Stop me if you've heard this before. On June 12, there's a terrible mass shooting at the LGBT nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. A few days later, a group of U.S. Senators (including Democratic U.S. Senators Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz of Hawaii) stage a 15-hour filibuster, calling for votes on a few "common sense" gun control regulations. Well, today the Senate voted … [Read more...] about Hawaii Senators Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz react to gun control bill failures
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UPDATED: Hawaii LGBT community reacts to Orlando nightclub shootings
We still don't know a whole lot about the early morning shootings at Orlando's Pulse, a popular LGBT nightclub, except that at least 50 people were killed and about as many injured. There was apparently a single shooter–police killed him after a prolonged stand-off. Though the FBI interviewed the alleged shooter in 2013 and 2014 on alleged terrorist ties, he was able to … [Read more...] about UPDATED: Hawaii LGBT community reacts to Orlando nightclub shootings