Mitch McConnell Claims School Shootings Are Basically Out Of Congress' Hands Now

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Bustle


By SETH MILLSTEIN
34 min ago

After a shooting at a Kansas elementary school left one dead, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress can't do much about gun violence in schools, and brushed aside the suggestion that federal gun control laws might be able to make schools safer for American kids. He added that it's a "darn shame' that so many children are killed by guns every year.

According to the Gun Violence Archive, 1,691 children and teenagers were shot by guns in the first six months of 2018. A study published in the Pediatrics journal in 2017 found that guns are the third-leading cause of death for American children.

“I don’t think at the federal level there’s much that we can do other than appropriate funds,” McConnell said at an event in Danville, Kentucky on Tuesday while discussing school gun violence, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. “You would think, given how much it takes to get on an American plane or given how much it takes to get into courthouses, that this might be something that we could achieve, but I don’t think we could do that from Washington. I think it’s basically a local decision."

Democrats have proposed countless bills at the federal level aimed at reducing gun violence, including legislation to fix loopholes in the national background check system, ban assault weapons, raise the minimum age to purchase a gun, ban bump stocks, and more. McConnell did not explain why any of those measures would be inadequate in stemming gun violence at schools.

Read more: https://www.bustle.com/p/mitch-mcconnell-claims-school-shootings-are-basically-out-of-congress-hands-now-9672211

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Not many school shootings in UK, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, Mauritius, Trinidad, Korea, ...

Lots in USA, Afghanistan, and Nigeria. Great company to keep.

[Yonnie3]

2. Reading the paragraph quoting the turtle I see he's gone to the Palin school of public speaking.

I just deleted what I was typing. No point in wasting my time.

I'll just say, Turtle, we're coming to get you at the polls. We will make you irrelevant. It may take until 2020, but it will happen.

[mpcamb]

3. Dereliction of duty

"McConnell did not explain why any of those measures would be inadequate"

A weasel and a liar.

[sheshe2]

4. asshole.

hope he roasts in hell.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Mark 10:14

And Jesus said:

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God."

Trust me - McTurtle ain't gonna' get away with what he's done!

[unblock]

5. Republicans believe in a constitutional right to slaughter as many schoolkids as you want to

provided you're willing to let the police kill you afterwards.

Evidently they believe the government can do nothing to even limit the body count.

[Iliyah]

7. I don't care, do U?

[AllaN01Bear]

8. horsehockey. you just dot want to.

someone on here said that if you dont do anything for the resistance other than just post , well , voting is doing something right ? well we are going to vote u out of office sir.

[weissmam]

9. Mitch McConnel

will be remembered as the greatest traitor in American history

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Why can't we read more with a different ending than...

"McConnell did not explain why any of those measures would be inadequate in stemming gun violence at schools"

and more like, at the very least:

"McConnell began to stutter and got red behind the ears and left in a huff after a reporter followed up his reply with "WHY wouldn't any of the proposals put forth by Democrats not help to stem gun violence in schools?" or "How can you say it is out of your hands when Democrats have proposed countless bills aimed at reducing gun violence?"

It seems like McTurtle in particular, reporters fail again and again to have follow up questions ready, to do their homework on facts they can confront him with on the spot etc...

[riversedge]

11. Coward. DO YOUR DUTY 🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT

[pioche4]

12. Hard to Forgive This Creaton

I know sticks and stones, etc, but this man is greedy and evil: truly one of the BIGGEST reasons for the situation our country is in: obstructing full disclosure of the extent of Russia interference in 2016, stealing a supreme court justice, a fleecing of taxpayers...the list is truly endless, and I wish his pestilence out of hairs of America's government.

[lastlib]

13. His is RAPIDLY becoming a grave I want to PISS ON!

Worthless pile of turtle excrement.

[Nitram]

14. That is the GOP line. The best government is that which does nothing. "Government is the problem."

Conservatism in action. It ain't a pretty sight.

[Bengus81]

15. To clarify,the KC school shooting didn't involve any students or teachers....

Weird deal of some nut case worker shooting his two co-workers installing astro turf at the playground.