Liberal politicians, celebrities, journalists, and activists are leaping at the chance to advance their gun control agenda and blame their political opposition for the tragic shooting at an elementary school in Texas that left more than 14 children and one teacher dead.
Author Stephen King, athlete LeBron James, and director Rob Reiner were among the first celebs to demand gun control in response to the Robb Elementary School shooting on Tuesday.
GUN CONTROL NOW!
STOP THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS!— Stephen King (@StephenKing) May 24, 2022
The blood of every child that dies of gun violence in this country is on the hands of the Republican Party.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) May 24, 2022
My thoughts and prayers goes out to the families of love ones loss & injured at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX! Like when is enough enough man!!! These are kids and we keep putting them in harms way at school. Like seriously “AT SCHOOL” where it’s suppose to be the safest!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) May 24, 2022
The usual Democrat Party politicians like Hillary Clinton and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) quickly jumped on the tragedy to push for more gun control:
“After years of nothing else, we are becoming a nation of anguished screams. We simply need legislators willing to stop the scourge of gun violence in America that is murdering our children,” Hillary Clinton says after Texas elementary school shooting. https://t.co/bfC9IMz2IS pic.twitter.com/jeT7QUsvnW
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 24, 2022
I wish I could look at my 3 small kids & promise I’ll always protect them. That’d be a lie. America arms the most dangerous people to the teeth, leaving every child vulnerable to being shot in their class. This is not a policy defect. It is by GOP design.
RIP victims of #Uvalde
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) May 24, 2022
Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting: “What are we doing? What are we doing?…This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day.” https://t.co/Zh3OvUaIwm pic.twitter.com/TjJVoaFbRN
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 24, 2022
There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.
It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2022
Horrified and sickened by mass murder in broad daylight at Robb Elementary School in Texas. Our hearts grieve with the traumatized families of Uvalde.
Congress must confront the nightmare of gun violence in America and its savage toll on our people.— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) May 24, 2022
Another day, another mass shooting, and more silence from the gun lobby and Republicans who refuse to allow any gun safety reforms to occur. Reports that 14 elementary school students and a teacher have been murdered are beyond tragic.
— Senator Dianne Feinstein (@SenFeinstein) May 24, 2022
Heartbroken by today’s elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. No child or educator should ever fear going to school, and no parent should ever fear sending their child to school. We must end our nation’s gun violence epidemic.
— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) May 24, 2022
14 students and one teacher were killed today in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas.
My heart breaks for the parents, family, and community facing this unimaginable tragedy.
I’m horrified. I’m devastated. And I’m angry. We can and must do more to end gun violence.
— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) May 24, 2022
Commonsense gun safety laws work.
In CA, we have cut our gun death rate in half since the 1980’s.
We won’t solve this overnight — but let’s stop pretending that these mass shootings are an inevitable horror we have to experience on a regular basis.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 24, 2022
Today’s school shooting in Uvalde was heartbreaking and horrific. There are no good words to describe this grief and anger. I join the rest of Texas in praying for the families of the victims and those injured.
When will we act in meaningful ways to stop this?
— Mayor Adler | Get vaccinated! (@MayorAdler) May 24, 2022
Governor DeSantis has spent more time banning books & erasing LGBTQ+ kids than keeping our kids safe from gun violence, AND he plans to allow for permitless carry too. This DANGEROUS policy agenda uses kids as pawns & distracts us from solving real problems, like gun violence.
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) May 24, 2022
In the coming hours, we will begin to see the faces of more children whose lives have been stolen by yet another senseless act of gun violence in Texas. How much longer will we be willing to put the interests of the gun lobby over the lives of innocent people? #Uvalde.
— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) May 24, 2022
The United States has a gun violence epidemic — a rate of killing not seen anywhere else outside a war zone. THAT’S the real embarrassment.
Gun violence is a public health crisis. A national source of shame. pic.twitter.com/0x4U6upiTo
— Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (@RepBonnie) May 24, 2022
Robb Elementary students went to school today ready to laugh with friends, exchange ideas, and learn. Fourteen aren’t ever coming home.
These deaths come days after shootings in Buffalo, Houston, and here in Orange County. Another day is too long to wait to reduce gun violence.
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) May 24, 2022
As a mom, I cannot fully express how devastating it is to hear that 14 kids and their teacher were murdered in their classroom. How many more people have to die before our country takes on gun violence? https://t.co/KZog6s0IuU
— Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) May 24, 2022
Countless blue checkmark activists and journalists also piled on, blaming Republicans and the NRA for the evil actions of 18-year-old shooter Salvador Ramos.
the best way to address gun violence in America is to vote Republicans out of office and elect Democrats who will pass laws to restrict guns. full stop. people react to mass shootings by throwing up their hands and acting as if there’s no solution, but that’s not the case.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 24, 2022
#BREAKING: Well-Regulated Militia Opens Fire In Robb Elementary School in Uvalde TX; Cheap Thoughts And Useless Prayers Now Being Rushed To The Scene … more on this soon-to-be-forgotten-and-then-repeated story as it develops …
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) May 24, 2022
School shootings are not fucking acts of nature, like hurricanes and tornadoes. They’re man-made acts of inaction, of cowardice, of corruption by all lawmakers who refuse to pass laws PROVEN BY DATA to stop preventable, senseless shootings like in Uvalde.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 24, 2022
We demand and deserve a nation free of gun violence.
We demand more than Thoughts and Prayers.
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) May 24, 2022
14 children and a teacher are dead in Uvalde, Texas.
In 2019, I wrote in @PostOpinions: “After every mass murder, Republicans offer lame excuses and tawdry evasions in lieu of badly needed action.”
Tragically, nothing ever seems to change. https://t.co/w9Lq8lQtx9
— Max Boot 🇺🇦 (@MaxBoot) May 24, 2022
At the moment, Republicans Greg Abbott, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump are scheduled to speak at the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston in three days. Houston is only a few hundred miles away from Uvalde.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 24, 2022
Someone killed 14 children and 1 teacher at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. I’m wholly devastated.
We live in a society where power absolutely refuses to protect our children. How many more kids have to die before power makes radical changes to these horrific conditions?
— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) May 24, 2022
FOURTEEN kiddos. FOURTEEN empty seats tomorrow. FOURTEEN families devastated by senseless gun violence. This can’t just be “the way it is now.” 💔💔💔 https://t.co/xOLO8sn2ub
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) May 24, 2022
14 kids killed in Uvalde, Texas all because of someone’s freedom to own a gun being more important than our right to life.
Banning books doesn’t fucking protect children.
— Raleigh Bowman (@RaleighBowman) May 24, 2022
These shootings are a policy choice by Republicans. #Uvalde pic.twitter.com/All9XKSBWU
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 24, 2022
14 CHILDREN DEAD, 1 TEACHER IN UVALDE.
THE GOP HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS.
AGAIN.— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) May 24, 2022
If you are one of the spineless cowards held hostage by the gun-lobby and have been an obstacle to sensible gun reform, just shut the fuck up, right now. https://t.co/ajudOLH7mu
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) May 24, 2022
14 dead kids. A dead teacher. One week after 10 shoppers were killed in Buffalo. We shouldn’t have to live like this. Our kids shouldn’t have to live like this.
Here’s the truth: NRA-backed elected officials are actively choosing not to end gun violence. We all deserve better.
— Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) May 24, 2022
You know who the real “baby killers” are? Everyone who has blocked enacting laws to save the lives of children from gun violence.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) May 24, 2022
If you claim to be pro-life yet you refuse to do anything about the gun violence in this country, you can fuck all the way off. These poor families and still nothing ever changes.
— Dana Goldberg (@DGComedy) May 24, 2022
Enough. This is disgusting. Take action now.
Tell Congress to pass comprehensive legislation to reduce gun violence here: https://t.co/DZu9LCA2zR
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) May 24, 2022
Nothing can be done. https://t.co/mrRxMAExzF pic.twitter.com/mrydLOygv9
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 24, 2022
IT IS TIME TO POINT FINGERS. Any politician against gun control aided and abetted the shooter today. Simple fact. This doesn’t happen in other countries. Stop normalizing gun violence, both-side-ing violence, giving politicians a pass.
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) May 24, 2022
Texas is trying to force women to birth children just so they can be shot in school. Regulate uteruses but deregulate guns. Process that and make it make sense. #Uvalde #TXmassshooting #children
— Lucy Flores (@LucyFlores) May 24, 2022
How many children must die from #GunViolence before America changes its gun laws? We have a serious problem with a culture of violence in this Country. Enough is enough #gunreformnow
— Fred Menachem (@FredMenachem) May 24, 2022
Nothing is sacred to the Democrats as long as they can find a way to advance their political agenda.
Source: infowars
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