A day after a teenage gunman shot and killed 19 college students and two lecturers at Robb Elementary College in Uvalde, Tex., Kim Kardashian reiterated her earlier name for extra gun management by resharing a weblog put up she had written in 2017, in honor of Nationwide Gun Violence Consciousness Day.
“Sadly it has not aged,” Kardashian posted Wednesday on social media. “In it I requested ‘is it extra vital to guard the second modification than to guard our personal youngsters?’ Yesterday 19 youngsters have been murdered by an 18 12 months previous, and I discover myself heartbroken, disgusted and livid about how little has been performed by legislation makers to enact gun legal guidelines that shield our kids. There isn’t a excuse and no justification for what occurred yesterday. The present legal guidelines in our nation round gun management aren’t defending our kids. We’ve got to push legislation makers to enact legal guidelines which might be becoming in immediately’s world.”
Kardashian referred to as for a ban on semi-automatic weapons, which she described as “designed to kill.”
“Assault weapons did not even exist when the Second Modification was written,” the mom of North, 8; Chicago, 4; Saint, 6; and 3-year-old Psalm, mentioned. “We’ve got to cease permitting folks to make use of a sentence written centuries in the past when expertise, instances, humanity have been utterly totally different, to dictate how we regulate gun possession, & how we shield our children immediately.”
She spoke towards 18-year-olds being allowed to purchase weapons legally.
“The Parkland shooter, the Buffalo grocery retailer shooter, the Texas shooter yesterday, they have been all beneath 21 and reportedly bought weapons legally. These are youngsters,” she wrote. “Somebody who is just not sufficiently old to purchase alcohol shouldn’t be allowed to buy a firearm. There isn’t a world through which an 18 12 months previous wants a semi computerized weapon, or any weapon, and no world through which the result could be something apart from tragic. As I even kind these phrases I’m severely dumbfounded that that is one thing thought-about regular, acceptable and authorized.”
Whereas she acknowledged that components similar to psychological well being and hatred, together with racism, have pushed folks to commit mass shootings, she famous that communities can do extra to fight that. Lawmakers have one other position.
“The one factor that legislation makers can and will management now could be entry to weapons,” wrote Kardashian, who’s advocated for jail reform and is learning to grow to be a lawyer. “There are in fact folks over 21 who purchase weapons to trigger hurt, and different mass shootings lately have been carried out by folks over 21, but when we enhance authorized age to buy, coupled with a ban on assault weapons, we will undoubtedly scale back the variety of mindless tragedies and save youngsters’s lives.”
She urged folks to not grow to be numb to mass shootings, of which there have already been greater than 200 within the first 5 months of 2022, averaging about 10 per week, at colleges, at grocery shops and even at church buildings.
“We won’t settle for this as regular anymore. It is not regular for a youngster to kill youngsters. It is not regular for our children to be working towards lively shooter drills in colleges. It is not regular to be shot whereas purchasing for groceries. I am not numbed by it. I’ll by no means be numbed by it,” Kardashian wrote. “We won’t settle for it. We won’t have one other 5 years go by with out efficient, impactful legal guidelines put in place to guard our children. We’re mother and father, we’re moms, we’re begging and pleading for motion.”
Even survivors, she famous, may have trauma for the remainder of their lives.
“Phrases cannot categorical my heartbreak for the mother and father whose infants didn’t come house from faculty yesterday,” she wrote. “I am urging our leaders to return collectively and put politics apart and put youngsters first.”
The suspected gunman, Salvador Ramos, had turned 18 on Might 16 and bought the rifles he used on the faculty on Might 17 and Might 20, in response to ABC Information. He was fatally shot by officers throughout his assault.
