Jill Biden leans into her personal experience, making an appeal against gun violence
Source: CNN Politics
Published 6:29 PM EST, Tue March 5, 2024
Alexandria, Virginia CNN Dr. Jill Biden leaned into her personal experience as an educator and as first lady on Tuesday as she spoke out sharply against gun violence and called for further action.
I dont want to have to put my hand on another cross with an 8-year-olds name. We have to change this, Biden told advocates at the National Parent Teacher Associations legislative conference.
Biden named several young victims of gun violence, using her platform to make a commonsense appeal on whats long been a politically charged issue sparking deep division. There have been 70 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, and 2,036 since her husband, President Joe Biden, took office, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Jill Biden has typically joined the president when hes visited communities in the aftermath of mass shootings, including the May 2022 massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The number of children that we have lost to gun violence is unfathomable. But those numbers dont tell the whole story: they dont tell us of their loved ones who must live with a black hole of grief inside of them who are ever-trapped in that gravity. They dont tell us of the classmates or the co-workers who saw the blood, who heard the shots ring out, who wake up each night in a sweat, dreaming of running and running and running. Behind those numbers are the students who know how to hide before they can spell, the first lady said.
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(1,265 posts)And hope she has 4 more years to make her mark. Like her husband, shes one of the best weve ever had in the White House.