The problem is getting worse and the carnage will continue as long as the NRA controls congressional Republicans.
But we can’t seal our borders. And much of the nation is frozen by inaction. In Washington, the elected officials feeding at the financial trough of the NRA continue sacrificing the public’s interest for their personal political ambitions.The Uvalde massacre was the worst school shooting since 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. Many thought back then that Congress would act. They were wrong.
The mostly Republican gun-rights cabal in Congress continues to block renewal of the national assault-weapons ban that expired in 2004, even though data shows mass-shooting-related homicides were reduced when the ban was in effect.
Nothing seems to move Republicans in Congress. Not the 58 people killed on the Las Vegas strip in 2017; 49 in an Orlando nightclub in 2016; 26 at a Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017; 20 at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart in 2019; 14 at a San Bernardino center helping the developmentally disabled in 2015; 12 at a Thousand Oaks nightclub in 2018; 12 at a Virginia Beach, Va., municipal building in 2019; 11 at a Pittsburgh, Penn.
It was only hours after the Uvalde children were killed in their classroom that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, the
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