White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out Monday at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after he signed gun legislation into law "behind closed doors," a move she says is against "commonsense" when it comes to gun safety.
"It is shameful that so soon after another tragic school shooting, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a permitless concealed carry bill behind closed doors, which eliminates the need to get a license to carry a concealed weapon," Jean-Pierre wrote in a series of tweets Monday evening.
"This is the opposite of commonsense gun safety. The people of Florida — who have paid a steep price for state and Congressional inaction on guns from Parkland to Pulse Nightclub to Pine Hills — deserve better," she added.
Jean-Pierre's Twitter comments came one week after a transgender former student opened fire and killed six people in a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee.
Head of School Katherine Koonce, 60; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and custodian Mike Hill, also 61, were killed in the gunfire at The Covenant School. Three 9-year-old students were also killed: Hallie Scruggs, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney.
Jean-Pierre reiterated President Biden's commitment to "ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines" in her Monday tweets targeting DeSantis.
