The United States has seen 291 mass shootings in 2025. That’s more than one mass shooting every day. This isn’t normal. Weapons of war don’t belong on the streets. We need real action to save lives.
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Aaand isn’t that what Congress does? Make laws?
sep 1, 2025, 7:49 pm • 1 0 • view
You can start by holding those that have committed treason and fully accountable and seeing that they are executed for that treason and you work with a lot of the co-conspirators to that treason
sep 1, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 1 • view
Indeed, it’s anything but normal. And yet, what are Democrats in Congress doing about it…other than throwing up their hands in despair? Yep…exactly NOTHING…as usual. I hate to say it, but actions speak louder than words, Rep Jayapal.
sep 2, 2025, 4:32 am • 0 0 • view
It didn't used to be normal but it is now. Dems missed that boat decades ago. Now you just use it as a talking point.
sep 1, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
😲...and we only hear about one???
sep 2, 2025, 2:19 am • 0 0 • view
A dark country
sep 1, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
MY IDEA. ALL MANDATORY : * 30 DAY WAIT * WRITTEN PSYCH EVAL TEST THAT FLAGS INAPPROPRIATE RESPONSES KEPT ON FILE WITH FBI, * " GUN OWNER " ON DRIVER'S LIC, & LIC PLATE *EXTRA FEE FOR THAT. PORTIONS DONATED TO VICTIMS FAMILIES OF GUN VIOLENCE
sep 1, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Since the government is currently run by NAZIS you can fuck yourself Sincerely an armed Trans Woman.
sep 2, 2025, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
"RTIONS DONATED TO VICTIMS FAMILIES OF GUN VIOLENCE" I do not want to pay to the victims of Black on Black violence , that is majority of victims
sep 2, 2025, 5:39 am • 0 0 • view
TRUE. BUT WEAPONS DO NOT BELONG ON THE STREETS IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, WHICH IS WHY THE CONSTITUTION WAS WRITTEN TO ALLOW DEFENSE OF PROPERTY. PERSONAL PROPERTY. PPL QUOTE FOR A REGULATED MILITIA, BUT THAT WAS TO PROTECT AGAINST ANY GOVT TYRANNY. NO ONE IS THE US HAS THE BALLS TO WRITE SMART LAWS.
sep 1, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It's guns, it's always guns!
sep 1, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
But it very much IS normal in the USA. Sandy Hook was the red line and America crossed it with ease.
sep 2, 2025, 5:55 am • 0 0 • view
Congresswoman, as an outsider looking in, I urge you to watch an old film titled Zardoz. That is what your country looks like to the rest of us.
sep 1, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
If only there was someway to stop people shooting each other.... oh wait....
sep 2, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
And less than 1% were by trans people but that is the problem according to Republicans.
sep 1, 2025, 11:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Today I learned that what would be the "statistically NORMAL" Number of Transgender Mass shooters based on population would be 17to37 over the last decade..... There have been THREE. MEANWHILE nearly 6 THOUSAND Cis almost all hetero white men... And mostly Nazis/rightwinger's
sep 2, 2025, 3:46 am • 0 0 • view
Yup. Blame any minority group possible for the world's problems, so they don't have to accept blame for their part in it
sep 2, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
That’s not normal anywhere else, it’s normal for your country, you’re very sick.
sep 1, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Millions of Americans have indeed accepted this as normal.
sep 1, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
And we’ve been talking about this (uselessly talking) for how long now?
sep 2, 2025, 1:23 am • 0 0 • view
I’m thinking as long as Democrats push this every time this happens we will continue to lose. Simply keeping asking Republicans what they are going to do about this horrible problem we have. They are the ones in control so keep asking them what they plan on doing!
sep 1, 2025, 7:42 pm • 5 1 • view
They plan on doing the same nothing they have done since 2004 when they let existing gun laws lapse and never reinstated them. They'd rather wear AR-15 pins on the floor of Congress and hand guns to toddlers to pose for Xmas cards.
sep 2, 2025, 3:05 am • 0 0 • view
then get the soldiers off the streets with weapons of WAR
sep 1, 2025, 8:20 pm • 1 1 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 8:05 pm • 8 8 • view
sep 1, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 1 • view
To be brutally frank some of us, from around the world, who are totally sick of American hegemony, see it as 'Nature's Way of Culling'. . .
sep 1, 2025, 11:24 pm • 0 0 • view
#repeal2A @govpressoffice-m.bsky.social @newsompressofcfan.bsky.social @msnbc.com @aoc.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov
sep 1, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
🙏🏼 it’s well past time
sep 1, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
. Australia, in 1996, buys back 650,000 guns, shootings dropped. www.vox.com/2015/8/27/92...
sep 1, 2025, 11:54 pm • 0 0 • view
. Only the Congress can take real action and get weapons of war off the streets. And, it is NOT NORMAL that it doesn't.
sep 1, 2025, 11:26 pm • 3 0 • view
a NAZI committed a mass shooting & then demand disarmament of th general public as a NAZI AUTHORITARIAN REGIME is trying to use that as an excuse to target a marginalized community You're CONTROLLED OPPOSITION CRIMINALIZE NAZISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY NOW
sep 2, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
How the US stacks up. This is all about our deregulation of guns. That’s it. #ItsTheGuns
sep 2, 2025, 3:35 am • 0 0 • view
Whoa …. 😮 could that be real in 2025 already …. ?!
sep 2, 2025, 5:44 am • 0 0 • view
I agree, but they don't even make the news anymore... Ignoring the problem seems to be how the US copes with this.
sep 1, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 12:27 am • 2 0 • view
You frittered away a house-senate majority in 2020 and spent all political capital on one big stimulus bill instead of fixing our democracy and putting in place common sense gun laws
sep 1, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
You saying that completely ignores the two Democrat members who refused to vote with Democrats, unless they got kickbacks for themselves. Otherwise they wouldn't vote to pass anything... so nothing got done. I can't remember their names, maybe Sinema and Manchin?
sep 2, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Keeping the filibuster was a choice democrats made
sep 2, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Mass Shootings. That statistic is shocking! We just keep saying that, though. No one is safe, but by God we're protecting that 2nd amendment aren't we? The Mayans & Aztecs sacrificed innocent children. Centuries later we are doing the same, but it's all good. Thoughts & prayers after all
sep 1, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Nothing like them should be available to just anyone . If any are allowed for citizens many rules and tests should be attached to Anyone owning such a thing. I . e. Yearly or monthly psychological exams/background checks for military and police as well
sep 1, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Then vote the MAGAS out
sep 2, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
Okay so what are you doing about it?
sep 2, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
DEATH CYCLE: * A shooting occurs * Gun lobby to GOP: "Do nothing & get money" * GOP: "Thoughts & prayers" * Sane folks: "We want REASONABLE gun reform" * GOP: "Not now" * Sane folks: "But it's COMMON SENSE! Even gun OWNERS want change!" * GOP: * Nothing gets done * Repeat Gun reform NOW!
sep 1, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 1 • view
Anytime 4 or more people are shot it's considered a mass shooting. The vast overwhelming majority of them are gang related shootings.
sep 2, 2025, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
Well, it *is* normal isn't it? It happens every day... And lack of political will ensures that it will keep happening.
sep 1, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
How many were perpetrated by straight white males vs transgendered people?
sep 2, 2025, 1:10 am • 0 0 • view
Here is fixed it:" How many were perpetrated by black males vs the rest of the population?
sep 2, 2025, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
It’s normal for America. Just not for every single other country on the entire planet.
sep 1, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
From Canada: we hear about the gun violence in the US all the time. We are fortunate to have strict gun laws in Canada and we are so much more safe. Please don’t bring your guns across the border. We don’t want them.
sep 2, 2025, 3:57 am • 0 0 • view
Thats just winning! Lets face it, the US is a chaos god country full of chaos forces, straight up evil that pray to demons and act like its normal. Every single republican in congress wont give a damn about gun control until their kids get killed in a mass shooting
sep 1, 2025, 8:21 pm • 2 1 • view
I respectfully disagree: Grandfather Nurgle cared for all his children but RFK doesn't At least Khorne was competent enough to have a skull throne, unlike Whiskey Dick Pete Even Slaanesh would go flaccid if he saw Stephen Miller Tzeentch... okay I'll give you that one
sep 1, 2025, 8:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Sounds good! What's the plan?
sep 2, 2025, 1:39 am • 0 0 • view
tougher, girl. TALK TOUGHER We need gun clubs for gun nuts, 22s for hunters, limited pistols for those who feel a need to home-protect. No other weapons in public hands. Period. More than 6? Get a dealer license. Insure owners. Everyone's happy.
sep 1, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, but this this is a weak framing. It forces you to define “weapons of war” and then you have already lost This only happens in America There are too many guns in America If we want to stop children from being slaughtered in schools and in churches, we need to do get guns off the street
sep 1, 2025, 7:57 pm • 7 1 • view
How and why would you propose "getting guns off the street" with a nazi regime in full control of the government?
sep 1, 2025, 8:24 pm • 3 0 • view
I am speaking of the argument. Arguing a half measure that won’t succeed either: “weapons of war” wouldn’t even solve the problem if you could win it But I’m aren’t taking about solving anything right now I am talking about being honest and making that argument to try and shift public opinion
sep 1, 2025, 8:48 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s about persuasion at this point It’s not about passing legislation Any legislation that could pass would never be enforced by this regime anyway And SCOTUS would probably rule anything unconstitutional The only battle we can fight and win right now is for public opinion
sep 1, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
He will guess what the left is currently arming to defend themselves from the Nazi regime. You wanna stop this shit Criminalize the ACTUAL PROBLEM with this dumpsterfire country... Fuckin Nazis.
sep 2, 2025, 3:41 am • 0 0 • view
So what I am advocating for is arguing honestly and maximally
sep 1, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Literal WAR TORN countries don't have this issue with attacks on schools. It's NAZIS TH PROBLEM HAS ALWAYS BEEN NAZIS AND WHITE SUPREMACY Th Gov & police departments are overrun with bigots & literal NAZIS CRIMINALIZE NAZISM and WHITE SUPREMACY.
sep 2, 2025, 3:39 am • 0 0 • view
Anything less means that guns are more important to you than kids Republicans aren’t afraid to call you baby killers How many decades do we have to keep losing the same argument searching for compromise “common sense” reforms Use your platform to change public opinion Fight in that arena
sep 1, 2025, 7:57 pm • 8 1 • view
The public isn’t paying attention to what is said on the floor of the House of Representatives The public doesn’t care about getting a Republican cosponsor on a “red flag” bill Paint your opponents as what they are: cold blooded killers. Complicit in the deaths of thousands Fight
sep 1, 2025, 7:57 pm • 9 1 • view
Just 40% of Americans own 46% of the world's privately owned firearms. There are more guns than people here (1.25 guns/person). www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
sep 2, 2025, 3:07 am • 1 0 • view
When, do you suppose, will Congress stop taking corporate money and then ensuring the interests of those corporations are catered to even if those interests actually kill their constituents?
sep 1, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Talk is cheap. Do something about it, or at least try and do something about it.
sep 1, 2025, 11:12 pm • 1 0 • view
You’re in Congress. Stop campaigning on social media and do something. It’s the job you’re already hired to do.
sep 1, 2025, 8:10 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 7:59 pm • 24 8 • view
Except 90% of the mass shootings are happening in Democratic run cities by typically Democrat voting socioeconomic groups.
sep 1, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
"From 2015 to 2022, cities in blues states saw an average gun homicide rate of 7.23 per 100,000 residents. In red-states cities, that rate was 11.1 per 100,000 residents—53 percent higher than the rate in blue-state cities." Also, an interactive map: www.thetrace.org/2023/02/gun-...
sep 1, 2025, 10:49 pm • 8 3 • view
This is apples to oranges. Cities in blue states have blue city leadership. Cities in red states have… blue city leadership.
sep 1, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Logically, if the city leadership is the same across blue and red states, then it doesn't matter and can be dropped out of the equation. Thank you for defeating your own argument.
sep 1, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Correct, which means Democrats need to take responsibility for the violence in their cities and stop trying to blame state and federal Republican leadership.
sep 1, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
You seemed to have ignored the part where you yourself proved that city leadership doesn't matter. Plus the post you replied to, showing from two sources how red states have higher gun violence than blue states. This is all about Republicans in leadership enabling gun violence on their electorate.
sep 1, 2025, 11:22 pm • 0 0 • view
City leadership absolutely matters. Mental health, socioeconomic and cultural issues need to be prioritized. Drugs are illegal and are very frequently involved in gun crimes. Make more guns illegal and more illegal guns will cause more gun crimes. Gun policy is not the solve.
sep 1, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
On every level, funding for mental health and addiction-related issues is not being taken away by Democrats. You're further painting yourself into an increasingly easily-researched corner.
sep 1, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
From your article: “most grants being rescinded fund outdated programs linked to the pandemic, including efforts to "address COVID-19 health disparities among populations at high-risk and underserved, including racial and ethnic minority populations."”
sep 1, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans are reallocating addiction research funding to border security and attempting to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the country. The addiction money wasn’t working, so they’re going after the sources of the drugs instead.
sep 1, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, Democrats on average have more money and went to more classes. Good job. Republicans will just have to keep cleaning your toilets and running your federal government I guess?
sep 1, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Look at all the high crime dems cities!! Out of control st Louis is 2.5 times worse than Chicago!! Shame on the dems!!!
sep 1, 2025, 11:41 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Easy with the facts, if she had the ability to believe/process them you wouldn’t be arguing with her!!! You cannot reason with simps that just lie!!!
sep 1, 2025, 10:57 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re not helping your own cause with this kind of attitude.
sep 1, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Nobody cares. You are either irredeemably stupid, or evil at this point.
sep 1, 2025, 11:47 pm • 2 0 • view
If you believe I am either of those, you’re not going to have a good time trying to understand US issues and politics.
sep 1, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
So evil then. Good to know.
sep 1, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
Severely!!!
sep 1, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
You people aren’t worth trying to convince. You aren’t our epistemic peers. I have yet to meet a Trump supporter that is arguing from a position of good faith or isn’t completely stupid and/or brainwashed. I’m going to do you a kindness & offer some free advice: you should just delete your account.
sep 2, 2025, 3:09 am • 3 0 • view
I could delete my account, but wouldn’t I benefit from sticking around and learning from your sage and morally superior wisdom? Or is it all futile, because I am incapable of achieving your level of correctness. You’re absurd.
sep 2, 2025, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
sep 2, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
We have access to the same facts. If you still support Trump after all the shit he’s pulled, you’re just irredeemable.
sep 2, 2025, 5:17 am • 0 0 • view
blocked by me
sep 2, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
And your evidence for this is where? Try www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-m... or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..., or k12ssdb.org/interactive-.... Put up or shut up.
sep 1, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Up her ass!!! That’s where all her info comes from!!! She’s delusional or a bot!!
sep 1, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Your perception of the people who vote against policies you support is a part of why Democrats aren’t winning elections anymore.
sep 1, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow!!! Enjoy the winning simpleton!!! Your mother failed you badly!!!
sep 1, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
You are fucking delusional!!! Breathlessly ignorant!!!! Bless your heart!!!
sep 1, 2025, 9:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Substitute Canada with Australia and same!
sep 2, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
And they just don’t get it!!
sep 2, 2025, 4:01 am • 0 0 • view
That's more than have occurred in all the 37 other member countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) combined! For the last five years!
sep 1, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Absofuckinglutely
sep 2, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
Intelligent Americans have been wondering for a while now.
sep 1, 2025, 8:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Because thoughts and prayers just aren't cutting it.
sep 1, 2025, 11:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree, but Trump and his handlers do not want this.
sep 2, 2025, 3:06 am • 1 0 • view
Thank the fascist gutless GOP!
sep 1, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
You are futilely screaming into the wind. Many Americans still think it’s a frontier country and that everything outside of themselves is a threat that needs to be eliminated. That of course includes people who think differently, governments of all types and aliens of all descriptions.
sep 1, 2025, 11:54 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t think I live in the frontier, but I do think I should have the right to defend myself from fascists.
sep 2, 2025, 3:12 am • 1 0 • view
We all know what needs to be done.
sep 1, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
This lays at the feet of Donald Trump and the Republican administration
sep 1, 2025, 9:07 pm • 0 0 • view
While congress and other enable weapons of all types for the public a righty on CNN yesterday said it is the responsibility of municipalities to identify potential shooters not the Federal Gov't. 🐴💩
sep 1, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Just 40% of Americans own 46% of the world's privately owned firearms. There are more guns than people here (1.25 guns/person). It will always be a problem until we have federal regulations that work.
sep 2, 2025, 3:03 am • 0 0 • view
That is why BLM riots never extended to suburbs . Libs remember
sep 2, 2025, 5:34 am • 0 0 • view
Not normal? Which country do you live in?
sep 2, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view
Send rent a cop ICE schlubs to guard our schools.
sep 1, 2025, 9:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Mass murders…
sep 2, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
Then stop w/the complaining & start attacking Republicans who are responsible! Push it like we're pushing the Epstein Files release! And don't be nice about it! Just like stop being nice about them destroying the economy & our health care! They're getting paid off by the gun lobbies & Russia!
sep 1, 2025, 10:05 pm • 2 0 • view
do mean something like an assault rifle ban that was pissed away years ago? Or how about abortion? Equality? Civil Rights? Marriage equality? Healthcare? Congress has pissed it ALL away without any kind of fight. Decorum can't fix this and neither can a post. Can you tell we're pissed the fk off?
sep 1, 2025, 10:33 pm • 2 0 • view
We can use current technology to make the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime obsolete. Without the hassle of changing any laws.
sep 1, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It seems the population of much of the US and their political representatives, though claiming continually to be good Christian’s and good citizens, are in fact neither. To protect your guns in preference to your children and fellow citizens is the most obvious sign of a nation in serious decline.
sep 1, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 1 • view
Happening every day is the definition of normal.
sep 1, 2025, 9:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Actually Rep. Jayapal, these many shootings are quite normal in the United States of America. That's why Democrats need to drive the truck like they're driving through zombies in a B-rated horror movie, if they win back the House in 2026. Are you ready to do that? What about your colleagues?
sep 2, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
#BanAssaultWeapons
sep 1, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Your attention to VOTING in a BLUE WAVE to regain sanity and adherence to the US Constitution and laws, is required!
sep 1, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
JFC. How many of those didn’t even make the news cycle? Seems like it must be a lot. The U.S. is morally bankrupt.
sep 1, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Amendment to the Constitution
sep 2, 2025, 1:09 am • 0 0 • view
Those in power in DC don't want us to live. They want us all to die! They are doing everything they can to make it happen. They are buying up our middle class homes that the middle class can't afford anymore, killing jobs, and destroying our health. All we can do is fight back. Hope it works.
sep 2, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
I would agree with you if the wolves were not at the gates. The Reichstag is being doused with gasoline as we speak. The people should not be disarmed until our government and our democracy has been safeguarded against fascism. Until then all Americans should arm themselves.
sep 1, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
All due respect but this is our normal. Clearly, our government both sides of the aisle have and continue to fail us.
sep 1, 2025, 10:44 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ll keep my guns, thank you. And I’m definitely not handing them over so long as masked men are throwing dark skinned people like me into unmarked cars.
sep 2, 2025, 3:04 am • 3 1 • view
Armed Marginalized people are harder to load onto boxcars. Wish these controlled opposition clownshoes would actually fight th Nazis in control of the government. Or at least get outta th way and let us fight back.
sep 2, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
And US politicians have resolutely done NOTHING of any significance to stop them, so you are collectively guilty of facilitating an ongoing Massacre. This is one of the many reasons why I view you all with contempt. Switch your machine on.
sep 2, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view