Crime & Safety
Norcross, Kim Condemn Texas School Shooting
Norcross suggested the time for gun law reform has long since passed, while Kim expressed being deeply frightened by word of the shooting.
CHERRY HILL, NJ – U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross is renewing calls for a conversation that finds ways to end tragedies like Tuesday's shooting at a school in Texas once and for all.
"Six years ago Sunday was the anniversary of when 60 members of the House of Representatives decided they needed to do something in addition to what wasn’t happening in Congress. That was the Orlando nightclub shooting," Norcross (NJ - 01) said during a town hall meeting in Cherry Hill that had been scheduled before the tragedy.
Currently, most federal funding for firearms research is blocked, he said, adding that he disagrees with that philosophy. He also recalled a mass shooting in 1972 in Cherry Hill in which a man allegedly frustrated with his employment situation, shot 12 people, killing half of them.
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"Virtually every member can talk about a mass shooting in their district," Norcross said.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (NJ - 03) seemed shaken by the event.
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"I’m horrified by this monstrous attack on little children at a Texas elementary school," he tweeted Tuesday evening. "I’m sitting in the parking lot of my own kid’s elementary school right now unable to process this news and the devastation parents and families are experiencing. Our nation grieves with them."
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