Tomorrow’s date, May 24, marks a year since an eighteen year old male, armed with an AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle, walked into the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and shot to death 19 grade school children and three teachers. He wounded seventeen others who somehow managed to survive, even though most of them had been shot and lay bleeding for over an hour before police officers finally confronted the shooter and killed him.
Honestly, Lucian, I don't know how you have the stamina to exhume all this.
But I can just image your computer-like mind has stuff filed away, yet accessible.
I have gained much by fishing in your waters for the past year, and was pleased to upgrade my status to Founder, if only to make sure those kittens are well maintained in a style to which their mother has become accustomed.
The big burly brave officers, sirens screaming, brakes screeching as they arrived in droves, jumping out of their vehicles guns drawn running down the hallways ready for action, but wait! they hear shots, they turn around and slink back the way they came down the hallway back to who knows where as they are now off camera never to be seen again. As for the rest, we all saw on the many videos how every single later just stood around casually as Lucian described, chit-chatting while children not yet dead were bleeding out, some dialing 911 pleading for help. As for Abbott and the state legislature, did any of them even suggest a state investigation or visit the site? Or did they just pass more laws making it even easier to buy guns? The red states are more worried about what books will do to damage young minds than what guns will do to damage young bodies.
Why doesn’t CNN host a useful town hall? Put grieving parents on stage. Put maimed survivors on stage. Put EMS and medical front-liners on state. Ask them about their experiences. Have audience also full of survivors, friends, co-workers. Show video and photos. Show the non-rescuing “police.” Show the do-nothing Gov. Abbott. Show blown up pics of politicians who vote against gun safety. Re-run on continuous loop. Just getting started but general idea.
I am not sure that the laws belong to all of us anymore. The shootings Mr. T. mentions are gut-wrenching examples of the will of crazy people being imposed on all of us ... just as Donald Trump was. I no longer understand how people like MTG and Paul Gosar and even Kevin McCarthy are elected. I no longer understand the cruelty and punitiveness of so-called religious people who've taken it upon themselves to deny abortion, even to women who will die without it. I no longer understand the war on poor people, Blacks, and Jews -- as out in the open as it's ever been. It is possible this country will be turned inside out until there is anarchy. I hope not to be around to see it.
Thank you, Lucian. The gun laws in this country are crazy. There is no rational defense for the notion that weapons of war are suitable for everyday citizens to carry or walk around with, or keep in their homes. None. All the blather about the 2nd Amendment is just that—blather that ignores history of where the country and its citizenry were when the Constitution was written, and what was meant by “A well regulated Militia…” The founders certainly did not envision that self-styled “Patriots” like the Proud Boys, The Oath Keepers, 3 Percenters, Boogaloo Movement, Et al would have a perfectly good “Right” to don military gear and swan around in public in Peace Time flaunting their military hardware and intimidating school board meetings, state legislatures, or even—as we saw on January 6th, 2021–proceed to trash the United States Capitol on “Live TV” in an attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. Most of us still can’t get over the fact that this happened in our own country. That we have fallen this low.
Right wing gun advocates, fueled by the NRA and Talk Radio B.S., believe all sorts of nonsense about gun rights in this country that is simply not true. Gun registration, for example. They’re against it. Say it’s Unconstitutional. Nonsense. Back in Washington’s time records were kept of who had muskets and where they were kept. But we have not been in the age of musketry for a long time now, and it is definitely past time that the elected representatives of the American people recognize that this gun mayhem is directly correlated to legal access to weapons that make killing human beings all too easy. For anyone. Nor did the founders imagine a day when those who assaulted police who were doing their sworn duty to protect the seat of our government were hailed as “Heroes” and those same officers, outmanned and overwhelmed, fought on for hours until relieved by additional forces—those brave officers were vilified as “Traitors” and “Cowards” by the same people who would have our nation’s politics decided by the bullet, instead of the ballot. Thanks again, Lucian.
So grim. In so many ways. The evilness seeps down from acclaimed law enforcement, purchased politicians, politicians who keep being voted into office despite the public awareness that so often the politicians have responsibility for the shooting death toll that permeates daily lives of Americans, day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year out. Count the bodies. Count the available and unregulated guns. Count the anniversaries of mass shootings. In our schools, in our churches, in our homes, in our shopping destinations, in our streets, in our entertainment venues, wherever one stands in America, the politicians, law enforcement, too many voters, abdicate responsibility for the safety and welfare of American families, citizens. So grim. In so many ways.
I am so with you on this Lucian, I’m afraid we are going to see a continuation of this nightmare. We have over 20 million of these killing machines loose among the general public, and evidently a public that is clueless about what a threat that is, to all of us. When I was in grade school in the 50’s there was no such thing as a school shooting, much less multiples of those tragedy’s, now they are common. All of this shit started in Texas, wouldn’t you know, with a deer rifle. Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, are four that spring to mind. I knew no one at any of those schools, but I feel a deep burning rage at what happened in those schools to those innocent children and their caretakers. Anyone that has any idea what these weapons can do to a person and still not do everything in their power to get them off the streets, is beneath contempt, as are the cops standing around in the halls of Uvalde. I’m a combat vet, firefights are no fun, in fact they are terrifying, but to stand around while children are being murdered on the other side of a door that you never tried to open, and do nothing for over an hour, is beyond my comprehension. The repugnantkin party is ok with all of the above, they would far rather talk about a Drag Show, than murdered children, WTF? It’s become obvious to me that they need to go the way of the Wigs, we need two parties to have honest conversations with each other about how to best improve our common good, we only have one. The repugnantkins have no interest in the common good, all they care about is making the very richest families even richer, school shootings are inconvenient, but somebody else’s problem. Steve Scalise is a classic example of our problem, he was shot, I think multiple times, damn near died and had a long recovery, you and anyone with a brain would think he might lead on the weapons of war issue, not a peep. If someone that has been shot won’t help with our gun problem, how are we ever going to get these killing machines off our streets?
Thank you for the reminder. Kaddish should be said within a community of mourners, but I will say it tonight. Too many to pray for, with all of the dead taken into consideration.
Tomorrow, one of my dearest friends will be going into Stanford to endure brutal and intense chemo treatments for 5 days until she receives abone marrow transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She knows the donor is a woman and carries 10 out 10 of the criteria needed to help my friend live a longer life. This is my life right now but these anniversaries of shootings just get to me. My stomach churns, my heart beats a little faster as each disastrous event is mentioned. Yes, Uvalde is especially one I grieve the most for. The fact that the so-called cops did absolutely NOTHING to save these sweet souls is maddening! They are cowards, every. single. one. of. them. They all deserve a prison sentence. They all deserve to have to view the missing faces and bodies of the victims, everyday of their lives. They should be subjected to screams and pleas in their cells as they try to go to sleep. I don’t want them to feel freedom. I want them to feel the same hell they are putting the mothers, the fathers, the spouses through by their chosen inactions. Let them rot.
Father, I pray for the little ones who have lost their lives so far this year and those who are yet to lose their lives far into the foreseeable future because the United States Congress won't ban these powerful weapons of war that only soldiers should have in times of war..,
Honestly, Lucian, I don't know how you have the stamina to exhume all this.
But I can just image your computer-like mind has stuff filed away, yet accessible.
I have gained much by fishing in your waters for the past year, and was pleased to upgrade my status to Founder, if only to make sure those kittens are well maintained in a style to which their mother has become accustomed.
The big burly brave officers, sirens screaming, brakes screeching as they arrived in droves, jumping out of their vehicles guns drawn running down the hallways ready for action, but wait! they hear shots, they turn around and slink back the way they came down the hallway back to who knows where as they are now off camera never to be seen again. As for the rest, we all saw on the many videos how every single later just stood around casually as Lucian described, chit-chatting while children not yet dead were bleeding out, some dialing 911 pleading for help. As for Abbott and the state legislature, did any of them even suggest a state investigation or visit the site? Or did they just pass more laws making it even easier to buy guns? The red states are more worried about what books will do to damage young minds than what guns will do to damage young bodies.
Thanks!! All of those brave, heroic peace officers should be fired and never allowed to be a “law enforcement official” again 😡‼️
Grateful that you continue to write about this.
Why doesn’t CNN host a useful town hall? Put grieving parents on stage. Put maimed survivors on stage. Put EMS and medical front-liners on state. Ask them about their experiences. Have audience also full of survivors, friends, co-workers. Show video and photos. Show the non-rescuing “police.” Show the do-nothing Gov. Abbott. Show blown up pics of politicians who vote against gun safety. Re-run on continuous loop. Just getting started but general idea.
all that aside, those god-fearing texans' legislature has just proposed to put the 10 commandments on the wall in every classroom.
just SO damned tired of all that "howdy ma'am" crap from those people.
I am not sure that the laws belong to all of us anymore. The shootings Mr. T. mentions are gut-wrenching examples of the will of crazy people being imposed on all of us ... just as Donald Trump was. I no longer understand how people like MTG and Paul Gosar and even Kevin McCarthy are elected. I no longer understand the cruelty and punitiveness of so-called religious people who've taken it upon themselves to deny abortion, even to women who will die without it. I no longer understand the war on poor people, Blacks, and Jews -- as out in the open as it's ever been. It is possible this country will be turned inside out until there is anarchy. I hope not to be around to see it.
Maybe someone will just shoot me.
Guns and more guns....throw the guns away.
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Thank you, Lucian. The gun laws in this country are crazy. There is no rational defense for the notion that weapons of war are suitable for everyday citizens to carry or walk around with, or keep in their homes. None. All the blather about the 2nd Amendment is just that—blather that ignores history of where the country and its citizenry were when the Constitution was written, and what was meant by “A well regulated Militia…” The founders certainly did not envision that self-styled “Patriots” like the Proud Boys, The Oath Keepers, 3 Percenters, Boogaloo Movement, Et al would have a perfectly good “Right” to don military gear and swan around in public in Peace Time flaunting their military hardware and intimidating school board meetings, state legislatures, or even—as we saw on January 6th, 2021–proceed to trash the United States Capitol on “Live TV” in an attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power from one administration to the next. Most of us still can’t get over the fact that this happened in our own country. That we have fallen this low.
Right wing gun advocates, fueled by the NRA and Talk Radio B.S., believe all sorts of nonsense about gun rights in this country that is simply not true. Gun registration, for example. They’re against it. Say it’s Unconstitutional. Nonsense. Back in Washington’s time records were kept of who had muskets and where they were kept. But we have not been in the age of musketry for a long time now, and it is definitely past time that the elected representatives of the American people recognize that this gun mayhem is directly correlated to legal access to weapons that make killing human beings all too easy. For anyone. Nor did the founders imagine a day when those who assaulted police who were doing their sworn duty to protect the seat of our government were hailed as “Heroes” and those same officers, outmanned and overwhelmed, fought on for hours until relieved by additional forces—those brave officers were vilified as “Traitors” and “Cowards” by the same people who would have our nation’s politics decided by the bullet, instead of the ballot. Thanks again, Lucian.
“Illegitemi non Carborundum” (Sigh….)
So grim. In so many ways. The evilness seeps down from acclaimed law enforcement, purchased politicians, politicians who keep being voted into office despite the public awareness that so often the politicians have responsibility for the shooting death toll that permeates daily lives of Americans, day in, day out, week in, week out, year in, year out. Count the bodies. Count the available and unregulated guns. Count the anniversaries of mass shootings. In our schools, in our churches, in our homes, in our shopping destinations, in our streets, in our entertainment venues, wherever one stands in America, the politicians, law enforcement, too many voters, abdicate responsibility for the safety and welfare of American families, citizens. So grim. In so many ways.
I am so with you on this Lucian, I’m afraid we are going to see a continuation of this nightmare. We have over 20 million of these killing machines loose among the general public, and evidently a public that is clueless about what a threat that is, to all of us. When I was in grade school in the 50’s there was no such thing as a school shooting, much less multiples of those tragedy’s, now they are common. All of this shit started in Texas, wouldn’t you know, with a deer rifle. Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, and Uvalde, are four that spring to mind. I knew no one at any of those schools, but I feel a deep burning rage at what happened in those schools to those innocent children and their caretakers. Anyone that has any idea what these weapons can do to a person and still not do everything in their power to get them off the streets, is beneath contempt, as are the cops standing around in the halls of Uvalde. I’m a combat vet, firefights are no fun, in fact they are terrifying, but to stand around while children are being murdered on the other side of a door that you never tried to open, and do nothing for over an hour, is beyond my comprehension. The repugnantkin party is ok with all of the above, they would far rather talk about a Drag Show, than murdered children, WTF? It’s become obvious to me that they need to go the way of the Wigs, we need two parties to have honest conversations with each other about how to best improve our common good, we only have one. The repugnantkins have no interest in the common good, all they care about is making the very richest families even richer, school shootings are inconvenient, but somebody else’s problem. Steve Scalise is a classic example of our problem, he was shot, I think multiple times, damn near died and had a long recovery, you and anyone with a brain would think he might lead on the weapons of war issue, not a peep. If someone that has been shot won’t help with our gun problem, how are we ever going to get these killing machines off our streets?
Thank you for the reminder. Kaddish should be said within a community of mourners, but I will say it tonight. Too many to pray for, with all of the dead taken into consideration.
I would like to know what percentage of those 400 fraudster cops had military training. My guess is 70%. Disgraceful conduct.
Its not going to get better. The Gregg Abbotts of the US are adding to their war chest. They are planning on using all their weapons to MAGA.
Lock and Load
Tomorrow, one of my dearest friends will be going into Stanford to endure brutal and intense chemo treatments for 5 days until she receives abone marrow transplant for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. She knows the donor is a woman and carries 10 out 10 of the criteria needed to help my friend live a longer life. This is my life right now but these anniversaries of shootings just get to me. My stomach churns, my heart beats a little faster as each disastrous event is mentioned. Yes, Uvalde is especially one I grieve the most for. The fact that the so-called cops did absolutely NOTHING to save these sweet souls is maddening! They are cowards, every. single. one. of. them. They all deserve a prison sentence. They all deserve to have to view the missing faces and bodies of the victims, everyday of their lives. They should be subjected to screams and pleas in their cells as they try to go to sleep. I don’t want them to feel freedom. I want them to feel the same hell they are putting the mothers, the fathers, the spouses through by their chosen inactions. Let them rot.
Father, I pray for the little ones who have lost their lives so far this year and those who are yet to lose their lives far into the foreseeable future because the United States Congress won't ban these powerful weapons of war that only soldiers should have in times of war..,