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Arkansas governor candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders vowed in a recent speech that she would “ensure” that a “child” in the womb is as safe as one in a classroom.
She made the sweeping remark in her victory speech last month when she won the GOP primary, the same day 19 children and two teachers were shot and killed by a gunman — in a classroom — at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
She even referred to the shootings, calling the heinous crime a “popping and humiliating reminder of how precious life is”.
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There have been 27 school shootings in the US so far this year alone (and 250 mass shootings across America by 2022).
Some of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history have occurred in the Sanders security zone, including the 26 (20 of them first-graders) killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut in 2012, and the 17 killed at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Florida high school four years ago.
Guns are the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the US. According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 808 children and teenagers in the US have been killed by firearms this year, with a further 2,017 injured by firearms.
Sanders is a big proponent of guns.
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
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