Tuesday, February 20, 2018

A note from my "friend" Joe (Biden)

Image result for raising money on the backs"All over America today, mothers and fathers dropped their children off at school and left with a pit in their stomach. 
Asking themselves: "Will they be safe?" "Can it happen here?" "Will they come home?"
This can't be. 
We can't stand by and let our schools, our cities, and our communities become war zones.
It's been five years since Newtown, where 20 students and six teachers were murdered by a gunman. Since then, there have been at least another 239 school shootings where more than 400 people have been shot.
I said long ago that the most important thing anyone running for office has to decide is what they are willing to lose over. 
Not what they're willing to do to win. 
But what are they willing to lose over.
Well, how about this: Is protecting our children's lives worth losing over? Keeping weapons of war out of the classroom and off our streets? Giving parents some peace of mind? You're damn right it is.
Folks, the federal budget deficit isn't the biggest deficit we've got in Washington. We've got a courage deficit. We have too many Members of Congress who care more about the threats and the checks they get from the NRA than they do about the kids in America's classrooms.
I'm not asking for your money. 
See the source imageI'm asking for your support. 
Your courage. 
To put your name on this petition next to mine. 
To send a message to every person in Congress that says, "You can't wait us out." 
Not this time.
For all those who lost their lives this week in Parkland -- and for the survivors and broken families left behind -- your words of sympathies and condolences aren't enough. 
It's never been enough. 
Your prayers aren't enough. 
We're voting on this.
And we're not going to forget what you did -- and didn't do.
Thank you.
-Joe"

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