You are excused if you still have not dug yourself out of the blizzard of excuses put forth by Republicans yesterday after six more bodies lay dead in an elementary school in Nashville. It hardly seems necessary to recount them, but one of the Republican talking points that will no doubt go down in history was this one from north Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who once made a campaign video that included footage of her shooting at feral hogs from a helicopter with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle:
The idiot from Tennessee is my congressman. His name is Burchett, btw. He is notorious for invoking his daddy, and his momma, every chance he gets. He’s the Guiliani of Tennessee. A noun, a verb, momma and daddy.
Over the years we have heard a lot of non sensical rationalization for why we can't/shouldn't put a ban on assault weapons and tighten up gun ownership laws but the ones from Burkett yesterday have to be top of the list for inanity, insanity and insensitivity. Comparing what happened at Iwo , Tarawa and on Okinawa with what is occurring now weekly in American schools is a combination of stupidity and
political distraction but par for the course from what we have become accustomed to hearing from Republicans.
You might remember it was one of Burkett's fellow Tennessee congressman Andy Ogle who just happens to be from Nashville who famously had his family pose for their Christmas card toting ARs.
OMG! And I’m not very sure I have a “MY God.” After 16 years of cloistered Catholic girls education, I never would have thought that children would be so abandoned. On Monday night, all that my 15 year old granddaughter could say was “they’re 9!” Burchett and Ogle and Green and Graham and ALL of the rest of the GUN aficionados, need to be removed. Anyone who will not vote to limit military grade weapons to the military needs to be sent packing...and not packing heat!
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As for making everyone in this country a Christian in order to have a "revival," let's keep in mind that Christian fundamentalist fanatics actually DO dream of forcing their version of Christianity down everyone's throats. They would love to have the power to make all other religions illegal, and to persecute those who refuse to conform. Kinda like reviving the Spanish Inquisition, taking us back to the late 1400s, when "Their Most Catholic Majesties," King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, issued the Edict of Expulsion, throwing out all the Jews and Moslems in the country who refused to convert to Catholicism. That couldn't happen here? I'm sure that's what a lot of Spanish Jews and Moslems said!
Onward Christian soldiers,eh?I still think these Republican gun idiots are going to get their “come to Jesus” moment via the ballot box.Maybe people taking to the streets en masse will be a coming attraction here. Look at the numbers of folks in Paris or Tel Aviv who have had it with their f’ed up status quo.There isn’t an easy solution to this plague of guns but we must do something everyday to try to remedy this horrible situation. Nothing changes if nothing changes.
I was born in NY and live in CA and have lived and worked in Europe and Asia - and could do so again if need be. So you'd be right to understand that I'm here by choice.
But the day I feel I need a gun to keep my family and myself safe, I'm leaving.
I would like to ask Burchett this: if the shooter hadn’t had access to a gun, does he think that the killer would have successfully, say, strangled 3 children and 3 adults in quick succession? It’s the guns, stupid! And as for it’s the not guns, it’s the people, rationale? Well, guns were invented by people, are manufactured by people, and are used by people to murder other people. Does that make it any better?
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At the risk of making a very tasteless choice of words, your aim is dead-on target with the truth and essence of these cultural diseases of gun mania, mass shootings and so-called Christianity that ignores the teachings of Jesus (as best a smart person can divine them from the imperfect gospels)
I am numb from the outrage I feel at every mass shooting. In recent years in my region, we had Gilroy and VTA (and going way back the original 101 California shooting that led Sen. Feinstein to propose and pass an assault rifle ban). How is it that these gun nuts can override the desires of the vast majority of Americans who want bans on weapons of war? Rhetorical question I guess when a majority of the Supreme Court totally ignores the first clause of the 2nd Amendment, you know, the part about a “well-regulated militia.” Aaarrrgh.
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So Empty G blames the testosterone she stated the shooter was using. Would she also blame T if the shooter were male? The shooter had attended the same Christian school she attacked. Her Christian upbringing sure didn’t keep her from arming herself with two rifles and a pistol and then killing six people.
"There it is, the Christian nationalist’s fatalistic solution. Why bother trying to control the guns and stop the shooters when it’s all in God’s hands? Nothing is going to happen unless we have “a revival in this country.'"
Ogles in Tennessee, pictured in their cheery Christmas inappropriate card with all of them, adults and children, celebrating merrily and all with a gun in hand. His state. He is getting grilled and clinging to his right to send that appropriate card. These monsters want the rest of this country to just settle down and accept that every year, a good number of their children are going to be blown to bits in their schools and many, many other innocent people. And to nail this on the trans community, because there always must be an excuse so bizarre and so awful your own eyes bulge, is a victimization in turn, essentally, well, go shoot those awful trans people, who compose less than 1 percent of the population of the U.S. Anything to keep from blaming the gun. It's hard not to hate these cruel and monstrous imbeciles.
Math error: 6.5 million armed police should be 650,000. Sorry. It's been a while since I studied multiplying and dividing.
The idiot from Tennessee is my congressman. His name is Burchett, btw. He is notorious for invoking his daddy, and his momma, every chance he gets. He’s the Guiliani of Tennessee. A noun, a verb, momma and daddy.
Over the years we have heard a lot of non sensical rationalization for why we can't/shouldn't put a ban on assault weapons and tighten up gun ownership laws but the ones from Burkett yesterday have to be top of the list for inanity, insanity and insensitivity. Comparing what happened at Iwo , Tarawa and on Okinawa with what is occurring now weekly in American schools is a combination of stupidity and
political distraction but par for the course from what we have become accustomed to hearing from Republicans.
You might remember it was one of Burkett's fellow Tennessee congressman Andy Ogle who just happens to be from Nashville who famously had his family pose for their Christmas card toting ARs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nashville-rep-andy-ogles-responds-to-criticism-of-christmas-card-of-his-family-posing-with-guns/
With minds like this representing the citizens of Tennessee, it is likely the state will become the new Alabama.
OMG! And I’m not very sure I have a “MY God.” After 16 years of cloistered Catholic girls education, I never would have thought that children would be so abandoned. On Monday night, all that my 15 year old granddaughter could say was “they’re 9!” Burchett and Ogle and Green and Graham and ALL of the rest of the GUN aficionados, need to be removed. Anyone who will not vote to limit military grade weapons to the military needs to be sent packing...and not packing heat!
As for making everyone in this country a Christian in order to have a "revival," let's keep in mind that Christian fundamentalist fanatics actually DO dream of forcing their version of Christianity down everyone's throats. They would love to have the power to make all other religions illegal, and to persecute those who refuse to conform. Kinda like reviving the Spanish Inquisition, taking us back to the late 1400s, when "Their Most Catholic Majesties," King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, issued the Edict of Expulsion, throwing out all the Jews and Moslems in the country who refused to convert to Catholicism. That couldn't happen here? I'm sure that's what a lot of Spanish Jews and Moslems said!
Onward Christian soldiers,eh?I still think these Republican gun idiots are going to get their “come to Jesus” moment via the ballot box.Maybe people taking to the streets en masse will be a coming attraction here. Look at the numbers of folks in Paris or Tel Aviv who have had it with their f’ed up status quo.There isn’t an easy solution to this plague of guns but we must do something everyday to try to remedy this horrible situation. Nothing changes if nothing changes.
I was born in NY and live in CA and have lived and worked in Europe and Asia - and could do so again if need be. So you'd be right to understand that I'm here by choice.
But the day I feel I need a gun to keep my family and myself safe, I'm leaving.
I would like to ask Burchett this: if the shooter hadn’t had access to a gun, does he think that the killer would have successfully, say, strangled 3 children and 3 adults in quick succession? It’s the guns, stupid! And as for it’s the not guns, it’s the people, rationale? Well, guns were invented by people, are manufactured by people, and are used by people to murder other people. Does that make it any better?
And don’t forget that when Burchett was asked about his own daughter, he very pretentiously pointed out that she was homeschooled.
At the risk of making a very tasteless choice of words, your aim is dead-on target with the truth and essence of these cultural diseases of gun mania, mass shootings and so-called Christianity that ignores the teachings of Jesus (as best a smart person can divine them from the imperfect gospels)
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I am numb from the outrage I feel at every mass shooting. In recent years in my region, we had Gilroy and VTA (and going way back the original 101 California shooting that led Sen. Feinstein to propose and pass an assault rifle ban). How is it that these gun nuts can override the desires of the vast majority of Americans who want bans on weapons of war? Rhetorical question I guess when a majority of the Supreme Court totally ignores the first clause of the 2nd Amendment, you know, the part about a “well-regulated militia.” Aaarrrgh.
So Empty G blames the testosterone she stated the shooter was using. Would she also blame T if the shooter were male? The shooter had attended the same Christian school she attacked. Her Christian upbringing sure didn’t keep her from arming herself with two rifles and a pistol and then killing six people.
"There it is, the Christian nationalist’s fatalistic solution. Why bother trying to control the guns and stop the shooters when it’s all in God’s hands? Nothing is going to happen unless we have “a revival in this country.'"
the lord works in mysterious ways, don't he?
I'm done whining about how bad things are. Here's what i plan to do:
Never vote for any Republican, or anyone else who will not commit to advancing sensible gun reform legislation.
Support (campaign contributions, votes, social media) any politician who pledges to
Expand the Supreme Court.
Abolish the Electoral College.
Grant statehood to the District of
Columbia and Puerto Rico.
Ban the sale of semiautomatic, AR-15
style rifles and establish a buyback
program for the millions in private hands.
Communicate regularly with my lawmakers in Washington and my state on these same issues.
Any other ideas?
Ogles in Tennessee, pictured in their cheery Christmas inappropriate card with all of them, adults and children, celebrating merrily and all with a gun in hand. His state. He is getting grilled and clinging to his right to send that appropriate card. These monsters want the rest of this country to just settle down and accept that every year, a good number of their children are going to be blown to bits in their schools and many, many other innocent people. And to nail this on the trans community, because there always must be an excuse so bizarre and so awful your own eyes bulge, is a victimization in turn, essentally, well, go shoot those awful trans people, who compose less than 1 percent of the population of the U.S. Anything to keep from blaming the gun. It's hard not to hate these cruel and monstrous imbeciles.
They know their audience. But the number of followers peeling off do provide some solace.