The group “Missouri RINO watch” regularly targets MO Republicans they deem not extreme enough. This group regularly incites violence against “RINOS.” They have championed Missouri’s most extreme, including Senators Rick Brattin & Bob Onder, whose wives are active members. #MoLeg
You would think that after Missouri Republican candidate for US Senate called for the hunting and killing of political opponents (within his own party) today, Senator Onder and Senator Brattin’s wives would have distanced themselves from this terrorist organization. #MoLeg#MoSen
But instead they remain silent, while the threats of violence continue. #MoLeg#MoSen
For reference, this is also Senator Bob Onder’s wife. 👇🏻
And this is Missouri Senator Rick Brattin explaining on the Senate floor that convicted domestic abusers should be able to keep and purchase firearms because “maybe they were just having a bad day.”
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1/ Tomorrow for Father’s Day, I’ll sit & have a beer at my dad’s gravesite. At his funeral, I was able to speak about him. I typed my words out in case I needed someone to step in for me that day. I’m so grateful I kept this. Everyone deserves a person like this.❤️
🧵I’m going to be real for a minute. Gun enthusiasts show up in my DMs & mentions daily. Usually with pictures of their guns, threats, or petty little statements. But here’s the thing. You can’t scare me. No matter how hard you try. @MomsDemand
I was raped with a loaded gun pressed against my head before I was old enough to vote. You don’t scare me. I kept going. @MomsDemand
I was on the other end of the phone, pleading with my best friend not to do it? when I heard the gunshot. He died by suicide using his father’s gun before I was old enough to buy myself a beer. You don’t scare me. I kept going. @MomsDemand
🧵I’ve listened to folks gripe about their freedom a whole lot over the last few years. Freedom from masks, freedom to control what kids can read, to control what teachers can teach, freedom to carry military grade firearms while running in to pick up bread and milk…@MomsDemand
Freedom to buy a gun without a background check, freedom to own guns after beating your wife (yes, that’s legal in MO), freedom to shoot anyone any time you feel threatened. Hell, I’ve even had to listen to you gripe about your freedom to have fountain sodas and roller dogs, FFS.
Thanks to your grievances & hissy fits over your freedom, we’ve been robbed of ours. You know what freedom doesn’t look like? Memorizing what your kids are wearing every morning in case you have to ID them. Ordering bleed kits so you can apply your own tourniquet if shot…
The 18 y/o #Uvalde shooter was armed with legally purchased firearms, 375 rounds of ammunition, and seven 30-round magazines. At least 1 gun and some ammunition was purchased from Daniel’s Defense. Below is a recently deleted Daniel’s Defense tweet dated 5/16. @MomsDemand
In 2014, Daniel Defense & the NFL got into a spat over a controversial Super Bowl ad that DD wanted to air. The NFL denied this claim. abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline…
CEO Marty Daniel received a $20 million contract with US Special Forces in 2002. Daniel Defense is now 1 of the largest privately owned gun manufacturers in the U.S. with sales nearing $100 million. The company had at least $3 million in government contracts in recent years.
This goes to every Republican tweeting out their hollow thoughts and prayers after spending years voting down life saving gun safety legislation and supporting laws that make it even more deadly to be an American. Not sure if your legislators fall in this category? Let me know.
Thanks to @piper4missouri for pointing out that by law, women in Missouri can’t divorce their abusive partners while pregnant. Throw in the fact that 1 year ago today, the MO GOP decided that these abusers can keep their guns. #MoLeg
Making matters even worse, studies have shown that pregnant people in the US die more frequently of homicide (mostly by their partner) than from pregnancy-related causes. tinyurl.com/mr3ykcpf
We also need to discuss the disproportionate rates of maternal mortality in Black women. A report from the MO DHSS showed that Black women in MO died during pregnancy/within 1 year of pregnancy, at 4 times the rate of white women. tinyurl.com/4eme76p9