"I don’t know which were gay, which were straight, which were black, or which were Hispanic."

[kpete]

After displaying photos of the weapons used in the Orlando attack, Nelson then displayed a large poster-sized photo of bloody shoes. “Do you know who those shoes belong to?” he asked, before identifying them as those of Orlando trauma surgeon Joshua Corsa.

Corsa shared the photo on Facebook on Monday with a statement that Nelson read aloud on the Senate floor:

These are my work shoes from Saturday night. They are brand new, not even a week old. On these shoes, soaked between its fibers, is the blood of 54 innocent human beings. I don’t know which were gay, which were straight, which were black, or which were Hispanic. What I do know is that they came to us in wave upon wave of suffering, screaming, and death.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/15/3789026/senate-filibuster-guns/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-doctor-shares-heartbreaking-photo-of-shoes-on-facebook/

[auntpurl]

1. Is the filibuster still going on?

[kpete]

2. Yes!

I am listening (watching) HERE:
http://addictinginfo.org/2016/06/15/senate-democrats-launch-a-filibuster-over-gun-reform-live-video/

[auntpurl]

3. ...shouldn't this be kind of a huge deal on DU?

With all of us tuning in? I'm going to watch now!

[ecstatic]

4. +1. me too. Every last one of the people saying NO

to reforming the gun laws should be kicked out!

[auntpurl]

5. Agree!

[Travis_0004]

8. Its should be

I'm am always against getting rid of due process.

If you want to ban somebody from having a gun, there should be a process that involves a judge, and the person has a right to defend himself.

I am 100% against secret government list taking away freedoms from anybody.

[jmg257]

9. Chicago has a great list predicting who is responsible for 70-80% of all gun violence there.

Hopefully they can turn this precedent into something useful to keep them from getting guns.

“We are targeting the correct individuals,” Mr. Johnson said. “We just need our judicial partners and our state legislators to hold these people accountable.”

[mcar]

6. Thank you Sen Nelson and doctors

[mnhtnbb]

7. I loved working in hospitals.

I loved the people: the nurses, the PT's, the pharmacists, the cafeteria workers, the janitors, the social workers, the clerks--and even
the docs (most of the time!). I respected my colleagues who were administrators, as well. But I really admired everyone who took care of people on
the front lines.

Why? Because almost everyone there understood that we are all human. Skin color, gender, sexual preference, gender identity, age, race...
none of it matters. Everyone bleeds the same, vomits the same, feels pain the same.

[LostOne4Ever]

10. Such a horrible month of death.

[Overseas]

11. I'm excited to see the filibuster still going on!

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Long may it continue...