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Aug 3, 2019 3 tweets 1 min read Read on X
Republicans know exactly why America, and no other developed country, endures these unending mass shootings. It's just that they place a higher value on their ability to own any gun they want to own than they do on not having Americans regularly slaughtered in mass shootings.
It's not a question of policy, or making reasoned arguments. You can't use logic to persuade someone to place a higher value on human life. And for the GOP, the ability to own as many guns as possible with as little paperwork as possible is worth the mass slaughter of Americans.
There could be a mass shooting every day, and Republicans would still prefer that access to guns not be regulated. We know this because that has been our reality for years.

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