By refusing to outlaw assault weapons, Republicans prove they don’t care about kids being murdered in mass shootings such as Robb Elementary in Uvalde Texas, Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas High School

 

Ron DeSantis response to the latest School Shooting in Iowa on January 4, 2024 is typical of Republican’s callous “Do nothing to fix the problem” attitude in the United States, while the rest of the world has taken action. It’s just another example of how “Republicans are the Problem“.

 

After a Texas school shooting, conservatives blamed ‘woke p’rograms once approved by Republicans

In 2018, GOP politicians promoted social and emotional education as a tool to stop mass shootings. Now some conservative activists are arguing those programs are not a solution to school violence, but a cause.

Per the above article:  ARLINGTON, Texas — In October, after a student opened fire at Timberview High School in North Texas, wounding two classmates and a teacher, parents in the Mansfield Independent School District initially rallied together, praying publicly for the victims and praising officials for reacting quickly to prevent a worse tragedy.

But six months later, a different narrative began to spread through this suburban Dallas school district, one that put the blame for the shooting on a new district approach to disciplining students. It started with political mailers sent to thousands of homes.

“MISD put ‘woke’ politics over the safety of our children,” the flyers read in all caps, above a news clipping about the Timberview shooting, which reportedly resulted from a fight between two Black students. The flyers, paid for by a conservative political action committee, warned that the Mansfield school district had “stopped disciplining students” based on “Critical Race Theory principles.” As a result, it said, “kids were nearly killed.

But the Mansfield mailer omitted a key detail: Some of the local school policies that it was attacking were initially implemented three years ago, not as part of a liberal takeover of the suburban school system, but at the urging of Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the Trump administration.

The mailers reflected a growing belief among some conservative parents, both in Mansfield and nationally, that school programs meant to address students’ emotional well-being have become vehicles for indoctrinating children with progressive ideas about race, gender and sexuality. The flyers, sent in mid-April ahead of a school board election, also previewed how some prominent Republicans would respond one month later after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas — making a visceral connection between anti-racism initiatives in schools and parental fears about the physical safety of their children.

 

 

Florida student to NRA and Trump: ‘We call BS’

Emma Gonzalez, a student at the Parkland, Florida high school where 17 people were left dead after a mass shooting, calls out President Trump and the NRA by name at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

Kids chant… “the NRA has go to go!”

 

Republican Florida lawmakers refuse to consider assault weapons ban despite call for tougher gun control laws

 

 

Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, there have been 200 school shootings. But on Capitol Hill and in many state legislatures, Republican lawmakers have blocked efforts to enact gun control. Wednesday’s shooting in Florida comes just days after President Trump released his budget, which proposes cutting millions of dollars from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

 

Calls to Re-Implement Assault Weapons Ban

 

Eric Swalwell SHREDS Republicans in SPEECH OF THE YEAR over inaction after Uvalde

By REFUSING to outlaw assault weapons, HEARTLESS Republicans proved they don’t care about kids being murdered in schools like Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas High School. People have to get a license to drive a car… they also should be required to pass some kind of tests to own a gun.

 

19 students and 2 adults are dead after a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

At least 20 people, including 19 children, were killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, according to law enforcement officials. Several others, both students and adults, are being treated for injuries.

 

Texas school shooter’s text messages reveal timeline of events

 

U.S. Gun Culture Wasn’t Always Like This

 

 

Lawrence: Republicans Don’t Want You To Know The Truth About TX School Massacre

For years, Republicans have argued that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the mass murder of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, has again proven that Republican plan will never work.

 

Preventable But Predictable: Activist Slams Abbott, GOP After 18 Children Killed In TX Shooting

Eighteen children are dead after the deadliest mass shooting of 2022 occurred at a Texas elementary school. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by activist Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting, to discuss the shooting and the need for gun reform in America. Guttenberg reacted to Mitch McConnell’s response to the shooting, telling Melber that “he probably put out the exact same statement after my daughter was killed.”

 

After Texas Massacre, GOP Pushes False Narrative In Support Of Guns

After 19 children and two teachers were killed at a Texas elementary school in a mass shooting, Republicans are pushing the false narrative that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” MSNBC’s Ari Melber fact-checks the GOP’s claims, citing a study that reveals armed guards at schools “do not prevent school shootings or gun-related incidents.”

 

GOP Resistance To Gun Laws Is ‘Because Of Apathy About The Deaths Of Those Kids’

Writer-at-large at the Bulwark Tim Miller and journalism and politics professor at Morgan State University Jason Johnson on Republicans resisting political pressure to pass gun safety legislation despite the vast majority of Americans supporting common sense gun reform.

 

‘Hunting Human Beings’: Outrage At GOP For Blocking Gun Control After Texas School Massacre

Amidst renewed calls for action against gun violence, top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer is slamming his Republican colleagues for blocking gun safety legislation. MSNBC’s Ari Melber explains how this pattern is not new and interviews former DNC chair and Vermont governor Howard Dean and former Sandy Hook library clerk Mary Ann Jacob about what needs to get done to protect Americans from gun violence. Dean asserts, “This is hunting human beings. And these weapons are completely unnecessary.”

 

Lawrence: GOP Position Is Kids Have To Die Because The Constitution Says So

Texas Democratic candidate for Governor Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference in Uvalde, Texas, being chaired by his political rival, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott, telling Abbott the Uvalde shooting was “totally predictable.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers that and how the Republican solution to school shootings didn’t work in Uvalde, Texas.

 

Being Murdered In School Is A Uniquely American Way Of Death

May 24, 2022 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers the tragic news of yet another mass shooting in an American school, this time an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and looks back at the history at this uniquely American way of death.

 

Republican Tells THE TRUTH About Gun Control

Republicans are owned by the NRA and gun lobbies. Although over half of Americans want Assault Weapons banned and enhanced background checks to stop mentally ill people from getting guns, Republicans don’t care and will continue to do nothing. The only solutions is to vote Republicans out of office.

 

President Obama and parents of murdered Sandy Hook children makes statements from the Rose Garden following REPUBLICANS blocking common-sense measures to reduce gun violence. April 17, 2013.

 

 

 

 

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in which 20 children were massacred with a semi-automatic weapon demonstrates the need for legislation restricting such weapons.

 

Trump signed law to help Mentally Ill Get Guns

Rachel Maddow points out the irony of Donald Trump’s remarks that the Las Vegas shooter was “sick and demented” when one of Trump’s first legislative accomplishments was a law to make it easier for the mentally ill to get guns.

 

Florida school shooting: Details emerge in timeline, what we know about suspect

 

 

Republicans have put receiving DONATIONS and keeping their JOBS above protecting children’s lives!

 

Trump signed law to help Mentally Ill Get Guns

Rachel Maddow points out the irony of Donald Trump’s remarks that the Las Vegas shooter was “sick and demented” when one of Trump’s first legislative accomplishments was a law to make it easier for the mentally ill to get guns.

 

How A Handgun Is Different To An AR-15

Stephanie Ruhle takes a look at what teachers would be up against, if they were armed with a handgun and confronted with an AR-15. MSNBC Terrorism Analyst Malcolm Nance explains just how outgunned these teachers would be.

 

Proof That AR-15s Are Weapons Of War

The death toll from the shooting in Colorado may be unusual in most countries, but it’s common in the U.S. because the alleged killer used an “AR-15 style rifle,” a weapon explicitly meant for going on offense and not defense. In this special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber traces the origins of the weapon and its intended use, how civilians came about using it in increasing numbers, and what makes it so deadly. This is an excerpt from a longer special report. Aired on 03/23/2021.

Two days before the deadly riots at the Capitol, the NRA sent a letter to its members claiming that under the Biden administration, armed government agents would “storm your house, take your guns and haul you to prison.”

The LIE that the NRA and Republicans continue to peddle that… “Democrats want to take your guns away” is TOTAL BS!

They use this ridiculous lie to make sure low-information people ALWAYS vote for Republicans, who want to take away their Healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while giving Tax Breaks to the Rich.

Amazing how almost half of the people in this country are so stupid that they consistently vote for Republicans… who consistently do NOTHING for them.

 

Who is Wayne LaPierre? – CEO of the NRA & Trump Campaign Backer

Meet Wayne LaPierre, the radical pro-gun advocate responsible for the ‘good guy with a gun’ theory, “Obama’s coming for your 2nd Amendment freedom” and “Democrats want to take away your guns” nonsense.

 

Video Title from Youtube: Is NRA Funneling Russian Mob Money To Trump?

Video Description from Youtube: The FBI is investigating whether the NRA used Russian money to support Trump’s campaign.

 

Video Title from Youtube: Is Russia funding the NRA?

Video Description from Youtube: Is Russia funding the NRA? The FBI is looking into whether the Kremlin used the NRA to illegally funnel cash to Donald Trump’s campaign. In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, the CBC’s Wendy Mesley speaks to former Florida congressman Alan Grayson about the NRA’s influence over GOP politicians and Russia’s alleged connections to the organization.

 

Radical Right Wing Republicans are responsible for mass shootings in schools since 2004 because President George W. Bush let the Assault Weapons Ban expire in 2004. Radical Right Wing Republicans have refused since then to allow it to be renewed.

Under the 1994 Clinton Administration Assault Weapons Ban, the maximum capacity of a magazine was set at 10 rounds. AR-15s were one of 18 semiautomatic weapons banned under the 1994 law that expired in 2004 despite broad public support and a drop in gun fatalities.

Since then, killers have used semiautomatics to target victims en masse at Virginia Tech in 2007; the Fort Hood military base in 2009; the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado in 2012; a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012; Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, CT in 2012, the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2016, the 2017 Las Vegas shooting which left 58 people dead, the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fl in which 17 students died and mass shooting on March 22, 2021 at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, CO in which 10 people were killed.

Since Republicans have consistently refused to make assault weapons illegal, they are responsible for ALL mass shootings in the United States in which assault weapons were used.

 

When the 2nd amendment was written, muskets were the “arms” the writers of the constitution were referring to, not semi-automatic weapons with a hundred rounds of ammunition

86 Percent of Americans support background checks on people purchasing guns and limiting access to semi-automatic assault weapons, but the NRA is doing everything possible to thwart the will of the American people. The NRA don’t give a DAMN what the American people wants.

The LIE that the NRA and Republicans continue to peddle that… “Democrats want to take your guns away” is TOTAL BS!

They use this ridiculous lie to make sure low-information people ALWAYS vote for Republicans, who want to take away their Healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while giving Tax Breaks to the Rich.

Amazing how almost half of the people in this country are so stupid that they consistently vote for Republicans… who consistently do NOTHING for them.

 

Former NRA President gave a graduation speech in front of 3,000+ empty chairs, each one representing a child lost to gun violence, to a non-existent University

 

Mass shootings in the US: A timeline

The shooting at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas just became the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Here’s a timeline of the other tragic, deadliest mass killings in the United States from Pulse to the University of Texas clock tower massacre

 

Bill Moyers calls out and exposes the NRA

 

 

More than a dozen companies have cut ties with the National Rifle Association (NRA) as a boycott campaign gathers pace in the aftermath of the school shooting in Parkland Florida this month.

The firms range from car rental companies such as Hertz to insurance firms like U.S. corporation MetLife.

Full list of companies to have boycotted the NRA so far:

Alamo Rent a Car
Avis
Allied Van Lines
Bestwestern
Budget
Chubb Insurance
Delta Air Lines
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
First National Bank of Omaha
Hertz
MetLife
North American Van Lines
Paramount Rx
SimpliSafe
Symantec
TrueCar

 

Kids chanting “The NRA has Got to Go”

 

Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s Explosive Expose on How the NRA Terrorizes Congress | EURweb

The Oregon massacre sparked national fury and a renewed debate over how the NRA has stymied all national gun control measures. Author and nationally syndicated columnist Earl Ofari Hutchinson details the NRA’s massive two decade long campaign to intimidate Congress to torpedo any and every gun control bill.

The NRA uses intimidation tactics to make Republican Politicians do what they want as reported in the book “How the NRA Terrorizes Congress”.

I am sick and tired of special interest groups controlling congress.

Congress is supposed to serve the American people, not the NRA.

 

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The Aurora Shooting and the Snake Oil Peddlers of the NRA

I am sick of hearing the NRA and its supporters say, “Guns don’t kill people, people do.” Absolutely, but why in God’s name do we have to make it that much easier for them to do so?

GOP blocks bill to stop terrorists from buying guns

A day after the San Bernardino massacre, Republicans rejected a bill aimed at preventing terrorists from getting guns.