Very very scary tape.
As I said on other threads I hope all who were wounded recover fully.
Huh…so that’s what liberty sounds like.
”(Warning: The video is graphic and may be disturbing to some.)”
Or, as the NRA likes to call it, ”Wholesome Family Entertainment!”
Ah, America at her finest, complete with the requisite “shoot him! shoot him!” at the end.
Loved how they bleeped out the word “fuck” in every instance but the FIRST.
I can almost guarantee that anyone who was there will never again be able to downplay the significance of gun violence in the US. Everyone there experienced a feeling of terror that few people can imagine or ever recover from; it will haunt their nightmares likely for the rest of their lives. Whether that changes any of their opinions about guns or the regulation of guns in this country has yet to be seen, though.
Just NRA soft-porn, nothing to see here, folks…
No shit - all those shots fired.
No “almost” about it. I have seen gun play up close and very personal. I t’s not glorious, or fun, or something I want to repeat. One for me was a home invasion, the other was a decade earlier in Prague when the Russian Army showed up to quash the Prague Spring of Alexander Dubcek in 1968. 49 years on I still have vivid dreams of those days. It doesn’t matter where the gun play is it will still be remembered and it will color one’s views on guns one way or another.
I suppose Wayne LaPierre will replay this tape on a loop.
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
Your 2nd Amendment at work here, folks. Makes ya kinda teary-eyed, don’t it?
Only the “well-regulated” militia guy wasn’t wearing a uniform, fortunately his targets were, though.
He just infringed on their rights not to get shot playing baseball in a free state…
No added extra security for elected officials, they should have to live with the consequences of their action/laws.
This is just another day in America, it could have been anyone’s baseball practice.
I’m very worried this could start a cycle of vengeance, even eventuating in a civil war. Emotions could be high enough for that. The “north” would win again since the folks in Silicon Valley could just shut down the entire infrastructure of the right wing states, but still, awful.
I have CNN on with the sound off. It’s remarkable how many politicians have run to the nearest camera to get on TV and bloviate.
Years ago in Texas we had a saying. “The most dangerous place in the world is between Sen. Gramm and a camera.”
Any opinions on if this was suicide by cop? Seems like the guy did little damage (just relative to a massacre, not downplaying).
You said that with tongue firmly in cheek, right?
Just as our Founding Fathers envisioned. They’d be so proud.
I can’t believe I’ve developed such callousness, such a deep hatred for Rethugliklans that I found myself rooting for the shooter, and found myself mumbling “Serves them right” and “They’re getting a taste of their own medicine,” things I would never have even thought even six months ago.
It’s official. I’ve now devolved to their level. Ugh. Sad.
There is also no absence of irony that Scalise was shot in the ass yet is in critical condition. So it’s the equivalent of a head shot?
Have any of them said “This is not the time to discuss gun control” yet?