'That is such nonsense!” DeSantis yelled at an audience member who blamed his policies for the shooting.
after a white gunman initially targeted a historically Black college then committed the murders in a nearby store in Jacksonville, Fla., before killing himself.
The roughly three-minute exchange initially started out cordial, with both men thanking each other for their military service. The man, who wasn’t pictured in the video but according to the governor’s office was standing in the back near journalists, accused the governor of backing policies that “hurt people like myself” and said weapons to go to “hateful people.”
“He should have been ruled ineligible,” DeSantis said. “But they didn’t involuntarily commit him.” As the man began to talk back, DeSantis interrupted him and said: “There is the truth. There is something about the truth. It’s not — everyone doesn’t have their own truth.”
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