Abbot: what problem?
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Can’t wait to see what BS he proposes.
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In Abbott and Costello, Bud Abbott was the straight man.
This Abbott is emblematic of some serious devolving.
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Moar gunz
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Aw come on. That’s just your TDS speaking. The ringing of church bells marks the solemnity of Our Great Leader’s tribute. It’s the libs who kill babies and eat children.
Seriously though, we’re not the intended audience and our failure to appreciate what they value only proves to them how vile we are.
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Is this not the exact outcome that some of us predicted when SCOTUS decided that Corporations were people. I do not think the right-wingers are really that stupid, so this outcome must be exactly what they meant to happen. These are some truly evil people.
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On May 8, 1792, Congress passed the second portion of the Militia Act, requiring that every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years be enrolled in the militia.
As commanded by the original intent of the 2nd Amendment, every able-bodied white male citizen of Texas who is the age eighteen years and under the age of forty-five must own at least one approved military grade weapon.
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OT: Something uplifting on a dark weekend, a reminder of what a real President is like instead of the clown who followed him:
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If anyone on the rightwing had even a smattering of conscience or good taste, they would not be right-wingers in the first place.
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No one evolved. Not the NRA or politicians. The issue evolved from enthusiast to industry. Money in other words. GOP’ers would be all about controlling guns if gun money didn’t control them. The NRA would be back to printing an enthusiast magazine the emphasized safety and responsibly if gun industry money ceased to come their way.
Listen to Cruz’s babbling as an example. he has to say something…19 kids in his state were slaughtered but he also must protect guns. Gun money owns him. Hence single doors or arming teachers. He’s addressing the issue but ultimately protecting guns. If he got zip from the gun industry do you think he’s do that?
SCOTUS ruled the Second applied to individual gun ownership. That’s bullshit but here we are. Then SCOTUS ruled that Corporations are people and can put ghastly amounts of money ( in the dark) into political affairs. How do you fix that?
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In my Constitutional Law class, one of the things we discussed was enforcement. SCOTUS relies on the federal government and local actors to enforce their decisions. They have no direct ability to enforce anything. That’s why the federal government had to get involved when Brown came down. Theoretically, NY, CA, and other blue states could simply ignore them and dare the Biden Administration to get involved.
I’m sure the NRA has the same problem talking about shooting victims that the GOP does when it attempts to talk about issues concerning women, POC, LGBTQs, etc. For instance, when the GOP tries to reach out to POC, the only POC they talk to are POC who hate other POC. The only people in the room when they talk about mass shootings are people who generally resent the victims for dying and the shooter for making them talk about mass shootings.
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Abbott didn’t go because he heard that Beto would be there.
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“Every time a bell rings a devil gets his AR-15.”
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And the state will provide that white male a AR-15. So the male can protect the public.
FIFY
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Yeah. Abbott is “livid” that he was made to look like the incompetent fool that he is by jumping in front of the cameras without getting the full story.
He is not “livid” that 19 young children and their teachers were slaughtered by a pissed off 18 year old who got not one, but two lethal weapons the minute he turned 18, thanks to Abbott’s fealty to the NRA and the “leadership” of Mad Wayne LaPierre and the NRA/gun manufacturers . This madness began with Charleton Heston, a second rate actor, who made brandishing guns equate with being a manly man. Heston, who was never real sure that he WAS a man in the first place. He did seem to play for both teams.
I lived in Texas in the early 1970s. People in Texas were not crazy in those days. Other than unbearable weather, it was once a nice place.
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- No interrupting the governor’s photo-op news conferences.
- No misleading the governor about the circumstances surrounding a mass-shooting event that he is rushing to politicize.
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You fix it by focusing legislation directly on that instead of burying it deep inside an omnibus bill. Our inability to focus on things that people strongly support is one of our greatest weaknesses.
From this article:
behind closed doors Republicans speak differently about the legislation, which is also known as House Resolution 1 and Senate Bill 1. They admit the lesser-known provisions in the bill that limit secret campaign spending are overwhelmingly popular across the political spectrum. In private, they concede their own polling shows that no message they can devise effectively counters the argument that billionaires should be prevented from buying elections.
… “the most worrisome part . . . is that conservatives were actually as supportive as the general public was when they read the neutral description.” In fact, [McKenzie] warned, “there’s a large, very large, chunk of conservatives who are supportive of these types of efforts.”
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Because like all GOPers who get called out, he is the real victim here.
“I was on this very stage two days ago and I was telling the public information that had been told to me. As everybody has learned, the information that I was given turned out in part to be inaccurate. And I’m absolutely livid about that.”
He is devoid of any responsibility to, in the words of GOP demigod Reagan, “Trust, but verify.”
The problem is that the Supreme Court wrapped its illogical decision in the 1st Amendment so the Court can strike down any legislative attempt to correct the decision as unconstitutional on its face.
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Minority rule. Same as it ever was.
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If I was some sort of technical genius I’d design a drone that could identify and disable a gun. Maybe a swarm of them.
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