1:53:00
- "So many Americans
kill each other?"
1:53:04
I don't know that that's true,
but, uh...
1:53:06
- Well, no, you know that.
1:53:08
We know we have the highest
murder rate with guns.
1:53:11
It's way higher
than any other country.
1:53:13
- The only answer I can give you
is the one I already gave you.
1:53:16
- Which is?
- Which is that we have, uh...
1:53:19
- Historically--
- ...a history of violence.
1:53:22
Perhaps more than most
countries. Not more than Russia,
1:53:26
not more than Japan or China--
- Not more than Germany.
1:53:29
- Not more than Germany,
but certainly more than Canada.
1:53:33
- I come from Flint, Michigan,
and last year,
1:53:36
a little six-year-old boy
took a gun into a classroom
1:53:39
and shot and killed a
six-year-old girl. And, uh...
1:53:42
it was really a tragic thing--
1:53:45
- This was a kid, though.
- A six-year-old, yeah.
1:53:48
Did you hear about this?
1:53:49
A six-year-old shooting
a six-year-old?
1:53:52
- Yeah.
- Well, here's my question.
1:53:54
After that happened,
1:53:55
you came to Flint
and held a big rally.
1:53:57
- Mm-hm.
1:53:58
- And, you know, I just--
1:54:01
- So did the vice-president.
1:54:03
- Yeah, but did you feel it was
being at all insensitive
1:54:06
to the fact that this community
had just gone through--
1:54:09
- Actually, I wasn't aware
of that at the time we came.
1:54:12
We came and did an
early-morning, uh... rally,
1:54:15
then went on to wherever
we were going.
1:54:17
- You didn't know at the time,
that this killing had happened?
1:54:20
- No.
- Had you known, would you have--
1:54:22
- Would I have cancelled
the... uh...
1:54:24
- Yeah.
- I don't...
1:54:26
Hard to say.
1:54:28
- It wasn't like it was
already planned.
1:54:30
I mean, the choice to come there
was made
1:54:32
after this horrible
killing took place.
1:54:34
- Yeah. Mm-hm.
1:54:35
- You know, had you know that,
would you have come?
1:54:38
- I don't know. I have no idea.
1:54:41
- Maybe not. Maybe not.
- Okay. Thank you.
1:54:43
- You think you'd like to just
maybe apologize to the people
1:54:47
in Flint for coming and doing
that at that time, or...?
1:54:50
- You want me to apologize...
1:54:52
me, apologize to the people
in Flint?
1:54:54
- Or the people in Columbine
1:54:56
for coming after
their horrible tragedy.
1:54:58
Why do you go to the places
after they have