“He will be forever 3 years old.” These were the words of Arika Williams shortly after her 3-year-old son Aiden accidentally shot and killed himself last year in South Carolina.
“I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” This was the chilling comment made by the Parkland shooter in a video posted online in September 2017—more than a year before he took the lives of 17 classmates and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Shamefully, this was just one of many early warning signs.
Today, in an historic vote, the House of Representatives passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8), life-saving legislation to strengthen background checks and keep guns out of the hands of those who would use them to harm our children and communities.