Key did not specify what he thinks should be done about guns in the U.S. but it’s pretty clear he thinks thoughts, prayers and more guns are not the solution.

“I don’t want to sit here and make any political statements or any religious statements,” Key said during a news conference, “but something’s gotta change.”

Key explained why the Nashville shooting struck so close to home for him. His mother was a third-grade teacher and he has an almost five-year-old daughter who was in school when three nine-year-old children and three adult staffers were shot and killed at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday. “My wife cried four or five times” that day, Key said, “and that’s magnified by millions across the country and the world.”

“Something has to change,” Key reiterated. If he could influence only one person to act for change, he wouldn't care "if a thousand other people say something negative" about his remarks.

“As long as people sit there and bicker and argue, more and more kids are going to die,” Key continued. “Everybody, please, do something! Whoever listens to this, send it somewhere else. Send it to somebody. I don’t know. Let’s all do something together … It’s the most heartbreaking thing in the world to think about your daughter going to school, she’s supposed to be safe and protected.”

At that point, Key began sobbing.

If you can watch this without tearing up, you’ve got to have one of the hardest of hard hearts.