Tim Walz reveals teen son witnessed shooting and JD Vance offers sympathy in civil VP debate moment

Tim Walz revealed at the vice presidential debate on Tuesday that his son, Gus, witnessed a shooting at a community center while playing volleyball.“I 100% believe that Senator Vance hates it,” he added, extending an olive branch on the issue — despite the Harris-Walz campaign having attacked the GOP vice presidential nominee for claiming school shootings were a “fact of life.”“First of all, I didn’t know that your 17-year-old witnessed a shooting.I’m sorry about that,” Vance replied.“I’m sorry about that.

Christ have mercy,” he said.“It is awful.

And I appreciate what Tim said.”Walz said if America wants to stop school shooting — the US 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.”...