Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) hadn’t gotten very far into his remarks on the heels of a Sunday mass shooting in Dayton before an audience member started a chant that quickly rippled through the crowd: “do something!”
“do something!”
School prayer study group in 3, 2, 1…
Thought Trump had a moment of clarity by asking for back ground checks…
… and then in the next tweet, asks to tie in immigration reform. Years from now, this will be shown when people ask why nothing got done.
The time to “do something” always seems to be a nebulous “later”. Can’t talk about gun control “too close” to a shooting or you’re “politicizing tragedy”, but since the shootings keep coming there’s never going to be a “right” time.
Good for them.
A majority want our government to do something so the Repubs kiss Trump’s and McConnell’s ass with more vigor.
I might be willing to trade him comprehensive gun control reform with a path to gun ownership for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship…
If I’m killed in an event like this I sure as hell want my vigil to be a platform for promoting gun control. What better tribute to someone’s life after a senseless death could there be?
The crowd can dream on… the guv is a republican… The only thing he is capable of doing is ‘thoughts and prayers’ and they have already been done
I think that was already floated yesterday.
In the end, once the crisis is on them, Americans can be very clear about things. They don’t want thoughts and prayers; that phrase is a cruel joke to them now.
There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land;
But the People in their weeping
Bare the iron hand:
Beware the People weeping
When they bare the iron hand.
Different state. I wanna see if Ohio also goes to the imaginary sky gesture response.
Indeed…that something is gun control now AND NOT background checks against immigrants per se as the Inciter-In-Chief wants!
Going forward, one can only hope that MoscowMitch aka MassacreMitch would STOP aiding/abetting the Inciter-In-Chief and fulfill his oath of office to…support and defend the USC against all enemies, foreign and domestic…Failing to do so is dereliction of duty!
This has always bothered me too. When will it be the right time, when will the honest open discussion of what happened and how so many people died be discussed.
And frankly a community vigil to remember those that were lost shouldn’t be used by any politician or community leader to show their support.
We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!
I don’t know much about Mayor Nan Whaley, but I do know that she has stood out as a reasonable, comforting leader while DeWine and Portman have shown themselves as moral cowards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Whaley
DeWhiner is wholly owned by the NRA (National Russian Association) and the Ammo-Sexuals in Ohio and won’t do a goddamn thing about it.
Bank on it.
Thoughts and Prayers are all they will do until the MSM turns away to chase the next shiny object of the day.
Dead people can’t heal - no matter how many vigils you hold
This may finally turn into a political issue that results in gun control legislation. The Republicans will do NOTHING unless it is going to cost them elections. It may turn more House seats into tossups but the critical issues are whether it affects POTUS and Senate elections. I think Cornyn was already in trouble in Texas and the shootings in El Paso have enraged the Hispanics. I think they understand the Republicans are the major source of the hatred and violence directed against them and will vote accordingly. Beto needs to drop out of the POTUS race and go after Cornyn with the same rage he is directing against Trump
When politicians like Maine’s Senator Angus King and Susan Collins say we need to study gun violence OR pray for 1st responders…those are the do nothing talking points. Both Senators are pro guns and do nothing.
New Zealand had one mass shooting…that’s all it took and they did something!
Immigration has no connection to mass shootings…white males ages 18 to 55 are the demograpohic that commits most of the gun shootings in the US and especially the mass shootings.
When they say we need to have guns to keep our government in check…those are Southern Slave State Confederate Values…they are still opposed to equal rights and peace for all…the only right they believe in are guns. The northern states better wake up and realize the southern slave confederate states with their Republican Party are destroying our Democracy and preventing us from having a civil and peaceful society.
Over 40,000 Americans are killed by guns each year now.
Over 450,000 Americans have been killed by fellow Americans since 9/11/01. How is it the government has us focussed on Muslim radicals in the middle east when we are killing ourselves at a rate that dwarfs the 9/11 attacks?
Guns should not be a right…we have lost that right just with our violence and with leaders that make us violent like Trump.
Gun Rights is also a racist talking point. Thinsk. When Reagan was President, they banned assault weapons. But why? Because during that era the white’s feared the Black Panther organization and a possible revolution against racism. Today without a strong Black Panther organization and guns are seen as white power.
Congress won’t do anything as long as we allow slave state Confederate values to control our nation - and especially Republicans and so called blue dog Democrats…they are Confederates.