Here’s how bad things are getting, with the governors and legislatures of Florida and Texas locked in a death race to the bottom.
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Posts from Rice in thread „Let's fight guns with more guns, suggests Trump“
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Thank God there is not a significant gun-worshiping culture in Argentina.
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The 2nd amendment dealt with the need, in colonial times, for a “well-regulated militia” to protect and defend the free state. Not for 21st century would-be cowboys to shoot up shopping malls, churches, theaters or children’s schools.
Oh - and another thought: as reported by today’s Washington Post, “Research has found that mandating smaller magazines would force mass shooters to more frequently pause to reload, allowing people to flee or fight back. Several states have adopted such limits, but gun rights advocates are claiming in court that these laws violate the Second Amendment. The issue is likely to come before the Supreme Court.”
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48% of the USA seems to be in that boat, @Bombonera . 😱
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Biden has been trying to get Congress to pass some very basic measures to provide a tiny modicum of gun safety. While he has achieved more than any other president, the measures congress has been willing to pass are infinitesimally small.
Meanwhile certain states continue to pass more and more gun-lenient laws, such as NO permits needed for gun ownership.
It seems like no politician in the USA can adopt a viable position on the matter because it fundamentally compromises the constitution and their ability to get elected again if they take a position against it.
@Bombonera , you’re absolutely right about politicians’ concern about reelection, if they do the right thing. As for compromising the Constitution? People ascribe all kinds of permission and powers to the Second Amendment. But it reads very simply,
“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.”
Does anyone see anything about the right to possess automatic weapons? Does this Constitutional amendment suggest that it gives license to civilians to possess arsenals of high-speed weapons and rooms full of ammo?
Or does it instead say that the amendment was included to provide for an armed, “Well regulated militia” for the security of the country?
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< groan >
This says a lot.
BTW, the Marcia Blackburn on the list of big NRA recipients is the Republican senior senator from Tennessee, where yesterday’s attack took place. I’m sure she offers “thoughts and prayers” to the victims’ families.
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Here’s the sobering truth about AR-15’s: designed for killing the maximum number of people as quickly as possible on the battlefield, they are extremely efficient. Since they have come to be the gun of choice in these shootings, hospitals have seen a decrease in victims brought to the emergency rooms. Simultaneously,hospital morgues have seen a marked increase.
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Gun culture is at the heart of America’s sickness. Our legislature is held motionless by a controlling majority of cowards afraid to pass even basic gun safety bills, for fear they will lose their jobs to candidates more rabid than they are.
Gun advocates were in full attack mode yesterday, trying to shift the emphasis from the shooter’s arsenal to the sensational speculation that she murdered 6 people because she was transsexual (“all that testosterone!”), conveniently overlooking all the other mass shooters in the USA.
There have been 38 mass shootings in the US in this month alone. A congressman from Alabama, adjacent to Tennessee, where this most recent tragedy occurred, has introduced a bill that would make the AR-15 the “national gun.” At the President’s State of the Union address, republicans who used to wear flag lapel pins to proclaim their superior patriotism, now wore instead, tiny replicas of the AR-15.
Don’t it jes make ya PROUD to be ‘murican, Joe Don?
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Love that! And there must be something similar out there, but with the armed teacher reacting to a wrong answer?
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Yes, as revealed by a high-resolution camera. The question is who wrote them for him.
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That will never happen.
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The NRA has long believed that teachers should be armed, so naturally Trump tows the same line, which goes nowhere near the thorny issue of gun control and one that no one appears willing to tackle. Apart from students themselves, who will probably only be paid lip service.
The NRA contributed an estimated $30m (£21m) to help elect Trump.
(But like Russian help and the work of all his former campaign staff, it didn't in the slightest contribute to his election, because he "did it all himself!")
So if the teachers have guns, should the kids have guns, should the janitor have a gun, the dinner lady? Guns for everyone.
The NRA has long wanted this arming of teachers. If only 10 teachers in each US school packed heat, think of the hundreds of thousands of additional guns their patrons would sell.
