On Sunday night, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and unleashed a shower of bullets into a crowd at a country music festival, killing 59 people. For Nelba Márquez-Greene, whose 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, this incident was understandably triggering.

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The mass shooting, which claimed the lives of twenty-six people-including 20 children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012, prompted President Barack Obama to press Congress to enact stricter gun control legislation, but that effort failed. The mournful mother took to Twitter on Monday to express her frustration at the U.S. government’s continued inaction, laying responsibility firmly at the feet of those in Congress who have continually failed to take preventative measures.

 

Márquez-Greene went on to say what we've all been thinking.

The hypocrisy is undeniable at this point.

When is enough, enough!

It's a tired, pathetic, and familiar dialogue – one that President Obama directly addressed in 2015 following a mass shooting at a school in Oregon, saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are not enough…This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America." Two years later, and those words still ring true.

It's time for some serious change.