Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"Like many school systems across the country, the school district in Uvalde, Texas, put in place a plethora of recommended safety practices meant, in part, to deter school shootings. But they were of little use on Tuesday, when a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers..." twitter.com/nytimes/status"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"But the simple truth here that none of these opponents of gun safety reforms can get away from is that we don't have a monopoly on mental illness, we just have vastly more mass shootings and especially school shootings than other countries.And we know why. It's the guns."Read on Twitter
"Mental health IS a real challenge. I talk about it often. I talked about it during the House Sit-In to prevent gun violence that John Lewis led six years ago.Over half of US gun deaths are suicides; over half of suicides involve guns. Our gun problem fuels our suicide problem."Read on Twitter
"They don't really care about mental health, they just use it as a dodge to take the focus off guns.Look at it this way: every country in the world has people suffering from mental illness. We don't have 100 times more mental illness in America. What we have is lots of guns."Read on Twitter
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