Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting

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BY MAX GREENWOOD at the Hill

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/388404-parkland-father-calls-out-trump-mcconnell-ryan-after-santa-fe-shooting

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Speaking by phone to MSNBC, Fred Guttenberg accused President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) of embracing the National Rifle Association (NRA) and pushing school safety to the wayside.

"We have a president who stands up and embraces a gun lobby, the NRA, and says you should actually feel good about them," Guttenberg said of Trump, who spoke at the NRA's annual national meeting earlier this month. "We have Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan who sit on their you-know-what and have no spine and won't even talk about this, and it keeps happening."

"Here's what I predict: This November, this will be the No. 1 voting issue," he added. "And if you're wrong on this issue, we're going to fire you, because enough is enough is enough."

Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was killed in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has become an outspoken advocate for tighter gun restrictions since the attack in South Florida.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And what worries me is those filthy fucking fascist racist traitors in the house and senate

will do something minimal about guns JUST to get votes in November.

It wont be enough and it will be reversed down the road.

I just wish people who like food, clothes, air and water would stop voting for the party that wants to TAKE that from them, SIGH

[billh58]

2. This gentleman speaks truth

to power. The American people are fed up with irresponsible NRA bought-and-paid-for politicians who pander to a group of right-wing gun fanatics, and manufacturers of lethal weapons.

The Second Amendment is not a protective blanket for greed and profit, and does not preclude reasonable and much-needed regulation of dangerous products to protect our children and communities from endless gun deaths and violence of epidemic proportions.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. I am still trying to figure out what happened to the first half of the 2nd Amendment.....

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

[YessirAtsaFact]

7. Activist conservative judges

Indoctrinated by the federalist society.

In the early 80s I had an attorney tell me unequivocally that the second did not give individuals the right to own guns.

It was a series of NRA purchased court decisions that changed the precedent.

[bdamomma]

4. I am just

so hot with anger, 16 shootings so far this reported on Rachel, what I thought our children were our most valuable possession.

We have most inept sack of crap in the WH and the Congress who worship $$$$$$ and the NRA.

More dead kids this has got to stop. Life is not valued anymore.

[smirkymonkey]

5. +1000

Yes, but these assholes will tell you it's because there is not enough GOD in the schools. The problem is that there is too much fucking GOD in government and not enough reason.

[bdamomma]

6. It's horrible

we are loosing our souls, we have a very sick society, a 17 yr old did this I heard he was being bullied so you take lives instead of getting help??? It makes me do this and this