Hours after police arrested the suspect in the University of Virginia shooting, the White House has called for a ban on assault weapons. Though the suspect allegedly used a handgun and not an assault weapon.
The White House said President Biden and the First Lady were “mourning with the University of Virginia community after yet another deadly shooting in America has taken the lives of three people.”
“Too many families across America are bearing the awful burden of gun violence,” the White House said, before invoking President Biden’s signing of the “most significant gun safety law in nearly three decades” earlier this year.
“But we must do more. We need to enact an assault weapons ban to get weapons of war off America’s streets,” the White House said before taking a subtle jab at Republicans: “House Democrats acted, and the Senate should follow.”
Congress passed a bipartisan gun control bill in June after a spate of mass shootings from Buffalo, New York to Uvalde, Texas. Still, the bill stopped short of more stringent restrictions that Democrats have been pushing for, including the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that Biden called for, which passed by Congress in 1994 but expired 10 years later.
The suspect, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., was arrested Monday morning for the fatal shootings of three members of the school’s football team. Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry were all killed and two others were wounded. The suspect is a student at the University and was a former member of the football team.
The shooting touched off an intense manhunt that included a building-by-building search of the campus. The lockdown order was lifted late Monday morning. Jones was taken into custody without incident in suburban Richmond.
The arrest warrants for Jones charged him with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a felony, police said.
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