Jun 8, 2023
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is not shy about supporting the Second Amendment. One of her campaign posters showed her cradling a semi-automatic rifle at a Virginia gun range. On Tuesday, the graduation ceremony for Huguenot High School in Richmond, Va., was interrupted when a teenage gunman opened fire, killing another teen and his stepfather while wounding seven others. The shooter and his victim apparently had some history between them. "This should not be happening anywhere," Mayor Levar Stoney (D) told reporters less than two hours after the first shots were heard. "A child should be able to go to their graduation and walk out their graduation and enjoy the accomplishment with their friends and their families." Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Jason Kamras, still dressed in a black gown for the graduation, used the moment to call for an end to gun violence in the city. "I'm just tired of seeing people get shot, our kids get shot, and I be