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Recently, Texas Senator John Cornyn, brought up my name in a senate hearing about an assault weapons ban. @JohnCornyn 🧵
While I’m glad that someone in DC still remembers our story- as the media pushed it away so quickly once it stopped being politically convenient- I take issue with him invoking us, just weeks after he led and organized a pack of other rep. rhinos to stamped over our 2A rights.
Don’t pretend my story means anything to you, after proving your willingness to hand over our constitutional freedoms without a fight. @JohnCornyn @GunOwners #2AShallNotBeInfringed
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#ElPasoShooting is now among the most deadly in US history
#LasVegas: 58 dead, 422 wounded
#PulseShooting, Orlando: 50 dead, 53 wounded
#VirginiaTech: 33 dead, 23 wounded
#SandyHook: 28 dead, 2 wounded
#SutherlandSprings: 26 dead, 20 wounded
#Parkland: 17 dead,17 wounded
#ElPasoShooting is now among the most deadly in US history
#LasVegas: 58 dead, 422 wounded
#PulseShooting, Orlando: 50 dead, 53 wounded
#VirginiaTech: 33 dead, 23 wounded
#SandyHook: 28 dead, 2 wounded
#SutherlandSprings: 26 dead, 20 wounded
#Parkland: 17 dead,17 wounded
Since the 2012 #SandyHook shooting there have been a quarter million gun-related deaths in the US with another 750k gun-related injuries.
Those numbers should shock everyone.
They shock the #CDC.
CDC Reports #GunViolence at All Time High
time.com/5479993/gun-de…
Those numbers should shock everyone.
They shock the #CDC.
CDC Reports #GunViolence at All Time High
time.com/5479993/gun-de…
I've always maintained that after #SandyHook America said guns mattered more than kids. 20 1st graders were murdered in their classroom & the US didn't pass a single law to stop it from ever happening again.
More than 7k kids have been shot & killed since.
newsweek.com/gun-violence-c…
More than 7k kids have been shot & killed since.
newsweek.com/gun-violence-c…
A new federal Assault Weapons Ban #HR1296 has been introduced in the House by @davidcicilline (with 190 co-sponsors). As a good deal of evidence in support of such a ban is drawn from my research on the 1994 #AWB, it's worthwhile to review some of my findings. 1/
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The 1994 #AWB took effect on Sept. 13, 1994, and it remained in force for exactly 10 years, expiring on Sept. 13, 2004. The primary goal of the 1994 #AWB was to reduce mass shooting violence. The 1994 ban was a direct response to five mass shootings from 1989-1993. 2/
The 5 mass shootings: 1989—Cleveland Street Elem. School in Stockton (5 dead); 1989—Standard Gravure in Louisville (8 dead); 1991—Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen (23 dead); 1993—101 California St. in San Francisco (8 dead); and 1993—Long Island Rail Road near Garden City (6 dead). 3/
(1) I #resisted following the March for Our post-birth Lives but some of the photos are too good not to share. In this one, a proud American NRA member who happens to be black peacefully protests the idiocy. Arguably, he has more at stake than most of the kids marching. 
(2) If given the chance, I can make a very strong case for African Americans and "people of color" benefiting from this administration more than other groups. But the Left isn't interested in hearing it and resorts immediately to the expired race card.
(3) As @Dloesch is constantly telling us, black males are one of the groups, if not the group, most affected by gun homicides, especially in certain large cities, that have coincidentally been held by Democrats for many decades, and are supposed gun free zones (aka killing zones)
There is no such thing as “too soon” to talk about gun violence - there is only “too late.” #TexasChurchMassacre #SutherlandSprings (1/5)
The shooting in #SutherlandSprings is the deadliest church shooting in modern American history. Reports: 26 killed, 20 injured (2/5)
#Texas has seen more mass shootings (18) since January 2009 than any other state in the country. This is the third one *this year*. (3/5)
The MAIN mental health problem here is the sadomasochism of the White majority that keeps voting @GOP to arm and kill themselves and others.
It's egregiously delusional to expect that you can flood the streets with hundreds of millions of guns and still prevent rampant gun death.
The White American majority is in outright denial/disavowal of the decimation of its communities by random mass gun violence aka terrorism.
The shooting in #SutherlandSprings was among the worst in U.S. history.
3 of the 5 deadliest shootings have come in the past 2 years.
3 of the 5 deadliest shootings have come in the past 2 years.
This trend is tragic. It's horrifying. It is NOT normal. And we need your help to do something about it.
If you agree that thoughts and prayers are not enough to stop this senseless violence, add your name and join us: giffords.org
(1) My regular #PhotosThread starting with #POTUSinAsia: Hawaii, Japan, RoK, China, Vietnam, Philippines. Other pix: godlessnz.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/lin… 
(2) This is such an epic pic I restarted my thread with it. A tiny American hand high fives the hand of President Trump on arrival in Hawaii 
(3) ICYMI, today 15 photos were added to the previous thread, making it 65 tweets. What a week it was! 10/27-11/3/17
