Washington/Prensa Latina
Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock said yesterday that school shootings are not a “fact of life” but rather a “fact of American life.”
Warnock made the comments following the school tragedy that occurred last Wednesday at a school in that state, where a 14-year-old teenager opened fire with an AR 15 rifle, killing four people (two students and two teachers) and injuring nine others.
“And we as Americans have to ask ourselves, why is this still happening here?” the lawmaker said on CNN’s State of the Union program.
Warnock was responding to recent comments by Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance, who at a rally called shootings “a fact of life” and called for increased security at schools.
He warned that he will continue to push for gun control laws, and that even though many citizens of the country want it, “they can’t even have a debate on it in the Senate.”
The senator was in Winder on Friday, where he spoke with the family of Christian Angulo, 14, one of the deceased.
In the United States, more people aged 1 to 19 die from firearms than from any other cause. A 2022 study found that there were 36.4 deaths per million people aged 1 to 19 in the United States; 6.2 per million in Canada; 1.6 per million in Australia; and 0.5 per million in the United Kingdom.
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