Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) responding to a school shooting in his state last week, said Americans were “sitting ducks” because of the gun lobby that “lines its pockets with the blood of our children.”
“We’re all sitting ducks,” Warnock said in an interview with Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday morning. “And any country that allows this to continue without putting forward just common sense gun safety measures is a country that has, in a tragic way, lost its way. Politicians need to realign their values.”
A 14-year-old allegedly opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, last Wednesday, killing two students and two teachers. The father of the 14-year-old was arrested on various charges the next day.
Warnock said he spent Friday night with the Winder community following the shooting.
“Listen, 14-year-olds don’t need AR-15s, and we need to get these military-style weapons off the streets,” Warnock said. “There is no one single law that will stop all of these tragedies. In a sense, I think we have to broaden the scope of the question because after all we have two mass shootings a day in our country, based on the data just last year. And this does not happen everywhere in the world.”