Thank you, Ms. Corin. I remember when Walmart was pressured to changed its gun sales policy but then changed it back again after public outcry dwindled. Keep up the pressure, and we'll be there with you.
Thank you, Jaclyn. As a neighbor of Parkland (I am in Boca Raton), I cannot forget what I saw at MSD that day and what I have seen among the survivors and the greater MSD community from that time forward. You have my constant admiration and my unwavering support.
The NRA, in my opinion, isn't much further away from being a terrorist sponsored organization.
It all about the GREED of weapon manufacturers. Nobody is asking to ban weapons, but to pass sensible laws that govern the sales of weapons. The open carry laws, where anybody can go into a rage and kill people. Licenses to prove that a person has completed a training course to be able to get said license. And regulated traveling gun shows where if you know the right person one can go and buy any weapon without background checks and usually where the seller has a supply of illegal weapons stashed in a cargo trailer that is pulled behind their vehicle.
Cripes, the Second Amendment was written when there wasn't any National Guard in every state, was written when the weapon was the blunderbuss, not a rapid fire rifle with huge canister that could kill a huge amount of people within a minute or two.
I wrote this several years ago as part of a crowdsourced topical humor feature in a once-respected newspaper. It is, sadly, as apt now as then. With apologies to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, to the tune of "Maria" from "West Side Story"...
Gun violence is only the very tip of the iceberg. We have elected into office a monster that is killing people daily across the globe. He is starving people not just here in this country but in countries that are defenseless against him. He has told people who do not have the money to buy their own health care (a crime in it's own right) that they do not deserve health care because they do not have money. He (and Elon Musk) have wrought such devastation to the country I love that our children will be saddled with the responsibility of it's repair (if that will be possible) literally decades into the future.
And who (other than the Contrarians), I ask you, are ready to stand up tall for democracy? I daily read rags with their blinders on, actually defending his unspeakable behavior. I see so few standing up tall and saying NO to all of this that truly have grave reservations with the competency (and, yes, the morality and ethics) of the country we are passing down to our future generation.
The violence that is being done to our country and its democracy dwarfs gun violence. And, like with gun violence, so many shrug their shoulders and glibly say "well that's the way it is.
Nothing I can do about it"!
There is. WE could start thinking the next time we vote (if there is a next time).
Anybody who owns a gun is willing to kill something or someone, I don’t care what church you claim to attend. Why do we give murderers a means to an end? Maybe gun communities should be formed like 55+ neighborhoods. Then they can kill each other. Or, if you buy a gun you have to serve in a war for a year, month, day, even an hour. We need to quit dreaming and pussyfooting this issue - get rid of guns, nothing short of that will ameliorate anything related to gun violence.
Thank you, Ms. Corin. I remember when Walmart was pressured to changed its gun sales policy but then changed it back again after public outcry dwindled. Keep up the pressure, and we'll be there with you.
One more example that Citizens United, which lets corporations buy legislation, was one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time.
"And, now, the federal government is opening a “gun rights office” inside the Department of Justice."
If they changed the name of the Dept. of Defense, this one needs to be changed to "Dept. of We Don't Give a Shit About You People."
While it would be good to have less firearms, I believe that the culture of violence is not about firearms. It is mental and social illness.
IMHO it is an interweaving of both. There is a machismo surrounding firearms that goes beyond clinical illness.
More to the point, which would be easier to prevent, mental illness or availability of lethal weaponry to disturbed individuals?
Thank you, Jaclyn. As a neighbor of Parkland (I am in Boca Raton), I cannot forget what I saw at MSD that day and what I have seen among the survivors and the greater MSD community from that time forward. You have my constant admiration and my unwavering support.
The NRA, in my opinion, isn't much further away from being a terrorist sponsored organization.
It all about the GREED of weapon manufacturers. Nobody is asking to ban weapons, but to pass sensible laws that govern the sales of weapons. The open carry laws, where anybody can go into a rage and kill people. Licenses to prove that a person has completed a training course to be able to get said license. And regulated traveling gun shows where if you know the right person one can go and buy any weapon without background checks and usually where the seller has a supply of illegal weapons stashed in a cargo trailer that is pulled behind their vehicle.
Cripes, the Second Amendment was written when there wasn't any National Guard in every state, was written when the weapon was the blunderbuss, not a rapid fire rifle with huge canister that could kill a huge amount of people within a minute or two.
What next? Buying a tank?
I wrote this several years ago as part of a crowdsourced topical humor feature in a once-respected newspaper. It is, sadly, as apt now as then. With apologies to Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, to the tune of "Maria" from "West Side Story"...
♫♪ Militia!
They say I can have a militia!
With muskets for my men,
Straight from the Eighteenth Cen... tury.
Militia!
But I don't see any indicia
That I can't keep in stock
A Luger or a Glock... or three.
Militia!
Some grenades strapped around my forehead.
And an AR-15 for my sorehead.
Militia!
And maybe a warhead...
Militia! ♫♪
Love it!
Sadly, I don't see anything changing while we have a MAGA SCOTUS and a MAGA Congress. And the NRA with too much money to bribe politicians and SCOTUS.
Gun violence is only the very tip of the iceberg. We have elected into office a monster that is killing people daily across the globe. He is starving people not just here in this country but in countries that are defenseless against him. He has told people who do not have the money to buy their own health care (a crime in it's own right) that they do not deserve health care because they do not have money. He (and Elon Musk) have wrought such devastation to the country I love that our children will be saddled with the responsibility of it's repair (if that will be possible) literally decades into the future.
And who (other than the Contrarians), I ask you, are ready to stand up tall for democracy? I daily read rags with their blinders on, actually defending his unspeakable behavior. I see so few standing up tall and saying NO to all of this that truly have grave reservations with the competency (and, yes, the morality and ethics) of the country we are passing down to our future generation.
The violence that is being done to our country and its democracy dwarfs gun violence. And, like with gun violence, so many shrug their shoulders and glibly say "well that's the way it is.
Nothing I can do about it"!
There is. WE could start thinking the next time we vote (if there is a next time).
Anybody who owns a gun is willing to kill something or someone, I don’t care what church you claim to attend. Why do we give murderers a means to an end? Maybe gun communities should be formed like 55+ neighborhoods. Then they can kill each other. Or, if you buy a gun you have to serve in a war for a year, month, day, even an hour. We need to quit dreaming and pussyfooting this issue - get rid of guns, nothing short of that will ameliorate anything related to gun violence.
I like the idea of "unexpected installations". Kind of echoes the fact that being at the wrong place at the wrong time is also - unexpected.
I admire this group and movement so much; turning tragedy into awareness and legislation is not easy
Or even gun accidents Dick Cheney.