Absolutely Disgusting - Democrat Senator's Response To Lewiston Massacre Is Abhorrent

Hey ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America and Democrats

It appears to me, just never let a tragedy go to waste

They always have a way to make it worse and to do things with it politically that they

should not do. That was the case again after the Lewiston massacre

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Those little things really help us out and they help our channel continue to grow. What happened in Lewiston, Maine was a tragedy

I have a cousin who lives right there, like right there, and lives in the same town as

a shooter. And it's terrifying, it's frightening, and it's tragic. And our thoughts and our prayers should be with the victims and their families

But this morning, not even 24 hours removed from the shooting, Democrat Senator Chris

Coons, he had other things on his mind. Let's take a look

Tirelessly on the issue of gun violence, Chris Coons, let me ask you Senator a question

that Phil just asked Representative Dusty Johnson, and that is, is this just what Americans

are going to have to accept? That this could happen to them any day

Poppy, I certainly hope not. President Biden signed into law last year the biggest progress we've made forward on

closing loopholes in the gun background check system, and investing tens of billions of

dollars more in community mental health. But yesterday, we took a vote on the floor of the Senate on relaxing the standards for

access to guns for veterans who have been adjudicated mentally ill. Actually, I may be wrong, that may be a vote coming up today

We do have a country that is sharply divided in terms of our understanding on the limits

on gun rights. It was one of President Biden's big accomplishments, along with a bipartisan group here in the

Senate last year, that we moved forward on closing background check loopholes and improving

gun safety. But there is so much more to do. No other advanced industrialized country has this challenge, where day after day after

day there are mass shootings all over our country. All of us should reflect on our willingness to commit ourselves to the safety of our children

our schools, our communities. If you can't go to a bowling alley or a movie theater, a synagogue or a church without having

to worry about an armed assault, then frankly, we are not protecting our own people in the

ways that we should. Senator, just to kind of put a finer point on this to Poppy's question, in the wake of

the bipartisan gun law, which I think you noted, the most significant in decades, every

Republican who co-sponsored that bill with you, almost two, a co-sponsor, not all of

them, said there is no appetite for anything else. Period. End of story

Guys, you work with folks that you think highly of. There's no path here for anything else, is there

There isn't, Phil, and that's maddening to those of us here who think there is more for

us to do. And frankly, after several weeks of chaos, the House has finally settled on a new speaker

who I look forward to getting to know, but who by press accounts and from what I've been

able to find online about his record, is far more conservative than any recent speaker

That makes me even more concerned that we will genuinely struggle to make progress on

improving gun safety for our country, for our families, for our children

You say no appetite for any more gun violence prevention laws specifically, and you're right

Speaker Johnson did vote against that bipartisan bill last year that you mentioned

But what about just mental health? Because this man spent two weeks this summer in a mental health facility

Do you think there's any appetite just writ large for more mental health aid if you don't

connect it to guns? Well, it's important, Poppy, for us to distinguish between these two fields, because there are

millions and millions of Americans with mental health needs that are underfunded, where they

have difficulty accessing services, that have no connection whatsoever to gun violence

But in this particular instance, that clearly, that seems to, from press accounts, have been

the causal factor. That's why I highlight the amendment by Senator Kennedy that's part of the mix of amendments

we are going to have to vote on before we move forward on our appropriations bill

It explicitly reduces the restrictions on veterans who've been adjudicated mentally ill from being able to access guns

For decades, that's been in place. If a court rules that you are too much of a danger to yourself and others to have access

to guns, that strikes me as a pretty good predictor that you should not be involved

in gun ownership or gun purchases. Yet there is a significant group of Republicans here in the Senate trying to roll that back

That would be the biggest reduction in gun safety, the biggest reduction from folks who

are on the background checklist in decades. So it's alarming that we have such a deep division between our parties in the intersection

of gun safety and mental health. And I think it is a bad predictor of our political direction soon

Some of the hardest meetings I've ever been in at home in Delaware was with the parents

of young children who in their first year of school had to do active shooter drills

something we did not grow up with, something that now is a daily reminder to school children

that their communities, their parents, their national leadership is not doing enough to

keep them safe. Senator Chris Coons, we appreciate your time as always, sir

Thank you. Thank you, Phil. To jump on the tragedy right after it happens is typical for most Democrats

They can't seem to help themselves. They can't seem to stop themselves from jumping on these shooting tragedies to push their agenda

We don't know if there's any laws that exist that would have stopped this guy from getting a gun

And if there are, why didn't they? Would he have met any of the requirements

It sounds like it so far. So then why were his guns not taken away? Why are the laws on the books not working, Mr. Coons

You want more laws just so they can be ignored too? No, there is a failure here

And that's what we have to get to the bottom of. But right now, right now, let the families mourn

Have some common decency. I want to know what you guys think about this

Please let me know in the comments. Are you as furious as me? Let me know

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