After two mass murder incidents in less than two weeks, the NY Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays decided they’d had enough.
The two MLB teams unleashed the power of their Twitter accounts to share the alarming and heartbreaking statistics related to gun violence.
The teams recognized that it was time to address an epidemic that continues to plague this country and destroy families.
It was a sobering, yet necessary fusillade of information targeted directly at those in congress, specifically Republicans, who refuse to enact serious gun legislation.
The information-heavy threads addressed the impact of gun violence on various groups regardless of color, age, location, education, career or income.
Their tweets also rebuked those who remain silent on the issue or ask “What about Chicago?”, the stupid new response that has become a recent Republican go-to strategy of deflection.
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