Your kid, or the kids of someone you care about, could be next. There’s only one thing you can do about it, and in the words of this former GOP Congressman, it's really pretty simple.
Former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) on Wednesday argued American voters must flip the House of Representatives to a Democratic majority if they want Congress to address gun control in the wake of a Florida high school shooting that left at least 17 people dead and others injured.
“And so if this is the issue that defines your ideology as a voter, there are two things I would suggest tonight. First, flip the House. Flip the House,” Jolly told “CNN Tonight.” “Republicans are not going to do a single thing after this shooting we saw today. But I would also offer to Democrats, work for incremental wins.”
There is no way that Republicans are ever going to take any action to control the sale and spread of assault weapons in this country. Republicans in the U.S. Congress are conditioned to fellate the barrel of a gun from the moment they choose to run for office:
“The idea of gun policy in the Republican Party is to try to get a speaking slot at the NRA and prove to that constituency that you’re further right than generations past of Republicans have been on guns,” he said.
Donald Trump took more money from the NRA than any President in History. He is never going to do anything to stop the incessant flow of high-powered weapons into the hands of anyone who wants one, no matter their mental state, no matter their criminal history. Donald Trump also fellates the gun barrel right before he goes to bed every night. And he doesn’t give a damn whether your kid is caught in the crossfire.
This doesn’t happen any where else in the world because citizens of everywhere else in the world have had the sense not to allow their government to be bought by the gun industry. Nor have those people in other countries bought into the bullshit “Red Dawn” scenarios that drive a swath of ignorant and infantile maniacs in this country to justify themselves as somehow “prepping” for some sort of imaginary government “oppression” to compensate for their sorry-assed masculinity issues.
Jolly is right, although he didn’t have the guts to say it while he was in office. Funny how that works with Republicans.
You want to stop these killings? Elect Democrats who will do something about it.