{"id":1475873,"date":"2022-05-15T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475873"},"modified":"2022-05-15T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T16:14:55","slug":"it-only-took-about-180-minutes-for-democrats-to-try-to-capitalize-on-the-buffalo-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-only-took-about-180-minutes-for-democrats-to-try-to-capitalize-on-the-buffalo-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"It Only Took About 180 Minutes For Democrats To Try To Capitalize On The Buffalo Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-only-took-about-180-minutes-for-democrats-to-try-to-capitalize-on-the-buffalo-shooting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1475873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Shortly over three hours after police were alerted to a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, Democratic politicians took to Twitter to call for gun control legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Two mass shootings in 24 hours, in Milwaukee and Buffalo \u2014 the latter killing ten people. I\u2019m heartbroken. And I\u2019m angry. Angry that the GOP continues to block even the most basic gun safety measures. We can stop this. We can save lives. Republicans just refuse to. Cowards.<\/span>\u201d said Democratic Representative Adam\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/09\/inciting-erection-adam-schiff-morgan-ortagus-the-view\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Schiff <\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/04\/california-workers-masks-vaccinated-osha-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">California<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/12\/jack-dorsey-future-of-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a> post. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/14\/buffalo-supermarket-mass-shooting-tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: 10 Killed In Buffalo Supermarket Mass Shooting)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two mass shootings in 24 hours, in Milwaukee and Buffalo \u2014 the latter killing ten people.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m heartbroken. And I\u2019m angry.<\/p>\n<p>Angry that the GOP continues to block even the most basic gun safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>We can stop this. We can save lives.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans just refuse to. Cowards.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepAdamSchiff\/status\/1525591589451620353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The alleged shooter, later identified in court as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron, reportedly traveled several hours from Conklin, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/eric-adams-new-york-city-end-mask-mandate-children-age-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York<\/a> to Buffalo where authorities said the gunman exited his vehicle with a firearm and shot four people in the parking lot, three of them were fatally wounded, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/05\/14\/nyregion\/buffalo-shooting?smid=tw-nytimes&#038;smtyp=cur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. A retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard at the store was fatally shot by Gendron who continued firing upon customers and employees inside the store, the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking News: A gunman opened fire on Saturday at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. The police said that multiple people were wounded, and a suspect is in custody. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uStDS7Y6Jf\">https:\/\/t.co\/uStDS7Y6Jf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1525575364671639554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/05\/buffalo-police-officers-suspended-protestor-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Police<\/a> Department announced on their Twitter account at 3:26 p.m. that they had responded to the scene at Tops Friendly Market <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/07\/shooting-grocery-store-1-dead-injured-gunman-at-large\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grocery store<\/a> located at <span class=\"street-address ng-binding ng-scope\">1275 Jefferson Ave and apprehended the suspected shooter<\/span>. Schiff\u2019s post was published just over two hours later.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: BPD on scene of a mass shooting at the Tops in the 1200 block of Jefferson Avenue. Police say multiple people have been struck by gunfire. The shooter is in custody. Motorists and residents are urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Buffalo Police Dept (@BPDAlerts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BPDAlerts\/status\/1525558280981991428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other Democratic representatives took to Twitter and called for gun control legislation shortly following Schiff\u2019s post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m horrified and heartbroken to hear this news from Buffalo today. Gun violence has devastated yet another one of our communities. When will enough be enough? Mass shootings are an epidemic in this country we must end now,\u201d Democratic Representative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/03\/pramila-jayapal-claims-supreme-court-cannot-alter-policy-precedent-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pramila Jayapal<\/a> of Washington posted to her Twitter account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m horrified and heartbroken to hear this news from Buffalo today. Gun violence has devastated yet another one of our communities. When will enough be enough? Mass shootings are an epidemic in this country we must end now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vtOAEQBRw1\">https:\/\/t.co\/vtOAEQBRw1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJayapal\/status\/1525608687699640323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">It is so far beyond time for Congress to act and save lives.<\/span>\u201d said member of \u201cthe Squad\u201d Representative <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/07\/ayanna-pressley-spent-thousands-dollars-taxpayer-money-private-security-house-records-defund-police-squad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ayanna Pressley <\/a>of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/17\/elite-massachusetts-boarding-school-affinity-groups-parents-defending-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massachusetts<\/a> in a Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AyannaPressley\/status\/1525626573134647296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post<\/a>. Other Democratic politicians that posted on their Twitter accounts following the shooting include <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBarbaraLee\/status\/1525632320958513155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbara Lee<\/a>, another California representative, and Secretary of Transportation, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecretaryPete\/status\/1525639705534013446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pete Buttigieg <\/a>who declared that \u201cthoughts and prayers will not be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"js-about-item-abstr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/house-republican-conference-chair-elise-stefanik-efforts-liz-cheney-removed-leadership-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican<\/a> Representative\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/23\/kevin-mccarthy-why-kicked-out-liz-cheney-adam-kinzinger-republican-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Kinzinger\u00a0<\/a>of <span class=\"js-about-item-abstr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/illinois-teacher-white-privilege-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Illinois<\/a>\u00a0suggested more age restrictions on purchasing firearms as he called<\/span><span class=\"js-about-item-abstr\"> for gun control legislation in his Tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to be 21 to buy a pistol in this country. Can we all at least agree we should raise the age to 21 for ARs as well? Shouldn\u2019t everyone have a background check? I think so. These are 90 percent issues, do it now and keep debating the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You have to be 21 to buy a pistol in this country. Can we all at least agree we should raise the age to 21 for ARs as well? Shouldn\u2019t everyone have a background check? I think so. These are 90 percent issues, do it now and keep debating the rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamKinzinger\/status\/1525614581212643335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>10 people were killed and multiple others were reportedly injured when the alleged gunman who was armed with a rifle and dressed in military-style clothing opened fire at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-442c6d97a073f39f99d006dbba40f64b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Authorities are now calling the shooting, \u201cracially motivated violent extremism,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman reportedly posted a 106-page manifesto online where he described himself as a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d and \u201canti-semite\u201d and is believed to have been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/11\/andy-dick-arrested-felony-sexual-battery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">livestreaming<\/a> the attack to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/01\/twitch-gets-dragged-declaring-march-womxns-history-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitch<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/mass-shooting-supermarket-buffalo-10-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BNO News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>This story is still breaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly over three hours after police were alerted to a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, Democratic politicians took to Twitter to call for gun control legislation.\u201cTwo mass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":1480200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}