Discussion: GOP Rep. Faces Protests At Town Hall: 'We're Done With Thoughts And Prayers'

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Keep up the heat. That’s the only thing they understand.

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“New laws won’t necessarily”—that is, the only measures acceptable to take are unicornlike perfect solutions with no inconveniences for anyone—only works for people who want to believe it, numbnuts. It sounds pretty thin to people who actually want to address the problem.

And I may begin a little crusade of my own. It’s bugged me for years to hear a mass killing described as a “tragedy.” It’s an atrocity. Let’s call it that.

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Coffman said that laws won’t necessarily stop the next [school-shooting].

True, just as laws won’t stop the next murder, either.

So what?

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Perhaps we should start taking out metal detectors from entrances to public buildings like legislative chambers. Just saying.

I work at a courthouse and have to go through full airport screenings daily (although I do have unfettered access to the building on weekends).

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It is a response that has worked for the GOP for decades. A grain of truth (no one law will stop every incident) - that allows time to go by, the issue to drop, until the next massacre.

But this time… in this space where people have been showing up to town halls on a myriad of issues … it sounds hollow (as do the other trite GOP catch phrases to selling each toxic policy) to more and more of the audience. Folks outside of the conservative/political/religio-political bubble - seem to be more willing to listen and discern the trite, toxic excuses that sound like hot air.

I think this atrocity, and the response by the kids, in this period of more woke-ness, may have just spiked up the altitude of the coming Blue Wave.

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I think change is in the air.

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‘that laws won’t necessarily stop the next tragedy…’ Weak Coffman. We may have another tragedy but we sure as sht won’t have 216 MORE because you sat on your butt and paid lip service to no action.

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Assault weapons are in the DNA of the Republican party which will never enact any meaningful gun legislation. Never. No matter how many people show up at town halls, offices or even march on Washington.

When one votes for a Republican one votes for our current gun culture.

When the public understands this and stops voting for Republicans because of this, only then will change come.

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But that law that’s being considered in SC to ban wearing sagging pants…I feel safer already.
In OK, we are considering a bill that would allow people to carry guns without training or permitting…and another that requires that every classroom display the words “In God We Trust” but will not pay for the posters… and another one that requires that every classroom display the “founding documents” such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, etc., also with no funding.
As a public school teacher, I feel safer already.
But sure…no law will make us completely safe, so let’s just not even try.

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Using his logic he could never support any “pro life” legislation as none of it, even the most draconian, will prevent many from having abortions.

It is interesting how selective these folks are when it comes to their core values.

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In response, Coffman said that laws won’t necessarily stop the next tragedy.

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/964551475715301376

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO)

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Between health care, the environment, gun law, and war, it’s literally life and death now. If that doesn’t get you off the couch you deserve what happens.

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I’ve always said that there’s “Something In the Air.”

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If thoughts and prayers
Were reefer and beers
At least we’d be high by now!

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“In response, Coffman said that laws won’t necessarily stop the next tragedy.”

  1. The Second Amendment prohibits gun control.
  2. Gun control laws won’t stop shooting tragedies.
  3. We should enforce the gun laws we already have to stop shooting tragedies.
    Combine, mix, and spew the above as needed.
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“Coffman said that laws won’t necessarily stop the next tragedy.”

Moron. People commit murder so we should remove laws against it? Then there’s…

Australia.

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Thanks for sharing that first chart, that goes to the memory file for rebutting the fact-free talking point “Well, the last time we banned assault rifles it didn’t do any good, ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯.”

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They’re so sure that none of it would do any good - hundreds of millions of guns in circulation, nothing is a guarantee of safety, blah blah blah - and I always wonder: well, how about we just give it a try? Just to see what happens? I mean, we give tax cuts a try when we don’t know that all of the god-like job creators are going to fix everything on the face of the earth, don’t we?

Goddamn hypocrites. If it was one of their kids, they’d come to Jesus in a nanosecond.

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