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DEMOCRATIC vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz has been slammed after he appeared to say he had befriended “school shooters” during Tuesday night’s debate with his Republican counterpart J.D. Vance.
The Minnesota Governor was answering a question from the CBS debate moderators about gun violence in schools when he seemed to stumble over his words.
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“I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents,” he said. “I’ve become friends with school shooters. I’ve seen it.”
Former President Donald Trump mocked Walz for the comments, taking to his Truth Social account to slam the remarks.
“Did Tampon Tim just say he has ‘become friends with school shooters?'” he said.
“He isn’t even qualified to be Governor, let alone Vice President. Walz and Kamala DO NOT HAVE WHAT IT TAKES!”
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Trump later posted: “Second time he has said, ‘I’ve been friends with school shooters.’ What does he mean by this? Is he insane?”
Earlier in their answers to the same question, the pair had given their solutions to school gun violence.
Walz described how one of his children had witnessed a shooting at a community center during a volleyball game.
“These things don’t leave you,” he said.
That led to one of the conciliatory moments during Tuesday’s debate, as Vance offered his condolences for what Walz’s son had seen.
“I’m sorry about that,” he said.
Walz said he had changed his mind on certain gun laws after meeting with the parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook shooting.
“Their seven-year-old was dead, and they were asking us to do something, and look, I’m a hunter. I own firearms,” he said.
“The vice president and I understand that the Second Amendment is there, but our first responsibility is to our kids.”
He said that his state of Minnesota had passed stronger red-flag laws and pointed to Finland as a country with high gun ownership but low rates of gun violence.
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