{"id":99466,"date":"2024-01-21T02:42:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99466"},"modified":"2024-01-21T02:42:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T08:42:37","slug":"99466","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99466","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Reynolds: New gun laws would not have prevented Perry school shooting<\/a><\/p>\n

No new laws restricting gun access would have prevented a recent fatal shooting at Perry High School, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Friday.<\/p>\n

Reynolds was asked during the recording of this weekend\u2019s episode of \u201cIowa Press\u201d on Iowa PBS whether gun regulations should be a part of the discussion around how to prevent school shootings like the one on Jan. 4 in Perry, in which a sixth-grade student and the school\u2019s principal were killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo additional gun laws would have prevented what happened,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cThere\u2019s just evil out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said the 17-year-old shooter was armed with a shotgun and small handgun and had placed an explosive device, which did not detonate, in the school. Authorities have not yet said how the shooter acquired the weapons.<\/p>\n

Reynolds said Iowans\u2019 \u201cthoughts, hearts and prayers\u201d continue to go out to the Perry community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a horrible tragedy. It\u2019s certainly nothing that any governor wants to wake up to in the morning and hear of what\u2019s happened,\u201d Reynolds said.<\/p>\n

Like most Republicans, Reynolds said the focus should be on mental and behavioral health care.<\/p>\n

She spoke about the actions she has taken as governor, including the creation of a children\u2019s mental health care system \u2014 which advocates say is underfunded \u2014 and funding for mental health care providers, and spoke about her proposal to redesign and streamline the state\u2019s regional delivery system for mental and behavioral health care.<\/p>\n

Reynolds also spoke about school safety measures undertaken by her administration, including the School Safety Bureau, which received $100 million in state-assigned federal funding and provides schools with an assessment of their safety needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud of what we\u2019ve done,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201cI have made behavioral health and mental health a key part of my priorities from the moment that I was sworn in as governor of this state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reynolds also praised the response from local law enforcement and emergency responders to the Perry school shooting, which she called \u201cincredible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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