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U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said the Federal Commission on School Safety —established in response to the deadly Parkland shooting — won’t look into the role of guns in school shootings_ --- Jul 28, 2023 12:04 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Dismissing 'Flexible' CDC Guidelines, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Doubles Down on Pushing Schools to Reopen](/video/kxoZocmZ/) ### Dismissing 'Flexible' CDC Guidelines, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Doubles Down on Pushing Schools to Reopen [Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Said Old Transgender Guidelines Were 'Overreach'](/video/nV7aveQP/) ### Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Said Old Transgender Guidelines Were 'Overreach' [U.S. Senate Confirms Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary](/video/E6H0Ha2u/) ### U.S. Senate Confirms Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary --- ## Transcript You are the chair of the president's School Safety Commission that was formed after the school shooting in Florida left 17 students and educators dead. Our country is now averaging a school shooting each week. In fact, one day after the commission met last month, Another ten students and teachers were killed in Santa Fe, Texas. I understand your commission intends to release it's recommendations by the end of the year. Will your commission look at the roll of firearms as it relates to gun violence in our schools? Thanks, Senator, for that question. And it is an honor to serve and lead this commission. We are focused on the 20 some different provisions that. Will you be looking? I know, I understand it is a law. I'm also thinking the chairman has. Difficulties. I'll try to give you a question that could be answered yes or no. Will your commission look at the role of firearms as it relates to gun violence in our schools? That is not part of the commission's charge, per se. I see, so you're studying gun violence but not considering the role of guns. We're actually studying school safety and how we can ensure our students are safe at school. Well, you're studying things like how much time you spend on video games and all that. But you can go to a lot of other countries where they spend just as much time but have only a tiny fraction of the shootings that we do. The Gun of choices for mass shooters is an AR- 15. do you believe an 18 year old high school student should be able to walk into a store, minutes later come out with an AR- 15 style gun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition? Well, sir, I know that this body and your counterparts on the other side of the capitol have Address a number of these issues and I know that you're going to continue to debate them and discuss them. I'm trying to give you questions that could be answered yes or no. So let me repeat it in case I wasn't clear. Thank you. Do you believe an 18 year old high school student should be able to walk into a store and minutes later come out with an AR Fifteen styled assault weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. I believe that's very much a matter for debate. And I know that's been debated within this body and will continue to be. Our focus is on raising up succesful proven techniques and approaches to ensuring schools are safe for students to attend. Are you looking at those other countries where the students have spend as just as much time on social media and video games everything else but have much lower [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Gun violence in their schools. We had a very important meeting last week in Maryland at a school within a district that has employed an approach called PBIS for 16 or 18 years that deals with- I'm sorry. Maybe I didn't make my question clear. Are you looking at some of those countries where the students do just as much time on video games and just as much time on social media as we do. But do not have gun violence? Are you looking at those at all? That's a yes or no. Not per se. Thank you. 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