Daniel P. Driscoll

So 1.2 million total people.

And what we do is, or what I do,

i write a letter to the mother and the father and the spouse and the children of any soldier that dies including when they kill themselves and commit suicide and it is devastating i mean it is just one of the most heart-wrenching um miserable parts of this job and all you wish is that you can end it and so we've started doing a deep dive of how can we actually impact soldier suicide

And what you learn is we've invested a ton of resources into it.

We have really smart, passionate, caring people working on it.

You have, I think from your experience, Sean, like you care about your battle buddy deeply.

You care about them when you're in uniform, you care about them when you're out of uniform.

And yet with all of those positive forces going to this problem, we just haven't been able to solve it.

And so when people come back and they say, hey, maybe the solution is to lock up soldiers' firearms, you just end up thinking, like, I hear that you are looking at the ultimate tool that created the negative impact on their lives at the end.

But I just think the problem is so much more complex.

And to your point, these are the people we trust to go out on behalf of our nation with our most ferocious weapons and defend us.

Like, that just doesn't seem like the right answer.

But there's not really a better one.

I think just to narrow in on DC, I worked on President Trump's campaign for much of the campaign season with the vice president and ended up getting to talk to and be part of a lot of conversations with voters.

And if you talk to, in my opinion, the average American voter, like the types of crime and the decay that we have allowed in our big cities is offensive as a nation.

Like what a government's primary role is for its people in my opinion is to provide security and safety.

That's from international threats and that's from within our border.

And I think what you've seen President Trump do is rightly and righteously react to the voter sentiment and the mandate he was given to stop the violent criminals coming over our border in record numbers.

This is not political rhetoric, that just if you actually look at the quantitative data of the number of humans

that illegally came over our borders in the four years before, it was insanity.