As you may have heard by now, students and faculty at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia were subjected to a fatal shooting this morning. So far, the reports have confirmed at least four deaths and multiple injuries. The school is currently on lockdown, and a suspect is in custody.

It’s shocking and distressing to be faced with the news of a school shooting this early in the semester, but it’s far from surprising. Gun laws in Georgia are notoriously weak, and thanks to District 10 congress rep Mike Collins, they’re probably going to stay that way.

Republican Representative Mike Collins is currently offering hopes and prayers to the victims and families of the Apalachee High School tragedy. But let’s not forget that as recently as 2022, he was toting a gun and threatening to “blow up” what he refers to as Biden and Harris’s “federal hijacking” of the 2020 election, in which Trump was voted out of office.

He also just recently quote tweeted a CBS News headline about more and more Americans having to choose between paying for groceries and paying bills to keep the lights on, with the caption “Kamalanomics.”

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In June of this year, Collins stood against ATF’s pistol brace rule, which argued that a stabilizing brace, when attached to a pistol, makes the firearm more akin to an unusually deadly weapon than the standard firearm protected by the Second Amendment. “The ATF’s pistol brace rule is yet another example of the Biden administration attacking the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans,” Collins said in a statement.

We don’t yet know what kind of weapon the shooter used at Apalachee high school, but we do know that Georgia is in dire need of stricter gun legislation, especially after today’s completely preventable tragedy.

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