A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo.
After at least 19 students and two adults were killed during a shooting rampage at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) are scheduled to speak at the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston on Friday.
This is an old article, but thanks to yet another mass shooting in a public space, this will remain evergreen for the foreseeable future:
How does American gun culture specifically put these pressures on public life?
It’s a serious paradox: The right to bear arms is at its heart about a lack of trust in those same institutions that we demand protect us. The presence of guns necessitates exactly what people who carry guns say they want to be free from: state interference and control.
Because of all these shootings, the state claims the right to step in and multiply itself, expand its control. It starts training more police, buying more surveillance cameras, flying more drones over cities. That’s where our collective resources are going. Guns lead us to invest money in things that don’t actually contribute to our collective or individual well-being.
And yet shootings will keep happening, because guns are concealable, accessible, and many can fire 30 or 40 rounds before reloading.
Attempts to reason are interpreted as an infringement on the freedom to protect oneself. People feel very strongly about this. It’s a particularly American situation.
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"Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told reporters that he’ll “do anything I can” to prevent future shootings–except get rid of the Senate filibuster, which he insisted is “only thing that prevents us from total insanity.”
To the extent that democracy is insane.
When is the NRA being disbanded? I thought New York was working on that.
EverYOne BlaMEs the GUN lobbY but NOBody Ever CRITicizes THe canDLE and YELLOw ribbON industRy whO maKE millions OFF these tragic Events. THOUGhts and prayers…
On the other hand, it would have been fine if someone from those networks had merely asked some questions about the allegations.
I know this won’t popular but the only way to get anything done on guns would be for every new station to post the crime scene photos of that slaughter on prime time news,
People actually need to see the carnage of mutated children for themselves.
We have no problem posting pictures of Ukraine. Do it for America too
Paraphrasing Wayne La Pierre: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is to ban guns from NRA conventions.”
They really need to be met by protesters with photos of shot-up bodies, and have blood or a blood-like liquid thrown at them.
It would be a small step, but what would happen if a clean bill regulating body armor went to the Senate? Would that violate some sort of NRA sacred pledge that R’s swear in blood? Is body armor protected speech? The R’s love to trot out the “good guys with guns” theory, but the last two massacres had good guys who couldn’t stop a shooter with body armor in time. Registration/permitting alone would ID a bunch of potential insurrectionists.
Honestly, I was thinking the same thing. People need to see the carnage to comprehend what really happened.
I think I’m remembering this correctly: none of the children killed at Sandy Hook had fewer than 11 bullet holes in them.
@RonFilipkowski: Trump just posted on Truth Social that the reason he didn’t post or say anything last night about the elections was because he was too upset by the school shooting. Seriously.
Former President Trump is also set to go to the convention, but guns will be banned in the area, per the NRA’s website, so he and other attendees will be perfectly safe.
To bad the rest of us won’t be perfectly safe EVER.
Bullshit. He possesses empathy as much as he does competence.
Obviously, Joe does not think that where we are right now is total insanity. Let’s get to total first. Then we’ll talk.
BTW, this is partially /s. I think we have reached the “total” adjective.
Nothing significant or meaningful is going to happen so far as Congress enacting legislation that limits the gun carnage in this nation. The violence isn’t going to stop. Little kids and random adults in all manner of locales and venues are going to keep getting gunned down, in large numbers. Anyone thinking or hoping otherwise is deluded. There are over 330 million guns in private hands in the country. All the horses have left the barn. We’re stuck with this hideous problem, in perpetuity. They’re not getting confiscated and melted down. The damned things don’t degrade like cardboard in the landfill, they’ll all be in working order and killing people for the next century.
Get used to it.