Houston police chief's furious shaming of the GOP over guns

Jill Filipovic is a journalist based in New York and author of the book"The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness." Follow her on Twitter. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.

The Republican allegiance to the gun lobby appears to be more important than the lives of vulnerable women and small children. More important, even, than the lives of law enforcement officers. And finally, some of those officers are pushing back. Jill FilipovicOn Monday, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo stood before reporters and cameras and issued a scathing critique of the GOP after one of his sergeants was gunned down responding to a domestic violence call Saturday. The gunman, Arturo Solis, had been convicted of domestic violence in 2015, but thanks to lax American gun laws, was able to get a gun anyway.

JillFilipovic Opinion For the people!

JillFilipovic Opinion Bloomberg’s man.

JillFilipovic Opinion CNN and their opinion columnists allegiance to false narratives is more important than trying to implement realistic solutions. And people are pushing back as evidenced by CNN’s ratings nosedive.

JillFilipovic Opinion It’s called the 2nd Amendment

JillFilipovic Opinion How many domestic violence accussed cops get to plead to disturbing the peace so they don't lose their guns? Hmm happens a lot in California

JillFilipovic Opinion All lives matter buddy

JillFilipovic Opinion Criminals carry illegal guns, push that.

JillFilipovic Opinion GOP GOPChairwoman GOPLeader senatemajldr SenateGOP LindseyGrahamSC you want citizens to vote for you, yet open shooting range not on the range meets your approval. Bad as realDonaldTrump dummy creating starvations on those in need. Ignorance Ignorance Ignorance all levels

JillFilipovic Opinion This clown should be fired, for using a dead policeman for political reasons.

JillFilipovic Opinion Oh so now our honorable, corruption free law enforcement agencies want our firearms as well...

JillFilipovic Opinion The NRA owns Trump and all of the rest of the Republican Party.

JillFilipovic Opinion About time that the lack of parenting, the refusal to accept personal responsibility for one's own actions and the senseless hatred of law enforcement be included. Bad guys do not obey the laws, not old laws and not new laws.

JillFilipovic Opinion This repub congress and trump wants what’s up to be down and what’s down to be up. No sense.

JillFilipovic Opinion I blame the Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo for the death of his officer, there are already laws on the books for everything he mentioned, why isn't he enforcing them.

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