9 posts from Friday, May 27, 2022

I want to ask for a brief moment of silence as I read the names of these beautiful people, all young, wonderful lives ahead of them, their brave teachers whose lives were destroyed by an out-of-control lunatic. So we'll start. Alexandria Rubio, Aletha Ramirez, Amory Garza, Annabel Guadalupe Rodriguez, Eliana Cruz Torres, Ellie Garcia, Jacqueline Cazares, Jayla Nicole Silvero, Jayce Lovarnos, Jose Flores, Leila Salazar, McKenna Lee Elrod, Maitai Rodriguez, Miranda Mathis, Neveah Bravo, Rogilo Torres, Tess Marie Mata, Ozea Garcia, Javier Lopez. Two great and beautiful, brilliant teachers, Eva Morales, Irma Garcia. Thank you very much.

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This is not a matter of money, this is a matter of will. If the United States has 40 billion dollars to send to Ukraine, we should be able to do whatever it takes to keep our children safe at home.

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Now is the time to find common ground. Sadly, before the sun had even set on the horrible day of tragedy, we witnessed a now familiar parade of cynical politicians seeking to exploit the tears of sobbing families, to increase their own power and take away our constitutional rights. Every time a disturbed or demented person commits such a hideous crime, there is always a grotesque effort by some in our society to use the suffering of others to advance their own extreme political agenda. Even more repulsive is their rush to shift blame away from the villains who commit acts of mass violence and to place that blame onto the shoulders of millions of peaceful, law-abiding citizens who belong to organizations such as our wonderful NRA. When Joe Biden blamed the gun lobby, he was talking about Americans like you. And along with countless other Democrats this week, he was shamefully suggesting that Republicans are somehow okay with letting school shootings happen, they're not okay with it. This rhetoric is highly divisive and dangerous, and most importantly it's wrong. It has no place in our politics. As always in the wake of these tragedies, the various gun control policies being pushed. By the left would have done nothing to prevent the horror that took place, absolutely nothing.

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