“Pretend it’s normal. It’s not.”
Josh Gad has expressed his anger after a friend’s child was caught up in yesterday’s deadly mass shooting in Florida.
At least 17 people are confirmed dead after a gunman opened fire at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
The actor said in a tweet last night that a friend’s son had been shot in the chest.
He blamed lax gun control for the incident.
“I am so angry tonight,” he wrote.
“I am so sad. I’m putting my phone down because we are debating sensible gun laws again.
“A child of one of our friends has a bullet in his chest and is critical condition because a 19 year old had access to a military weapon. Pretend it’s normal. It’s not.”
He later directed a tweet at governor of Florida Marco Rubio over his ties to the gun lobbyists the National Rifle Association.
As a Floridian, please let me be among the masses to tell you, you are a spineless coward @marcorubio and I hope your 3.3 million dollars in NRA funding comes with ear plugs that allow you to tune out the mourning cries of children and parents everywhere. https://t.co/C5Myd1N2ZQ
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) February 15, 2018
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was the deadliest school massacre since the Sandy Hook shooting in 2011 when 20 children and six adults were killed.
The suspected shooter in yesterday’s incident, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was arrested after handing himself over to police.
A former student of the high school, he had been expelled for ‘disciplinary reasons’, reports Fox News, but had been attending another high school in the county.
