House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi isn’t wasting time politicizing the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida this week, using the deaths of 17 innocent students and staff to call for new laws to limit the rights of gun owners.

Pelosi placed the blame for the shooting – the deadliest school shooting since a gunman massacred dozens at a Connecticut elementary school in 2012 – on Republicans for protecting gun rights, ignoring the reality that she neglected to take up the issue as Speaker of the House during Obama’s first term, when Democrats maintained total control.

“.@SpeakerRyan, there are any number of ways we could anticipate & prevent gun violence,” Pelosi tweeted Thursday. “There is no doubt in my mind that if legislation to expand background checks came to a vote, it would pass with bipartisan support. #EnoughIsEnough”

Pelosi grandstanded on the tragedy for 40 minutes at a Thursday press conference, where she stood alongside a placard outlining how “Congress Must Act Now” to “create a select committee on gun violence,” “allow the CDC to study gun violence,” and “pass expanded background check legislation” to restrict gun purchases.

“Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Seventeen announced dead, more wounded. Innocent children sending terrified texts and goodbyes to their parents,” Pelsoi said, commending the teachers and first responders on the scene. “Once again, we see the urgency for Congress to take true common sense action to prevent gun violence.”

After offering her two cents, Pelosi called for “more than a moment of silence” in the wake of the shooting.

“Again, America’s heart is broken. Ironic, it was Ash Wednesday, some of the victims there had ashes. It was Valentine’s Day, the kids had gone in a different spirit of what that day would be about, little did they know they would be victims of such useless, preventable violence in our country,” she said.

The alleged shooter – orphaned 19-year-old former student Nikolas Jacob Cruz – donned a gas mask and set off smoke grenades as students filed out of classes for what they believed was a fire drill Wednesday afternoon, CBS News reports.

Witnesses allege Cruz then opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle killing 17 people and injuring at least 15 others.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel confirmed that a football coach was killed attempting to shield students from gunfire, which left 12 of the 17 victims dead inside of the school. Israel said two other bodies were found outside of the school, and another along a local road. Two others reportedly died of injuries at the hospital, according to the news site.

Cruz allegedly escaped the school by blending in with students during the chaos, but was later identified by authorities using school surveillance video and arrested in a nearby neighborhood.

FBI officials also confirmed that the agency was warned about Cruz last year, but did not take action. The FBI also investigated a comment posted to YouTube claiming “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.”

“No other information was included with that comment, which would indicate a time, location or the true identity of the person who made the comment,” said Robert Lasky, special agent in charge of the FBI Miami Division. “The FBI conducted database reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment.”

President Trump also weighed in on the tragedy with a public statement and posts to Twitter, where he noted there were “so many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed, even expelled from school for bad and erratic behavior.”

Students at the school seemed to confirm Trump’s assessment. Victoria Olvera, a 17-year-old junior, told CBS News Cruz was expelled last school year for fighting with his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.

“I think everyone had in their minds if anybody was going to do it, it was going to be him,” Olvera said.