We condemn all gun violence, including any aimed at any political candidate.
There is only one party which has consistently tried to make sure that those who should not have access to guns do not have access to guns. If you want to reduce shootings, you must vote
#HarrisWalz
And quid pro quo begets more quid pro quo.
The
@NRA
is paying for the impeachment defense of its puppet in the White House in exchange for his opposing gun violence prevention laws.
It’s sickening, anti-American corruption. And it’s literally killing people.
#NoRA
🚨 NYT: Trump met today with Wayne LaPierre, who offered NRA's financial support with impeachment etc.
In return, LaPierre asked that the White House “stop the games” over gun control legislation
@maggieNYT
.
@GregAbbott_TX
has blood on his hands.
Not only has he been the
@nra
’s most obedient lapdog in refusing to undertake any work to prevent these gun violence in Texas, he’s working to make guns MORE accessible there.
He needs to go.
#NoRA
#midlandshooting
#odessashooting
Police were on the scene in less than one minute at the
#DaytonShooting
.
In that time, 9 people were killed and 16 more shot. 25 people in less than a minute.
We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines immediately.
THIS is the crisis.
#NoRA
We license people to drive cars, fly planes, cut hair, teach children, and practice law.
We need to license every single person who wants to own a gun. A new study proves what we’ve been saying all along.
#NoRA
Four year old Demetrius Jefferson shot and killed himself accidentally in Henrico, County, Virginia on Tuesday.
The
@NRA
lobbies against mandatory safe storage and trigger locks.
We've got more important things to talk about than name calling.
#NoRA
“If [
@Alyssa_Milano
] put as much effort into learning firearm law as she did name calling and trying to incite and trying to intimidate law abiding gun owners and their children, I might add, then maybe we could actually have an informed discussion.” –
@DLoesch
#NRATV
We are heartbroken by the deaths by suicide of survivors of gun violence. Our hearts are with their loved ones.
We will not speculate on the triggers for these deaths, nor on the methods.
Rather, we will honor their memories by discussing the links between guns and suicide.
The AR-15 is the civilian version of the military M-16.
It is specifically designed to kill as many humans as possible as quickly as possible, and as far away from the shooter as possible.
So no, Judge
#Kavanaugh
, it is not a "self defense" weapon.
#NoRA
#BlockBrett
There are many problems with the “good guy with a gun” argument, but the biggest is that it relies on stopping a shooting AFTER it starts.
We want to PREVENT shootings in the first place, and the
@NRA
is in our way.
For now.
In 2020, we need to take government back.
#NoRA
6 years ago today, a young man used guns found in his home to kill 27 people.
Most of them were elementary school students. Several were brave school staff.
We remember
#SandyHook
.
We will not stop fighting until we break the
@nra
’s deadly grip on government.
Mississippi is 4th per capita in gun deaths. Is this what
@cindyhydesmith
is so proud of?
Vote for candidates who reject the
@NRA
. Lives depend on it.
#NoRA
BREAKING: Here is video we just found of gun nut Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith at an NRA banquet saying: "We do love our God and love our guns ... I'm just really proud to be a part of the NRA. Proud that they're doing what they're doing, and I can be a small part of that effort."
From his official
@NRA
email address, an NRA official sought out a Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist known for harassing parents who lost kids there.
Why? To dispute the facts in Parkland.
That’s who the NRA leadership is. That’s why we fight.
#NoRA
Fifty
@nra
convention goers showed up after the
#NoRA
protest carrying assault weapons and got in the face of a parkland graduate, trying to scare her into silence. It takes a real big man to shout down a young woman while carrying an AR-15. Where is
@benhowe
’s coverage?
#NoRA
.
@nra
puppet and Texas Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
is blaming this shooting on mental health.
Texas is the lead state in the lawsuit to disamantle the ACA.
Mental health isn’t the issue. But if you believe it is, why would you fight to cut access to healthcare? Hypocrite.
#NoRA
About half of the states ban the sale of unpasteurized milk.
Sassafras oil is banned in foods and medicines.
Scottish haggis is banned because lungmeat is banned.
Buckyballs, which killed nobody, are banned.
Guns kill about 40,000 people every year in America.
In the past year drug overdoses, with more than half due to the opioid epidemic, have claimed more lives than gun homicides from 2012-2016:
70,237 vs 46,445
To be clear,
@dloesch
, is it now
@NRA
policy to support laws which mandate safe storage and trigger locks?
If so,
#NoRA
will go to Congress and lobby right alongside you for this legislation. We can have people in DC tomorrow.
We’ve partnered with
@ProjChildSafe
(this is literally what they do) and I’ve fundraised for them. When I invited Everytown & co to support them they declined. Your turn. Put your money where your mouth is and donate to
@ProjChildSafe
instead of pushing lies on Twitter.
Today would have been Tamir Rice's 16th Birthday.
Tamir was an unarmed 12-year-old boy killed by police in Cleveland in November of 2014. The
@NRA
was silent after his death.
#NoRA
#BlackLivesMatter
22 years ago today, 13 people were murdered and 21 others were shot in the
#Columbine
School shooting.
May this be the year our Senate ends the filibuster and we can finally do something to stop the bleeding,
@JoeManchinWV
and
@senatorsinema
.
#HonorThemWithAction
Donald Trump just lied and claimed mental health is the cause of mass shootings.
It isn’t.
But if you believe it is, how the hell can you try and take access to comprehensive mental healthcare away from millions of Americans like he is?
#ProtectOurCare
#NoRA
It is the 311th day of the year.
Overnight in
#ThousandOaks
was the 304th mass shooting of the year.
This is not normal.
Tell your elected officials that
#ThoughtsAndPrayers
are completely meaningless without action.
#NoRA
At the end of the day, the way we are going to break the
@NRA
's deadly stranglehold on our government is to vote for candidates who don't take NRA money.
High schools - have you signed up for a voter reg. drive yet?
@davidhogg111
needs you.
#NoRA
#Vote
.
@WellsFargo
is the leading financier of the gun industry.
If you care about preventing gun violence, perhaps you should take your business and your investments elsewhere.
#NoRA
#Pittsburgh
Let’s talk about the AR-15 though.
It is a weapon of war. The AR-15 is the civilian version of the M-16. The sole meaningful difference? A switch that controls how many bullets discharge with a single trigger pull.
Same ammunition as the M-16. Same killing power.
#NoRA
Today is our National Day of Mourning.
Here, we will share the names of children and teens who were killed by gun violence in America this year.
It will take approximately ten hours to complete.
#KidsKilledByGuns
#NoRA
Just days ago, a California judge upheld that state’s assault weapons ban.
Yesterday, a murderer who acquired an assault weapon legally in Nevada shot more than a dozen people in
#Gilroy
in less than one minute. THIS is why we need a national ban.
#NoRA
Hi,
@DLoesch
:
We noticed you're pretty quick to complain about "celebrities."
I guess you'll be asking
@TedNugent
,
#TomSelleck
, and Karl Malone to resign from your board, right?
#NoRA
“
@Alyssa_Milano
,
@AlecBaldwin
&
@AmySchumer
are working together to try and usurp your right to bear arms even as they often hide behind the security of armed personnel themselves. Personnel that the average non-famous, non-Hollywood type cannot afford.” –
@DLoesch
#TimesUp
#NRA
It just doesn’t stop. The
@NRA
’s America is a bloody America.
Our hearts and our actions are with
#ElPaso
, and with the dozens of other families who will lose someone to gun violence today.
#NoRA
One of the more more than 25 people shot today in
#Midland
and
#Odessa
was a child under two years old.
Which part of the “security of a free state” was the “well-regulated militia” member who shot that toddler protecting?
#NoRA
In 2012, the United States government took action to ban the sale of “Bucky Balls,” a magnetic toy, because they pose a danger to children.
Nobody died from ingesting Bucky Balls.
Nearly 40,000 people in America died from gunshots last year.
#NoRA
:ast night, in the dead of night, the Oklahoma legislature passed
#sb1212
. This dangerous bill allows people to open carry loaded weapons without permit or training.
Still need in ID to vote, though.
The
@NRA
supported this debacle. They value money over lives.
#NoRA
.
@collinpeterson
was the only Democrat to vote agains the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act.
He took nearly $10,000 from the
@NRA
in the last election cycle.
You should ask him why he stands with the gun industry against women.
#NoRA
#VAWA
There is no immigration national emergency.
There IS a gun violence national emergency-costing nearly 40k lives last year and at least $100 Billion.
We should put the same resources into preventing gun violence as
@realDonaldTrump
wants to put into an unneeded wall.
#NoRA
People often ask “how is the
@nra
responsible for mass shootings?” The
#VirginaBeachShooting
gives us several examples.
The incessant lobbying of that trade organization for the gun industry (and yes, this is what the NRA is) cost lives in this mass shooting. Thread.
Ginni Thomas yesterday shared an absolutely hateful meme on her facebook page, attacking survivors of the Parkland shooting. Again.
#GinniThomas
is the wife of
#SCOTUS
member Clarence Thomas.
This is why we fight.
#NoRA
.
@RepMattGaetz
, if you and other
@NRA
toadies would do your damn job and pass lifesaving gun violence prevention instead of grandstanding on unrelated issues,
@fred_guttenberg
and
@manueloliver00
would not Seed to protest in Congress. Shame on you.
#NoRA
By the first week of March this year, more Americans were shot to death than died on
#DDay
-the deadliest day in United States military history.
Let that sink in.
#NoRA
.
@FedEx
, last night's preventable tragedy was not the first time your company experienced gun violence. You can help make it less likely by refusing to deliver to or from anyone involved in the gun industry. No gun stores. No manufacturers. No ammo suppliers.
#FedExShooting
#NoRA
.
@RepCawthorn
has now twice been caught trying to illegally bring guns on planes. He is obviously not responsible enough to own a gun and should lose his right to own one.
Hey .
@SenateMajLdr
McConnell: we know it can be hard to think of what the federal government can do to stop school shootings when you’ve taken $1.6 million in .
@NRA
money, so we made a simple thread.
#NoRA
As news breaks that Russia has attacked a children's and maternity hospital today, it seems an good time to remind you of the
@NRA
's deep ties to Russia.
We have a gun problem. We have an .
@NRA
problem. We have a political system owned by the gun lobby, which is just fine with the non-stop bloodshed so long as they keep the bottom line out of the red. Well, it’s drenched in red.
#NoRA
#SanBernardino
"Good Guy with a gun" stops shooter - but only AFTER three people were killed and two others wounded.
That's not a win. That's not a thing to celebrate.
What stops a bad guy with a gun is stopping the bad guy from GETTING the gun. Don't buy the
@NRA
's lies.
#NoRA
As more horrifying information about the Dayton shooter emerges, it is important to remember that so much gun violence is committed by fragile men targeting women.
#MassacreMitch
refuses to take up the now-expired Violence Against Women Act.
He needs to go.
#NoRA
#VAWA
If you want to understand why the decision today preventing the Trump administration from allowing the distribution of 3D printed gun blueprints is so important, read this
@CNN
Op Ed by
#NoRA
co-founder
@alyssa_milano
from last July.
.
@JoeManchinWV
and
@SenatorSinema
: 2021 is 108 days old. There have been 157 mass shootings.
12,757 are dead from gunshots this year.
NOW is that enough to
#EndTheFilibuster
and do something about guns or is an outdated, racist tradition still more important than our lives?
Look at these cowards, hiding behind their guns from the scary black man with a sign.
This anti-American crowd is just PART of why
#NoRA
will always stand with
#BlackLivesMatter
.
The temporary president of the United States just incited violence and invoked the 2nd Amendment in his destruction of American democracy, declaring war on the American people.
#NoRA
will stand in opposition to his tyranny. We will join with all patriots in protecting America.
Guns kill ~37,000 people in America every year.
Immigrants do not.
If you are truly concerned about security,
@realDonaldTrump
, we suggest you support measures like
#HR8
. It will save far more lives and have barely a fraction of the cost.
#NoRA
And
@realdonaldtrump
stands in front of the nation, reading from the
@NRA
's teleprompter, blaming everything but what is actually at fault.
Trump is a white supremacist. He is a puppet of the NRA. And he is a failed despot who is not competent of keeping America safe.
#NoRA
When a president, funded by the gun industry via the
@nra
threatens violence against his own people, that president must be defeated at the polls.
Where is Congress in condemning this anti-American speech?
Hey .
@nra
-why is it more acceptable for kids to need bulletproof backpacks than it is for the rest of us to demand common sense measures to end preventable gun violence?
#NoRA
New York Attorney General
@TishJames
is deepening her investigation into the corruption at the
@nra
.
Finally, someone serious about draining the real swamp and flushing the toilet (10 or 15 times might not be enough!). Thank you, AG, James!
#NoRA
In the past 72 hours, at least 97 people in America have been shot and killed by others. Approximately 200 have shot and killed themselves.
The
@NRA
opposes every basic reform that could have saved these lives.
#MondayMotivation
#NoRA
This is how disgusting “stand your ground” laws are. A white officer on trial for killing an unarmed black man IN HIS OWN APARTMENT which she illegally entered may benefit from this perverse defense. They enable murder. They must be eliminated.
#NoRA
1. Today, for the first time in decades, our government is going to take meaningful action to reduce gun violence in America. Here's a thread of some of what will change, and what still needs to be done.
#TheTimeIsNow
We would love, LOVE, to retweet messages from Republican candidates or elected officials with to courage to stand up to the
@NRA
.
WHERE ARE YOU?! How many bodies will it take before you grow a backbone?
#NoRA
.
@senatemajldr
refuses to bring the senate back from vacation to address gun violence, so they won’t return for another 31 days.
In that time, ~3,286 in America will die from gunshots.
That’s 309 more than were killed on 9/11, and
#MassacreMitch
is okay with it.
#NoRA
We know that more than 100 people today will be killed by guns.
And were yesterday.
And will be tomorrow.
And every single other day.
*That* is what a
#NationalEmergency
looks like.
#NoRA
.
@Citi
, the world is watching. Are you going to cave to the .
@nra
and its puppets in congress, or are you going to be on the right side of history?
#NoRA
Hey
@mattgaetz
: in 2017, there were 2,704 gun deaths in your state of Florida-a rate higher than nation’s.
Gun violence prevention legislation *would* have stopped many of them. A wall would not.
Your grandstanding on nonsense issues is costing Floridian lives.
#NoRA
If you've ever doubted whether the .
@NRA
has too much political power, here's the President of the United States admitting he checked with them as to whether he should take a common-sense public safety action. This is why we fight.
#NoRA
We can’t find the part of the constitution where the
@NRA
is given dictatorial powers.
Perhaps they should get their own burning house in order before burning down ours.
#NoRA
The .
@NRA
is reeling. It lost a lot of seats in Congress. It is losing in cities and states and courts across the nation.
And now it can’t even afford free coffee or water for its employees.
We are winning.
#NoRA
Thoughts and prayers with the
@NRA
during this difficult time for their approval rating…
Our work is making a difference. New findings from
#NavigatorResearch
show that the NRA’s brand is suffering lasting damage:
#NoRA
Again.
We can’t bear it. America can not continue to die for corporate profit.
If you are a politician who lacks the courage, integrity, and humanity to stand up to the
@NRA
and the gun companies who fund it, left or right, we will not stop until we end your career.
#NoRA
The
@NRA
’s America: where you can threaten to kill yourself and your whole family and still buy an assault weapon but if your rapist impregnates you you are forced to give birth. They have NO IDEA what
#prolife
means.
#NoRA
#FOID
#HighlandPark
Another student was killed in a school shooting this morning. This time in North Carolina.
Our hearts are broken. Our resolve is even stronger. Vote to reject the NRA. There’s just over one week.
#NoRA
What you may have missed this week:
The armed security guard in the
#STEMShooting
may have inadvertently fired at deputies AND shot a student.
And he was a highly trained combat veteran.
We MUST not arm teachers.
#NoRA
An Ohio 18-year-old was recently arrested after supporting mass shootings and making threats against Planned Patenthood.
Authorities seized 25 guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition. No home should be able to have an arsenal like that.
#NoRA
Fifteen years ago today, the Assault Weapons Ban expired. Since then, these deadly weapons of war have been used to kill thousands of Americans.
@davidcicilline
has a bill pending to
#BanAssaultWeapons
and save lives. It needs just a few more sponsors.
Thread
#NoRA
.
@realDonaldTrump
, whose campaign took over $30M from the
@nra
, says that people need AR-15s for “entertainment.”
Which Sandy Hook victim was “entertainment,” Mr, President? Parkland? Pulse? San Bernardino? Aurora? Sutherland Springs?
Mass shootings are not entertainment.
#NoRA
Chief Andrea Washington had a Temporary Restraining Order against her ex partner, who threatened her with a gun he was allowed to keep.
She was shot to death the day of her hearing to make the order permanent. The
@NRA
fights to keep abusers armed.
#NoRA
Record voter turnout in Florida. This is due in no small part to the incredible efforts of the
#msdstrong
students and families who are changing the world.
#NoRA
is so proud of you, and honored to stand beside you in this fight.
On to the general.
#ENOUGH
One of the bills sitting untouched in the Senate because the gun lobby objects to it is the Violence Against Women Renewal Act of 2019.
It's important to understand what
#VAWA
does to see just how much the
@NRA
has corrupted
@senatemajldr
. Thread (1/7)
The
@NRA
’s apparently illegal campaign coordination did not stop with the Trump campaign. We need to end the deadly and corrupt grip of their blood money in American politics. Lives are at stake.
#NoRA
.
@GOP
candidates take note: the nation’s most popular governor is Massachusetts’ Charlie Baker. He is a Republican with an F rating from the
@NRA
.
You don’t need them. You don’t need their blood money. They are poison.
#NoRA
It's 426 days until election day, 2020.
Unless
#MassacreMitch
grows a conscience, that means 45,156 people will be shot to death in America until we can elect a government that has the competence, soul, and integrity to do something about it.
Are you registered to vote?
This is how a normal, healthy nation responds when its citizens are massacred my military-style assault weapons.
We should learn a lesson from Canada. Assault weapons have no place in America. None.
The extremists on
#SCOTUS
today signed death warrants for many, many New Yorkers who will die because of their perverse interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.
The
#MAGABomber
is a perfect example of why we need background checks on ammunition and its components - like black powder. This explosive was used in the Boston bombing and is the most common explosive used in pipe bombs,. The
@NRA
fights against this common-sesne measure.
#NoRA
#HR8
is good. But background checks are nowhere near enough. MINIMUM laws needed include:
✅Assault Weapons Ban
✅Limit magazine size
✅Background checks on ammo sales
✅National Red Flag Laws
✅Increase Purchase Age
✅Mandatory Safe Storage
✅Licensing
And more.
#NoRA
Hey Congress-
Is *this* school shooting enough to do something? Have enough kids been shot now?
Or is
@nra
money still more important than students?
As always, our hearts and actions are with the vistims and families.
It’s about damn time our government’s are, too.
#NoRA
Thank you to the courageous lawmakers in the Illinois and Massachusetts Houses today - both of which passed Extreme Risk Prevention Order bills that, when law, will make us safer. The
@NRA
opposed these bills.
"Right-wing propaganda ambushes of a desperate fringe don’t fuel my passion — they are insignificant. The 100 or more Americans who are killed by guns every day do." -
@Alyssa_Milano
Spent time today with our friends at
@ChangeTheRef
and
@stophandguns
to see the new billboard in
#Boston
.
Guac is still saving lives. In Massachusetts we have the strictest gun laws and the lowest gun deaths. It’s not rocket science. Vote out the
@NRA
on Tuesday.
#NoRA
The
@NRA
canceled production of new content for its propaganda vlog
@NRATV
.
Or, as we’ve been saying all along,
@dloesch
is canceled.
Thoughts and Prayers, NRA.
#NoRA
This shooting at
#MercyHospital
took place in
#Chicago
. The
@nra
likes to attack it.
There are two things to know:
1. When the NRA attacks Chicago, they are trying to say “black people.” It is pure racism.
2. Chicago is nowhere close to the city with the most gun violence.
The man with
@utahgunexchange
who followed Parkland survivors around in a machine gun-mounted armored vehicle was arrested and charged with drug and gun crimes.
Remind us why we should not run background checks on every single transfer of guns?
#NoRA
Well, .
@DLoesch
, Maryland’s Red Flag law-which COULD have prevented this shooting-goes into effect in October.
The .
@NRA
fought like hell against this law, by the way. So spare us your false outrage and propaganda.
#NoRA
If the murderer was involuntarily committed and/or adjudicated mentally unfit he is a prohibited possessor: . If this is the case, how, with MD’s strict gun control, did he obtain a handgun?
At least 4, including shooter, reported dead in
#Cincinnati
.
The NRA spent nearly $2M to keep
@robportman
in office in 2016.
Portman has consistently cashed the
@NRA
's checks, written in the blood of Ohioans, and done their bidding in congress.
#NoRA