What a tragedy!
TWISTED SISTER‘s Dee Snider and TESTAMENT‘s Alex Skolnick have called on lawmakers to enact tougher guns laws after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States.
Snider took to his Twitter to write:
“As a 2nd Amendment supporter & a concealed carrier, I have to say something must be done with our gun laws. ‘Arming the general populace’ didn’t work in El Paso. That city has open carry, concealed carry & campus carry – it is gunned up. It did NOTHING to stop the mass shooting.”
Skolnick said:
“I don’t see how it affects your rights if the type of high powered weapon used today in El Paso — and so many other mass shootings that it’s becoming a regular occurrence — is treated like an airplane, requiring training, licensing, vetting and not purchased fairly easily in some states.
You should have to earn that privilege for such weapons — not talking about more standard rifles & pistols with which you can still have your 2nd Amend. Right. But if someone has a manifesto to kill as many people you don’t like as possible (like the suspect in Texas does) and openly praises other mass killers like the New Zealand shooter (as the Texas suspect did on social media), then SORRY, he should not have the right to own one of these hi-powered weapons of war.
No one’s coming for your 2nd Amendment right but it’s time to recognize our right not to get shot in this matter by this type of individual with this type of weapon.”
“The FBI, local and state law enforcement are working together in El Paso and in Dayton, Ohio. Information is rapidly being accumulated in Dayton.
“Much has already be learned in El Paso. Law enforcement was very rapid in both instances.
“Today’s shooting in El Paso, Texas, was not only tragic, it was an act of cowardice. I know that I stand with everyone in this Country to condemn today’s hateful act. There are no reasons or excuses that will ever justify killing innocent people.”
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I don’t blame these superstars for expressing their views. My heart goes out to the victims and their families in both Ohio and Texas.??❤❤
Nice France. Virgina tech. Boston bomber. No law will stop a murderer.
Nobody was armed at that mall where the shooting happened. The shooter was unopposed.
Just in more law. It will work THIS time. Good thing all the laws stopped the mass terrorism in Europe, especially the acid attacks, bombings, shootings, stabbings Etc.