After Mass Shootings, Democratic Congressman Says Moments Of

Silence Make His 'Head Explode'

A Democratic congressman is still tired of lawmakers lowering flags and not speaking
instead of passing legislation to stop gun violence.

In a throwback video from “The Daily Show” in 2018, Rep. Jim Hines (D-Conn.) talked about
refusing to participate in moments of silence in the wake of mass shootings. He described
how lawmakers in Washington offer 10 seconds without talking rather than one hour of work
that could solve real problems.

“That’s what we offer to the people who have been so traumatized by the events in Las
Vegas, the events in Sandy Hook, the event in Orlando,” Himes said at the time. “It’s just
the drum beat of that impotence and that silence. I’ll tell you, it just makes my head
explode.”

Himes’ district is adjacent to the site of the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, a shooting that left
26 people dead at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school. He began waving off
moments of silence in 2016 after 49 people died in a mass shooting at an Orlando-based
LGBTQ nightclub in 2016. In a series of tweets at the time, Hines said silence mocked
victims of the tragedy and the gesture became an “abomination.”

In this throwback interview, which Himes retweeted on Thursday following the deadly school
shooting in Uvalde, Texas, he also described lawmakers’ gestures like lowering flags after
tragedies as “negligence.”

Himes said at the time. “It’s just the drum beat of that impotence shooting in Uvalde, Texas,
The Daily Show” in 2018, Rep. Jim lowering flags and not speaking instead of passing
legislation to stop
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