The (conservative) American Dream.
World leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sent condolence messages to President Donald Trump.
Did they happen to send any gun death statistics from their countries and policy ideas for how to achieve them?
This really cements the NRA’s status as the country’s most-successful lobby in modern history. Total bragging rights over those wimps at Big Pharma or even the oil lobby. Nary a peep from the GOP leadership in Congress. Even Dean Heller’s statement omits any mention that his own state is the NRA’s Promised Land.
I predict nothing, but nothing, will come of this in the way of gun use reform.
The NRA owns Congress body and soul. One GOP congressman was already on TV yesterday spouting the Gospel by the NRA: “More laws won’t prevent some crazy person…blah, blah…”
Right now there’s a bill before Congress to legalize silencers. How friggin’ insane does it have to get?
5 million members and Wayne Lapierre have congress by their scrawny little ball sacks.
Mourning Joe said it this morning
Is getting re-elected more important than putting your children and the American people at risk ?
Obviously
The cynic in me knows nothing will change and I need to worry every time I leave the house.
Is it my day to die?
Well we have a Vietnam wall , Maybe we need a NRA 2nd amendment wall
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Which well-regulated militia was Stephen Paddock a member of? Paddock’s army?
In what way was he helping provide security to a free State? Protecting Nevada from country music fans?
And how could he bear 42 weapons as he walked or rode his horse across the battlefields? That’s gotta be heavy.
I’d say the 2nd Amendment outlived it’s purpose many years ago. Although, it hasn’t outlived it’s usefulness to the gun & ammo manufacturers and NRA.
Instead of dinking around wasting political capital with assault weapon bans, I wish people would get serious with this issue. An assault weapon ban will do little to nothing to prevent these types of crimes.
People can just use hunting rifles with big clips to do the same things. What really needs to happen is a ban on the sales of semi-automatic weapons. In regards to the 2nd amendment, there is precedence with the required licencing to own fully automatic weapons. No more sales of semi-automatic weapons, both long arms and side arms.
There isn’t enough room in Washington There are 50,000+ names on the Vietnam Wall
30,000 a year going back even 20 years
600,000
Think about it
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The cynic in me knows nothing will change and I need to worry every time I leave the house.Is it my day to die?
[/quote]I’m not sure when I started, but for quite a few years whenever I go to a public place - restaurant, movie theater, concert, my office, grocery store - I check for where I can take cover, how to get to exits, where shooters could hide or enter; I watch other people for signs of trouble. This isn’t something my parents taught me when I was growing up or that I even thought about years ago. Nice way to live life.
ETA: And it’s all because of guns. Not people, not bad people, not evil people, not terrorist people - but…the guns they might have.
Sadly, just another day in gun nut America.
Very few things seem normal anymore. It struck me that the impact of trump’s tweets are like the wounds described by the surgeon. They leave large, deep wounds. immensely damaging. If the barrage of evil, negative carp were less frequent, the end result would be less deadly. But his onslaught of words and abhorrent behavior is overwhelming, leaving no time for mental, emotional or spiritual triage.
Indeed. We just spent 200k putting up bullet proof partitions and pass through doors at the local Government office where I work lest an irate citizen upset about his water bill comes in fully locked and loaded. Mandatory active shooter classes are now part of the curriculum. This is a small town of about 15,000 in central Florida not an urban jungle.
This is what we have become
Accepting this as a “way of life”
David Wheeler Newtown Dad said it. “It is going to happen again. It’s going to happen again. Every time, it’s somebody else’s school, it’s somebody else’s community, it’s somebody else’s town. Until one day, you wake up and it’s not.”
Seems like a lot of folks, like the musician that’s now against the 2nd amendment, talked about being near someone that was directly shot and they got hit by shrapnel.
Could be digital so that names are constantly added. Sadly that would be necessary
If we did something like the AIDs quilt we could drape it over the NRA headquarters, hopefully smothering them.
Probably a good location for a wall. Put it up around the NRA headquarters with the names facing in
The NRA contends that we all need home arsenals stocked with AK-47s and Glock pistols to get the bad guys.
How many people in Las Vegas were bad guys?
I’m gonna say one. The guy with the arsenal.
The gun lobby and its enablers will point out that there are so many millions of guns in the country that no ban or regulation will make any difference. And it’s easy to say that it’s an impossible task to make a dent in the problem. But if we don’t start, the unnecessary deaths will never stop.