‘We can’t keep living like this’: Michigan governor denounces campus shooting [theguardian.com]

Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff) 2/14/2312:00 PM

By Richard Luscombe, Photo: Mike Ellis/Lansing State Journal/Reuters, The Guardian, February 14, 2023

Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, denounced the “uniquely American problem” of gun violence on Tuesday after a gunman murdered three students on Monday night in a mass shooting at Michigan State University.

Whitmer spoke at an emotional morning press conference in East Lansing at which authorities identified the shooter, who died by suicide, and revealed other details about the attack that left five other students critically wounded.

“We cannot keep living like this,” the Democratic governor said, noting that Tuesday marked exactly five years since 17 students and staff were killed in Florida in the nation’s worst high school shooting.

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