The NRA is delaying political advertisements set to run in Virginia following the mass shooting in Las Vegas that left at least 59 dead and more than 500 injured. “I know you’ll be bullied for speaking out”, she wrote.
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Clinton took to Twitter to offer her condolences to the victims while also criticizing the National Riffle Association for its efforts to make it easier to buy silencers for guns. “The NRA was fighting against the cop-killing bullets and plastic guns, and we got into an alliance with law enforcement and we just got together and said, ‘What’s the first thing we should do?’ And we all said, ‘Background checks'”. This factor, he suggested, would have made it an unlikely device for the Las Vegas shooter.
“Nowhere but America do horrific large-scale mass shootings happen with this degree of regularity”, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said in a statement. Here’s a video of a suppressed full-automatic gun. “People wanted to kill us because we wanted to end gun violence”, she wrote.
San Francisco Chronicle: Stephen Paddock, a Nevada retiree who appears to have no criminal record, will be united with every one of his long line of predecessors not by his motive, creed, race, nationality or particular sickness, but by his ability to obtain extremely deadly weapons. She also hadn’t a clue as to what kind of existing or proposed gun law (if any) could have possibly prevented this attack, or whether or not the NRA even opposes or would oppose such a law.
“We have a very strong gun culture, especially in rural Nevada and in Mesquite which is where the shooter is from”, says Natalie Hernandez, a gun violence prevention organizer with the group Battle Born Progress.
The former Secretary of State added: “The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots”. But stars and politicians like Lady Gaga and Hillary Clinton aren’t giving up, and are insisting that lawmakers and elected officials fight for a safer nation. “We as a society need to stand up and say it’s time to take action, and stop talking”.
But in her mind she is the president and America needs to hear from her. Chipman now works as senior policy adviser for Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun control group started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). He plans to travel to Las Vegas Wednesday – after meeting today with storm victims in Puerto Rico.
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The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter calls out a “shadow government” in which the people helping to write gun laws are the same people profiting from sales of guns, pointing out, “The N.R.A. would like to keep it that way”. People are often more desperate for a narrative than they are facts.
