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Ahead of Donald Trump’s rally today in Roanoke, relatives of Virginia Tech shooting victims said Friday the Republican presidential nominee lacks the temperament to respond effectively to gun violence.

In a press call organized by Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign, four parents or children of people shot during the April 2007 massacre criticized Trump’s recent comments in which he suggested that Clinton’s bodyguards should be disarmed and “see what happens to her.”

The group — three parents and one child of Tech shooting victims — also praised the response of Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, who was governor of Virginia at the time of the shooting that killed 32 people and wounded 17 others.

Andrew Goddard, whose son Colin was shot four times but survived, said Trump has shown an “extremely cavalier attitude toward violence of any kind.”

“If you are so blasé about violence that you drop it for a joke or you drop it out as a provocation, then you don’t have the temperament to control the most powerful military in the world,” Goddard said.

Kaine, Goddard said, returned to Virginia from a trade mission in Japan and was at his son’s bedside before anyone from Virginia Tech.