North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (Democrat) said in an interview Sunday that he was “tired of seeing kids in school sending messages to their parents saying they're scared and that they love them” in response to the shooting at a Georgia high school this week.
“I'm tired of seeing kids in school sending messages to their parents saying I'm scared, I love you,” the North Carolina governor said in an interview with CBS' Margaret Brennan show “Face the Nation.” “This can't be normal.”
Two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) officials said at a press conference on Wednesday. Vice President Harris spoke about the shooting at a rally in New Hampshire on Wednesday, calling it a “senseless tragedy.”
“But these kids are sitting in classrooms, and they should be fulfilling their God-given potential, and somewhere in their brains they're worried that a shooter is going to come into their classroom. It doesn't have to be this way,” the vice president said.
Cooper, appearing on CBS, said he believes “we have to do everything we can to reduce gun violence, especially gun violence in schools.”
In an earlier statement, President Biden also said he “mourns the losses of those whose lives have been taken from us by senseless gun violence.”
“What was meant to be a joyous back-to-school season in Winder, Georgia, turned into a horrifying display of how gun violence continues to tear our communities apart. Students across the country are learning not how to read and write, but how to hunker down and hide. We cannot continue to accept this as normal,” the president said.
