The White House has blamed Republicans’ opposition to gun reform for the latest school shooting in Tennessee that left seven dead, including three children.
Nashville police said a 28-year-old woman entered the private Covenant School, where she was a former pupil, on Monday morning, killing three students and three staffers before police shot her dead.
The woman was reportedly equipped with at least two assault rifles and a handgun, with the White House saying that the shooting could’ve been avoided if the GOP joined efforts to ban assault weapons.
“While we don’t know yet all of the details in this latest tragic shooting, we know that too often our schools and communities are being devastated by gun violence,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in her daily briefing. “Schools should be safe spaces for kids to grow and learn and for our educators to teach.
“How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban, to close loopholes in our background check system or to require the safe storage of guns,” she added. “We need to do something.”
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