Sen. Warnock addresses midtown shooting from US Senate floor, recalls personal moment with daughter

WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock spoke out on the mass shooting in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon.

He’s calling for stronger gun control measures, but he also spoke about a personal connection.

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Channel 2′s Samantha Manning was live in Washington D.C. during Channel 2 Action News at 4 p.m. where she caught up with Senator Warnock.

Warnock has been a strong supporter of stronger measures to protect Americans from guns, but the mass shooting in Atlanta touched him much more in a personal way.

His own child was on lockdown at an elementary school.

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He spoke about that moment when he was on FaceTime with his 6-year-old daughter.

“You know, I had a moment with my six-year-old daughter yesterday, when we were FaceTiming, after all of this, and I didn’t know what about this she actually knew. She said, ‘Daddy, today there was a bad man shooting and we were on lockdown because a bad man was shooting’, and that took me back to conversations I had as a child with my father. And never once did my dad ask me what happened in school. And I had to say there was a bad man shooting... We have to do better. Our children deserve better,” said Warnock.

Manning also asked the senator about his message for Georgians.

He said it is alright to feel frustrated, but never allow your frustration or sense of fatigue to lead to complacency.

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