How would you answer her question?

Have a look at Eric Swalwell's comments to Gym Jordan at the House Judiciary Committee re the mass shootings happening in schools. Listen to it at least till the point where a 6 year old child asks her Mom a question and then tell us how you would respond to her??? Oh and pay attention to Gym Jordan's face and see how much he actually cares...

Ignore the Meidas Touch goof, it's the Representative's questions that matter here!

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Well done Mr. Swalwell, well done!

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Could have done without it being cheapened by the antics with that bloke in the baseball hat; and I wonder what that aide with the 'phone was showing the politician, that was apparently so important.

Those aside, maybe the nation can see a glimmer of hope when a [i]child of only six [/i]can ask such an unexpected, deep question.

Mr Swalwell's pause was long enough for me to think it would be something obvious and easy to ask - but impossible to answer - like "Mom, why did he shoot them?"

Well, obviously we may never really know why, but what floored me was what she actually asked:

[quote].... what picture of me...?[/quote]

spjennifer · 56-60, T

@ArishMell Indeed, I did say to ignore the antics of the Meidas Touch goof in the ball cap. The guy who was so busy looking at his phone was the one to whom the questions were being directed, Gym Jordan, who obviously thought something on his phone was more important than the questions being asked to him. That a 6 year old child [b]thought[/b] that she needed to ask that question or that she even asked it is particularly scary in that she expects that the same will happen to her eventually, yes, she's a child but are these the questions we want children asking their parents???

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@spjennifer It was very difficult to avoid staring down that idiot's throat; but his torrent of over-excited words passed me by as if un-heard.

I was not sure but I did wonder if the one with the phone was the one being asked. It was a phone an assistant brought in and she took it back with her, and I wonder if it was legal or political advice; perhaps not to answer difficult, open questions. He did look worried by the message.

It's very chilling that a young child was so frightened that she might be shot, deliberately, by a complete stranger, that she asked such a question. You might expect it in gangs-ridden Colombia or war-wrecked Syria; but in the United States of America?

How many other children and parents there are thinking similar things?

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As I typed that, with the radio on, the News came of another problem plaguing the USA. A part-natural, part man-made one: long-term drought in the West, but its effects exacerbated by so much water drawn from the rivers for irrigation that there is now not enough to go round and even hydroelectric power is compromised.