White House Blocks E-Mail Delivery

Williams: "You have all too much experience in dealing with grieving families going back to 9/11 and this nation's two wars. How is this different?"

Bush: "I think what makes this different is that a parent or a loved one thought their child was, you know, learning to enrich their lives, and the next thing they're dead and it's just the shock and the suddenness and the location that makes this a very traumatic experience. Virginia Tech is a viable, strong community and it's gonna require this viable, strong community to help people recover."

Here's the video of their appearance with ABC's Charlie Gibson: "Mr. President, I don't know how you go about finding something to say at a time when words are essentially inadequate."

Bush: "Mm-hmm. You give it your best shot on the words and you hug and cry. And that's what Laura and I have just done with some of the families who lost - students and, or, in one case a - professor, the family of a professor. You know, I, I don't know how adequate I am to help heal a heart. And the only thing you can try do, Charles, is show up and express your love and concern, and convey a sense of assurance - that there will be a better tomorrow."

All three anchors asked Bush about gun control, and all three times he ducked.

Gibson: "After Columbine, there was ignited a national debate on guns."

Bush: "Mm-hmm."

Gibson: "Do you think this is gonna rekindle the national debate?"

Bush: "I do. Yeah. I mean, I think when a, a guy walks in - and shoots 32 people, it's gonna cause there to be a lot of policy debate. Now is not the time to do the debate until we're absolutely certain about what happened. And after we help people get over their grieving, but, yeah, I do think there's gonna be a lot of discussion."

Couric asked Bush: "Is it too easy in your view for unstable people to purchase guns in this country?"

He replied: "On the gun control debate, and there's inevitably going to be a debate, as there should be after an incident like this, you know, I think now, my own view is that I haven't had time to reflect, nor do I know all the facts on what took place."

Couric noted that Bush had attended a forum on school violence after a gunman killed five Amish schoolgirls last year. "Has anything changed? Has anything been accomplished in the last year to make our students safer?"