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2 interesting videos on You Tube, to watch:
Inside the NBA talk about Tragic Shooting in Texas
uploader / channel: House of Highlights
Chris Russo's response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas | First Take
uploader / channel: ESPN
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May 25, 2022 headline
Trump Said to Have Reacted Approvingly to Jan. 6 Chants About Hanging Pence
The New York Times
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Reader Comment under NYT Uvalde article
A proud Canadian
Ottawa, Canada
I am sorry to say this, but the latest incident of mass shooting calls into question whether the USA can truly be called a civilised country.
Time and time again politicians express the view that they don't have an answer as to why these shootings take place in the US but rarely elsewhere. Sorry, but they know the answer: too many guns in the country and lax firearm laws.
Look, we are not perfect in Canada, but we do not have the gun obsession south of our border. I am thankful I live in a country that does not give me the right to own a gun and I am also grateful I do not live in the USA.
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------ [excerpt, NYT article] -------------- The New York Times reached out on
Wednesday and Thursday to all 50 Republicans in the Senate to see whether they would support a pair of House-passed measures to strengthen background checks for gun buyers. Within hours of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Senate Democrats moved quickly to clear the way for possible votes on the two bills.
3 categories of answers given by Republican senators:
Open or undecided
Opposed or leaning no
Declined to answer or deflected
Open or undecided
Susan Collins, Maine
Kevin Cramer, North Dakota
Mitt Romney, Utah
Patrick J. Toomey, Pennsylvania
Opposed or leaning no
John Barrasso, Wyoming
Roy Blunt, Missouri
Ted Cruz, Texas
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina
Bill Hagerty, Tennessee
Josh Hawley, Missouri
Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
James Lankford, Oklahoma
Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming
Mike Rounds, South Dakota
Rick Scott, Florida
Richard C. Shelby, Alabama
Tommy Tuberville, Alabama
Roger Wicker, Mississippi
Declined to answer or deflected
Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee
John Boozman, Arkansas
Mike Braun, Indiana
Richard M. Burr, North Carolina
Bill Cassidy, Louisiana
John Cornyn, Texas
Tom Cotton, Arkansas
Michael D. Crapo, Idaho
Steve Daines, Montana
Joni Ernst, Iowa
Deb Fischer, Nebraska
Charles E. Grassley, Iowa
John Hoeven, North Dakota
Cindy Hyde-Smith, Mississippi
James M. Inhofe, Oklahoma
John Kennedy, Louisiana
Mike Lee, Utah
Roger Marshall, Kansas
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky
Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia
Jerry Moran, Kansas
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska
Rand Paul, Kentucky
Rob Portman, Ohio
Jim Risch, Idaho
Marco Rubio, Florida
Ben Sasse, Nebraska
Tim Scott, South Carolina
Dan Sullivan, Alaska
John Thune, South Dakota
Thom Tillis, North Carolina
Todd Young, Indiana ----------------- [end / NYT excerpt]
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a bill to propose:
§ The U.S. Senate, House, and Supreme Court chambers shall be protected by weapons regulations identical to those in whichever state has the most lenient gun laws.
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(a You Tube Viewer Comment)
~~ Maybe if these states stopped electing the same type of officials, they could have better laws that help their citizens. I truly feel for them, but they are the ones who keep electing people who obviously don't care about them.
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