Quavo and Vice President Kamala Harris address gun violence during appearances in Atlanta Tuesday – WSB-TV Channel 2

The crowd was full of survivors, relatives of the murdered victims. They applauded when Harris spoke about providing mental health services to young people.

Grammy-nominated musician Quavo from Gwinnett County does a lot of charity work in the metro Atlanta area.

When his nephew Takeoff — another Grammy-nominated musician — was shot 2 years agoo in front of him – he launched the Rocket Foundation to end violence in metro Atlanta.

“It didn’t hit hard until it hit me,” Quavo said. “When I saw him lying there, I felt like I saw myself lying there.”

On Tuesday afternoon, on Takeoff’s anniversary, the Quavo Foundation donated $20,000 to each of these organizations working to end subway violence.

About an hour later, Harris joined Quavo on stage to talk about solutions.

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She began by saying that she was not against the right to bear arms.

“I support the 2nd Amendment. I also believe that there is no reason for us to have assault weapons on the streets of America. These are weapons of war,” Harris said.

Tyisha Fernades from Channel 2 reached out to Georgia GOP Chairman State Sen. Josh McKoon for his reaction to the vice president’s visit.

“No matter how many visits Kamala Harris visits Georgia, she cannot hide the failed record of the Biden-Harris administration. Their militarization of the criminal justice system threatens to replace America’s status as a free and respected society with that of a third-rate banana republic,” McKoon said in a statement.

Harris said his administration has provided resources to hire 300 mental health counselors to work in Georgia schools and said young people are more willing to be honest and open about mental health issues.

Quavo was supposed to speak one-on-one with Fernandes about what Tuesday meant to him and his family, but he became emotional and had to take a break.

He said death on takeoff was always very difficult to deal with. He told Fernandes he wanted to be “the conduit” for real change in his hometown.

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