Hundreds of mourners for a homecoming in northern California for Alaina Housley, the youngest of the 12 victims of last week's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks. "My daughter's body was brought back to Napa today," said her father, Arik Housley. "We're going to bury her in four days.
But Arik did not have to do it alone. Lining the streets of Napa were hundreds of good-hearted folks who came to welcome 18-year-old Alaina home for the last time.
People lined the streets of Napa, Calif., On Sunday as Alaina Housley was brought back home for the last time.
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Correspondent Lee Cowan asked, "What was it for you guys to see that line of people for over a mile?"
Alain's aunt, Tamera Mowry Housley; her father, Arik Housley; and her uncle, Adam Housley.
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Cowan asked. "Have you been able to talk about her in the past?"
"Yes," said Arik.
How come? "We do not believe that her voice will die." We believe that there is a message that's out there.
"What's the message?" Cowan asked.
"It's not about your technology, it's about your phones and you're looking for something bigger, to be with your community, to love one another. "
"All things that you do not have to legislate?"
"Right, Exactly," said Arik.
Adam added, "To get to the point where we can have a conversation about anything political, it has to start here [points to heart]. It has to start with the soul, because we've lost that. "
Arik said, "What if somebody walked up to the guy and just asked him how he did it that day and said 'hello' to him or did he just change his mind, instead of ignoring, or whatever we're doing ? "
Cowan said, "You know what people are going to say, though – they are going to say it's too simple, but it's going to be so great. complicated. "
"But I think it's going there," said Tamera. "You start with imagining, 'Wait a minute, what if that was my child, or my niece, or my cousin?' It will get you in a place of just having some sort of human decency. "
If there's no doubt there's a deficit of decency, look no further than the family's social media.
Adam said, "You should see some of the tweets we got after Alaina died." Oh, I got one, "You're doing it." You worked at Fox News. And it got liked by about 78 people. "
That impossible divide – the chasm that pundits suggest to you all too much – all faded away by what's going on.
"She would like to happen today, when we drove down that street, I saw people, I was never seen, and I was born and raised, hugging, holding hands, shaking hands, "Adam said. "She's wanting to happen at the national level."
Tamera added, "She would not want this happening to anyone else."
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<p>"I lost it," said Arik. "My wife, Hanna, and I, we lost it."</p>
<p>The utter sameness of this grim ritual is more than familiar to Alaina's uncle, Adam Housley, to form Fox News correspond.</p>
<p>"I've been to these things, Lee, you've got these things, you know, my gosh, how are these people going to get through it? " Housley said. "And now we're living it."</p>
<p>His wife, Alaina's aunt, Tamera Mowry Housley actress, is looking for answers. "Alaina was beautiful," she said. "Yes, there is a change, but all the noise … nothing's been done."</p>
<p>And it's because of that – despite being in the midst of so much grievance – that they are agreed to talk to us. Alaina, they say, would have wanted to dig deeper than politics. </p>
<p>Adam said, "If I was to walk out of here and the first thing I was to say was, you know, 'Gun control,' guess what? Half the country (snaps fingers), [conversation] ends. "</p>
<p>"And we do not want the conversation to end," said Tamera. </p>
<p>"It can not be this time," said Adam.</p>
<p>"We want it to continue."</p>
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