After the tragic mass shooting in Las Vegas, which has already claimed the lives of 50 people and injured more than 400 more, Nelba Márquez-Greene, mother of Ana Márquez-Greene, a 6-year-old girl who was gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary school in 2012, is sounding off on Twitter in a series of remarkable and heartbreaking comments that puts the blame for yet another mass shooting directly on the shoulders of Congress.
https://twitter.com/Nelba_MG/status/914803301702672384
She also wants to know why we don’t confront the true reality that the majority of mass shootings are committed by angry, white men.
https://twitter.com/Nelba_MG/status/914813270409846785
Marquez-Greene noted roughly 91 people per day from guns in the United States and we do nothing.
https://twitter.com/Nelba_MG/status/914817689352310784
Can you imagine if ISIS were killing 91 people per day? Ebola? It would be a national emergency and we would commit every single resource we had to stop the tragedy. Instead, we have a Republican Congress that not only rolled back an Obama administration law making it more difficult for mentally ill people to get guns, they are (or were) going to vote this week to make it easier to purchase gun silencers! You can purchase a gun silencer in the United States by completing a background check and Republicans want to get rid of the background check requirement. How is that helping people in this country?
In a series of 22 tweets, Nelba Márquez-Greene tells it like it is—Congress needs to stop ignoring the grieving mothers and families from every single zip code in this country. They should’ve taken action to protect the life and liberty of all citizens long before now. How many mass shootings will it take?