Kim Kardashian is “heartbroken, disgusted and furious” about the inaction over gun control following the US’ second deadliest mass shooting at a Texas primary school.
Kim Kardashian calls for gun control
‘The Kardashians’ star – who has North, eight, Saint, six, Chicago, four, and Psalm, three, with her ex Kanye West– condemned the lack of movement “enact gun laws that protect our children” after 19 children and two teachers were shot dead by an 18-year-old gunman , at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde in Texas.
On Twitter, the 41-year-old reality television personality wrote: “ Yesterday 19 children were murdered by an 18 year old, and I find myself heartbroken, disgusted and furious about how little has been done by law makers to enact gun laws that protect our children.”
“There is no excuse and no justification for what happened yesterday.
“The current laws in our country around gun control are not protecting our children. We have to push lawmakers to enact laws that are fitting in today’s world.
“Semi automatic weapons, assault weapons, weapons of war, should not be legally sold or owned by American civilians.
“They should be banned. Period.”
Kim pointed out that AR-15s were used in many similar tragedies – such as at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 and at Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 – and urged for changing the age limit from 18 to 21.
She tweeted: “AR-15 style semi automatic rifles were used in Newtown, Parkland, Aurora, San Bernardino, Orlando, Parkland, in the Buffalo shooting 10 days ago, and reportedly in yesterday’s shooting. Assault weapons are not a self defense tool. They are sophisticated weapons, designed to kill.”
The SKIMS founder – who is working towards becoming a fully qualified lawyer and has previously advocated on behalf of inmates on death – highlighted that the “assault weapons didn’t exist when the Second Amendment was written”.
Kim said: “Assault…
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