Former Rep. Katie Hill told CNN in response to news about a shooting at a California school that Democrats had “done our part” to stop mass shootings and that it was Republicans’ fault for not taking action.
“We’ve passed the background checks. We’ve passed four different pieces of legislation that would make an immediate impact on reducing gun violence and it’s just sitting at Mitch McConnell’s desk,” the California Democrat said Thursday. “You feel like, as a freshman especially coming in, you just feel this sense of powerlessness. Like we’ve done our part. What else can we do right now?”
The shooting occurred at a high school in Santa Clarita, California, that Hill attended. She told CNN that Democrats had no “choice but to flip the Senate and to get somebody in the White House who is going to make this a priority.”
Her call with CNN came as police were still trying to find the suspect. “So regardless of your other political beliefs, if you think that the safety of our kids matters, then that’s to me what needs to get you to the polls,” she told the network.
Hill, 32, resigned from her House seat late last month after several media outlets exposed affairs with male and female aides along with nude photos of her. Her resignation came after the House Ethics Committee announced it would open an investigation into whether her sexual relationship with a staffer broke House rules.
