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4) Opportunity to Carry Out the Attack: The final thing a mass shooter needs is access to weapons to execute their attack, and to the people and places that represent their grievances. — PolitiTweet.org

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3) A Script to Follow and Someone to Blame: Prospective mass shooters turn to past mass shooters for models of behavior, and they fixate on a particular group they blame for their own misery. — PolitiTweet.org

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2) An Identifiable Crisis Point: Days, weeks or months before their attack, all mass shooters have something that happens to them - a relationship ending, loss of a job, or mental health crisis - that pushes them over the edge. — PolitiTweet.org

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1) Childhood Trauma: Many mass shooters experience childhood abuse and exposure to violence at a young age, often at the hands of their parents. — PolitiTweet.org

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Researchers who created the nonpartisan, nonprofit research center @theviolencepro have studied every mass shooting event in the United States since 1966. They've interviewed countless people connected to these events and have found the same patterns being replicated: — PolitiTweet.org

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Removing access to guns is not the magical solution for what ails this grieving country, but neither is a myopic and unyielding obsession with putting more guns into our schools. Uvalde proved the latter point. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ultimately, I was one of only 8 Republicans to vote in favor of HR 8 -- a bill requiring universal background checks. It’s ridiculous that any attempts to reform laws intended to keep lethal firearms out of irresponsible hands are still met with outrage and stonewalling. — PolitiTweet.org

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When I was in Congress I had an A rating from the @NRA, and they supported my re-election campaigns. I believe in the plain language of the Second Amendment. But, while in Congress, I also met and learned from organizations like @Everytown and @MomsDemand. — PolitiTweet.org

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Anybody who says there's nothing that can be done to prevent these kinds of mass shootings is wrong. https://t.co/PyIVzxjNzQ — PolitiTweet.org

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If the GOP is going to actually be the pro-life, pro-second amendment, pro-law enforcement party, then it is on us to put forth the best ideas on preventing mass murders. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. What we really need is solutions. (3/3) — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ve failed again. Just over a week ago it was a supermarket in Buffalo. Today, it’s an elementary school in Uvalde. Tomorrow or next week, it’s somewhere else. There is no singular cause or fix to this problem, but let's also not pretend that there is nothing to be done. (2/3) — PolitiTweet.org

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I represented Uvalde in Congress for 6 years. I love this community. The loss of 14 kids and 1 teacher is unthinkable. I cannot begin to comprehend the immense grief their families are experiencing. This shit has got to stop. (1/3) — PolitiTweet.org

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Even very smart people saying smart things need to be taken in context. (4/4) — PolitiTweet.org

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No electricity, cars, planes, nuclear power, space flight, advanced military tactics, smart phones, AI, social media. That was before 2 world wars, dozens of genocides, famines, etc, etc. (3/4) — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1796, America was a nation of farmers, still 69 years from abolishing slavery and a quarter century before even all *white men* were allowed to vote (you had to own property to vote prior to 1828). (2/4) — PolitiTweet.org

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Isolationists love to quote my man George Washington cautioning us to avoid foreign entanglements. Washington had it right 226 years ago. But it was a very different country and a very different world. That attitude makes zero sense today. (1/4) — PolitiTweet.org

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#RespectfullyDisagree. The West needs to provide everything we can to the Ukrainians' so they can win. Stop worrying about whether or not Putin feels humiliated, & give Russian defense & intelligence officials a reason to doubt Putin's strategic abilities https://t.co/SfiZkecd02 — PolitiTweet.org

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Some highlights from this past weekend's @SABookFestival and getting to talk #AmericanReboot with my fellow Texans. https://t.co/TluygD6gIs — PolitiTweet.org

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Have we not learned from Buffalo, Jan. 6, El Paso, and Charleston that words matter? Advocating for civil war in any form or fashion is not America First. It's unAmerican. — PolitiTweet.org

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Acknowledgment is not an endorsement and it’s safe to say that if the PRC uses military force in Taiwan, any "One China" policy would need to be reassessed. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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A fellow diplomat should understand the nuance that the Carter Administration *acknowledged* rather than *recognized* the Chinese position that Taiwan was part of China. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of trying to walk back Biden's comments, the administration should be explaining to the American public why our "Strategic Ambiguity" on Taiwan needs to become more clear and direct. We will defend our allies. Full stop. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @francis_scarr: In an extremely rare moment of candour on Russian state TV today, defence columnist Mikhail Khodaryonok gave a damning a… — PolitiTweet.org

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Extremism has become a crutch for politicians who don't know how to actually govern or have conversations with nuance. Extremism is lazy, and boring, despite the clicks it gets you on social. https://t.co/rWyyZ8uMGl — PolitiTweet.org

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To prevent this from getting worse, we need to make more of these building blocks of all electronics at home in the U.S. AND work with our friends like Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Switzerland and the Netherlands to increase global production. (2/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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Last month the avg wait time for semiconductor orders was 27 weeks, up from 18 weeks last year, and 4 weeks before that. This affects your ability to get cars, phones, laptops, and appliances. It will be much worse if China invades Taiwan, which makes 60% of global supply. (1/2) — PolitiTweet.org

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The far left challenges their colleagues all over the country, but when they get challenged, they cry foul? Competition ain’t never hurt nobody. — PolitiTweet.org

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A little something for your ride home, or when you're taking a walk in your 'hood. https://t.co/qgwlyx6G0K — PolitiTweet.org

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What happens in other parts of the world has a direct effect on our lives here, and we need to stop acting like it doesn't. https://t.co/4eugNQDGNR — PolitiTweet.org

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.@LTGHRMcMaster is right too. We need an energy policy that focuses on “reducing the coercive power of authoritarian regimes over energy supplies, integrating energy security and climate policies, and removing bureaucratic … obstacles to progress to meet … global energy needs.” — PolitiTweet.org