Democrats call for gun control after Oregon school shooter uses shotgun bought by mother

A 16-year-old gunman walked into Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, killing three children and a teacher before the gunman intervened.

A bystander killed a suspected gunman in a tragic school shooting in Oregon

Retired FBI agent Jason Peck breaks down the tragic school shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. Police Chief Mike Krantz confirmed that three children and a teacher were killed. The package describes how a bystander eventually shot and killed the suspected teenage gunman, preventing further casualties inside the locked building.

After a teenager walked into an Oregon elementary school Thursday, killed three children and a teacher, and was then killed by a gunman, several prominent Democratic lawmakers renewed calls for gun control.

"The best way to honor these victims is to finally pass common sense legislation that will reduce the risks of more children, parents, teachers and staff having to live in fear of similar nightmares for their schools," Wyden said in a statement.

Susan Bonamici, D-Ore., said Thursday night that the "epidemic of gun violence in schools across America must end."

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"No parent should have to wonder if their child is going to come home at the end of the day," Bonamici said. "Kids deserve to feel safe - and be safe - at school."

Jenelle Bynum, a Democrat, represents Oregon's 5th congressional district, which includes St. He attended a vigil for the teacher and children — ages 5, 8 and 11 — who were killed in the shooting.

When are we going to step up and say stop killing our babies? When are we going to say we need safe schools, that we need to make sure people who shouldn't have firearms don't have them? When will we stop making excuses? When are we going to practice the same courage that spectator had? Bynum told KTVZ 21, a local NBC station in Bend, at the event.

Statements by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and the state's Democratic governor, Tina Kotek, stopped short of calling for new gun regulations, but both made it clear that gun violence should have no place in America's schools.

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Democrats outside of Oregon seem a little freer to express their support for continued gun control, especially in the wake of a shooting that also seriously injured another 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said gun reforms passed by Congress after the Uvalde school shooting — including background checks for buyers under 21 — didn't go far enough.

"More needs to be done. Not one child should be lost to gun violence. Ever," Heinrich said in a statement posted on social media.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who supports federal red flag laws and universal background checks, had a similar message.

"No family should have to suffer like this - and there have been over 50 school shootings this year alone. The media, Congress must do much more to prevent gun violence," he wrote on his social network.

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Lawmakers' reactions come as authorities in Bend continue to investigate how the deadly attack happened and how the gunman obtained the weapon he used.

Police said they did not know if the shooter knew anyone at the school or had attended the school when he was younger.

The first emergency call was at 12:59 p.m. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said Thursday that a person in a vehicle who reported being shot multiple times by someone carrying a long gun. Officers then received dozens of calls reporting that a shooter had entered the school.

The officers arrived within three minutes of the first emergency call. Moments later, an officer reported that a "member of the community" had shot the juvenile suspect.

Silver Rail Elementary School, located 125 miles southeast of Portland, has a total of 467 students this school year. Serves students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

The Bend-La Pine School District canceled classes, sporting events and extracurricular activities at all 32 of its schools.

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