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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I don’t know which were gay, which were straight, which were black, or which were Hispanic."
After displaying photos of the weapons used in the Orlando attack, Nelson then displayed a large poster-sized photo of bloody shoes. Do you know who those shoes belong to? he asked, before identifying them as those of Orlando trauma surgeon Joshua Corsa.
Corsa shared the photo on Facebook on Monday with a statement that Nelson read aloud on the Senate floor:
These are my work shoes from Saturday night. They are brand new, not even a week old. On these shoes, soaked between its fibers, is the blood of 54 innocent human beings. I dont know which were gay, which were straight, which were black, or which were Hispanic. What I do know is that they came to us in wave upon wave of suffering, screaming, and death.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/15/3789026/senate-filibuster-guns/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-doctor-shares-heartbreaking-photo-of-shoes-on-facebook/
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)I am listening (watching) HERE:
http://addictinginfo.org/2016/06/15/senate-democrats-launch-a-filibuster-over-gun-reform-live-video/
auntpurl
(4,311 posts)With all of us tuning in? I'm going to watch now!
ecstatic
(32,727 posts)to reforming the gun laws should be kicked out!
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)I'm am always against getting rid of due process.
If you want to ban somebody from having a gun, there should be a process that involves a judge, and the person has a right to defend himself.
I am 100% against secret government list taking away freedoms from anybody.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Hopefully they can turn this precedent into something useful to keep them from getting guns.
We are targeting the correct individuals, Mr. Johnson said. We just need our judicial partners and our state legislators to hold these people accountable.
mcar
(42,372 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)I loved the people: the nurses, the PT's, the pharmacists, the cafeteria workers, the janitors, the social workers, the clerks--and even
the docs (most of the time!). I respected my colleagues who were administrators, as well. But I really admired everyone who took care of people on
the front lines.
Why? Because almost everyone there understood that we are all human. Skin color, gender, sexual preference, gender identity, age, race...
none of it matters. Everyone bleeds the same, vomits the same, feels pain the same.