Stars' emotional messages for stricter gun control

Melissa Joan Hart shares her harrowing brush with the Nashville school shooting through tears

Stars Insider

30/03/23 | StarsInsider

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Gun control is a topic that divides millions of people. The right to bear arms is written into the United States constitution, but calls for revised gun laws have been made for years. It's a sensitive issue, made prevalent thanks to the issue of gun violence. Recently, President Joe Biden started to take measures for stricter gun control. "Gun violence in this country is an epidemic, and it’s an international embarrassment,” the American president said. It's an issue celebrities have been raising for quite some time now. 

Nashville-based actress Melissa Joan Hart came terrifyingly close to the Covenant School shooting on March 27. A 28-year-old shooter, reportedly a former student, approached the elementary school armed with two rifles and a handgun, shooting through the windows and killing three nine-year-old children and three adults. Hart posted a video to Instagram on March 28 to share her close brush with the horrific tragedy.

Hart and her husband Mark Wilkerson were driving to their children’s school, which happens to be located very close to the Covenant School, for teacher conferences. They spotted a large group of young children fleeing the school and stopped to help them to safety. “We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway that were climbing out of the woods, that were trying to escape the shooter situation at their school,” she explained, holding back tears. “We helped all these tiny little kids cross the road and get their teachers over there, and we helped a mom reunite with her children.”

Hart went on to share that she and her family were also in Connecticut close to the Sandy Hook school during the 2012 shooting that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults. “I just don’t know what to say anymore. It is just, enough is enough… Pray for the families.” She captioned the post, “Prayers today, Action tomorrow.”

The sensitive issue of gun violence affects millions around the world, and a great number of public figures have asked for stricter gun control legislation. Click on to meet the celebrities who have spoken out about gun control.

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