Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the Parkland shooting, called out Trump for catering to the NRA, and Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for sitting on their butts and doing nothing about the issue of gun violence.
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Guttenberg said, “These shootings they can happen anywhere and everywhere because we have irresponsible gun ownership and irresponsible gun laws. We have a president who embraces a gun lobby, the NRA and says that we should actually feel good about them. We have Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan who sit on their you know what and have no spine, and won’t even talk about this, and it keeps happening. The citizens of this country. Here’s what I predict. This November, this will be the number one voting issue, and if you’re wrong on this issue, we’re going to fire you, because enough is enough is enough.”
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That is the anger and insight of a man who senselessly lost his daughter to a school shooting roughly 100 days ago, and today he saw ten more families whose children and loved ones will not be coming home. Each mass shooting is a game to the NRA and the Republican Party before all the details are known of each new incident, the gun lobby and their political allies have already gone into their four corners offense to run out the clock and wait for the story to blow over.
It is a certainty that in some parts of the country gun violence will be the top voting issue, and if these shootings continue until Election Day, the outrage will only grow, and it will be the NRA puppet politicians, not innocent children who will pay the price.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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