Steve Stivers on Mass Shootings: ‘We Need To Be Talking Holistically About School Safety’

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STIVERS: "And that’s why many of us are for getting rid of bump stocks and any device that takes a semiautomatic weapon and turns it into the characteristics of an automatic weapon. There are 2.5 million AR-15s in this country already and unless you’re going to go in and get rid of those, we need to be talking holistically about school safety. We need to require every school to have a plan. We need them to assess what they need and give them grants to give them help for what they need. We need to address guns, I believe that. We need to look at our gun policies and figure out what we can get done. There’s a bipartisan bill in the Senate from Senator Corker and Senator Murphy that I believe we need to take up immediately and get done. I think we need to do something about mental health and we need to have a conversation in our society, it’s not legislated, about how we treat each other."