Comedy Writer Calls Out GOP Lawmakers In Blistering Response To Florida Shooting

Ed Mazza
Updated

Lawmakers sending “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, are getting slammed for their financial ties to the gun lobby.

Bess Kalb, a writer for “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” is responding to each lawmaker tweeting condolences over the murders by listing how much they’ve taken from the National Rifle Association, which has consistently fought any move to tighten gun control laws.

Here are some of those tweets and Kalb’s replies:

She also replied to Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel:

Before she started replying to tweets she also shared a few other choice words about lawmakers collecting cash from the gun lobby:

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Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. 
Parents wait for news after a reports of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. 
Medical personnel tend to a victim outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Medical personnel tend to a victim outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., after a shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images)
People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
People are brought out of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
An officer tells parents waiting at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway to go to the Marriott hotel to meet up with their kids from Stoneman Douglas High School.
An officer tells parents waiting at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway to go to the Marriott hotel to meet up with their kids from Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are evacuated by police out of Stoneman Douglas High School.
A family reunites outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
A family reunites outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
A video still shows students being evacuated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A video still shows students being evacuated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students and adults leave following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Students and adults leave following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are released from a lockdown outside of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Parents meet at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel.
Parents meet at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A young woman who just walked out from the direction of the high school, who refused to give her name, gets a hug as she reaches the overpass at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A young woman who just walked out from the direction of the high school, who refused to give her name, gets a hug as she reaches the overpass at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are brought across Coral Springs Drive from the the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students are brought across Coral Springs Drive from the the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
People embrace while leaving the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel after a deadly shooting at Marjory Soneman Douglas High School.
People embrace while leaving the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Coral Springs Hotel after a deadly shooting at Marjory Soneman Douglas High School.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus of Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Students react at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Rescue workers help a victim near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Rescue workers help a victim near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Police put a suspect in handcuffs near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Police put a suspect in handcuffs near Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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