Republican Senator Brags About Stonewalling Gun Control While Multiple Mass Shootings Are Happening

During a day in which 60 shootings occurred, including multiple mass shootings, Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas tweeted that gun control was "not gonna happen." He and his Party are going to do everything they can to block gun control legislation that the majority of Americans support, all because they love their money from the gun industry. And again, this happened WHILE mass shootings were taking place. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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On Wednesday of this week, June 1st, America saw at least 60 different shooting events, including multiple mass shootings as defined as more than four individuals being killed by a single gunman. So on a day where you had 60 shootings, at least that we know of, multiple mass shootings, several police shooting suspects, on that very same day Republican Senator John Cornyn responded to a tweet from a conservative media personality, who said that they were now open to certain gun control measures, Republican Senator John Cornyn quote tweeted that, and said the simple words, not gonna happen. Not gonna happen. No common sense gun reforms, according to John Cornyn, while mass shootings were actively happening in this country, including the Tulsa shooting, the LA shooting.

I have a list here of just some of the shootings that happened on Wednesday of this week here in the United States. And I am going to read these. These are via the new civil rights movement as posted on Raw Story. In, in LA, a 10th grade student was shot in front of Ulysses S. Grant high school in Valley Glen. A 20 year old woman was shot at or near a Walmart in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania. A 15 year old boy was shot dead in Wichita Falls, Texas. Wednesday, a 16 year old student in Berkeley, California was arrested after police received a tip he allegedly was recruiting other students for a mass shooting. Also in California, police are searching for several shooting suspects who left one man dead and another injured at a park in Rialto. In Chandler, Arizona police are looking for a suspect who they say pulled a gun at a Little Caesar's restaurant, officers open fired, it says.

Dayton, Ohio, private security guard died after he was reportedly shot by a Montgomery County jail inmate at Miami valley hospital, Wednesday morning. Ottawa County, Michigan, One person's dead and another's in critical condition after a shooting near Hope college on Wednesday, both victims were riding bicycles, person who died was 19. Jacksonville, Florida, a man with multiple gunshot wounds was taken to a hospital in life threatening condition. One person was shot dead and another person was injured in Maynardville, Tennessee. Akron, Ohio, one dead, two injured after a shooting at Akron Memorial service, at a funeral. At a funeral. There was a shooting at a funeral. In Florence, Alabama, one man was injured in a shooting at a Dollar General store. Kansas City, Missouri, a man and a woman both died from gunshot wounded injuries. A 40 year old woman was shot and killed and a child injured in Flint, Michigan. A man died in Sand City, California, police officer shooting.

A 34 year old man was shot and killed and a woman wounded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania shooting. Another man died in police shooting in Prince George County, Virginia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a 19 year old man was shot multiple times in an apparent drive-by shooting in Center City, Philadelphia. There was also the little boy that was on vacation with his family, eight year old shot dead by a man firing bullets from his car. One day. That doesn't even include, by the way, the mass shootings that took place on Wednesday. The very same time that John Cornyn was saying, not gonna happen. Cornyn by the way, has been tasked by Mitch McConnell to work with Democrats on gun control. The man who says.