Vice President Kamala Harris‘s visit to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was met with criticism from Parkland shooting victims’ parents.
Harris visited the site of the school shooting six years after the fact alongside Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). Her stop in Parkland, Florida, comes amid her reelection campaign on President Joe Biden’s ticket. Ryan Petty, father to 14-year-old victim Alaina Joann Petty, called it a “campaign event” at the site where his daughter was shot in her English classroom.
“The VP is not there to make schools safer, she’s visiting to reinforce a gun control agenda,” Petty wrote on X. “It’s a photo op & campaign event for a do nothing administration that ignores the real work of protecting schools.”
Andrew Pollack is the father to Meadow Jade Pollack, who died in the school’s hallway during the shooting at the age of 18. Pollack referenced the two wars in Gaza and Ukraine in his response to the vice president’s visit.
“Kamala Harris showing up to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School today while funding 2 Wars — in which many casualties were children — is repulsive and hypocritical,” Pollack wrote. “Kamala is using my Daughter’s place of death for a photo-op. This woman does not care about dead children!”
The Washington Examiner reached Moskowitz’s office for comment.
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Harris is fresh from her first trip to Puerto Rico since her inauguration. Florida held its primary on Tuesday, where Biden swept the Democratic vote.
There were 17 victims killed during the mass shooting on February 14, 2018. The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole due to the jury involved being unable to come to a unanimous decision on the death penalty.