Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a statement on the ongoing violence in the United States in the wake of the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
His statement was posted in a May 25 U.S. Department of Agriculture news release.
“Another massacre in America. A statement that is all too common and one we all wish to never speak again," Vilsack said in the release. "Last week it was a church in California and a grocery store in Buffalo. Yesterday, it was an elementary school in Texas. It’s enough. We cannot and should not be willing to live with this carnage."
Vilsack empathized with the anxiety felt in the wake of the shootings, according to the release.
“In school hallways, in grocery stores, in places of worship, in shopping malls or in the neighborhood, families should not have to live their lives in fear," Secretary Vilsack said. "Our nation is resilient, but also a nation that must, and can, do better for families and their children. We are again called upon to mend a frayed nation, to turn commonsense into solution, and as President Biden remarked, ‘to turn this pain into action.’"
Vilsack concluded his statement, reminding the victims he was thinking of them.
“My thoughts and prayers are with all the families that grieve, and I join parents and grandparents everywhere with the hope we can come together and end these needless tragedies" Vilsack said in the release.
