Warnock: Gun Lobby Lines Its Pockets With Kids’ Blood

September 8, 2024 Democrats, Mass Shootings

“I spent Friday night with the wonderful people of Winder, Georgia. And I thought about it as I was sitting there and thought about my own days as a high school student a long time ago. But it was Friday night. We should’ve been at a high school football game with high school students cheering on their classmates.

“Instead, they were mourning their classmates and two teachers. Look, we can do better than this. We – we have to begin with the fact that this is a tragic form of American exceptionalism.

“This doesn’t happen all over the world. Nowhere else – where you have a country that’s not at war – do you have this kind of routine random violence as just a part of the tragic everyday lives of people.

“Listen, 14-year-olds don’t need AR-15s, and we need to get these military-style weapons off the streets. 87% of Americans – Democrats and Republicans, according to a Fox News report last year – believe that we ought to have universal background checks and still we can’t even get that done in Congress.

“The reality is that in America, it’s not safe to be in our schools. It’s not safe to be in our shopping malls. It’s not safe to be in the spa. It’s not safe to be in a medical clinic. We’re all sitting ducks. And this does not happen everywhere in the world.

“The problem is that we have politicians in our country who are beholden to the gun lobby. And either based on ambition or fear, they go to work every day doing their bidding while the gun lobby lines its pockets with the blood of our children.

“The least we can do is move forward on the bipartisan spaces where ordinary people agree. Clearly, there’s a disconnect between what the people, the American people want and what they’re able to get out of their government.” – Sen. Raphael Warnock, today on Meet The Press.



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