Hat’s off to the Daily News for this sign of media candor. Many radio stations in Chicago including WBBM and NPR cowardly ignored the moving clip of Richard Martinez where he mentioned – OMG! – the NRA.
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The well-regulated militia isn’t regulated enough.
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The NY Daily Who?
And once again, gun violence becomes an excuse to label all socially challenged people as being like this very sick individual.
Unfortunately for you, me and America, we’re losing this one and I don’t see it turning around. Within a decade, go very far outside of a major city and you will have to carry a gun. It will be fully legal and law enforcement won’t be doing much to enforce any law that doesn’t involve a lot of money.
That will be a sad day.
Sorry to be the pessimist, but if these recent, unspeakable massacres don’t move our politicians, nothing will.
I’m not sure if some kind of butchery rivaling 9-11, would move these turds who inhabit our legislatures.
Recall that a politician is a creature who would endorse something as repulsive as cannibalism if he thought it catered to some portion of his constituency.
In their districts, the pols who refuse to pass reasonable gun legislation bear no stigma whatsoever. Indeed, they’re admired and re-elected. Insanity? What else to call it?
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Stage Directions: Cue theme music from “Twilight Zone”.
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It is very hard to understand our fascination with guns. About the only thing that makes any sense is that we feel so inadequate that it takes a gun to make us feel whole. I don’t share that feeling, and never will.
" …failed anti-gun policies…"
Real anti-gun policies either don’t exist or are not enforced where they do exist or are insufficiently enforceable.
The NRA is opposed to laws that would enable the government to prevent the mentally ill from acquiring guns.
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The alternative is to allow people to be locked up because someone thinks they might some day be dangerous. That isn’t too far from how it used to be done, and it was changed because of the way that system was abused. I think what is really needed, with no guarantee that it will work either, is more readily available mental health care, including facilities where people can be helped through their mental health problems. But, that costs money, and nothing is harder to do today than increase taxes on the wealthy.
Remember, when you hand over the right to take preventative action to the police, they invariably abuse that right. That’s why the Bill of Rights was passed.
Not yet-- the Daily News is Zuckerman’s, the Post is Murdoch’s paper.
Guns, yes, but guns plus mental illness screening and recognition and coverage for treatment and a sense of responsibility for each other. (Did anybody who saw those videos do anything?)
A Modest Proposal, eh?
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How about we issue “good guy with a gun” stickers to all successful registrants, much like “I have voted” stickers accompany a trip to one’s polling place? Maybe that way their openly flaunted phallic symbols won’t seem quite as menacing. Of course they’ll still look like idiots, but there’s no known cure for that.
The NRA is opposed to anything that would prevent anyone from acquiring guns.
So what did the police miss that the parents knew? And, why didn’t his parents push for more help? What did his doctors know and what did they do?
Accordingly, every medical professional is a responsible medical professional until they split second they become irresponsible and kill a patient. Some 200,000 patients die each year from preventable medical errors.
Therefore, every driver is a responsible driver until the split second they become irresponsible and kill a pedestrian, another driver, or a family on vacation.
You were saying. As far as I know, California does have such a database.
America is NOT in denial about guns, the vast majority want background checks and more regulation. It is the NRA and the idiot Republicans that are holding the nation hostage.
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