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Matt Deitsch @MattxRed
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Oct 1st in Las Vegas, a year ago today, there was a massacre that we cannot afford to forget.

20,000+ at the Route 91 concert ran for their lives during Jason Aldean’s performance.

It’s been one year and NOTHING has changed at the federal level. It could happen again TODAY.
58 people shot and killed.

Another 480+ injured.

Mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sisters, sons, nephews, daughters, nieces, lovers.. the victims ages ranged from 20 to 67.

Some of those injured are still going through surgeries to remove shrapnel.
A neighbor I grew up next to in Parkland was at the Vegas concert and told me much later how he has PTSD... the experience of running for your life while bullets rain down. Seeing bodies drop.

He’s in his early 20’s and has a hard time speaking up about what happened.
When we were in Vegas on the #RoadToChange we met with survivors who told us how they hid under bleachers while they heard hundreds of shots coming down on the crowd.

Some sustained injuries from being trampled.

Others still need to remove shrapnel from their injuries.
I woke up the morning after the shooting comforting a friend who had lost someone they grew up with.

He was 20 and was shot protecting someone.

He had survived the initial attack and made it to the ER but they were unable to care for him in time.

Too many people needed help.
My friend @al3xw1nd asked @Pryan how can we stop something like the Vegas shooting from happening.

Speaker Ryan shrugged, smiled and said “I don’t know.”

I’ll never forget that cowardly reaction to the American problem of gun violence.

I’ll never forget the lack of leadership.
The Vegas shooting should’ve woken up the sellouts that run our country.

Instead we got thoughts and prayers then business as usual.

Then my brother and sister’s school got shot up 4 months later.

We’ve seen enough.

We can be better as a people and nation.
We saw promises after Vegas.

We saw promises after Parkland.

We need to demand action. We need to demand better leadership. We need to demand a higher value for human life.

Vote November 6th for our lives... we don’t want another massacre.
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