Far-Right Lawmakers Still Wearing AR-15 Pins After Nashville Slaughter (Fuck Them Kids)
The NRA is fundraising off the massacre. Because Clinton confiscated all the guns and then Obama confiscated all the guns, and now Biden is going to confiscate all the guns.
GOP = Guns Over People
In Congress, Little Urgency To Address Gun Violence With Legislation
Democrats announced a measure Wednesday to boost research into gun violence, but it has scant hope of support in the Republican-controlled House
Marianna Sotomayor and Liz Goodwin, Washington Post, March 29, 2023
After a shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, lawmakers on Capitol Hill once again indicated there was little support for addressing gun violence through legislation.
While President Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, Republicans in the GOP-controlled House reiterated their objection to any actions that would restrict access to guns, instead stressing that mental health issues remain the root cause of the country’s gun violence problem. And Democrats, who narrowly control the Senate, said they were reluctant to push gun-related legislation unless they have significant support from the chamber’s Republicans. . . .
“The first thing [Democrats] talked about is taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. And that’s not the answer,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said at a news conference. “Why don’t we, number one, keep those families in our prayers, and then see if there were things that were missed along the way.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), a key negotiator of a bipartisan gun-control package that passed last year following the school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., said he didn’t see anything else that Congress could do on the issue, dismissing calls to expand background checks and Biden’s plea to ban assault weapons.
“I would say we’ve gone about as far as we can go” on guns, Cornyn said.
Similarly, Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) did not commit to putting an assault weapons ban on the Senate floor, saying he was seeking the votes for the legislation. . . .
Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (Calif.) noted that a majority of House Republicans who are now blaming mental health issues voted against the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act last year that allotted $500 million toward mental health services. . . .
Shortly after a gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde last year, the then-Democratic-controlled Congress was able to pass the most significant gun-control law of the last three decades. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act provided funds for mental health treatment and school security, incentives for localities to set up red-flag laws that allow court orders to temporarily restrict access to weapons for people in crisis, and closed the “boyfriend loophole,” preventing convicted domestic abusers from accessing firearms. It passed with the support of 15 Senate Republicans and 14 House Republicans.
House Democrats last year also passed an assault weapons ban for the first time in decades, but the measure did not have enough support to be brought up in the Senate. . . .
About 40 Senate Democrats signed on to an assault weapons ban introduced earlier this year, but Sen. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) and a few others who are facing tough reelection battles in 2024 are missing from the co-sponsor list.
Republicans were unanimous in their rejection of an assault weapons ban, and did not express enthusiasm for other controls either.
Why aren’t the Democrats doing everything possible thing regarding gun control — even if it would not be successful? Why wouldn’t they want to expose those representatives who have sworn fealty to automatic weapons? Why wouldn’t they want to out those lawmakers as not giving a single shit about children being so torn apart by an AR-15, they have to be identified by their DNA?
Why don’t the Democrats hammer the GOP on their worship of guns every fucking goddamn day? This issue is truly a matter of life and death, yet they have never done that. Why? Why have they never shown the tenacity on any issue that the GOP shows on a daily basis on everything?
If a bunch of people refuse to do X for nearly a half-century — even as the grouyp’s members change over time — perhaps it’s time for observers and fans of said group to realize the group doesn’t want to do X, they don’t care about doing X, they have no intention of doing X.
That’s a simple fact. This applies to any other issue you can name. Look back decades — and you will see the Democrats not showing any real or sustained fight and not relentlessly calling out the Republicans for their inane hypocrisy and constant lies and nonsense bullshit. When you realize the Democrats are the good cop in the two-officer scenario, everything — everything — suddenly makes sense.
Still, this was nice to see. (Bowman is a big Wu-Tang fan, I just learned.)
The first thing Massie says: “Did you know there’s never been a shooting in a school that allows teachers to carry?” He actually says it a few more times before the video cuts off.
How many schools currently allow teachers to carry assault weapons while teaching classes? I’m going to say: None. No fucking schools do that because it’s fucking insanity. I can’t wait to hear Massie’s solution to drunk driving: Have everyone driving a car be shit-face!
And another massacre of nine-year-old children isn’t going to stop the Fascists from wearing their shiny AR-15 pins.
I hate the Democrats (vehemently), but this meme is accurate:
Remember when President Clinton confiscated all the guns in the United States during his first term?
Remember when President Clinton confiscated all the guns in the United States during his second term?
Remember when President Obama confiscated all the guns in the United States during his first term?
Remember when President Obama confiscated all the guns in the United States during his second term?
The NRA remembers.
The NRA is sounding the alarm: President Biden is a-comin’ for all those guns (again)!
When Trump spoke at a 2022 NRA conference, all guns were banned. But schools? Fuck them kids.