Rep. Slotkin honors shooting victims
Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI-08) spoke on the House floor in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 2, honoring the four students killed in the Oxford High School shooting Tuesday, Dec. 3.
Slotkin also led a moment of silence on the House floor, alongside bipartisan members of Michigan’s congressional delegation, as a tribute to the four students who died in the incident.
“In less than five minutes time, the heart of this town was ripped out in a flurry of screams and gunfire,” Slotkin said.
“The loss of these four young people has ripped a hole in our community, and the trauma inflicted on their friends and classmates will never fully subside,” Slotkin said. “No one has been left unscathed.”
“The aftershocks of this senseless act of violence are being felt across the state, most clearly in the 60 school districts that have been forced to cancel school out of an abundance of caution due to copycat threats.”
Slotkin spoke of a bill requiring background checks for all gun purchases. According to Slotkin, the bill was passed by the House with Democratic and Republican cosponsors.
“That bill is currently sitting in the U.S. Senate. It could be voted on tomorrow if there was will to act,” Slotkin said.
In the coming days and weeks, more facts will emerge from this horrible tragedy and help guide our thinking, and how to ensure that our children, Hana, Madisyn, Tate and Justin, did not die in vain.”
“To my colleagues in both parties, I look to you all — every single one of you — to join me in recognizing the pain that our community is going through, and to make it mean something.”