LA CROSSE, Wis. — Vice President J.D. Vance addressed the mass shooting at the Annunciation Church on Thursday, calling for hard questions about the "root causes" of the violence.

Vance was speaking during a stop in La Crosse, Wisconsin, when he said it's time for the nation to have a conversation about mental health.

"I think it's time for us to start asking some very hard questions about the root causes of this violence, and I'm going to be part of that, and the first lady and the president are going to be part of that, but that's going to be an American conversation that we're going to have together," said Vance.

Wednesday's mass shooting at a church where Catholic school students were attending Mass in Minneapolis was the latest in a long list of attacks targeting students since the

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