The father of one of the students killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018 interrupted President Biden during an event at the White House on Monday commemorating the new modest gun reform law that passed with bipartisan support.
I do understand Oliver’s criticism, and I’m happy Biden let him continue. Hopefully though we proponents of stricter gun regulation will direct our ire mainly at the real roadblocks to common sense measures - the NRA and the Republican cult. Any Democrat obstructing efforts at common sense regulation deserves our anger as well.
Nothing like bringing Aspirin to a a plague outbreak.
While I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child—especially to the senselessness of a mass shooting—we all need to distinguish allies from enemies, and direct our anger and energies where they truly belong: at the corruptly-packed Supreme Court, the GOP minority in the senate, and two Democratic senators who stupidly claim that perpetuating a quaint filibuster tradition (with racist origins) is more important than—literally—saving the lives of children.
Kicking the dog when you get home from work isn’t a useful response to a terrible day on the job.
I do too. But if your main complaint is that more needs to be done so don’t call it a celebration, I think that just creates another story about Biden’s endless troubles. It’s counterproductive if you zoom out. I understand that a grieving father is outraged at the situation. I don’t understand embarrassing one of your key allies.
That’s a frist rate photo.
It was at my sister’s house. The thing is those critters are normally very shy.
“Woke” dog-lovers stand in the way of people just trying to cope! Or something.
What’s so remarkable about this? Trump was always very respectful and tolerant of crowd interruptions.
As I understand: I’ve only seen one, and that at a distance, crossing a parking lot. It’s quite striking that it’s actually standing there for a photo op.
And smiling too!
This incident reminded me of the West Wing episode in which an uber wealthy gay campaign donor was adamant that President Bartlett make a strong statement denouncing a no-gays-in-the-military bill in Congress. Bartlett loses his temper with the guy, pointing out that the bill had no chance of passing and any statement from him, Bartlett, would be inflammatory and counterproductive at that time. It must be so hard, as a bereaved parent, to observe the glacial pace of change but you are not going to alter the realities of politics so easily.
As opposed to the response of TFG and his Brownshirts.
Politically all this gun control bill, and the stupid “celebration” of it does is piss of and depress a sizable portion of Democratic voters (who support gun control reform efforts) and moves more potential Democratic voters who have guns into voting GOP or sitting it out.
Why the clowns in the WH or on Capitol Hill thinks this will substantively, much less politically, move the ball forward is a real head-scratcher.
Something about putting him in the car and not being too careful about his head, I’d imagine.
I also understand the father’s emotion and demand for faster action on gun regulation, but this is the first step. More sensible gun safety laws will be in the future so long as we keep the House and increase our numbers in the Senate. Mass shootings are not the only aspect of gun violence that needs addressing. Cities, neighborhoods and rural communities are experiencing gun deaths via hand guns. It is a public health emergency in both red and blue America.
Two Senators stood in the way of two monumental achievements (Voting Rights and BBB) which would have solidified Biden’s Legacy.
And we had a shot at a couple of more things besides the above two.
It’s a very good bill that will, in some respects, do more than an assault weapons ban because it gets at small arms incidents. It’s a piece of the puzzle, not the whole puzzle and Biden has made that clear. Just go vote for Dems up and down ballot if you want more progress on gun control.
