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FORMER U.S SENATOR, RICK SANTORUM RECEIVES BACKLASH AFTER SUGGESTING THAT STUDENTS MARCHING FOR STRICTER GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION SHOULD BE TAKING CPR CLASSES

Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania GOP Senator, angered Americans after suggesting that students marching for strict gun control legislation should take up CPR classes and preparing for active shooter scenarios.
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania GOP Senator, angered Americans after suggesting that students marching for strict gun control legislation should take up CPR classes and preparing for active shooter scenarios.

"How about kids instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes or trying to deal with situations that when there is a violent shooter that you can actually respond to that," Senator Santorum said on CNN's "State of the Union."

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Santorum's statement came a day after students' organized rally, 'March for our lives' - a peaceful walk raising awareness for stricter laws on gun ownership in the United states of America. The walk  which was initially organized in Washington D.C held various other states in the country. Even more, it was held in a few countries around world namely; Australia, France...

 The former Senator utterly dismissed the usefulness of "phony gun laws", calling on students to improve their communities and get appropriate training on how to handle active shooter scenarios.
"They took action to ask someone to pass a law, Santorum continued. "They didn't take action to say, How do I, as an individual, deal with this problem? How am I going to do something about stopping bullying within my own community? What am I going to do to actually help respond to a shooter? Those are the kind of things where you can take it internally, and say, Here's how I'm going to deal with this. Here's how I'm going to help the situation, instead of going and protesting and saying, Oh, someone else needs to pass a law to protect me."

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 Van Jones, a liberal CNN commentator, interjected reminding Santorum his own child was about to start high school.
"I want him focused on algebra and other stuff," Jones said. "If his main way to survive high school is learning CPR so when his friends get shot ... that to me, we've gone too far. I'm proud of these kids. I know you're proud of these kids too." 
 Santorum responded:
"I'm proud of them, but I think everyone should be responsible and deal with the problems that we have to confront in our lives. And ignoring those problems and saying they're not going to come to me and saying some phony gun law is gonna solve it. Phony gun laws don't solve these problems."
Santorum's comments prompted a statement from Everytown for Gun Safety program manager, Erica Lafferty, whose mom was murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

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The statement reads:
"Rick Santorum's words are an insult to the kids of Parkland, my family and to the countless others who have had loved ones taken by gun violence. My mother was killed while protecting her students at Sandy Hook School. For anyone to suggest that the solution to gun violence is for kids to learn CPR is outrageous, and indicative of the NRA's desire to do or say anything except strengthen America's weak gun laws."
Santorum's comment immediately generated a lot of backlash.
See how twitter reacted below:




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