North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) stated in an interview Sunday that he’s “bored with seeing texts from youngsters in a faculty telling their dad and mom that they are afraid and that they love them” following a capturing at a highschool in Georgia this week.
“I am bored with seeing texts from youngsters in a faculty telling their dad and mom that they are afraid and that they love them,” the North Carolina governor stated in an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” “We can not normalize this.”
Two college students and two lecturers had been killed within the capturing at Apalachee Excessive College in Winder, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) official stated in a press briefing Wednesday. Vice President Harris addressed the capturing Wednesday, calling it a “mindless tragedy” at a rally in New Hampshire.
“However our youngsters are sitting in a classroom, the place they need to be fulfilling their God-given potential, and a few a part of their mind is apprehensive a couple of shooter busting via the classroom. It doesn’t must be this manner,” the vp stated.
Cooper, in his CBS look, stated he believes “we have now to do every little thing we will to cut back gun violence, significantly gun violence in our faculties.”
President Biden additionally stated in a previous assertion that he was “mourning the deaths of these whose lives had been reduce brief on account of extra mindless gun violence.”
“What ought to have been a joyous back-to-school season in Winder, Georgia, has now changed into one other horrific reminder of how gun violence continues to tear our communities aside. College students throughout the nation are studying how one can duck and canopy as an alternative of how one can learn and write. We can not proceed to just accept this as regular,” the president stated.
