Posted on 11/06/2017 6:43:57 PM PST by markomalley
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) says he walked out of a moment of silence on the House floor for victims of the mass shooting in Texas, saying he “will not be silent” after yet another massacre.
Lieu posted a video on his Facebook page Monday night after the moment of silence, during which he said he was “heartbroken about the children and adults that were killed in the worst mass shooting in Texas history this Sunday.”
“My colleagues right now are doing a moment of silence in the House of Representatives’ chambers,” Lieu said. “I respect their right to do that and I myself have participated in many of them.”
“But I can’t do this again, I’ve been to too many moments of silences. In just my short period in congress three of the worst mass shootings in us history have occurred. I will not be silent.”
Lieu referred specifically to the Texas shooting, as well as the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in June 2016 that left 49 people dead, and the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history in Las Vegas last month, during which 55 people were killed.
Lieu called for the House to take action and “pass gun safety legislation now.”
“I urge us to pass reasonable gun safety legislation, including a universal background check law supported by 80 percent of Americans, a ban on assault rifles and a ban on bump stocks,” he said.
“We need to do that, we cannot be silent. We need to act now.”
Dem lawmakers renewed their calls for Congress to pass gun control legislation in the wake of Sunday’s shooting, but Republican lawmakers have declined to do so.
A poll last month found that support for stricter gun regulations had reached an all-time high, with 60 percent of respondents saying they would be in favor of the measures.
The Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday that the panel will hold a hearing on bump stocks, or the device used by the Las Vegas gunman to simulate automatic gunfire on semi-automatic weapons. Seventy-three percent of respondents in the same poll said they back banning bump stocks.
Ted Lieu needs to go suck a lemon..he is such a disgrace to my home state, and that says a lot since this state is run by Commies
Take a knee, ‘RAT!
Showing off.
Virtue signaling.
What a hypocrite.
He wants to make it harder for massacre victims to defend themselves... in the name of gun safety.
He can spare us the fake tears for them. In this situation - the right thing to do is exactly nothing.
In lieu of having a brain, Ted has a barking moonbat in his heat
Guns for me but none for thee...
They weren’t the “right kind” of victims, otherwise he would have stayed.
What has Lieu had to say about muslim massacres in the US?
Fort Hood?
San Bernadino?
Orlando night club?
Boston Marathon?
NY truck?
Well, the shooter was left leaning. Some say he was a sleeper cell for Antifa. Others say he just hated Republican Christians. Either way, the Left Wing holds all responsibility for this
Rep. Ted Lieu is a big faker and drama queen on other matters too.
Suddenly democrats do not like to bring awareness by moments of silence... shooting up a church is their method...
He would stick around for a week long Celebration if the Second Amendment was repealed. What a Drama Queen.
Sounds like little Teddy isn’t cut out to be a politician. Adios Teddy.
Bingo.
>>>In just my short period in congress three of the worst mass shootings in us history have occurred<<<
So, it’s his fault.
Exactly.
So stricken with anguish and grief, he rushed right out and posted a video on Fakebook.
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