Vice President JD Vance visited Minneapolis to meet with families of the children the transgendered alleged shooter murdered last week, and with the recovering victims who lived. Vance’s opponent in last year’s election, the 2024 Democrat nominee for Vice President and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has made Minnesota a “trans refuge.” Walz has in the aftermath of the shooting called for more gun control generally, and Vance said in response that people want to stop the shootings that keep happening.

“I’m not going to tell the Minnesota lawmakers or the governor exactly how they should respond to this tragedy. I think that…there’s a strong desire from across the political spectrum to do something so that these shootings are less common,” Vance said.