QOTD: "Their Little Smug Faces"

"I don't want to hear about how much they support law enforcement. I don't want to hear about how much they care about lives and the sanctity of lives yet, we all know in law enforcement that one of the biggest reasons that the Senate and Mitch McConnell and (Texas Sens.) John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and others are not getting into a room and having a conference committee with the House and getting the Violence Against Women's Act (passed) is because the NRA doesn't like the fact that we want to take firearms out of the hands of boyfriends that abuse their girlfriends. And who killed our sergeant? A boyfriend abusing his girlfriend. So you're either here for women and children and our daughters and our sisters and our aunts, or you're here for the (National Rifle Association).
So I don't want to see their little smug faces talking about how much they care about law enforcement when I'm burying a sergeant because they don't want to piss off the NRA. Make up your minds, whose side are you on? Gun manufacturers, the gun lobby, or the children that are getting gunned down in this country every single day."  (our emphasis) -- Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo, in an emotional, powerful statement challenging the coin-operated Rethugs who are holding up gun safety legislation, including the Violence Against Women Act. Acevedo and the Houston police were burying Sgt. Chris Brewster who was killed in the line of duty responding to a domestic violence call by a woman's abusive boyfriend. We need more in law enforcement like Chief Acevedo.

As long as the gun lobby is filling the campaign war chests of Rethuglicans politicians, you'll never get the smug look off of their faces.