It doesn’t matter whether we’re talking about Buffalo, New York or Uvalde, Texas. It doesn’t matter whether the state has fairly strict gun laws or entirely loose ones. With the kind of guns used in these mass killings, whether they are semiautomatic rifles like the AR-15 or semiautomatic handguns like the Glock pistol, it’s just too easy.
I am stunned that we as a nation are so far gone we cannot see the folly of our current path. The deaths of innocents dwarfing deaths from all other violent causes. The only advanced country where this happens, or anything remotely close. The only political system that allows it freely to continue. Sad.
I just responded elsewhere to a comment about how if schools were more secure this would not have happened. The example was allegedly in Ohio all doors and windows locked, people can only enter through one door with a metal detector, and can only do so by appointment. My response was is this school or penitentiary? Also, you better believe if this or anyone on a kill rage will stop because the school would not let them in is wrong. There are playgrounds, shopping malls, Target, etc. in other words there are plenty of “target rich environments.”
The shooter in Buffalo was wearing body armor and killed a retired cop who was firing at him. Apparently good guys with guns must also go out wearing body armor. The arms race continues. I’m sure it’s great for the industry’s profits, tho.
It’s insane that we allow the gun industry to totally control gun legislation. I went to my rep’s, the loathsome Elise Stefanik’s, Twitter page and expressed my sympathy for her:
It must suck to have to put this tweet up even though you’re going to get flamed because your whole career is built on allowing this to happen.
Members of Congress who continue to vote against reasonable gun reform need to be brought into crime scenes before clean up. Lucian, you and I know what tumbling high velocity rounds do to a body, especially young ones. They take off limbs and huge chunks of flesh. Many of our representatives are pathetic POS’s.
Biden, after a 17 hour trip back from Asia, wearily spoke to our wounded country. If anyone knows the pain of losing a child, it’s him. I do NOT want to ever hear how governors, Congress members, send their “thoughts and prayers”!They must put their hard efforts to prohibit the gun lobbyists from even being near the Senate chambers. Pressure on Mitch and his legislature should be relentless, every single minute of every single day! I have a friend from college whose granddaughter was the youngest child killed at Parkland. I know she is devastated. WE, The People, must bullhorn our way in front of these deficient judges, members of Congress. These incidents are sick!!
The NRA moved its headquarters to Texas when the SDNY was closing in on their money laundering for the GOP from foreign donations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc
And Abbott and Cruz are darlings of the NRA. I think THEY should be forced to witness the crime scene and all those precious souls blown to bits because of THEIR lack of souls. I'm not sure it would cost them even a moment of sleep, much less a change of "heart" but at least the sight would be something they could not erase from their brains.
True. "Disarm" the NRA? The problem is, the attempt to close down the NRA by withdrawing their state charter or nonprofit status only caused them to move to another state, Gun Capitol of the USA, Texas. We "kill bills" in the legislature. Seems the government could a "kill" a national organization.
Again. A mass school shooting, with now nineteen young children now dead, and the usual complement of adult victims. The shooter, again, fits the stereotype, an eighteen year-old who brought one or more guns with him to a school, and, as increasingly seen, clothed in ballistic body armor like some sci-fi ninja warrior, all the more likely to improve his chances for achieving a far higher death toll than would've been possible otherwise, before his inevitable capture or death. It was that way last week in Buffalo, New York, with 10 dead and three injured; and today, with 22 dead, including the shooter. And again with the 'thoughts and prayers' for the dead, and their families and friends. We hear it mouthed so often, it's a trite, meaningless cliché bereft of any real empathy or sincerity. To what end, when that's as far as certain people, politicians in particular, are prepared to go. To me, 'Thoughts and prayers' is code for saying, 'Bad karma, but nothing we care enough about to change our politics or our lust for power, and our collective behavior. The tightness I felt in my chest wasn't about surprise or shock; shootings happen too often, and my first thoughts were, 'Damn! Here we go again!', with my following thoughts, 'Texas. No surprise there.' The only conclusions I can draw are that Texans value guns and gun rights over the the lives and safety of their fellow Texans, and especially children. They're locked in a perpetual state of adolescence, forever in thrall to Roy Rogers, Hoppalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. That sort of play acting my friends and I did when we were six or seven years old. We outgrew that phase of our lives, but Texans obviously have not. As a political culture, they have shown themselves to be irredeemably irresponsible, and that is terribly sad.
I live here and I despise the man and his ilk and their rabid followers. But as noted above by Arthur, they're like spoiled little boys, rattling their sabers and playing cowboys. I vote by absentee ballot and never miss an election. I am just hoping I don't get shot by one of these wannabe ninjas before November of 2022 and 2024. I'm hoping the blue Texans will flood the polls and wash this scum away for good.
If someone dropped a modern gun at my feet, I wouldn’t know if it had a safety feature and would have no idea how to unload it. But I could probably figure out how to fire it. Now we have to figure out how to prevent these slaughters. Start by telling every politician to stop this.
Perhaps it's long past time to go after the second amendment. If we can glibly go after abortion, certainly we can revisit bearing arms. If not able to have a sensible discussion, then lets amend it GONE and while we're at it, take the electoral college with it. At least for a start.
Here are words that should be repeatedd: "The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires. – Warren Burger, Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice
WE MUST VOTE
DEMOCRATIC NOW.
IT'S A MATTER OF
LIFE or DEATH.
I am stunned that we as a nation are so far gone we cannot see the folly of our current path. The deaths of innocents dwarfing deaths from all other violent causes. The only advanced country where this happens, or anything remotely close. The only political system that allows it freely to continue. Sad.
Once upon a very long time ago, there was a tweet that summed up everything wrong in the US with guns:
"Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over."
But by god, we're gonna have that 2nd Amendment in force.
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I just responded elsewhere to a comment about how if schools were more secure this would not have happened. The example was allegedly in Ohio all doors and windows locked, people can only enter through one door with a metal detector, and can only do so by appointment. My response was is this school or penitentiary? Also, you better believe if this or anyone on a kill rage will stop because the school would not let them in is wrong. There are playgrounds, shopping malls, Target, etc. in other words there are plenty of “target rich environments.”
The shooter in Buffalo was wearing body armor and killed a retired cop who was firing at him. Apparently good guys with guns must also go out wearing body armor. The arms race continues. I’m sure it’s great for the industry’s profits, tho.
You need a license to catch a fish.
And to get married!
It’s insane that we allow the gun industry to totally control gun legislation. I went to my rep’s, the loathsome Elise Stefanik’s, Twitter page and expressed my sympathy for her:
It must suck to have to put this tweet up even though you’re going to get flamed because your whole career is built on allowing this to happen.
Members of Congress who continue to vote against reasonable gun reform need to be brought into crime scenes before clean up. Lucian, you and I know what tumbling high velocity rounds do to a body, especially young ones. They take off limbs and huge chunks of flesh. Many of our representatives are pathetic POS’s.
Biden, after a 17 hour trip back from Asia, wearily spoke to our wounded country. If anyone knows the pain of losing a child, it’s him. I do NOT want to ever hear how governors, Congress members, send their “thoughts and prayers”!They must put their hard efforts to prohibit the gun lobbyists from even being near the Senate chambers. Pressure on Mitch and his legislature should be relentless, every single minute of every single day! I have a friend from college whose granddaughter was the youngest child killed at Parkland. I know she is devastated. WE, The People, must bullhorn our way in front of these deficient judges, members of Congress. These incidents are sick!!
"Bienvenidos" the school sign says. Welcome.
Time to kill the NRA.
The NRA moved its headquarters to Texas when the SDNY was closing in on their money laundering for the GOP from foreign donations from Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc
And Abbott and Cruz are darlings of the NRA. I think THEY should be forced to witness the crime scene and all those precious souls blown to bits because of THEIR lack of souls. I'm not sure it would cost them even a moment of sleep, much less a change of "heart" but at least the sight would be something they could not erase from their brains.
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Be careful...kill.
True. "Disarm" the NRA? The problem is, the attempt to close down the NRA by withdrawing their state charter or nonprofit status only caused them to move to another state, Gun Capitol of the USA, Texas. We "kill bills" in the legislature. Seems the government could a "kill" a national organization.
A other horrific shooting! The gun lobby and corrupt politicians again have blood on their hands.
GOP says killing babies outside the womb is OK.
We live in an upside down world, and innocent children are the victims.
Again. A mass school shooting, with now nineteen young children now dead, and the usual complement of adult victims. The shooter, again, fits the stereotype, an eighteen year-old who brought one or more guns with him to a school, and, as increasingly seen, clothed in ballistic body armor like some sci-fi ninja warrior, all the more likely to improve his chances for achieving a far higher death toll than would've been possible otherwise, before his inevitable capture or death. It was that way last week in Buffalo, New York, with 10 dead and three injured; and today, with 22 dead, including the shooter. And again with the 'thoughts and prayers' for the dead, and their families and friends. We hear it mouthed so often, it's a trite, meaningless cliché bereft of any real empathy or sincerity. To what end, when that's as far as certain people, politicians in particular, are prepared to go. To me, 'Thoughts and prayers' is code for saying, 'Bad karma, but nothing we care enough about to change our politics or our lust for power, and our collective behavior. The tightness I felt in my chest wasn't about surprise or shock; shootings happen too often, and my first thoughts were, 'Damn! Here we go again!', with my following thoughts, 'Texas. No surprise there.' The only conclusions I can draw are that Texans value guns and gun rights over the the lives and safety of their fellow Texans, and especially children. They're locked in a perpetual state of adolescence, forever in thrall to Roy Rogers, Hoppalong Cassidy, and Red Ryder. That sort of play acting my friends and I did when we were six or seven years old. We outgrew that phase of our lives, but Texans obviously have not. As a political culture, they have shown themselves to be irredeemably irresponsible, and that is terribly sad.
Once again I'm having a hard time understanding what "right to life" means to Republicans.
U.S.A. .....USA.....What an abombination!
And we call the Russians animals!
Don’t you know? There’s also no rape in Texas, so no need for abortions.
Abbott is the same kind of POS as Death Santis, tRump, Ted Cruz—hell, the list is too long. Texans deserve Abbott . . . And nothing will be done.
I live here and I despise the man and his ilk and their rabid followers. But as noted above by Arthur, they're like spoiled little boys, rattling their sabers and playing cowboys. I vote by absentee ballot and never miss an election. I am just hoping I don't get shot by one of these wannabe ninjas before November of 2022 and 2024. I'm hoping the blue Texans will flood the polls and wash this scum away for good.
If someone dropped a modern gun at my feet, I wouldn’t know if it had a safety feature and would have no idea how to unload it. But I could probably figure out how to fire it. Now we have to figure out how to prevent these slaughters. Start by telling every politician to stop this.
Perhaps it's long past time to go after the second amendment. If we can glibly go after abortion, certainly we can revisit bearing arms. If not able to have a sensible discussion, then lets amend it GONE and while we're at it, take the electoral college with it. At least for a start.
Here are words that should be repeatedd: "The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires. – Warren Burger, Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice
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