In Greg Abbott's Republican Texas, public schools sent kids home with a DNA kit so their parents could identify them after a mass shooting or other emergency.
Following Mass Shooting, Texas Republican Criticized for Promoting Measure That Makes It Easier for People to Carry Guns
Jared Patterson, a Republican Texas state representative, has been resoundingly criticized after he promoted a measure that makes it easier for individuals to carry guns in the wake of a mass shooting in Austin.
Senator Chris Murphy on Mass Shootings: “Congress Has Become Complicit in These Crimes”
Senator Chris Murphy criticized his colleagues for their inaction on gun reform measures just two days after a gunman killed 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado.
“I have just come to the conclusion that Congress has become complicit in these crimes,” Murphy (D-Conn.) told MSNBC. “When Congress doesn’t act, it sends an unintentional but very real sign of endorsement to these would-be killers. It looks like we’re approving the way in which they are managing their grievances, because we don’t do anything year after year.”
Members of Congress Were Not Elected To Offer Thoughts and Prayers
Republicans in Congress with all the power of their elected office are rendered powerless by mass shootings. All they can ever muster is boilerplate thoughts and prayers.
Parkland, Florida is the 18th School Shooting in the United States In 2018
This is the 18th school shooting in the U.S. in 2018.
While the Republican-led Congress offers nothing but weak prayers in lieu of actual legislation that might protect our children, there have been 29 mass shootings and 17 school shootings if you count the discharge of a gun in a school.
Hillary Clinton Shows The Guts Trump Lacks By Taking On The NRA After Las Vegas Massacre
Longtime NRA fighter Hillary Clinton pointed out, "The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get."
MSNBC Reporter Obliterates America’s ‘Predictable’ Mass Shooting Response With Powerful Commentary
MSNBC reporter Craig Melvin has had enough of the "predictable" American response to mass shootings.
GOP Admits Gun Action Isn’t Much, But They Will Wage War For The NRA
Paul Ryan promises to take the President to court to put a stop to his violating orders from the National Rifle Association.
Time to Stop Blaming the NRA for Gun Violence and Focus on Cowardly Republicans Instead
Although the NRA hands out millions to Republican congressmen, neither the NRA nor its insane leader, Wayne La Pierre, get to cast a vote
Conservative Brain Abnormalities Inform That Gun Madness Is Here To Stay
To gun zealots, every mass shooting provides another undeniable and convincing argument that what America needs most is more guns, not less
Australians Disgusted With America Call To Boycott This Violent and Immature Nation
Some 2.1 million Australians visit the U.S. annually and the call for boycott is likely motivated as much by self-preservation as disgust
Bernie Sanders Terrifies The NRA With Consensus Plan To Reduce Mass Shootings
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became the NRA's worse nightmare by announcing consensus steps that can be taken to lessen the number of mass shootings in the US.
Donald Trump Is Crumbling As George Stephanopoulos Blows His Mr. Fix It Image To Bits
During an interview on ABC's This Week, George Stephanopoulos took apart Donald Trump and revealed that the Republican Mr. Fix It is an emperor with no clothes.
Another Mass Shooting, but GOP Makes it Clear Some Lives Don’t Matter
Bill O'Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second Amendment rights
Surprise! Hillary Clinton Is Farther Left Than Senator Bernie Sanders
For the record, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, like many Democrats, voted against the PLCAA which protects gun and ammo sellers from liability
The NRA’s Soft Underbelly: 70% of Their Members Favor Gun Restrictions
If one quarter of the 70 percent who feel the NRA is, on some level, making unreasonable demands can be convinced to drop their membership it would be over $24 million less in NRA coffers every year.