Tim Cook dinner slams ‘madness’ of US inactivity on gun violence after two mass shootings – CNET

Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner mentioned he is “heartbroken” by US legislators’ inactivity on gun violence.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner mentioned Sunday he is “heartbroken” by the “madness” of legislative inactivity relating to gun violence within the US after two mass shootings in two cities inside 24 hours left 29 useless.

“I am heartbroken about what’s occurring in my nation,” Cook dinner mentioned in tweet Sunday. “The definition of madness is doing the identical factor and anticipating totally different outcomes. It is time for good individuals with totally different views to cease finger pointing and are available collectively to handle this violence for the nice of our nation.”

I am heartbroken about what’s occurring in my nation. The definition of madness is doing the identical factor and anticipating totally different outcomes. It is time for good individuals with totally different views to cease finger pointing and are available collectively to handle this violence for the nice of our nation.

— Tim Cook dinner (@tim_cook) August four, 2019

A capturing Saturday at Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killed 20 individuals and wounded 26, and a capturing later within the day at capturing in Dayton, Ohio, left 9 useless and 27 injured.

Cook dinner isn’t any stranger to voicing criticism of presidency exercise he sees as detrimental to the US. In 2017, Cook dinner spoke up towards President Donald Trump’s effort to shut the US to immigrants from predominantly Muslim international locations, telling staff in a memo that, “It’s not a coverage we help.”

A yr earlier, Cook dinner was amongst greater than 90 enterprise executives who spoke out towards a North Carolina legislation that may drive transgender college students to make use of faculty bathrooms “inconsistent with their gender identification.”

The variety of mass shootings throughout the US thus far in 2019 has outpaced the variety of days this yr, in accordance with a gun violence analysis group. There have been 251 mass shootings within the US this yr as of Sunday, which was the 216th day of the yr, in accordance with knowledge from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, which tracks each mass capturing within the nation.