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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."
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“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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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.
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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.
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.
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
There is not one ounce of common sense in any democrat
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.
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?????