Following the most deadly mass shooting in American history Sunday night at a Las Vegas music festival, the left is already doing what they do best: politicizing a tragedy.
Twice-failed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, took to Twitter to criticize.
“The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots,” she tweeted. “Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.”
In a follow-up tweet, she added: “Our grief isn’t enough. We can and must put politics aside, stand up to the NRA, and work together to try to stop this from happening again.”
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut echoed Clinton—demanding that Congress “get off its ass and do something.”
“This must stop,” he wrote, via Twitter. “It is positively infuriating that my colleagues in Congress are so afraid of the gun industry that they pretend there aren’t public policy responses to this epidemic.”
He added: “The thoughts and prayers of politicians are cruelly hollow if they are paired with continued legislative indifference. It’s time for Congress to get off its ass and do something.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, also a Connecticut Democrat, reiterated his colleague’s claims: “It has been barely a year since what was previously the largest mass shooting in American history—the deadly attack at Pulse nightclub,” Blumenthal said in a statement. “In the interim, thousands more have been lost to the daily, ruthless toll of gun violence. Still, Congress refuses to act. I am more than frustrated, I am furious.”
Even former Vice President Joe Biden put in his two cents on Twitter: “How long do we let gun violence tear families apart? Enough. Congress & the WH should act now to save lives. There’s no excuse for inaction.”
Despite the left’s claims for “action” after the deadly shooting in Las Vegas, we know few facts about the killer—Stephen Paddock. Democrats and reporters know almost as little about firearms, conflating semi-automatic and automatic guns and routinely taking what the see in the movies as gospel. Moreover, mainstream media reports that machine guns are perfectly legal and easily attainable are extremely misleading if anyone bothered to review gun laws. These are not opinions made in the heat of the moment, but cold, hard facts that Americans need to hear.
AAN Staff
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