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5. I hope Moscow Mitch never catches a bullet when he returns to the Bluegrass State.
Fri Feb 21, 2025, 04:05 PM
Feb 2025

Moscow Mitch has an A+ rating from the NRA. (Credit: Gage Skidmore / Flickr)

McConnell has been a fierce opponent of gun restrictions throughout his 35-year Senate career and has reaped the benefits of a close relationship with the National Rifle Association.


And poor, long-suffering Columbine massacre victim Anne Marie Hochhalter recently passed.


Anne Marie Hochhalter reacts during a vigil remembering the 25th anniversary of the mass shooting on 19 Apr 2024 in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)

America suffers warzone casualties every year without a foreign invader. The shootings are dispersed throughout the country, but the CDC and the Gun Violence Archive tabulate the national casualty count. The US should consider deploying US Navy Corpsmen or US Army medics throughout the country to triage our daily casualties.


(Photo: US Army)

Sources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-has-long-history-opposing-gun-legislation-wake-tragedies-n1039806

https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

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