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The White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, addressed the press on Wednesday following a school shooting in Winder, Georgia, calling for urgent action on gun control.
She noted that students across the country are returning to school.
KJP: "We need universal background checks."
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"We need to ban assault weapons & high-capacity magazines."
"Require safe storage of firearms."
"Invest in violence prevention programs."
"Pass a national red flag law." pic.twitter.com/GmEJQv90Hg
“As a parent myself, I know the anxiety that comes with sending your kid out into the world every day, living with the real fear of the worst that can happen,” Jean-Pierre said. “Please know that our hearts are with those families in Winder, Georgia, who are forced to face this act of senseless violence.”
Jean-Pierre confirmed that both President Biden and Vice President Harris have been briefed on the situation. She emphasized that the administration is coordinating with federal, state, and local officials as they receive more information.
“We’re grateful for the brave first responders who are on the scene, and we stand ready to provide support as needed,” she added.
Reiterating the administration’s anti-2A stance, Jean-Pierre stated, “This is not normal. Students and teachers deserve to know that their schools are safe. They should focus on learning, not lockdowns.”
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While acknowledging steps the administration has already taken to chip away at firearm ownership, Jean-Pierre stressed that more needs to be done and urged Congress to take action.
Specifically, she called for several measures, including universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and a national red flag law.
“We need universal background checks. We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require safe storage of firearms, invest in violence prevention programs, and pass a national red flag law,” she said. “Enough is enough.”
Jean-Pierre concluded with a plea for Congress to act: “We cannot allow this to happen in our communities. We cannot allow this to happen in our schools. Enough is enough. Congress needs to act.”
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School was WARNED about a potential shooting.
Did they NOT know this little twerp had made Threats about shooting up a school last year?.
FBI, ANOTHER He was on our radar moment
Nobody pays
Dad Gave the goofy bastard an AR for Christmas?
DaFuq’s wrong with you??
If the teachers were armed, this crap could be shut down quicker.
Parent needs to be prosecuted, but the FBI is also at fault, “he was on our radar”!. People diagnosed with mental problems need more than an arms length supervision, when mental problems were locked under supervision instead of main streaming them there were less of the kind of problems that we have now. Going after people who own guns legally,and responsibly is wrong. Keep your hands off my guns.
the chief
The parents of the Georgia shooting are guilty of neglect, the kid should never have had a weapon- maybe a pea-shooter. The authorities that knew about this neglected child should also be charged. Locking up your firearms should be common sense except for the one you are carrying.
The parents are not guilty of anything. The dad had hunting rifles and bought his 14 year old one for Christmas.
The court in Georgia is going to ruin the father by charging him with ten crimes. The father is trying to deal with the fact that his son murdered 4 people and injured 9 others with a Christmas present that he bought for his son. The father didn’t tell the son to take the rifle to school and shoot people. This Colt Gray may have found or guessed the password to the gun safe. I doubt the father took the rifle out of the safe before his kid went to school that day and gave Colt access to the rifle.
Kids have been known to get into safes. I had a friend that both his 16 year old adopted daughter and 14 year old adopted son guessed the combination to their safe. They stole $20,000 worth of jewelry, $5,000 in cash, and a few expensive watches.
This pisses me off. The Democrats want to take away our 2nd amendment rights. Ban AR style rifles. Ban large capacity magazines. They want to focus on “We the People” and love to release the actual criminals from prisons. What they want is to control our guns and control the People.
The second thing that pisses me off is that Georgia is charging Colin Gray with involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment, and whatever else they can use against this man. His son, Colt Gray, is the one who took a rifle to his new school and killed 4 people and injured 9 others. The father had nothing to do with this shooting rampage. Georgia wants to charge the father in this crime because he bought a hunting rifle for his son. The father didn’t give him the rifle and tell him to go on a shooting rampage at his new school. They are going to ruin this man’s life. It’s’ bad enough that this man and his wife have to deal with the aftermath of their 14 year old son murdering 4 people and injuring 9 students at a high school. Their son has some mental health issues. And now the father is being charged as an accessory to the crime. Unbelievable that this is happening in the United States. How can you charge someone that is innocent. The father didn’t participate in the shooting.
The crazy little bastard should have never had a gun or had access to one. And unless the rules in Georgia are different from the rest of the country you are responsible for the actions of your little shit until he or she turns 18. Something to keep in mind when we buy them cars, booze, or guns.
Colt Gray wasn’t crazy until his first full day at his new school when he killed 4 people and shot 9 other students. The FBI looked into the allegations a year ago and they dismissed it.
As a father, one is responsible for teaching one’s kids how to behave and act in society. We are not responsible for their actions. Just like I’m not responsible for other people’s actions. Everyone has free will to make their own decisions and if they decide to make a bad decision, that is on them.
The father should not have been charged in this case.
It’s sad every time one of these horrible shootings takes place the “demoncrats” immediately jump on the anti-2nd amendment bandwagon instead of addressing the root cause of most if not all of these shootings. The anti-gun media running it into the ground with constant coverage that does nothing but promote the violence, creating copy cat events. Mental illness, promotion of gun violence by Hollywood in movies, age inappropriate violent video games that parents allow their kids to play that causes them to loose touch with reality. Parents that buy inappropriate firearms for their ‘little-Johnny’ knowing the kid has psychological problems and has NO business owning a BB gun, much less a 14 year old with his own AR-15. Parents that allow the ‘hood’ to raise their children for them instead of teaching them to live within a society with rules and regulations. They do however do a pretty good job teaching them to hate and distrust anyone with authority – like the police.
Over the last 50 years, the socialist/communist branch of the demoncratic party has been pushing their gun violence agenda to the point now it’s a daily occurrence. I know I’m just an old f#@k, but back in my day guns were not ‘demonized’ like the left has done so today. If we had problems with someone at school, the last thing we thought about was taking that persons life. We settled our differences on the play ground after school with boxing gloves.
Why are they doing this? Think about it. The first thing a tyrannical government needs to do is disarm the populous. Our forefathers knew that. Where are the gun safety and awareness classes most all schools made mandatory back in the 60’s and 70’s?
Lastly, my first gun when I was 14 was a Crosman Power Master 760 BB/pellet gun that stayed locked up in the safe until my dad took it out for me to use under adult supervision, NOT an AR-15. Yes, there were other high-powered weaponry in that safe, but not for my limited access. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
Well said
We never have a safe for our firearms. My grandfather kept his a .22 rifle, a 12 gauge shot gun, and a 7.62×51 Nazi Sniper rifle that my Uncle brought back from WW2 in the pantry next to the over in their kitchen. The other shot guns and rifles were in the back two bedroom closets. They lived on a 110 acre farm. My dad kept his rifles and shot guns in his master closet on gun racks (no safe). There isn’t a need to secure your firearms in a safe when you teach your kids to respect guns. We had full access. But, none of the kids touched any of the firearms without asking permission, or they would get their ass whipped with a belt or a switch.
I got a Benjamin Pellet Gun when I was 10. I was shooting my grandfathers .22 rifle at 2.5 years old (he held the rifle and I pulled the trigger sitting in his lap in his 1963 Chevy pickup truck to kill a skunk on the side of the dirt rode leading to the hunting camp). I told my Mom and Grandmother that I killed a skunk, but they didn’t believe me until they asked Papi. I still remember shooting that skunk. I have friends that have given hunting rifles to their 14 year old sons. Some have been on the AR platform. Others have been traditional bolt action with wooden stocks and hand guards in more powerful calibers like 7mm, 30.06, 6mm, 243 Winchester, 270 Winchester. A rifle is a rifle. There are plenty of 14 years old in rural America that hunt with both styles. I was hunting with a 12 gauge shot gun at 12 year old. I don’t think buying your son an AR semi-auto is wrong.
My son is 17. I’ve had a handgun on me every day for the last then years. I always have my EDC on me. He’s always known not to touch it. I take my EDC into the grocery store, mall, where ever we go. We also have a safe that we keep all my guns in. I have a safe to protect my guns from getting stolen. Not to keep them secure from my 17 year old. My son will shoot rifles when he goes to the ranch in San Saba. He prefers the Ruger 10/22 with a Leupold scope. He’s shot my 5.56 with a suppressor and Acog. He’s also fired a Winchester 1894 in 30-30, which gives more of kick and is louder than a suppressed 5.56. It all comes down to teaching them how to respect firearms. We drive around the ranch with the .22 rifle and the Winchester 94. The gator has gun mounts on the driver side and passenger side. At the ranch, there’s a safe in a shipping container. In the Barndominium and the new house on the hill overlooking the ranch in San Saba, Texas, Rick has his Winchester in a rack over the front door (not in a safe). The safe is to stop people from stealing the guns.
There is not one ounce of common sense in any democrat
More knee-jerky congress!!! I’m not condoning it but reviewing what we know so far. The father stated that his son was being picked on at school and that he made several visits to talk to the administrators. The mother was mentally unstable from years of drug and alcohol abuse and child abuse. The boy had a history of playing video games of what nature we don’t know yet. At this point in time, everything leads me to believe the family has a Mental Illness problem that was unchecked. The boy appears to be a product of his environment at home and school. How many more of these types of shootings must we endure based on Mental Illness, School Bullying, and Home Abuse?!
Enough is enough. time to ban all dems an libs from public offices. keep them from making laws.
Laugh, too many people are weak who think they are tough and need guns. Got to love GTA and people thinking they are stronger with a weapon, too many cowards acting like fools now a days.
I rather be “weak and scared’ than bring fists to a gunfight!!!
Perhaps those you describe as “ weak “ and “ cowards “ feel they
need firearms to protect themselves from big , bad , tough guys like
you . Did that thought ever cross your mind ?
‘Ol Teddy once said the famous line – “speak softly and carry a big stick”. I’m too old and decrepit to fight young hotheaded “stud-muffin’s” like yourself. I don’t carry a big stick, but I do carry a Glock. And I may be eat up with arthritis but my trigger finger, and my aim, just works just fine if necessary thank you very much.
I feel bad for parents , but taking guns away from people that obey the law is not going to stop these kind of issue, We need to teach people about the use of firearms and the damage they can do, people need to wake up and stop trying to let the government run our lived, cause once they disarm us they will on us and we then will live on our knees and be worse off then we are now, stop blaming guns!
Fbi had him on the radar.School did nothing. Parents bought the shooter the gun…..failure x 3 prosecute th parents as accessories to homicide by their sick ass kid
they need to prosecute all the parents not just the white ones!
They shouldn’t be prosecuting any parents. The parents have nothing to do with their kids shooting up a school. Last year, the State of Michigan charged and sentenced the father and mother, James and Jennifer Crumbley, to 10 years in prison. They spent 2.5 years in jail without bail during the trial period. Their son, Ethan Crumbley, took a handgun to school and killed 4 people and wounded several others (Nov 30, 2021). They charged these parents with failure to secure a firearm. The first parents to be charged in a school shooting. What a very dangerous precedent.
I grew up with firearms at my grandparents and at our house. None of the firearms were secured. My grandfather would have beat my ass if I touched a rifle or a firearm without his permission. My grandfather kept a .22 rife, a 20 guage shotgun and a 12 gauge shotgun in the pantry next to the oven in the kitchen. My grandfather had other rifles hanging on gun racks in his bedroom and the rear bedroom adjacent to the Master bedroom. Same thing with my Dad. His rifles and guns were on gun racks in his Master closet. We all knew better than to touch a rifle or handgun without his permission. You might as well charge every rural family in America with failure to secure their firearms. Lots of parents keep their guns in the closet.
In this particular case- the parents are as guilty as the shooter- total negligence on their part.
ain’t my job to train your kids. if you can’t teach them right from wrong and use common sense when supplying them with a weapon then you shouldn’t reproduce or pay the price!
Yeap. They should charge the FBI agents with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter and 9 counts of endangering lives. You can’t prosecute innocent people for the crimes that their kid committed.
so lady you are now running the country, i thought you were just a spokesperson?????