Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (D) on Sunday pushed lawmakers to take action in the wake of a shooting in her city in Ohio that left 10 people dead earlier that morning.
How many cities have to go through mass shootings before somebody changes he law?
The answer, my friend …
Speaker Pelosi should immediately call the House into Session and pass a comprehensive gun control Bill—the pending background check Bill is far short of what is needed—and send it to the Senate.
It is time for Bold action. What good is representative government if our representatives do not respond to
this gun madness and make every effort to protect us. Assault Rifles and expanded magazines must be removed from our society.
We have the tools to address this problem, but refuse to do so. Why? Because Republicans value guns and profits more than human lives. How do they dare call themselves the “pro-life” Party when the objective truth proves that a farce?
It’s very simple. To republicans, the possibility of owning a gun far, far outweighs the very real fact of daily mass murders in this country. Guns are more important than kid’s lives, than safety at the movies, mall, concert, church, nightclub, school, office, you name it. All the blood in the country is less valuable than the ability to own an assault rifle.
I believe if Trump wasn’t President, he would be persona non grata in many Western European nations. To be clear, I’m speaking of his racist, white nationalist ideology here, and not his being a clear threat to national security of western countries or his corruption or criminal activities.
Here’s one bill for background checks that passed in the house but resides in the Senate with no action taken.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8/text
Asshole Portman’s calling for mental health treatment. How about keeping guns out of the hands of mentally ill people and angry white men?
Just had Portman, Brown and rep Turner press conference. Gop can’t say guns and blame mental health, opioids whatever they can to change the subject. Cowards.
Sherrod Brown calling for the Senate to come back NOW and pass the House Bill or something even more comprehensive.
Choices are stark.
Also, the gun huggers are most of their voters.
If it weren’t so disgusting, it would be laughable watching the Ohio Republicans, Sen. Portman, Rep.Turner, and the ex-sheriff, ignoring the elephant in the room in Dayton, frightened to death to say anything about banning weapons. Portman describes the incident in detail, blood and all, trying to run out the clock. Then, mental health, yeah baby! And how about those first responders? They are all heroes! Daytonians have grit. The shooter killed his sister, so there! Here’s a place to send money. If the mayor and Sherrod Brown weren’t there, the press conference would have completely turned into a colloquium at an NRA conference…
Texas Republican lawmakers have responded to the shooting in El Paso (which occurred less than 24 hours before the Dayton shooting) by avoiding the topic of gun control and instead putting the blame on mental health and video games.
Gopers made “Liberal” a dirty word for more than a decade and shamed many from claiming that affiliation - it’s time to turn the tables. From now on whenever I hear anyone give a nonsense answer or obvious evasion I vow to respond as follows: “What are you, a republican?”
FIFY
Which is always funny. Because the same people saying that’s the solution are the same ones diligently working to reduce the number of people who can afford and get health insurance…
Gunfire is the outward manifestation of the hatred and prejudice that has been cultivated in the hearts and minds of too many Americans by the politics of division and derision. Removing the guns might be a good step…a quick act…but removing this hatred from these poisoned souls is the only real way to reverse this terrible trend.
That is a monumental task…especially when we have one political party that has chosen to embrace denial. Unchecked, this zeal for power and profit in the face of catastrophy will destroy this country.
I hate to break this to all of you but while gun control is important and I support it, at least one of these events was a political act of domestic terrorism. The shooter might have easily substituted his rifle for an IED. I don’t hear anyone on cable news talking about the right wing terror aspect of the El Paso case.
The GOP horror continues.
The El P shooting was 300 miles to the south. My son worries that he can no longer protect his daughters at school, at the mall, etc. unless he is armed…
We’re getting reports of friends in El P reporting that they are safe. And of course lots of video on FB from friends of friends, etc.
We need NOW a total ban on all semi-automatic guns and large magazines for everyone except cops, military . Only criminals would be the civilians with a semi-automatic or a large magazine.
We need mandatory registration of all guns in the US and strict clearances for gun owners.
The white nationalist terrorists must lose completely.
Lock them up if they have banned weapons and gear.
And, in all likelihood, never get anywhere near the casualty numbers, if he got anyone at all.
You can’t make everything perfectly safe, but you can do sensible things to limit the damage that nutcases and terrorists do.
Dayton Mayor Pleads Congress To Address Shootings. Unfortunately, only one party will hear her.
She needs to demand that republicans join democrats and pass sensible, much-needed gun control measures.