After the Parkland shooting, Florida raised the age to purchase assault weapons. Last night, Florida House Republicans voted to reduce the age to purchase assault weapons back to 18. This action betrays the victims & survivors of Parkland. https://t.co/CbGKw8hIly
— Newtown Action Alliance (@NewtownAction) April 29, 2023
Category: Gun love
Purge pass
"Police in South Florida said they will not charge a neighbor for shooting at a car being used by a grocery delivery worker who ended up at the wrong address."https://t.co/odjp3FyCZ5
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) April 23, 2023
GOP gibberish
Republicans will watch your children die over and over and over again—and then they will specifically tell you they won’t do a single thing to stop it. #ElectionsMatter pic.twitter.com/nQSnlz2UXj
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) April 20, 2023
Show, don’t tell!
My compliments to whomever is directing the C-Span feed. No notes. https://t.co/s92G6YtuaC
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) April 15, 2023
Red flag laws
Just want to point out that many cops would lose their job with these laws, and maybe that’s why they’re so rare:
Police say the Louisville gunman is a 25-year-old former employee who reportedly texted a friend that he was suicidal and “would shoot up the bank."
Kentucky does not have a red flag law to allow police or family to obtain a restraining order to temporarily remove guns from…
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) April 10, 2023
It’s white people who want to hang on to guns
More than one-third of Black adults said they had a family member who was killed by a gun, compared with 17% of White respondents and 18% of Hispanic adults who participated in the study. https://t.co/GhbALr6qoU
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) April 11, 2023
Embarrassing
Keep in mind the other phenomenon we've seen this year: People going through mass shootings for the second time https://t.co/itlW3phOFm
Again, only in America https://t.co/ues7FJTJZ1
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) April 11, 2023
Token media Republicans don’t have to tell the truth
https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1645515911745470474
Tennessee, y’all
https://twitter.com/SIfill_/status/1643002657668300806
Do all the wrong things
The doors were locked.
The teachers were armed.
TN expanded firearm access.
The police arrived in minutes.
Covenant school had everything that MAGA GOP assured us prevents & stops mass shootings. And 3 babies & 3 adults were murdered in seconds.😳
IT’S—THE—GUNS#GunReformNow pic.twitter.com/bcmPFPeBY7
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) April 2, 2023