Don Beyer tweeted the following:
"I dont know how you watch this and conclude that flooding American communities with weapons of war designed for the battlefield is not a huge, deadly problem including for police or that the solution is a good guy with a gun. The people saying that could not be more wrong."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Don Beyer:
"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" on May 26Read on Twitter
"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." on May 26Read 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." on May 26Read on Twitter
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