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@BridgesUT83 @Diane_edits @baddestmamajama Or “nail in the coffin”

@Diane_edits @baddestmamajama Perhaps they were referring to “dead as a door nail” and just condensed it? I must admit, however, that I find that doubtful!

Guys I say this very gently: It’s spelled “whoa.”

Holy. Shit. What a brilliant, horrifying cover.

Today’s a great day to point out that the NRA successfully lobbied to cut off funding for gun injury & prevention research for 20 yrs after a 1993 study found keeping a gun in the home was strongly a/w an increased risk of homicide by an intimate acquaintance or family member. 1/

@Lenscapper1 @50_yow @a_standal @japonotlan There’s federal legislation that protects arms manufacturers and dealers, making them immune from these kinds of suits

How did an 18 year old living with his grandmother have 2 BRAND NEW Daniel Defense AR15 rifles, worth almost $5000, plus ammo, plus optics body armor AND a $70,000 F250 pick-up?

Beto: here are 4 solutions. Gun fetishists: his name isn't really Beto. Beto: opponents of my solutions take NRA blood money. GFs: Beto was rude at a photo op. Society is doomed. Media: the parties can't come together! We are so divided!

@marcslove 👏 👏 👏

One of the surviving kids on CNN: I used to want to be a police officer, but now I want to be a surgeon so I can help people.

@MacFarlaneNews This makes no sense. They didn’t think they could help injured children?

Police at press conference in Uvalde: “On-scene commander” determined situation had transitioned from active-shooter to “barricaded” gunman That’s why police didn’t breach door. They apparently didn’t believe more children were at risk at time.

Police: Ramos asked his sister for help to buy a gun in 2021. She refused

Every Texas Republican I've heard say it's not the time to politicize guns this week will be speaking at a political convention about guns this week in Houston.

@haleytalbotnbc I thought he was speaking by video

TX Gov Greg Abbott is CANCELLING his speech at the NRA annual forum tomorrow in Houston. He will be holding a press conference in Uvalde at 3:30PM CT.

Trained police officers are terrified of a person with an assault weapon. What more do we need to know in order to ban them?

@HatakeNighn @RKS_888 @AmandaSnJhn @eleeSexton @lauraapollo @Amy_Siskind @CNN This isn’t true. A gun at home is 4x more likely to be involved in an accidental shooting than self defense. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9715182/

@RKS_888 @AmandaSnJhn @eleeSexton @lauraapollo @Amy_Siskind @CNN More lives are saved by defensive use of firearms then are killed. The CDC estimates around 0.5 - 3million people are saved by defensive use of firearms per year in the US. While only ~18,000 are killed annually by guns. So logically banning guns may result in more deaths total.

This is just unthinkable: SEVEN police officers were inside the school but did not confront the shooter per @CNN. They waited "about an hour" for a Border Patrol tactical team to arrive. A full hour. Seven armed officers to one 18 year-old. The good guys with the guns?

As an ex prosecutor from Uvalde, I can say based on my past interactions with Uvalde PD, you will never know the truth about what went down in that school until every inch of video tape is released to the press.

@Doug_Abbott_10 @WolverineCorner @transscribe Cancel culture definitely an important point to make in a discussion about a school shooting that killed 21 people

@WolverineCorner @transscribe Sounds like I hit a nerve. Shouldn’t be canceling anyone, that’s the point.

If a weapon is so dangerous that a squad of police officers are too afraid to confront a single person wielding it, that weapon should be banned.

The moment that Greg Abbott said the Uvalde shooting “could have been worse” should be the end of his political career.

I just heard Texas governor Abbott say this about the school shooting at Uvalde. “It could have been worse.” ….to the parents of the children who were killed, no. It could NOT have been worse, you feckless assh*le. 😡

@HappyCowGF @MrGreene_1848 @JoshuaPotash usatoday.com/story/news/pol… you can just google columbine protocol and different articles will reference. Pre columbine my understanding is they approached these as likely hostage situations (setting up perimeter, negotiating with suspect, etc)

The cops let the shooter in, refused to go in and stop him, and then kept parents out. If this doesn’t change your views on policing I don’t know what will.

In the aftermath of the Uvalde shooting, Greg Abbott went to a re-election fundraiser while Beto O'Rourke went to donate blood. The difference could not be more obvious.

@HappyCowGF @JoshuaPotash Yeah I don’t think the situation could have been much worse. They also got one child killer by alerting the shooter to her hiding spot