayer is much needed during this time, and prayers
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  Speaker 1: needed every day. I don't care what anybody says on
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  Speaker 1: the left the right. Prayer is always needed. But for
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  Speaker 1: the Pope to be the Pope and to write that
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  Speaker 1: letter and to be in tune with his congregation in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 1: it struck a chord. It shows that this pope, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you could say Francis was, but this Pope has a
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  Speaker 1: humility about it that I feel we needed in the
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  Speaker 1: Vatican and as a world, and I think Pope Leo
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  Speaker 1: has brought that humility to the Vatican. Now. Interesting enough,
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  Speaker 1: I was doing a test on one of our boards
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  Speaker 1: and this came up. A pediatric doctor, Mark Erlick had
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  Speaker 1: this to say in Congress earlier today.
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  Speaker 3: My name is doctor Mark Urleck. I'm a pediatric emergency
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  Speaker 3: medicine physician, and I want to start by acknowledging the
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  Speaker 3: grief of all the children and families at Assumption Church.
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  Speaker 3: Every single one of them was assaulted and traumatized yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone in that community. And I also want to acknowledge
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  Speaker 3: the folks in the EMS system and a head up
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  Speaker 3: in health and a Children's Minnesota who took care of
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  Speaker 3: those patients, because I know from my twenty five years
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  Speaker 3: of practicing pediatric emergency medicine that when you have seen
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  Speaker 3: a small body that has been mutilated by bullets, you
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  Speaker 3: do not easily or ever get over that. And all
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  Speaker 3: the more so because we all know it is entirely preventable.
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  Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty, when gun injury became the leading cause
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  Speaker 3: of death for children in the United States, since then,
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  Speaker 3: we have been saying that we are any public health crisis,
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  Speaker 3: and we are, but too often we are putting the
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  Speaker 3: emphasis on the word crisis instead of.
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  Speaker 1: On the word health.
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  Speaker 3: This is a health issue. This is not a criminal
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  Speaker 3: justice issue or policing issue. This is not a constitutional
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  Speaker 3: law issue. This is not a moral issue. It is
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  Speaker 3: a health issue. You children are being injured and killed.
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  Speaker 3: They're being injured and killed by bullets coming out of
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  Speaker 3: guns fired by people in a social context, and a
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  Speaker 3: public health issue requires a public health approach. Centuries of
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  Speaker 3: public health research and experience tells us that we have
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  Speaker 3: to address all of those factors in this case, starting
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  Speaker 3: with the lethality of the gun and the bullet.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's where he lost me a little bit, because
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  Speaker 1: I believe this was also a very much so mental
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  Speaker 1: health issue that led the killer behind holding the gun
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  Speaker 1: to do it. But the first part of this I
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  Speaker 1: want to play again because I have not heard this
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  Speaker 1: whole news cycle really about the impact this is having
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  Speaker 1: on the kids.
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  Speaker 3: My name is doctor Mark orl like. I'm a pediatric
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  Speaker 3: emergency medicine physician, and I want to start by acknowledging
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  Speaker 3: the grief of all the children and families at Assumption Church.
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  Speaker 3: Every single one of them was assaulted and traumatized yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: everyone in that community. And I also want to acknowledge
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  Speaker 3: the folks in the EMS system and a head up
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  Speaker 3: in health and a Children's Minnesota who took care of
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  Speaker 3: those patients. Because I know for my twenty five years
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  Speaker 3: of practicing pediatric emergency medicine that when you have seen
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  Speaker 3: a small body that has been mutilated by bullets, you
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  Speaker 3: do not easily or ever get over that. And all
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  Speaker 3: the more so because we all know it is entirely preventable.
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  Speaker 1: Now, of course, I am not all pro gun to
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  Speaker 1: a raw ride already have one. I do believe in
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  Speaker 1: background checks, but if we can just take a moment
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  Speaker 1: and think about the kids that were affected. One of
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  Speaker 1: them said that their friend fell on top of them
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  Speaker 1: to take the bullet. If we can have the compassion
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  Speaker 1: for the kids and put away the politics for one
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  Speaker 1: damn minute, that's how we come together. That's how we
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  Speaker 1: have one leg up over this tragedy is by removing
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  Speaker 1: the politics and thinking of the kids, thinking of the parents,
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  Speaker 1: and yes, thinking of the EMS workers that doctor Erlick
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  Speaker 1: was mentioning. But if we continually every news cycle debate
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  Speaker 1: about the guns and the lethality of the bullet, but
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  Speaker 1: not focused on that first part, then we will not
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  Speaker 1: get anywhere in this And I hate to say debate,
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  Speaker 1: because it shouldn't be a debate of how to protect
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  Speaker 1: our kids. Everybody should agree that background checks are necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone should agree that if someone is mentally off, they
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  Speaker 1: should not have a gun. And of course I believe
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  Speaker 1: that those who are in uniform should be able to
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  Speaker 1: carry so that they can protect the zones. If that
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  Speaker 1: off duty NYPD officer was able to be armed at
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  Speaker 1: three forty five Park Avenue, which I don't think he was,
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  Speaker 1: he would be here today. But no, that gun free
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  Speaker 1: zone and you can talk about the averagism, but I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if they're a law enforcement there, they should be able
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  Speaker 1: to have weaponry to defend against this. I mean when
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  Speaker 1: I first heard about this horrible shooting in Minneapolis, I
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  Speaker 1: thought of it all day and how the police left,
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  Speaker 1: there were doors open, and the shooter got right in
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  Speaker 1: and it was just a failure on every part. This
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be the case, but there is a trauma.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think we should be desensitized to this
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  Speaker 1: because I feel like I didn't hear many New York
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  Speaker 1: people talking about this on Facebook, or I didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: many people really complained about the shooting unless you really
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  Speaker 1: knew what happened. So are we becoming desensitized now to
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  Speaker 1: all of these things? My colleague Ashley talk about the
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  Speaker 1: active shooter drills like kids go through every damn day
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  Speaker 1: at different schools. Started, I mean we have become desenditized. No,
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  Speaker 1: we shouldn't become desenditized. We should find a common ground
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  Speaker 1: and for one minute after these horrible tragedies happen, we
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  Speaker 1: think about the victims and the injured. I guess they're
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  Speaker 1: one of the same. But the fatalities and the injured,
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  Speaker 1: and how we can protect and the survivors, and how
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  Speaker 1: we can protect people moving forward. But to go around
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  Speaker 1: in circles and talk about what Jacob Fries said, it
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  Speaker 1: just it doesn't feel like accomplished anything. It just beats
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  Speaker 1: everybody down when we should really come together. We should
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  Speaker 1: be like Pope Leo sending that letter in the most
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  Speaker 1: gracious way and most humble way. That is where we
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  Speaker 1: should focus the spirituality of this and yes, the human heart,
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  Speaker 1: because if we can help one community heal, we can
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  Speaker 1: help another community prevent it from happening to them. Let
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  Speaker 1: me say that again. If we have one community heal
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  Speaker 1: from this tragedy, we can help another community defend against us.
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  Speaker 1: You know why, because we'll have solutions through healing instead
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  Speaker 1: of just the back and forth, the not the babbling,
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  Speaker 1: but the outright forgetfulness of who should really be highlighted.
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  Speaker 1: To have one leg up for these communities, we have
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  Speaker 1: to rally around them, not argue in front of them.
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  Speaker 1: And of course if we don't learn, we can never heal,
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  Speaker 1: and mistakes will be repeated. And so let's heal. Let's
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  Speaker 1: not be divisive. These were kids that got shot. These
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  Speaker 1: were parents that were running to the scene to see
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  Speaker 1: if their kid was okay. And what do we do
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  Speaker 1: to say we are here with you. We start debating
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  Speaker 1: the gun issue all over again. That's not how we
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  Speaker 1: should be. We should be in healing mode because one
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  Speaker 1: more time, if we can heal this community through this tragedy,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can come to solutions where another tragedy
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  Speaker 1: is prevented for another community in America. On one leg
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  Speaker 1: up Alec