President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris called for more government action to combat gun violence after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, reportedly left three people, including the gunman, dead and several others injured.
Biden called on Congress to act, while the vice president proposed the passage of several policy reforms at the federal and state levels. Both expressed their sympathy and condolences for the shooting.
“Today, families in Madison, Wisconsin mourn the people killed and injured at Abundant Life Christian School,” Biden said in a press release. It is shocking and incomprehensible. We need Congress to act. Now.”
“From Newtown to Uvalde, from Parkland to Madison and so many other shootings that go unnoticed, it is unacceptable that we cannot protect our children from this scourge of gun violence,” Biden added. “We cannot continue to accept it as normal. Every child deserves to feel safe in their classroom. Students across our country should learn to read and write – not learn to duck and hide.”
Meanwhile, Harris echoed similar sentiments. She pointed to the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 as a point of reflection to express her disappointment that 12 years later, school shootings are still occurring across the country.
“Over the weekend, our nation paused to remember the innocent children and brave educators who were taken from us 12 years ago when someone armed with a weapon of war entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,” Harris said in a press release. “Today, senseless gun violence once again plagued our classrooms as students and teachers in Madison, Wisconsin, had their last week of school before the Christmas break tragically interrupted by a deadly shooting.”
“While we have made the necessary progress together over the past four years, including through the most significant gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years and our first Gun Violence Prevention Office in the White House, there is still much work to be done to ensure that everyone. “ “A person has the freedom to live in safety from the horror of gun violence,” Harris noted. “Congress and state legislatures must universalize background checks, adopt warnings and safe storage laws, and ban assault weapons. These common-sense solutions will save lives and make our children and communities safer.”
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Police officers identified Natalie Rupnow, a 15-year-old student who attended the school. According to authorities, she used a 9mm handgun in the attack.
The Gun Control Act is a federal law that prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from legally owning a firearm. Wisconsin state law also prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from legally owning a gun.
