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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) responded to comments from Connecticut Democrat Richard Blumenthal, who said Republicans will only act to prevent gun violence if it means "mass losses" in elections.
"What can be done?" Blumenthal asked rhetorically in a TV interview. "In a word, elections."
We cannot accept a world where so many of America’s elected representatives put fidelity to the NRA over their constituents’ demands for action on gun violence.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) February 15, 2018
Congress is complicit in gun violence – a national scourge infecting communities of all sizes – each day it fails to act. Shame on my colleagues who would rather throw up their hands than confront this epidemic of mass slaughter.
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) February 15, 2018
Scott called Blumenthal's comments "incredibly extreme" and "unfortunate."
"It is politicizing and capitalizing on a heinous crime," Scott said.
In an interview, Democratic @SenBlumenthal said Republicans will only act to prevent gun violence if it means "mass losses" in elections. https://t.co/3wsjV2zHEm pic.twitter.com/stGAqDdA9q
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 17, 2018
Scott noted that, like himself, Blumenthal represents a state where an infamous mass shooting occurred.
Connecticut was home to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and Scott's home city of Charleston recently saw several black churchgoers murdered by a white supremacist.
Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza later killed himself, while Dylann Storm Roof fled Charleston and was later captured near Shelby, N.C. and now faces a death sentence.
"We ought not to find ways to win elections off terrible tragedies in this country," Scott said.
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