It s been 15 years since a lone gunman stepped into a Northern Illinois University lecture hall and fatally shot five students, wounding dozens of others and leaving a mark some say won t ever go away.
Since the 2008 shooting, FBI statistics show active shootings across the U.S. have increased sharply especially in the last few years. “It will always.
constructively address this purely american problem that we ve got? what would be your top priorities? my top priority is to change those seats in congress that have elected officials who are not doing anything about this issue. you know, in virginia in 2017, we change seats. those people who refused to do anything about gun violence lost in the elections in 2017 in virginia in a big way. it was the number two issue coming out of the polls. you know, i m sure i will get criticized for, quote-unquote, politicizing the tragedy but it s too late. we should have politicized this after columbine. we should have politicized this after virginia tech. this is the ten year anniversary of the northern illinois university shooting. what in the world are we waiting for? you know, 20 children, 6-year-olds, so it s time to make changes. if our elected officials will not do what it takes to reduce
we should have politicized this after virginia tech. this is the ten-year anniversary of the northern illinois university shooting. what in the world are we waiting for? you know, 20 children, 6-year-olds. it s time to make changes. if our elected officials will not do what it takes to reduce gun violence in this country, and there s no one single magic wand, we have a lot of policies that need to be looked at. assault weapons ban, identifying people who are at risk of violence, you know, looking at access to weaponry and looking at where we carry and who carries. there s not a single magic wand that s going to solve this. but we need to start something. in my opinion, i think we change our elected leaders who are not doing their job to keep american citizens, schoolchildren, people who go to church, you know, people walking down the street, we need to make changes in this country. i hope it happens in a big way in 2018. and i m going to work on it.