The mother of a student killed in Wednesdayâs school shooting in Florida pleaded with President Donald Trump to âplease do somethingâ in a segment on CNN Thursday.
Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was one of at least 17 people killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, appeared on CNN Thursday and made an emotional call for the president to take action in response to gun violence.
âHow do we allow a gunman to come into our childrenâs school?â the grieving mother said in the segment, in tears. âThe gunman, a crazy person, just walks right into the school, knocks down the window of my childâs door and starts shooting. Shooting her. Killing her.â
âPresident Trump, you say, âWhat can you do.â You can stop the guns from getting into these childrenâs hands,â she continued, yelling into the camera. âWhat can you do? You can do a lot. This is not fair to our families that our children go to school and have to get killed.â
Alhadeff said she had just spent the last two hours making funeral arrangements for her teen daughter.
âPresident Trump, please do something,â she pleaded. âAction â we need it now. These kids need safety now.â
After the shooting on Wednesday, Trump tweeted out âprayers and condolencesâ to the victims and their families. The following day, in another tweet, the president appeared to place blame on the shooterâs classmates for not having done more to report him earlier and prevent the atrocity.
In his first public remarks about the shooting on Thursday, Trump spoke about âthe difficult issue of mental health.â The president didnât use the word âgunâ once and didnât suggest the possibility of legislation on gun control.