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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents of kid hurt in Annunciation shooting ask VP JD Vance to address gun violence.  Sadly, they'd probably have better luck asking a couch for empathy and action than asking JD Vance to do the right thing.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/03/jd-vance-minneapolis-minnesota-annunciation-church-school-shooting
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Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis on Wednesday, one week after the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church that killed two children and injured 21 other people, 18 of whom are children.

Security was heavy outside Annunciation Catholic Church ahead of the visit by Vance, who is Catholic, and second lady Usha Vance.

Just after noon, the Vances stopped outside the church. Each left a bouquet of flowers and observed the growing memorial. They did not make any public remarks.

The Vances held private meetings with Annunciation leaders and the parents of 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski, who were killed in the shooting. Later, they went to Children’s Minnesota to visit Lydia Kaiser, who is one of two children still hospitalized after the shooting. Lydia’s parents spoke about the meeting, with her father Harry Kaiser sharing a letter he read to Vance.

“Will you please promise me, as a father and a Catholic, that you will earnestly support the study of what is wrong with our culture, that we are the country that has the worst mass shooter problem?” he asked. “Will you please promise to pursue, despite powerful lobbies, some common sense, bipartisan legislation as a starting point so we can come out of our corners and find the values that we share so that this time, some progress is made?”

Thoughts and prayers haven’t been enough. Many policies have been dismissed without even being studied or tried. It's so complicated. I don't claim to have the answers, but we have to commit to looking. Then we can feel good about defending life.

If one thing changes for the better, perhaps Fletcher’s and Harper’s deaths and all the injuries and destruction might bring about even more unity, love and light than I have already seen this past week. One law, one executive order, one policy. You can call it ‘the Annunciation Bill.’ Then I’ll be able to look Lydia and Sophia and all my students in the eye and say I tried Sincerely, Harry Kaiser.’
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Sigh.   Vance will do no such thing [b] “Will you please promise me, as a father and a Catholic, that you will earnestly support the study of what is wrong with our culture, that we are the country that has the worst mass shooter problem?” he asked. “Will you please promise to pursue, despite powerful lobbies, some common sense, bipartisan legislation as a starting point so we can come out of our corners and find the values that we share so that this time, some progress is made?”

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