A Democratic congressman remains to be uninterested in lawmakers reducing flags and never talking as a substitute of passing laws to cease gun violence.
In a throwback video from “The Day by day Present” in 2018, Rep. Jim Hines (D-Conn.) talked about refusing to take part in moments of silence within the wake of mass shootings. He described how lawmakers in Washington supply 10 seconds with out speaking somewhat than one hour of labor that would remedy actual issues.
“That’s what we provide to the individuals who have been so traumatized by the occasions in Las Vegas, the occasions in Sandy Hook, the occasion in Orlando,” Himes stated on the time. “It’s simply the drum beat of that impotence and that silence. I’ll let you know, it simply makes my head explode.”
Himes’ district is adjoining to the location of the 2012 Sandy Hook bloodbath, a taking pictures that left 26 individuals useless at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary faculty. He started waving off moments of silence in 2016 after 49 individuals died in a mass taking pictures at an Orlando-based LGBTQ nightclub in 2016. In a sequence of tweets on the time, Hines stated silence mocked victims of the tragedy and the gesture became an “abomination.”
On this throwback interview, which Himes retweeted on Thursday following the lethal faculty taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas, he additionally described lawmakers’ gestures like reducing flags after tragedies as “negligence.”
