Immediately after the shooting, I and many of my colleagues demanded once again that Congress do something, just anything, to curb our nation's gun violence epidemic. And since then, our country has witnessed another 70 school shootings. That's in just six weeks. But how many pieces of legislation to address gun violence have been brought to the floor in that time? Zero. It's shameful. Instead, our far right has played partisan games to score cheap political points, threatening a government shutdown and completely dismissing the very real fear that students and educators at UNLV and across the country feel each and every day. (01:13–01:22)
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Asserts that no gun violence legislation has been brought to the floor in the past six weeks.
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