EVERY TIME WITHOUT FAIL: There’s Nothing Like a Tragedy to Expose Anti-Gunners and Politicians for the Ghouls They Are. “One of the very first public statements to be released by an elected official came from U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who’s been in the Senate in Washington, D.C., since 1996. Sen. Wyden wasted no time to post a statement on social media calling for more gun control laws and disgustingly laying the blame at Republican lawmakers’ feet.”