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The day after my daughter was killed, I walked in my house and I said, I'm going to break the effing gun lobby and everybody associated with it.

And I saw Joe as somebody who I needed to tear apart and demonize.

I was the political asshole. needed to tear apart and demonize.

I was the political asshole.

I was the face of the Tea Party, big gun guy,

I was Charlton Heston, you'll get this gun from my cold dead hands. He and I would go at each other on Twitter and at each other on Twitter and at each other on TV

arguing fighting about guns and it would get personal.

Until Joe did something different and he said you know we probably disagree on everything

but I respect the hell out of what you're trying to do.

And it wasn't until we started to talk privately that I realized Fred doesn't want to take away my guns.

But I want to work with people like Joe to tell this story so that we can go out together and publicly share there's a lot of

things this gun owner and this gun safety I agree upon that can save wives. That's Fred Gutenberg and Joe Walsh.

Fred Gutenberg's daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting.

Joe Walsh is a former Republican congressman,

Tea Party member, an ardent supporter of the Second Amendment.

They were sworn enemies until a few years ago.

And today, they're touring the country together.

Billed his two dads defending democracy.

You guys are terrific, you're doing the important work that needs to be done now and talk about communication.

You came from opposite sides of the political spectrum.

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