Mike Lee Wonders If ?Fatherlessness? Is Behind Mass Shootings
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The agency has been subject to near-constant attacks from the National Rifle Association and its allies in Congress, and as such, has only had one Senate-confirmed director in the past 16 years.Given the timing of Dettelbach’s hearing, a day after another mass shooting, Lee took the opportunity to criticize gun control groups for responding to the Texas massacre by urging people to pressure lawmakers to do something about gun violence.It is “outrageous” that groups like the Brady Campaign and Everytown are “attempting to profit” off of the Texas school shooting, Lee said, backing up his claim by reading aloud from an email sent out by Everytown that didn’t sound particularly outrageous: “This crisis will only end if we band together and demand action from our lawmakers.
As said here by Jennifer Bendery