After Atlanta Shooting, Georgia Senator Says We Behave Like Mass Shootings Are ‘Normal’
"It is not right for us to live in a nation where nobody is safe," Warnock adds
It happened again.
Another mass shooting, this time Wednesday at a medical facility in Atlanta, Ga. One woman was killed while four others were injured — three of those critically.
This came just days after a deadly shooting in a small town in Texas left several victims, including a 9-year-old child.
In all, the United States has seen 192 mass shootings just this year alone.
It's against this backdrop that one of Georgia's US senators rose on the Senate floor to address the tragedy.
“Madam President, I rise today in shock and sorrow and in grief for my home state. And if I am honest, I rise really with a deep sense of anger about what is happening in our country in the area of gun violence and death,” said Democratic Sen Raphael Warnock. “I stood here in March of 2021, after a gunman went on a rampage across Metro Atlanta and snatched eight precious souls, people with families and friends who loved them dear.
“And here I am standing again, this time with a tragedy having occurred in Midtown Atlanta, right in my own backyard. And while this is still a developing situation, according to media reports, so far at least five people were shot. Five, on a random afternoon,” he added. “And there’s been one fatality. The others taken to the hospital.
“I want to take a moment and thank law enforcement officials for keeping us as safe as they can. I want to thank them for their work, trying to apprehend this individual. I’m also thankful for local media, who are keeping all of us informed. And I’m grateful for our first responders, the people in health care, the people on the front lines,” Warnock said. “We count on them every day to care for those who are injured, to respond to people in peril. And that’s what makes this particular shooting ironic and deeply upsetting, because it underscores the fact that none of us is safe, no matter where we are.
“This happened in a medical facility, where people are trying to find healing. And so I want to underscore that, because there have been so many mass shootings — in fact, about one every day in this country this year — that tragically we act as if this is routine,” he continued. “We behave as if this is normal. It is not normal. It is not right for us to live in a nation where nobody is safe, no matter where they are.”
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