Parkland’s Guttenberg on Texas School Shooting: ‘I’m Not Discouraged, I’m Pissed off’

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GUTTENBERG: "So I’m going to say this, I’m not discouraged, I’m pissed off and the reason I’m not discouraged is things are changing. Go city to city, state to state, look at what the business community is doing. Things are changing. Laws are changing. However, on a national level, nothing is happening. And that is where action needs to happen. Because unfortunately when you have inconsistent laws all over the country, which is what we have now, these things will still happen. When you have states that won’t put in place any laws, these things are going to happen. The reality is we need to do everything we can to stop these incidents from happening. There will be a dissection of what happened here today and figure out why it happened and we’ll talk about what we could have done and should have done, but we also need to limit the casualties. We need to deal with the issue of guns as well. We need to deal with everything. I am actually encouraged by what is happening on a local level. I was just in Ohio this week — at the request of governor Kasich and talked to a committee on the house and Senate side there and delivering testimony about what happened in parkland and what we didn’t D in Florida. And one of the responses from the legislator is we’re not feeling the push to do anything because the citizens aren’t pushing us to act. And I said, that’s a great thing. Because it means parkland didn’t happen here yet. But you don’t want to be next. And two days later, here we are at the next one. I implore all cities and counties and all states, do what the national — do what our government will not do, and do it on your own. And I will say shame on our president, shame on speaker Ryan, shame on the majority leader Mitch McConnell and won’t open their mouths and not speaking about an issue is not legislation. Okay. You can’t legislate by shutting up and they are just shutting up and it is pathetic."