Days after several children and adults were killed in a school shooting in Nashville, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) got into a shouting match over gun control legislation in a hallway of the Capitol on Wednesday.
Massie repeatedly asked Bowman if he would co-sponsor a legislation the Republican introduced last year attempting to repeal a federal ban on guns in school zones. The New York Democrat kept replying “more guns lead to more death.”
Rep. Massie should talk with Rep. Burchett, since he noted that you can’t do much if the shooter doesn’t care if they die.
As long as republicans refuse to debate issues in an honest manner, they don’t feel the need to debate issues. Quite sad.
Let’s ask all those brave law enforcement officers in Uvalde, who all had guns, yet stood cowardly out in the hallway as the kids were slaughtered, because, hey! The shooter had a gun, too!
Ammosexuals are all fantasists.
Massie is full in-your-face MAGA-Repug and he did not stop to “engage,” he stopped to troll. He’s a pretentious prick who likes to cite pseudo-science in support for his reactionary bullshit but that’s the only difference between him and the evidence-free fantasies of his colleagues.
The number of times a good guy with a gun, who was not law enforcement, has stopped a a mass shooting would be a relevant data point. It would be relevant data point if it was greater than zero. More guns in the classroom will equal more death in the classroom.
My occasional bitching about our large news organizations:
Headline in yesterday’s WaPo was literally, In Congress, little urgency to address gun violence with legislation. I had read almost to the end to find a brief mention that Senate Dems did in fact seek to introduce gun-control legislation
Yep they say “Congress” so many times when “GOP” and maybe “Mansion and/or Enema” would be the accurate phrasing.
“Not even an accidental discharge,” Massie says, in schools where teachers carry weapons.
I can’t remember how often I had kids scrambling around looking for my reading glasses or my keys. (I did manage to work in a little instruction.)
And you want me to carry a gun???
My belief:
He stopped to say it doesn’t matter how many children, teachers or anyone die as long as we can arm those who are willing to kill in the name of the GOP.
He mocked those in favor of some gun control measures and basically say you can’t do a fucking thing about it.
I’d guess at least one goal of this push to arm teachers is to drive out teachers who aren’t gun fanatics and replace them with those who are
Massie repeatedly asked Bowman if he would co-sponsor a legislation the Republican introduced last year attempting to repeal a federal ban on guns in school zones.
Psychopath.
Did someone ever ask Rep Massie if was allowed to armed at the Capitol would he have defended his fellow legislators from the J6th mob? Or that the Capitol PD’s only fault on J6th was that they didn’t open fire on protestors?
Let’s arm the people we don’t even trust to pick out our kids’ library books. Makes sense.
Oh God, that’s what want for our children, to be taught by dickless incel fucks…
Okay…technically not a teacher, but…
A google search for “gun accidental discharge school “ turns up far too many hits. Not to mention, the child in new port news brought a gun from home, how many more shootings would their be if a kid just had to grab his teacher’s when his emotions got the best of him?
Can anybody fight Massie? Is there a sign up sheet or something?
ETA:
The ammosexuals all see themselves as James Bond. Sliding down the banister with their assault rifle killing a half dozen bad guys while not receiving a scratch, and then shooting the knob off the banister before they get to the bottom. Or taking a flying leap through a doorway and accurately shooting three bad guys between the eyes before landing in a roll and coming up on their feet.
In reality, you can never win over the bad guy:
I think a one-word response is all that’s needed when one of these ammosexuals says more guns will make you safer, or especially, more guns in schools will make kids safer:
Uvalde.
There are at least two reasons that the GOP as a whole will not support any meaningful gun control legislation. The first is obviously that doing so would reduce their political contributions, both from the gun industry and from gun industry-related groups, and from their gun-fetishist supporters. And the second is related - supporting meaningful gun control legislation would lead them to be primaried, likely lose the primary, and be out of personal power. The GOP base are heavily into guns, at least in part because they really like them and completely misunderstand the actual text of the Second Amendment, and also in part because it allows them to oppose and own the libs. They don’t give a damn about the moral or ethical implications of their positions, nor about the human cost. And their mania gives them power over their elected officials - they lead in this, and the elected officials follow. Now, that’s actually kind of what is meant by democracy, as long as you discount everything else about it. But it’s evil as sin, and the senseless cost in lives lost or diminished by gun violence is something we cannot afford to pay, nor should we…