Biden Will Deliver Address On Texas School Shooting As Nation Reels From Deaths

President Biden is scheduled to deliver remarks at 8:15 p.m. ET on Tuesday in response to a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The President ordered all U.S. flags on federal property to be flown at half-staff until May 28 as a “mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1416311
1 Like

Why am I left wondering if the perp had Ted Cruz’s contact information on him?

1 Like

“You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we’re not an outlier on mental illness — we’re an outlier when it comes to access to firearms,” Murphy said.

Can’t be said enough.

34 Likes

Heidi & I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.
We are in close contact with local officials, but the precise details are still unfolding.
Thank you to heroic law enforcement & first responders for acting so swiftly.

I’ll continue to give them my thoughts and prayers while I swill good food and liquor provided by the gun lobby this week.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz)

21 Likes

Heidi & I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.

I can just feel Cruz’s empathy emanating from this word salad jumble.

7 Likes

Sad, but true.

26 Likes

Heidi & I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.

Hypocrites! How is this pro-life! Phoney Christians you are.Thoughts and prayers yet again. 14 children, a teacher are dead and more in the hospital. I am with Fred Guttenberg on this -just go fuck yourself Ted and Cornyn you too.

23 Likes

I wonder what the NRA response would be if a heavily armed person walked into one of their convention parties and offed a bunch of gun executives and lobbyists?

10 Likes

Guns are not allowed at NRA conventions.
Think about that for a minute.

30 Likes

Dead silence.

13 Likes

And Greg Abbott …

after you get done fucking yourself, go burn in Hell.

You, too, AG Ken Paxton.

15 Likes

“Thoughts and prayers” from the same people who are more outraged about masks and vaccines than they are about mass shootings.

21 Likes

Guess what’s happening in Houston on Friday? The NRA annual convention. Guess who’s scheduled to speak? Governor Abbott, and TFG.

I am sick of kids getting killed , people of color being killed, the second anniversary of George Floyd being killed, the 30th school shooting of 2022.

Here’s the schedule for the NRA weekend. It needs to be taken down.

8 Likes

Cornyn: “No parent, child, or teacher should ever have to wonder whether it’s safe to go to school”. However, thanks to the leadership of the congressional GOP, including myself, on the issue of guns and mass murder, every parent, child, teacher worries every day that it’s not safe to go to school. Or to the grocery store. Or to the movies. Or to a nightclub. Or to work. Or to church. And I make a solemn promise this day, that the GOP will not stop until you have to fear being shot dead by a stranger in every single place in this great nation.

19 Likes

Gee Ted, if prayer is the answer why don’t you pray that this won’t happen again.

5 Likes

Heads up! Friday – NRA Annual Convention, Houston, headlining Abbott, and TFG!

It looks like your link to www.nraam.org was already posted in the topic by @hatmama in a reply on May 24, '22 – are you sure you want to post it again?

Yes, Nannybot. I DO want to post it again.

15 Likes

Dog bless future senator Ruben Gallego.

16 Likes

All these people doing the praying? They really really suck at it. It’s almost like it was merely a superstitious ritual meant to assist in avoiding consequences.

20 Likes

And again and again and again!

5 Likes

Remember how Wayne LaPierre hid on a yacht in terror of pro-gun control protesters?

If the NRA and GOP leadership or their wealthy sponsors was targeted, they’d definitely care.

But as long as it’s children in public schools or shopping areas in non-wealthy communities that are being targeted, they don’t care.

14 Likes