Can we say it enough that the GOP is morally degenerate and near wholly subservient to weapons manufacturers who see profit in freely selling military level weapons to the general population.
To most Americans the victims are mere names and numbers.
Make the gunkweers in Congress see the carnage, up close and personal.
Then show the Amerixan people on broadcast and cable networks.
Can pixelate or shadow faces unless there are wounds to the face/head. If there are, show them.
Keep showing them until Amerixans wakedafuqup.
Only then will the climate support actual weapon and accessory legislation. Register them all, license all owners inc. annual qualifying on the weapon(s), tax them as a Sin Tax, make owners insure them, and on top of that insurance personal liability insurance, Make manafacturers issue free safety add-ons for existing weapons and include them w/new.
No buyback program would work. Besides, it is better to collect fees than it is to dole out money for any buyback. If it is made into a financial burden owners who have many weapons will turn some in for free.
No question what spurs action is placing the visual proof and horror out there for people to see. Actually believe mandatory training, safety locks, red flag laws enforced and insurance coverage for arms as we do cars ffs will result in major change.
A Sunday reprise seems like a good idea to me because you work so hard every day to send us your enlightening posts so you have earned a day of rest. Also, it never hurts to be reminded of what has happened so recently to keep it alive in our minds as we approach November 5
Rereading his insipid comments, I thought my head would explode. Substack does not permit pictures/memes, but my meme for today reads "Some days the available supply of curse words is insufficient to meet my demands" So, too, the available supply of alcohol.....
The TN Republican veto-proof House has, since that incident, expelled two black members who tried to debate gun violence, whose districts then reinstated them, and had Covenant mothers arrested and dragged out of the chamber several times. This is how much they 'love them some gun lobbyist money' more than any concern for citizens, school children or law officers. There have been incidents in Knoxville where deputies have been killed attempting to serve warrants at homes where the perp had more firepower than the officers. And permitless open carry is legal now over age 18. What could go wrong?
Absolutely!!! Vote for every Democrat on your ballot, every time. Sooner or later the weight of public opinion has to have some effect on this abominable, cruel infectious epidemic (I was going to say “holdover,” but it’s more serious than that) that spread from the Deep South “gun and hunt” mentality, reinforced by the utterly outdated Second Amendment. It won’t be easy, though. Several thousand more innocent people, alive today, are going to die until this damnable gun mentality changes. If it ever does.
I am so glad you repeated this column. Every Republican who believes that putting cops in schools will stop such shootings needs to learn how to count--specifically the number of past school shootings in which there were cops. Where would we get the cops who police the streets etc if we put one cop for every 100 students in every public and private school?
I am surprised that some GOP members have yet to find a bible verse that can quotes justifying doing nothing against weapons made for war. . For your next reprise, please consider the post you wrote in which you spelled out every criminal charge against Trump. And didn't you do a column laying out what he said he would do--to a Time Magazine reporter --when he is elected?
I think that a Sunday Reprise is an excellent idea. This column reminds us all that the scourge of guns and their enablers like the people you name in your column continues. It’s shameful that the GOP message is that the remedy for too many guns is more guns. Thank you for your columns — sanity in these terrible times.
A column well worth repeating, but your readers (based on the comments now and in the past) are about as normal and well-adjusted rational Americans as you will find anywhere. in the country.
We could say every Republican lawmaker should read the column, but we all know the logic would go right over their heads.
Even though nature terminates many more pregnancies than pregnant women do it is mostly Republicans who scream and holler about the unborn, while shrugging their shoulders and brushing aside the deaths of so many living breathing human beings - mostly children. that on their way to school that morning never guessed for a moment they wouldn't get to go home again.
Re: My general receptivity to the notion of a Sunday Reprise column....Was it prescient ? Is it pertinent ? Then Hallelujah ! Of course, these qualities are taken as understood in the present instance. So...Hallelujah !
A great book about the AR-15 was published last year: American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Pages 95-96 tell the story of one of its first combat effects in Vietnam.
A doctor on my Advisory Team in SVN thought the rifle should be banned by the Geneva Convention; in 1968 he showed me x-rays of its effect on people. I agreed with him, but we had no choice.
P.S.: Never in my mind did I ever think that I would see American civilians publicly, brazenly, walking around with this f'n rifle on American streets, but I've seen it here in Arizona. Counter-protesters at a BLM demonstrators rally in Prescott, AZ. I was furious at the sight of these nutjobs.
Tim Burchett may go to a church labeled "Christian" but he knows nothing about the teachings of Jesus and the preciousness of human life. If one of those children had been his child, I don't think he would talk the same way. These Republican hacks parading the halls of Congress are moral imbeciles at best. This is the depth of what can only be called moral depravity---and I mean not the shooters (who are clearly depraved) but the Republican apologists for murderers.
Can we say it enough that the GOP is morally degenerate and near wholly subservient to weapons manufacturers who see profit in freely selling military level weapons to the general population.
To most Americans the victims are mere names and numbers.
Make the gunkweers in Congress see the carnage, up close and personal.
Then show the Amerixan people on broadcast and cable networks.
Can pixelate or shadow faces unless there are wounds to the face/head. If there are, show them.
Keep showing them until Amerixans wakedafuqup.
Only then will the climate support actual weapon and accessory legislation. Register them all, license all owners inc. annual qualifying on the weapon(s), tax them as a Sin Tax, make owners insure them, and on top of that insurance personal liability insurance, Make manafacturers issue free safety add-ons for existing weapons and include them w/new.
No buyback program would work. Besides, it is better to collect fees than it is to dole out money for any buyback. If it is made into a financial burden owners who have many weapons will turn some in for free.
No question what spurs action is placing the visual proof and horror out there for people to see. Actually believe mandatory training, safety locks, red flag laws enforced and insurance coverage for arms as we do cars ffs will result in major change.
Great ideas, but we'd have to get rid of this S.Ct. before any of this could conceivably happen.
I'd only suggest eliminating, "near."
A Sunday reprise seems like a good idea to me because you work so hard every day to send us your enlightening posts so you have earned a day of rest. Also, it never hurts to be reminded of what has happened so recently to keep it alive in our minds as we approach November 5
I totally agree. Lucian deserves a day off, and any of his past columns are well worth a second read.
Good thought pieces don't get old, especially when the problem written about still exists.
I love that this asshat thinks a "revival" will solve a particular problem; that it is all about hearts and religion. His.
What, I wonder, does he think laws are for?
Rereading his insipid comments, I thought my head would explode. Substack does not permit pictures/memes, but my meme for today reads "Some days the available supply of curse words is insufficient to meet my demands" So, too, the available supply of alcohol.....
The TN Republican veto-proof House has, since that incident, expelled two black members who tried to debate gun violence, whose districts then reinstated them, and had Covenant mothers arrested and dragged out of the chamber several times. This is how much they 'love them some gun lobbyist money' more than any concern for citizens, school children or law officers. There have been incidents in Knoxville where deputies have been killed attempting to serve warrants at homes where the perp had more firepower than the officers. And permitless open carry is legal now over age 18. What could go wrong?
Unfortunately, just as relevant today as it was when it was first written.
More with every death.
The answer is to VOTE BLUE FOR EVERY SINGLE OFFICE SO WE CAN REALLY CHANGE THE LAWS! BAN THE AR 15!
Absolutely!!! Vote for every Democrat on your ballot, every time. Sooner or later the weight of public opinion has to have some effect on this abominable, cruel infectious epidemic (I was going to say “holdover,” but it’s more serious than that) that spread from the Deep South “gun and hunt” mentality, reinforced by the utterly outdated Second Amendment. It won’t be easy, though. Several thousand more innocent people, alive today, are going to die until this damnable gun mentality changes. If it ever does.
I am so glad you repeated this column. Every Republican who believes that putting cops in schools will stop such shootings needs to learn how to count--specifically the number of past school shootings in which there were cops. Where would we get the cops who police the streets etc if we put one cop for every 100 students in every public and private school?
I am surprised that some GOP members have yet to find a bible verse that can quotes justifying doing nothing against weapons made for war. . For your next reprise, please consider the post you wrote in which you spelled out every criminal charge against Trump. And didn't you do a column laying out what he said he would do--to a Time Magazine reporter --when he is elected?
Lucian, your rerunning posts that elicit strong reactions is a very good idea. I vote Yes.
I think that a Sunday Reprise is an excellent idea. This column reminds us all that the scourge of guns and their enablers like the people you name in your column continues. It’s shameful that the GOP message is that the remedy for too many guns is more guns. Thank you for your columns — sanity in these terrible times.
And of course all these school cops would pledge fealty to the local Republican militia.
While keeping their Klan robes in the closet for special occasions.
A column well worth repeating, but your readers (based on the comments now and in the past) are about as normal and well-adjusted rational Americans as you will find anywhere. in the country.
We could say every Republican lawmaker should read the column, but we all know the logic would go right over their heads.
Even though nature terminates many more pregnancies than pregnant women do it is mostly Republicans who scream and holler about the unborn, while shrugging their shoulders and brushing aside the deaths of so many living breathing human beings - mostly children. that on their way to school that morning never guessed for a moment they wouldn't get to go home again.
It saddens me that variations of this story are repeatedly needed to be told.
Re: My general receptivity to the notion of a Sunday Reprise column....Was it prescient ? Is it pertinent ? Then Hallelujah ! Of course, these qualities are taken as understood in the present instance. So...Hallelujah !
I think your subscribers would welcome and enjoy a Sunday reprise. I know I would.
A great book about the AR-15 was published last year: American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
by Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Pages 95-96 tell the story of one of its first combat effects in Vietnam.
A doctor on my Advisory Team in SVN thought the rifle should be banned by the Geneva Convention; in 1968 he showed me x-rays of its effect on people. I agreed with him, but we had no choice.
P.S.: Never in my mind did I ever think that I would see American civilians publicly, brazenly, walking around with this f'n rifle on American streets, but I've seen it here in Arizona. Counter-protesters at a BLM demonstrators rally in Prescott, AZ. I was furious at the sight of these nutjobs.
Tim Burchett may go to a church labeled "Christian" but he knows nothing about the teachings of Jesus and the preciousness of human life. If one of those children had been his child, I don't think he would talk the same way. These Republican hacks parading the halls of Congress are moral imbeciles at best. This is the depth of what can only be called moral depravity---and I mean not the shooters (who are clearly depraved) but the Republican apologists for murderers.
Do you really think that the Jesus people who talk about him think about him?