Why I walked out of the House’s moment of silence for Orlando
“If the House of Representatives had a solitary moral fiber, even a wisp of human empathy, we would spend moments not in silence, but screaming at painful volume the names of the 49 whose bodies were ripped apart in Orlando, and the previous victims and the ones before them. […]
“Congress houses the 535 people who could come together to pass measures that would reduce the bloody mayhem now so prominently featured in daily American life. […]
“Congress exists to reflect the will of the people. The vast majority of Americans support measures such as universal background checks, keeping people on the no-fly list from purchasing weapons and limits on how ferocious a weapon a civilian can own. But Congress offers only silence.”
Silence won’t do anything to prevent gun violence.
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