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Dem Senator Goes On HEARTWRENCHING Tweetstorm About Gun Violence During Trump’s NRA Speech


Donald the Trump went to speak at the NRA’s annual meeting today, and his speech was utterly ridiculous. He borrowed a lot of what he said from the rhetoric of an extreme right-wing, anti-government group known as the Three Percenters, including saying that there will be another revolution if the government finds ways to regulate guns.

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Because that’s what the people from the group that donated $30 million to Trump’s campaign want to hear. Whenever there’s another violent tragedy and guns are involved, we get to hear all about how it happened because not enough people were armed, because it was a gun-free zone, etc. These people think nothing, care nothing, for the lives lost due to gun violence. And Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has had it.

So he went on a devastating tweetstorm today, complete with pictures of children and young adults who have died at the hands of senseless gun violence. Look below:

Ana Marquez-Greene died at Sandy Hook:

Jessica Ghawi died in the Aurora theater shooting:

Jordan Davis was shot for the crime of playing loud music and refusing to turn it down outside a convenience store:

Benjamin Wheeler also died at Sandy Hook:

Hadiya Pendleton, who performed at President Obama’s second inauguration with her high school band, was gunned down while sheltering from the rain with 12 other teens.

Alison Parker was a news producer who was shot by a former co-worker in the middle of a report on live television:

Daniel Barden was another victim of Sandy Hook:

Christopher Lavell Jones was murdered in his own driveway in Oakland:

Christopher Ross Michaels-Martinez died in Isla Vista, California, at the hands of Elliot Rodger, a 22-year old bent on revenge for girls not giving him sex:

Terell Bosley was on his way to church in Chicago when he was shot to death:

And Dylan Hockley, another victim at Sandy Hook:

Murphy ended his tweetstorm with this:

But the NRA behaves as though it speaks for all gun owners when it advocates for more guns, more guns, and more guns. Even for criminals, even for people who are a danger to themselves and others.

Murhpy’s tweetstorm prompted people to share their tragedies, too:

The whole thing is just heartbreaking, and people who advocate for less and less regulation in the face of growing gun violence are bereft of empathy and compassion.

Featured image by Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images

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