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Kamala Harris said after the Georgia school shooting that it was just a senseless tragedy.
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appealed to Americans on Wednesday to stop an “epidemic of gun violence” in the United States, after a mass shooting at a Georgia high school left four people dead.
The US vice president, speaking at a rally in New Hampshire, reiterated his call for an assault weapons ban — widely opposed by Republicans — and to further strengthen US gun safety laws. Support tightening.
“It’s just one senseless tragedy, among so many senseless tragedies,” Harris said of the shooting at Appalachian High School in Winder, Georgia, the latest spasm of gun violence to hit the country. which has already seen hundreds of mass shootings. The year
“And it’s just outrageous that in our country, in the United States of America, parents send their children to school worrying about whether or not their child is going to come home alive,” he added.
“We have to end this epidemic of gun violence in our country once and for all. It shouldn’t happen,” Harris, in a tight race with Republican former President Donald Trump, told the crowd before starting to lay down. out of elements of his economic plan.
Trump, seen by his party as a champion of gun rights, posted on social media that “our hearts go out to the victims,” and that “these sweet children will be taken from us by a sick and senseless man too soon. The monster snapped.”
Harris, a one-time California prosecutor and attorney general and former U.S. senator, called on Congress to “finally” pass an assault weapons ban, as current President Joe Biden wrote as a senator and passed the law in 1994. Helped to do.
The ban expired in 2004, and Congress has not renewed it.
Harris also called for universal background checks and the implementation of so-called red flag laws — state protection orders aimed at certain individuals who are seen as a risk by purchasing or possessing firearms.
“It’s a false choice to say you’re either in favor of the Second Amendment or you want to take away everyone’s guns,” Harris said. “I’m in favor of the Second Amendment, and I know we need reasonable gun safety laws in our country.”
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