School shootings are not a "fact of life," but a "fact of American life," Georgia Sen. Warnock says
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock on Sunday said school shootings are not a “fact of life,” but rather a “fact of American life,” after four people were killed at Apalachee High School on Wednesday.
“And we Americans have to ask ourselves, why does this keep happening here?” Warnock said on CNN’s State of the Union.
The senator’s comments are in response to recent remarks made by Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, who lamented school shootings being “a fact of life” and called for greater campus security.
Warnock says he’ll continue to push for passing gun control laws, something he says Americans want and has bipartisan support, but said they “can’t even have a debate about that in the Senate.”
Warnock was in Winder, Georgia, on Friday and told CNN that he spoke with the family of 14-year-old victim Christian Angulo.
Some background: Children ages 1 to 19 die from guns more than anything else in the US, studies show.
American kids face the highest gun violence mortality rate among peer countries by far, according to a public health declaration by the US surgeon general earlier this year. In the US, there were 36.4 deaths per million people ages 1 to 19; in Canada, its 6.2 per million; in Australia, it’s 1.6 per million; and in the UK, it’s 0.5 per million, according to provisional data from 2022.
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