Thoughts and Prayers

[Pakuni]

If I were to ridicule anyone or anything, it would be the cult of gun worship that has led to this.    Led to the notion that using a gun to inflict pain and death on others with a gun is a worthy balm for the shooters' pain.   I don't blame a party for that.    I blame a flawed ethos for that.

This is a fine start, tower. But don't stop here. Ask yourself who stands to profit from this ethos. Who benefits from a culture that suggests all of life's problems can be solved with a gun? Who gains from persuading Americans that their freedom, safety and masculinity is dependent upon firearms?
And once you answer those questions, ask yourself who in government assists and advocates for those interests.
And then, after doing all that, tell us that no party is to blame.

[tower912]

Yup.  A good guy with a gun until he was angry, aggrieved, hurt.

[tower912]

This is a fine start, tower. But don't stop here. Ask yourself who stands to profit from this ethos. Who benefits from a culture that suggests all of life's problems can be solved with a gun? Who gains from persuading Americans that their freedom, safety and masculinity is dependent upon firearms?
And once you answer those questions, ask yourself who in government assists and advocates for those interests.
And then, after doing all that, tell us that no party is to blame.

The deaths are worth it as long as we enjoy the freedoms guns provide.

That is the attitude of the cult.

[Hards Alumni]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTmCxbcRXs4

Just going to repost this everytime we get a thread going on the latest killing spree that we continue to allow to happen.

[Jay Bee]

Push to ban football or shhhhhh.

The kid played bball with a damn helmet. Bad football brain trauma.

This likely could have been prevented by banning football.

[Uncle Rico]

Push to ban football or shhhhhh.

The kid played bball with a damn helmet. Bad football brain trauma.

This likely could have been prevented by banning football.

It’s Kentucky.  They’ll ban books

[Vander Blue Man Group]

Push to ban football or shhhhhh.

The kid played bball with a damn helmet. Bad football brain trauma.

This likely could have been prevented by banning football.

[TallTitan34]

Push to ban football or shhhhhh.

The kid played bball with a damn helmet. Bad football brain trauma.

This likely could have been prevented by banning football.

I know you are joking but somehow this isn't the stupidest thing I've seen Republicans blame for gun deaths.

[Jockey]

I know you are joking but somehow this isn't the stupidest thing I've seen Republicans blame for gun deaths.

I don't think he is joking.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

I know you are joking but somehow this isn't the stupidest thing I've seen Republicans blame for gun deaths.

Sadly, he's not joking. This is the best argument he can muster.

You know, people voluntarily playing a sport that has known risks is really, really just like mass murders happening more than once per day across the country.

[Jay Bee]

Congrats to Chicago on getting a national convention.  Thankfully the city only averages a couple of murders per day!

[MU82]

Here's some good clean fun ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/11/sig-sauer-p320-fires-on-own/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F39ae94a%2F6435808453816d1ce09a9176%2F5f8d147cae7e8a56e5b732a4%2F8%2F72%2F6435808453816d1ce09a9176&wp_cu=b1005792a416de1fbe1f17e5cf366b7d%7CB1FF71CA724A36FAE0530100007F88D6

The P320 is one of the nation’s most popular handguns. A variant of the weapon is the standard-issue sidearm for every branch of the U.S. military. Since its introduction to the commercial market in 2014, manufacturer SIG Sauer has sold the P320 to hundreds of thousands of civilians, and the gun has been used by officers at more than a thousand law enforcement agencies across the nation, court records show.

It has also gruesomely injured scores of people who say the gun has a potentially deadly defect.

More than 100 people allege that their P320 pistols discharged when they did not pull the trigger, an eight-month investigation by The Washington Post and The Trace has found. At least 80 people were wounded in the shootings, which date to 2016.

[Pakuni]

Congrats to Chicago on getting a national convention.  Thankfully the city only averages a couple of murders per day!

Obviously not enough guns out there to keep people safe.

[Uncle Rico]

Congrats to Chicago on getting a national convention.  Thankfully the city only averages a couple of murders per day!

Finally.  Someone asks “what about Chicago”

[tower912]

Should start 'deflection buzzword bingo' after the next one.     

[TSmith34, Inc.]

Finally.  Someone asks “what about Chicago”

And again he somehow imagines this is a winning argument for unfettered access to guns.

[Hards Alumni]

Congrats to Chicago on getting a national convention.  Thankfully the city only averages a couple of murders per day!

As a man who is obsessed with statistics, I'm shocked you didn't mention that Chicago is #10 for per capita murder rate.

[Jockey]

As a man who is obsessed with statistics, I'm shocked you didn't mention that Chicago is #10 for per capita murder rate.

Don't be shocked. He knew. But it isn't a good look for him that 7 of the top 8 cities with the highest murder rate are in states with red governors.

Truth/facts suck.

[wadesworld]

"But it's not just mass shootings that guns are being used to kill people!  People in Chicago are killing other people with guns every night!"

Well that's some great evidence proving there's no gun problem in America!  No wonder BeeJay acts so much smarter than everyone else.  Dude's playing chess while we're all playing checkers.

[MU82]

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at strengthening background checks for firearm purchases, in addition to calling for lawmakers to pass an order of protection law to keep guns away from people who present a danger to themselves or others.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/11/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-calls-for-order-of-protection-law-on-guns/70102868007/

"I’m asking the General Assembly to bring forward an order of protection law," Lee told reporters at a police precinct in Nashville. "A new, strong order of protection law will provide the broader population cover, safety, from those who are a danger to themselves or the population."

“This is our moment to lead and to give the people of Tennessee what they deserve," Lee said.

The executive order sets a 72-hour period for reporting new criminal activity and court mental health information to the Tennessee Instant Check System, the background check system operated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The order also directs the TBI to issue a report in two months to Lee's office and the General Assembly on "any barriers to complete, accurate, and timely reporting of information that is accessible in TICS."

“The existing background-check process for purchasing a firearm only works when there is accurate and timely information that's available,” Lee said.

Four days after the Covenant shooting, the deadliest school shooting in state history, Lee told The Tennessean he believes people who are a danger to themselves or to others should not have access to weapons, a position he reiterated a few days later when announcing a slate of school safety measures with Republican legislative leaders.

This is a governor who had opposed just about any call for gun-safety measures. But then there was the shooting in a religious school in his state's largest city. And then there was pressure from his constituents, and then there was the absurd canceling of two Black state reps after they joined a gun-safety protest.

So here he is, proposing something that could actually help. It's not enough, but at least it's an effort and, hopefully, the beginning of a conversation.

We'll see if the state legislature -- filled with good ol' boys who loves them some guns -- follows Lee's lead, or if they shoot down their own far-right governor's attempt to save a life or two.

[Uncle Rico]

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1645608004430225408?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q

Time to put safer doors on cars

[Jockey]

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1645608004430225408?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q

Time to put safer doors on cars

Hunting children in Florida is legal now? Deer and crocodiles aren't enough?

[Vander Blue Man Group]

https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1645608004430225408?s=46&t=QSiaGcOIKZrrpw0ciZkI5Q

Time to put safer doors on cars

Or put the kids in the trunk to keep them safe.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Guns don't kill people, bullets do!  Ban bullets, not Constitutionally protected. 

[Jockey]

Or put the kids in the trunk to keep them safe.

Very preventable if only the kids were armed.