2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker told a black child that he has a greater chance of dying from gunfire than anything else before he reaches adulthood.

The child asked Booker what he would do to protect kids from school shootings during a Tuesday event in South Carolina.

“Can you imagine? This should not be a question any of our children are asking,” Booker responded. “We’re actually teaching our kids the best we can do to protect them is to teach them how to shelter in place and deal with an active shooter.”

The interaction followed three mass shootings in a week and Chicago having its worst weekend of gun violence so far this year.

“I want you to know that I’m looking at you and I’m saying this to you as a guy who used to be a young man like you. The greatest chance that you are going to pass away in your life as a young black boy is unfortunately through gunfire,” Booker told the child. “That is a terrible thing to say.”

Booker vowed to change that by taking on the National Rifle Association and pushing for “commonsense changes” to gun laws.