Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he had “become friends with school shooters” in Tuesday night’s vice-presidential debate when CBS moderators pressed the candidates with a left-wing question on how to curb “gun violence.”
“Governor, you previously opposed an assault weapons ban, but only later in your political career did you change your position,” said Norah O’Donnell. “Why?”
“Yeah, I sat in that office with those Sandy Hook parents,” Walz said, in reference to families of the more than 20 Connecticut children killed by a deranged gunman in 2012.
“I’ve become friends with school shooters,” Walz added. “I’ve seen it.”
Walz suggested people who respond to major shootings by highlighting the shooter’s mental disturbance are “stigmatizing mental health.”
“Just because you have a mental health
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