Seventeen people killed, fourteen others wounded in the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida yesterday.
Thirty mass shootings (i.e., where 4 or more people are shot), including eighteen school shootings, so far this year.
So here we are yet again, in a country ruled not by popular will, but by a handful of gun manufacturers, their lobbyists (if you want to talk about "pure evil," look no further than the National
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy, from the State where the gut- wrenching Sandy Hook school massacre occurred in 2012, speaks for us:
Don't tell me tomorrow isn't the appropriate time to debate gun violence. If you're a political leader doing nothing about this slaughter, you're an accomplice.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 15, 2018
BONUS: Sociopath Donald "Rump" Trump's FY 2019 budget would cut the funding for the Federal gun background check system by 16% ($12 million). They're consistently evil.
BONUS II: Former Florida Republican Rep. David Jolly on CNN--
“The idea of gun policy in the Republican party is to try to get the speaking slot at the NRA and prove [to] that constituency that you’re further right.”He further urged that, to have any hope of sane gun laws, voters must "First, flip the House. Flip the House."
BONUS III: Bess Kalb (a writer for Jimmy Kimmel) has responses to Twitter reactions from Republican pols, noting their NRA payoffs.
BONUS IV: Here's why Florida is such a welcoming place for gun violence.
