Senate Gun Control

Visitors to the U.S. Capitol should not be denied their holy Second Amendment rights.

 

I don't know. I typed up a whole lot of things I wanted to say, but I don't even really know why I wanted to say them. The shooter's a piece of ****. All of the NRA boosters, politicians and otherwise, who pretend to actually believe that banning guns wouldn't prevent this kind of violence have so much blood on their hands that they should beg forgiveness from the families of the victims every time some new atrocity like this happens. They have a lot to answer for, these people who constantly hand-wave pure facts and say ridiculous things like, "Well, he would have just used a knife if he couldn't get a gun," as if someone could wreak nearly this much havoc with anything other than a gun. Every politician you hear making the case that we don't need more gun control in the next few days is an unethical piece of **** that thinks you and me and all the rest of the American people are idiotic children. They know what they're saying isn't true. Clearly, these people don't believe in God or karma or any sort of cosmic justice of any kind; with the things they say and do without the slightest regard for innocent lives that are being destroyed, they'd better be right.

 

I just feel terrible for everyone who lost loved ones. And like quite a few have asked in person and on social media, I wonder when this madness will end?

 

I think we should all endeavor to get our representatives to pull a Tom Cotton. When you've got your representatives so rattled that they're issuing cease-and-desist letters, you can finally know you're actually being heard.

 

The nra is a terrorist organization

 

Why bother? You still hear people accuse Sandy Hook of being a hoax. So many dead children, so many dead teenagers, so many dead people, but as long as its not their dead children, well, the gun nuts don't care, and the empty words of politicians are a waste of time. How's that bump stock ban going? Nowhere I expect.

First, my sympathies to all the victims and survivors and families involved. Second, another week, another mass shooting. It'll either be a white "lone wolf" or a non-white terrorist (because you can't have white terrorists after all), same old, same old. Well, what can you do about it, gun violence is like a hurricane, can't do anything about it.

(I'm being sarcastic, just to be clear.)

Maybe instead of food stamps or public education, they should hand out guns as a basic necessity of life (but not training, who needs training?). That should change things up. ...ok, that's too morbid, sorry. Its just, times like these I really wish I could move to another saner country, or at least one not so hypocritical. There's so many things to fix but nothing is ever even started.

 

Sigh, still no change.

 

Well, good news for WaPo. They just hired McMegan yesterday. Maybe she can reprise her "schoolkids need to rush shooters" take for her first column.

 

My sister is a TA at a local elementary school. This could happen there tomorrow. Nobody cares. That's what the American motto should be: Nobody Cares.

 

"When it comes to money,everyone is of the same religion" - Voltaire

 

We really have a disgusting country and a selfish, vile culture. Of course the owners of the country don't care-private schools don't get shot up. Rich people aren't killed in gun massacres.

 

After 20 kids were shot dead at Sandy Hook and the US decided to do nothing, the gun control debate was over. If the lives of seven year old's means nothing to you, then no one else ever will.

 

Meanwhile in New Zealand...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cr...lanned-mass-killing-in-christchurch-for-allah

You're Dan Hodges? Username fits I guess...

 

No, but I know him very well.

 

From the outside looking in and the obvious reuctance the US had to put in any gun controls...... do any of these schools have any kind of armed security? Even if its just one guy. This has happened too many times now and things have to change, even it means adding some kind of armed security or possibly having any willing teachers armed too. So sad.

 

That's rather sad. A school, a supposed safe institution, requires its own police department.

 

Obviously it is schools that are the problem: they've become a luxury the US can no longer afford. They should be banned.

 

Given the cuts to the education budget, we won't have to worry about banning them.

 

I heard this but wanted to check if its true :
Do Canadians have as many guns , per head, as the Americans ? The point being that it's therefore more of a problem to do with how americans are rather than the amount of guns .

 

So why don't you check if it's true then?