Kamala Harris addresses Georgia school shooting: ‘We’ve got to stop it’
Kamala Harris condemned the deadly shooting that occurred at a high school in Winder, Georgia on Wednesday, calling it a “senseless tragedy” and saying “we have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country”.
The US vice-president and Democratic nominee for president paused before she began a speech about economic matters on the election campaign trail in North Hampton, New Hampshire, to address the incident.
She shook her head and called the killings “outrageous” in commenting on the first mass shooting at a school since she became the nominee.
“We’re still gathering information about what happened, but we know that there were multiple fatalities and injuries, and our hearts are with all the students, the teachers and their families,” she said.
She added: “Of course, we are grateful to the first responders and the law enforcement that were on the scene. But this is just a senseless tragedy, on top of so many senseless tragedies, and it’s just outrageous that every day in our country, in the United States of America, that parents have to send their children to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive.”
Visibly frustrated, Harris continued: “It’s senseless. It is. We’ve got to stop it, and we have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all You know, it doesn’t have to be this way. It doesn’t have to be this way.”
