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Things are getting too crazy in this country. It is hard to talk about it, but #itstimetotalk.
I am a doctor. I have sewn up teenagers shot by other teenagers so their parents could view their body. #itstimetotalk
I have have counseled survivors when their ex tried to take them out with a gun because their feelings were hurt. #itstimetotalk
Students can amass weapons and walk into their high school or campus and slaughter their classmates. #itstimetotalk
When a terrorist plans to blow up a plane with a liquid explosive, none of us can bring our water bottles through security. #itstimetotalk
Mind you, those "dangerous" water bottles end up in a bin next to the TSA agents, and the next people in line. #itstimetotalk
An immigrant who came here illegally hurts an American and our government plans to spend billions on a wall to keep them out...
(while telling millions of Americans that they don't deserve health care because they aren't rich enough) #itstimetotalk
A team of Saudi hijackers drive planes into buildings, so our POTUS bans many non-Saudi Muslims from entering US. Huh? #itstimetotalk
But when a rich white guy goes on a power trip and murders 58 people at a concert from his Las Vegas suite with a gun capable of hitting...
...hundreds of people in 15 minutes, then the rich white guys in our government, bribed by the rich white gun lobbyists, say ...
..."It's too soon to talk about regulating guns." It's not too soon. The time is now. #itstimetotalk
Trump made it easier for mentally ill people to buy guns. This wasn't fulfilling a campaign promise. He wasn't elected to do that...
...It was a gimme to the NRA (why do they want mentally ill people to have better access to guns? - think about that one) #itstimetotalk
The GOP was about to introduce a bill to make gun silencers easier to get. Silencers make murderers harder to find. None of us want this...
...but the NRA does. When the GOP is working for the gun lobbies to make it easier to kill Americans in exchange for money, ...
...that is the definition of corruption. It is borderline treasonous. The NRA doesn't want us to talk about it. #itstimetotalk
The NRA is rumored to be willing to talk about banning bump stocks that convert semi-automatic weapons into rapid-fire death machines...
...That is because they don't want us to talk about these weapons & the other ways potential murderers can modify them. #itstimetotalk
We can't let a powerful gun lobby bully us or bribe our leaders into taking away this conversation. #itstimetotalk
Men are dying. Women are dying. Children are dying. This is an epidemic. But it's not easy to cure. We need to talk about it #itstimetotalk
One of these things is not like the other. Our country is different, special even, by design. We need to change this stat. #itstimetotalk 
