Tina Smith: “One of the big challenges that I hear is that it is so difficult to get the data and get the information.”

I stand before this body trying to make sense of the terrible shooting at Annunciation Catholic School, just a couple of miles from where Archie and I live in Minneapolis, and I can't. I can't make it make sense. You know, I know this…

Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls--t. You should be fired.

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bulls---.

But many rural hospitals face increasingly dire financial strain and workforce shortages, forcing them to cut services or even close down altogether.