Jill and I are mourning the deaths of these whose lives had been lower brief on account of extra mindless gun violence and considering of the entire survivors whose lives are endlessly modified. What ought to have been a joyous back-to-school season in Winder, Georgia, has now was one other horrific reminder of how gun violence continues to tear our communities aside. College students throughout the nation are studying duck and canopy as an alternative of learn and write. We can’t proceed to just accept this as regular. 

We’re intently coordinating with officers on the federal, state and native degree, and are grateful for the primary responders who introduced the suspect into custody and prevented additional lack of life.

Ending this gun violence epidemic is private to me. It’s why I signed into legislation the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – essentially the most significant gun security invoice in a long time – and have introduced dozens of gun security government actions. I additionally established the first-ever White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, overseen by Vice President Harris. We’ve made vital progress, however this disaster requires much more.

After a long time of inaction, Republicans in Congress should lastly say ‘sufficient is sufficient’ and work with Democrats to go commonsense gun security laws. We should ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines as soon as once more, require protected storage of firearms, enact common background checks, and finish immunity for gun producers. These measures is not going to deliver those that had been tragically killed at the moment again, however it would assist stop extra tragic gun violence from ripping extra households aside.

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