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Today, families in Madison, Wisconsin, are grieving the loss of those who were killed and wounded at Abundant Life Christian School. It’s shocking and unconscionable,
My administration has taken aggressive action to combat the gun violence epidemic. We passed the most significant gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years, I have taken more executive action to reduce gun violence than any other President in history, and I created the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. But more is needed. Congress must pass commonsense gun safety laws: Universal background checks. A national red flag law. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
At my direction, my team has reached out to local officials to offer further support as needed,
So, whether or not she was, he was, they were transgender is something that may come out later — but for what we’re doing right now, today, literally eight hours after a mass shooting in a school in Madison, it is of no consequence at this time,
Pre-planned or planned shootings, we believe, are preventable,
Barnes said at a late afternoon news conference A document about this shooting is circulating at this time on social media, but we have not verified its authenticity,
And so I would encourage people to be responsible with your social media,
Whether they were targeted or not would speak to motivation and we don’t know that answer just yet,
Madison police chief Shon Barnes said on Monday We have no reason to believe they have committed a crime at this time,
Barnes said of the family Whether we will return to classes this week — because this was our last week, we were done on Friday — is still to be determined,
Barbara Wiers, director of elementary and school relations at Abundant Life, told The Associated Press I dont think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she, or he, or they may have wanted to identify,
Let that soak in for a minute, a second grade student called 911 at 10:57am to report a shooting at school,
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said on Monday We have a lot further to go. Obviously Congress needs to do more to fight these things and prevent them in the first place,
he told ABC News on Monday As soon as it happened, your world stops for a minute. Nothing else matters,
We can never accept senseless violence that traumatizes children, their families, and tears entire communities apart,
I don't know why, and I feel like if we did know why, we could stop these things from happening,
I'm feeling a little dismayed now, so close to Christmas,
When they heard lockdown, lockdown,' they knew it was real,
she said of the students, who she said What that does is it helps erode the trust in this process,
We heard them and then some people started crying and then we just waited until the police came and then they escorted us out to the church,
said the child, who was not identified
