Tiffany Bond  🦞 🇺🇸Verified account

Thank you Christine! I'm going to pass #twittercongress over to @peacock4ca42, Julia, the floor is yours...

Thanks so much, Tiffany. I have to be completely honest. I once went shooting when I was 19 with a roommate who was much older and had rifles and handguns. I remember shooting a beer can placed in a bush and I was a hell of a shot with that Luger. #twittercongress

But when the van fell out of the bush and a human being walked in front of me — safety on, finger off the trigger, and gun by my side — I realized that I had the power of life and death — his — in my hand. I passed the gun to someone else and never held another. #twittercongress

That was 30 years ago. Now I’m a teacher and I have to practice active shooter drills with my students in a room where there is NOWHERE to hide. The only way we will survive is if we escape out my windows or the shooter picks someone else’s room to target #twittercongress

So, full disclosure, I don’t understand why people feel safer with guns. Okay, some do. That’s their prerogative. But to decrease gun violence? I believe mandatory gun safety trainings should be required. I have to get a health check up to keep life insurance #twittercongress

I can’t volunteer at my child’s school without a fingerprint and background check. I wholeheartedly support universal background checks. Period. Every state, every person. And, since I support #MedicareForAll and jewp@listening to people argue about how we will #twittercongress

Re-job the people working in the insurance industry, then gun insurance. Like being insured to drive , every gun means higher premiums. The more guns, the more you pay. You want an arsenal, then you will pay more for your toys. And you’ll have a medical #twittercongress

and mental health evaluation every year. We must also ban weapons of war. I have yet to find a reasonable veteran who supports civilians owning weapons of war. I even know a veteran who cannot own firearms because of PTSD. If he, a highly trained combat veteran #twittercongress