The mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed at least 19 children and two teachers has reignited the fierce debate over gun control among lawmakers in Washington. NBC News’ Allie Raffa breaks down how lawmakers from both sides of aisle are responding to the latest school shooting and whether any legislation could be introduced to address the shooting.
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The GOP wants to control the narrative here, a narrative that will keep the gun lobby happy and create the illusion that they are actually doing something, when in truth, the gun manufacturers will become more entrenched. Being Republican today is being anti american. Self righteousness, intolerance and greed seem to be the prevailing "conservative values", but they are not American values
God is the only way. Love is the only answer.
Selah.
America seems to be stuck in this insane loop……mass shooting….debate….inaction….move on…..repeat. very glad I wasn't born there
Protect or confiscate. The purposeful erosion of mortality increases & degenerates doing despicable things will only increase.
It's time for @rmed guards and cameras at every school everywhere. No excuses
💡 “Peace [and security/safety, whether between nations or within society] is a m a t t e r of e d u c a t i o n, and impossible of achievement until we have learned to deal charitably, justly, and openly with one another, as nations as well as individuals. As long as we manufacture arms, peace [and personal and public safety] will not become established. It should become our aim and object to do all we can toward the a b o l i t i o n of militarism [and of the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition] in all countries and the establishment of the principle of arbitration of difficulties.”
~ Max Heindel (July 1918. SoCal), the Western Mystic
In face of such heinous tragedy/massacre(s) made practicable through the awkwardness of interests of arms manufacturers and politicians issuing laws allowing indiscriminate possession of firearms, feeling legitimated by the apathetic indifference of the ordinary men and women, one can but pray that «May the kingdom of Christ soon superseded the kingdom of men, for they have certainly shown themselves inefficient rulers.» 🙏
🌹 To Those Who Mourn (✝️ Matthew 5:4) – – Why Children Die and Where They Go?
☞ “Children who die before the seventh year have only been born so far as the dense and vital bodies are concerned and are not responsible to the Law of Consequence. Even up to twelve or fourteen years the desire body is in process of gestation, as will be more fully explained in another lecture, and as that which has not been quickened cannot die, the dense and vital bodies alone go to decay when a child dies. It retains its desire body and mind to the next birth. Therefore it does not go around the whole path which the Ego usually traverses in a life cycle, but only ascends to the First Heaven to learn needed lessons, and after a wait of from one to twenty years it is reborn, often in the same family as a younger child.”
— The Rosicrucian Christianity Lectures (quoted from Lecture Six), 1908
Every politician should feel shamed for their no action to mass shooting.
"This only happens in this country". We are the only developed country that has this problem. This should be the top-priority of this country. We had 20k+ gun-related homicide in 2021. I guess we have enough people who are not compassionate enough to get this fixed and to do even just the very minimum to pay a meaningful respect to the past victims. There are even plenty people giving you all kinds of excuses why one shouldn't be doing anything about it, so that they can keep their toys. This says so much about what we are as a whole.
Nearly all schools in the U.S. were built long before these mass school shootings began– even Sandy Hook Elementary, which had entry protocols in place, couldn’t stop the shooter. Schools were built with a “welcoming” architecture; they weren’t built to be fortresses against people armed with assault rifles. If the Supreme Court can backtrack on Roe v. Wade–to protect the right-to-life of the unborn, then surely it (and the rest of our government officials) can support a ban on assault rifles to protect the right-to-life of the living.
In my opinion, there is absolutely NO WAY for the US to fix this gun violence issue, unless they remove the Second Amendment. Because let's be real, no other country on Earth has to deal with things like this other than the US, which is the only country that lets its citizens buy/use pistols/assault rifles like in the Wild West! They can try as much as they want, they won't be able to fix it unless they give up on that.
You must understand that you cannot have it all… You cannot have guns to protect yourselves, and at the same time no gun violence. That's not how it works.
in this developed country, all we've developed is mental illness, angst, hatred, and ignorance…
We need an snti violence hate crime bill for Blacks/African Americans. #BUFFALO
It's not politicians, it's The Republican Party, you see they get Donations from the N.R.
A.. Governor Abbott received $13,000 from them to ease Gun control Laws and did just that.😳 He lowered the age restriction from 21 to 18. He is a FAKE. Not one of the 50 Republican Senators will vote on gun control Laws that are still on the Senate floor. Why? Because they all take money from the N.R.A.. THEY, are bought and sold. Now, Mitch McConnell got $1.3 million 🙀 Ex-president Trump, over 30 Million 😲
This weekend the N.R.A. was/is holding a convention in Texas. Google what any Republican Senator gets from the N.R.A. Go ahead! See what hypocrites they are. 90% of Americans want stricter gun control Laws. They do not. Vote them out. They are 🤑🤑🤑 greedy money hungry 🤡🤡🤡 doing nothing for us, but, collecting money from interest groups. 🤔 Really 😔
Cruz what a deluded div.. imagine his reaction if that was one of his children
Republicans love guns too much. For them, their right to buy weapons is more important then anything else. If there’s some shootings, too bad. Live goes on.. nothing will ever change in USA regarding this issue. People are sick in the head and well armed. Senators have to obey to Smith Wesson, Phillip Morris and Pfizer.
This guy is heartless
What’s the point? Just pray that your kid you care about doesn’t suffer the same fate as these kids.
This Governor needs to be voted out and all those like him (Tx FL, GA etc) who fail to do something need to be voted out asap. Someone said he had a constitutional right to have a gun. Constitution my foot! How many other constitutional rights of people have been restricted throughout history in this so called free country?! Don't get me started because I'll name some. The country and/or politicians have no problem forbidding certain other rights or certain other people from doing and having things but when it comes to guns they say "ohhhh its his right". Blacks were forbidding in this Christian country through redlining and Jim a crow laws fot decades after slavery from voting and living peacefully in any neighborhood of their liking and it was legal. Even though its was their right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Its a women's right to have an abortion according to the all mighty constitution yet governors and legislators are now working to overturn it. So just because something is written in the constitutional doesn't mean it can't be improved to be more ethical and moral.
America is not free at all. Oh yeah free to live in fear. We pay good money to live in a 3rd world country. I recall when the world considered places like Venezuela, Nicaragua, parts of Mexico as dangerous to live. Even they don't put up with children being shot in class, church, etc. Insane!! The thing that would help mental health is not having so many mass shootings.
more laws are not going to stop this. A focus on mental health is the way to help mitigate these situations. Its an obvious mental health issue. Gun Control is the political go to. Sadly, a politician writing anther law doesn't solve this and write it away.. A longer real solution needs to be focused on with mental illness.
It’s truly sad that these days in this developed country a parent has to be more anxious about whether their student will be safe in the classroom more than getting good grades
Texas has always been part of the problem. God is watching.
if gun control is about the mental issue, indeed, the Great Replacement theory is the one, yet allowing the public to access the use of guns is the only mental problem.
Teach safety instead of banning
Arm our American Teachers
There needs to be at minimum at thorough background check and periodic checks every so many years it would help eliminate the ones who are responsible vs the ones who are extreme. No other civilized country has this problem but us. The sad part about it we have more guns than people in the United States. Something needs to change, but most likely nothing will change. We will do a moment of silence at a couple national level events and in a month or so the nation will move on to business as usual until the next mass shooting happens again. What about the families and community affected by these types of acts? They will have to live the rest of their lives while we move on and that is BS!!! Heck the Governor is giving a speech at the NRA event on Friday. This event should be canceled like a MF, but no he will go a preach to his base about we need more guns like this event didn't even happen. Greg Abbott makes me sick to be a Texan right now. 2Pac said it best some things will never change…
Good thing it was a crazy gun and not crazy person.