“Obviously you’re not going to be able to take every gun out, I don’t know how you can do that. There’s so many around now, today,” James said Friday via Ohio.com. “But if there’s some stipulations behind it or some penalties, some big-time penalties or rules or regulations about carrying firearms, legal or illegal, people will second-guess themselves.”
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According to Ohio.com, the infant’s death was the third gun-related death of a child in Cleveland in just a month. The incident also occurred the same day 10 people were killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon.
“Obviously it’s not the first time that it’s happened, but it’s been happening a little bit too much recently,” James said. “There’s no room for guns, first of all, but then for violence towards kids or anybody. But having kids of your own, I see the news go across my phone and I’m sitting there in front of my three kids, so it automatically just hit me. … It’s also the whole nation that goes through this as well. We all hurt from it.”
