Andre Carson: “2 days the ago the Nation was shocked when two adolescent boys opened fire on the students at Westside Middle School in…”

“2 days the ago the Nation was shocked when two adolescent boys opened fire on the students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas, which killed four students and a teacher. Eleven others were wounded. One of the boys had told his friends that he had a lot of killing to do, according to the police. Teacher Shannon Wright died trying to shield another student from the deadly fire. She was 32, the mother of a 22 year old son. The police found a cache of guns at the site. Just yesterday, a 14-year-old boy in Daly City, California tried to shoot his school principal, Matteo Rizzo, who had disciplined the boy last week for fighting with a schoolmate. The shot fortunately missed Rizzo and lodged in the wall behind him. Today I have had a report from my home district of Indianapolis that a 7-year-old boy brought a loaded gun to school in his knapsack. When confronted by teachers, the boy said he had been threatened and brought the gun to school for his protection. Last December, a boy opened fire on a student prayer circle at a high school in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three students and wounding five. Two months earlier, two students died in a shooting in Pearl, Mississippi. And in December, a student wounded two students when he opened fire in a school in Stamps, Arkansas. Mr. Speaker, we are facing a crisis when young kids can get guns easily and take them to school.”