or the callous disregard shown by the Republicans for the death and suffering caused by gun violence.
https://democrats.org/news/republicans-refuse-to-discuss-gun-reforms-in-response-to-the-parkland-school-shooting/
"FEBRUARY 24, 2018
Since the Parkland school shooting, Republicans have said that common-sense gun reforms are not the answer, blamed seemingly everything but guns for the shooting, and even created conspiracy theories against student activists. While thousands of students across the country speak out and urge their legislators to take action to ensure another tragedy like this never happens again, Republicans continue to do nothing.
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Speaker Paul Ryan said Congress needs to “take a breath and collect the facts” and “step back and count our blessings” before addressing the Parkland school shooting.
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Senator Ted Cruz said “gun control is not the answer” to mass shootings.
Senator Mike Rounds said that assault weapons should not be “demonized.”
Rep Chris Collins said the response to the Parkland school shooting “should not be a gun control debate.”
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RNC spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany suggested that “thoughts and prayers” and “Christian values” are enough to avert school shootings.
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Rep. Jim Jordan said on mass shootings that “you can only pray and hope that this stuff will stop."
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Governor Matt Bevin said the cause of mass shootings “isn’t in the gun” but that “something culturally has changed” and blamed movies, music and video games.
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn blamed a “seediness that had crept into our culture” and specifically cited rap music and“TV shows and movies and things that seem to glorify violence.”
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Secretary Betsy Devos tied Fentanyl in schools to the Florida school shooting as “some serious cultural issues”that had to be addressed.
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Senator Ted Cruz said that “the reaction of Democrats to any tragedy is to try to politicize it” and “take away the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
White House spokesman Hogan Gidley called Democrats “grotesque” for talking about gun reforms in the wake of mass shootings.
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Rep Chris Collins said that the “liberal left” tries to politicize every tragedy and now wants to “take away all of our guns.”
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RNC Co-Chair Bob Paduchik said that Democrats “showed their true colors” of wanting to restrict people’s liberties when pushing for common-sense gun reforms.
Rep. Claudia Tenny said that “so many of the people who commit these mass murders end up being Democrsts."
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Former Rep. Jack Kingston said that student survivors of the Parkland school shooting were “hijacked by left-wing groups.”
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