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[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

“If you haven’t listened to the audio of the Uvalde shooting, you should. It is painful. It is disturbing. If ever there was a moment to shock the conscience of this country IT IS NOW,” @BetoORourke

Elect gun sense candidates. Text ELECTIONS to 644-33.

[Everytown @Everytown]

Every day, over 110 lives are stolen by gun violence. Too many of our lawmakers see these deaths and remain unfazed, unwilling to act.

So we're speaking their language. We've broken down how much money gun violence is costing Americans. Read more here:
https://t.co/HPaEtcQF9A

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

GOP Logic:
-Abortion: Ban it
-Marijuana: Ban it
-Immigration: Ban it
-LGBTQ books: Ban it
-Contraceptives: Ban it
-Dialogue on racism: Ban it
-Black author books: Ban it
-Guns: BANS DON’T WORK YOU SNOWFLAKES
#RoeVsWade

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Abortion rights for millions will evaporate because anti-abortion politicians have accumulated immense power at the state & federal level

Accumulating that much power is very expensive

Cash from major corporations helped make this happen

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https://t.co/UIkgATIrGC

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

NEW: Testimony today from the Texas Dept of Public Safety revealed that Eva Mireles, a Uvalde teacher, called her husband to say she’d been shot and was dying. When he tried to save her, he was detained, had his gun taken away, and was escorted away. https://t.co/9Em06tGkFG

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

FYI this isn't stopping. There have been 18 mass shootings SINCE Uvalde.

You need to know this. Because it's not going to stop until we do something.

1/ Here's just a sampling of the slaughter in the last six days:

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

I think it is important to be detailed because to say this was a "shooting" is sanitary. Children that young were killed by a weapon that shatters. Young kids would not have identification; they may not be recognizable. There are so many of them. Authorities are figuring 1/

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

School shootings are not fucking acts of nature, like hurricanes and tornadoes. They're man-made acts of inaction, of cowardice, of corruption by all lawmakers who refuse to pass laws PROVEN BY DATA to stop preventable, senseless shootings like in Uvalde.

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

In the United States, a person does not have the right to randomly get in a car and do whatever the hell they want in it. For starters, there are a hell of a lot of traffic rules no matter where you live. You must obey these. They are seen as common sense. (thread)

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

A child shot nine people at an Oxford, Michigan, high school today - killing three - and pundits will say the solution is MORE GUNS.

It’s a failed experiment: There are 400M guns in the hands of civilians here. If more guns made us safer, we’d be the safest nation in the world.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Read this. It’s from today in Texas.

Each day you choose to be too busy to join the anti-gun violence movement, you endorse this as the new normal for our kids. For your kids.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

In November 1923, Hitler’s attempted coup failed. But no one was held accountable. Ten years later, he took over Germany.

Trump’s January 2021 coup failed. But 9 months later, Trump still faces no consequences, and his co-conspirators are still in Congress.

[Dr Greg Kelly @drgregkelly]

Those who argue that #COVID19 is not a concern in children because it only rarely causes serious illness and death might be surprised to learn that there are whole fields of medicine devoted to preventing kids getting sick and dying from other rare conditions

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

This week's been hard, watching all of the graduation parties & last night attending graduation to collect a "shadow box." Now, I need to prepare myself for Fathers Day. Not looking for sympathy, looking for help. Let's send a message with 1,000,000 RT's of #DadsForGunSafety.

[Katy Armington @katyarmington]

Getting our nightly dose of Next as we have since the pandemic began and my four year old just asked, “where is Kyle Clark?” #heynext

[Mari Copeny @LittleMissFlint]

I'm Mari, a 13-year old from Flint, Michigan where we are 7 years without clean water.

I decided to tackle the water crisis nationally head-on by getting my own water filter to give to those in need of clean water immediately.

My goal is $500k.

https://t.co/4HeFdo2CyC

[Kris Brown | @KrisBrown.BradyUnited.org @KrisB_Brown]

As @gailcollins wrote here, the filibuster is deadly.

It has been used to stifle critical reforms for decades.

Few moments have shown the need for reform more than when the Senate killed background check legislation April 17, 2013. #AbolishTheFilibuster
https://t.co/beziIWmdgD

[Kris Brown | @KrisBrown.BradyUnited.org @KrisB_Brown]

Just like they do today, Americans in 2013 overwhelmingly supported expanding background checks.

Yet 8 years ago — despite having the support of 55 senators — a minority of anti-gun safety senators filibustered the bipartisan background check bill. https://t.co/wSug3Qiqex

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

While Americans are being gunned down in FedEx facilities, supermarkets, schools, massage parlors, places of worship, and their own homes, an entire political party is choosing to protect gun company profits over protecting the public. End the filibuster & it won't be up to them.