This argument is the most noxious of them all. The common denominator in all mass shootings is the not sexual orientation or religion or mental health; it’s the gun.
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This argument is the most noxious of them all. The common denominator in all mass shootings is the not sexual orientation or religion or mental health; it’s the gun.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender, total of 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender, total of more than 4,000. Transgender folks are 1.0% of the population and they make up less than 0.1% of the mass shooters.
Random thought: Our mass shooting problem has two elements: Assault weapons, and butt hurt men. If they won’t allow us to regular the guns, maybe we need to regulate the men. Aggressive and unregulated men cause like 90% of all crime on planet earth. Just sayin….
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Pete Hegseth in December on military training: “We’re bringing a war-fighting ethos back to the Pentagon. Everything else that distracts from lethality shouldn’t be happening.”
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Where’s Jake Tapper? Not that I consume CNN.
Media should hound him at least half as much as they hounded Biden. But they won’t.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
I wonder if Susan Collins will follow the lead of Joni Ernst and drop out because she knows she'll be trounced and most of her constituency hates her.
Wish the MAGAts would see this……
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It’s not really an inanimate object. It has one purpose: to kill or wound once triggered.
GORKA: Instead of blaming an inanimate object, which is the weapon, how about addressing the human being instead? KEILAR: DHS cut funding in July to the Minnesota Dept of Safety and the Hennepin Country Sheriff's Office in July that is the kind of funding used to assess mass violence threats
It's not mental illness or video games. It's the guns.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
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Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
Not sure. No random capitalizations.
I think they want to perpetuate the issue. Their actions (or inactions) sure say so.
These spineless people won’t do damn thing.
Can you imagine if our reaction was the same after 9/11? You know “it’s just their religion or mental health; there’s nothing we can really do in response. Oh well, thoughts & prayers”
Of course they did. The truth is that they don’t really want to do anything about gun violence *or* mental health. They fall back on mental health to run out the clock til they bust out the same worn-out empty argument when the next mass shooting occurs
As Republicans inevitably blame mental health and not the guns for yet another school shooting - kindly remind them that 205 of them voted AGAINST a bill to expand school-based mental health services.
Any argument about gun violence that doesn’t address guns in some fashion is meaningless.
Then you could stop defunding mental health programs and back red flag laws. Simple!
I’m so so sick of this throwaway mental health argument - it’s meant for GOP gun nuts to just run out the clock until the next shooting occurs. No real action is ever proposed or intended.
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Solid rules to live by.
That says everything you need to know about this administration
ILLINOIS - @govpritzker.illinois.gov : “Trump doesn’t seem to understand it’s actually Republican states that have the crime problem.”
It’s the human heart though right, Mike?
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
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it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
Learn to decipher the codespeak.
Excellent question.
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Thank you, Canada. Gavin Newsom deserves a new jet plane.
Good. Go away, all of you.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social PLEASE announce that CA will hire the CDC staff and keep it running to give guidance and advice to the BLUE states, and that those states will act in accordance with those recommendations. ACTIONS speak louder than words, even if the words are in all caps.
This guy is such a f-ing tool. It’s hard to rank who in GOP leadership I despise the most. They all bring so much to loathe to the table.
Why won’t someone ask the simple follow on question, “so what’s the solution, Mike? Invest in mental health? Regulate the human heart? Other countries have mental health issues and human hearts. Why don’t they have mass shootings every day?”
It’s all they want to have, Fred. Real solutions would mean conflict with one of their largest supporters, the gun industry. We have no action on gun violence because they want none. Period.
The GOP and @JDVance have spent more time this week acting upset that "thoughts and prayers" are not a solution for gun violence than they have over the reality that the gun violence actually happened. It will continue to happen because "thoughts and prayers" is all they have.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
At some point in the not too distant future the conventional wisdom will be that this was a period where the US focused on dumb shit while China took the lead in multiple domains
He’s got a point here.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The laughter in Seoul, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Ottawa, New Delhi, Brasília and Beijing must be .. hearty. 🤡 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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So the solution is what, Mike? Banning transgenders from public life? So f-in absurd.
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
I don’t care what your religious beliefs are. It’s none of my business. Plus, I respect your rights; and I’m not going to try to tell you what to believe. But I will tell you this: Prayers, no matter how sincere, have never stopped a bullet from taking an innocent human life; and they never will.
Many, many people believe in the healing and restorative powers of prayer. But that’s not a substitute for stopping kids from getting murdered.
Insurrectionists should not receive a funeral with military honors. It’s a slap in the face to everyone who’s ever worn the uniform. What’s next? Naming a military base after her?
The children have showed us how to be brave- but they shouldn’t have to. #banassaultweapons
This administration is banning vaccines while doing nothing about guns. Are they TRYING TO KILL CHILDREN?
If a god could allow Trump to be president or children to be gunned down in schools, I’m beginning to believe there is no god.
Refusing to act, then falsely accusing those who want to see something tangible done to protect kids of attacking prayer on top of it, is doubly shameless.
"Every school in the country should have a metal detector." Sean, what are metal detectors at schools there to detect? A baloney sandwich or a GUN? You would be preventing the entry of people with GUNS because GUNS are the problem, you shamelessly dishonest idiot.
Stand back folks! She’s alarmed.
You're not going to believe this but Susan Collins is "extremely alarmed"
Children have to deal with mass shootings in schools while certain adults can't even handle a logo change.
No other country needs metal detectors in schools. Why? They don’t have the same nutty obsession with gun ownership.
But it is the guns. Metal detectors and perimeter controls aren’t going to stop an armed maniac from shooting kids. Just like common sense won’t stop a Fox maniac from shooting his mouth.
NRA: “Guns don’t kill people.” ME: “They certainly seem to help.”
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
The sad fact is that people will actually believe this.
But Jake Tapper doesn’t see the need to write a book about this, does he?
Well JD Vance has no charisma and very little connection with the MAGA base - I think it would be the end of the Republican Party but what do I know.
After a couple nuclear bombs and unconditional surrender, but yeah sure.
We’ll wait…🤔
Republicans have time to pettily paint over a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting because they can’t hate gay people enough, but they can’t be bothered to stop school shootings because they don’t love children enough. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Gun laws in Minnesota: No state permit required to purchase rifles. No firearm registration. No magazine capacity restriction. No owner license required. No background checks for private sales of rifles without pistol grips. State law preempts local laws.
Trump cronies: “No one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than Dear Leader.” Rest of the World: “For what? Trying to force Ukraine to capitulate to the country that attacked it?”
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
I'm tired of this theater where Donald Trump asks Republicans to do something, they seem to push bank and then cave. The only two factions of the current GOP are proud MAGA and scared MAGA. Anyone who thinks Republicans are acting in good faith is delusional.