Celebs react to the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton over the weekend
"Tell me again how the @GOP is “pro-life” when they won’t vote for a bill-that already passed the house-which would make the country safer from gun violence," Alyssa Milano said on Twitter. https://t.co/5GSkxkehfF
- USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 4, 2019
Celebrities are calling on the government to make changes after two mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, left at least 29 dead and 52 injured in less than 24 hours.
Whatever you are not changing you are choosing.
Read that again. pic.twitter.com/anxgkcryyw
- Rosario Dawson (@rosariodawson) August 4, 2019
Remember how angry you are today. Pack it up, store it, and pull it out again on every Election Day, every time. The people blocking common-sense gun legislation don’t just materialize out of thin air. We vote them in, actively or by inaction. We can vote them out.
- Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) August 4, 2019
THIRD MASS SHOOTING THIS WEEK. BETWEEN 15-20 SHOT IN TODAY’S SHOOTING AND MCCONNELL WON’T BRING #HR8 UP FOR A VOTE.
Tell me again how the @GOP is “pro-life” when they won’t vote for a bill-that already passed the house-which would make the country safer from gun violence. #NoRA
- Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) August 3, 2019
Just a reminder.
He laughed. Then he made a joke. Then he mugged for the camera as the crowd applauded.
Then he just kept right on talking. https://t.co/21DBmmPew0
- Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) August 4, 2019
We now have mass shootings happening with such frequency that the president can write a two for one tweet. #EnoughIsEnough https://t.co/P7NKQ6YujW
- Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) August 4, 2019
What will it take? Honestly, what will it take? #ElPaso #Dayton
- jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) August 4, 2019
There are no words. My heart breaks for the friends and families of the El Paso victims. Praying for all of you. We must do more to stop these senseless acts of gun violence.
- Reese Witherspoon (@ReeseW) August 4, 2019
WTF:
In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…
500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) August 4, 2019
Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7