America Needs to See the Reality of Assault Rifle Murders
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/mitchell-zimmerman/101823/america-needs-to-see-the-reality-of-assault-rifle-murdersAmerica Needs to See the Reality of Assault Rifle Murders
by Mitchell Zimmerman | June 3, 2022 - 5:46am
— from OtherWords
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The families of the Uvalde victims will make their own painful decisions regarding the remains of their children. They owe us nothing — it is we who owe them our shamed apologies for failing to protect their children from the now well-known danger of mass murder.
No one can demand the right to use photographs of the victims.
But children aren’t the only ones whose bodies have been torn apart and rendered unrecognizable by modern assault weapons. Photographs from both wartime and the home front can doubtless be found to illustrate the costs of so-called “gun rights.”
These disturbing images could ignite the public conscience. They could also be put before gun buyers themselves.
A number of states force women exercising their constitutional right to abortion to look at fetal sonograms before ending their pregnancy. What if states required anyone who wants to buy an assault rifle, or other semi-automatic weapon, to first see photos or films that show what such weapons do to human bodies?
Some buyers would no doubt harden their hearts and persuade themselves they must have a weapon of war to defend their homes from an attack by imaginary hordes or other fictitious threats — or to overthrow a government so tyrannical as to consider regulating firearms.
But perhaps some would reconsider whether they really need this kind of weapon to hunt or engage in target shooting.
There is no Second Amendment right to protection from reality.
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...with parents and relatives permission, let's see what the mangled, shredded, exploded, unrecognizable little bodies look like from high-powered AR-15 rounds...
...let's see what McConnell and the Republicans want to tolerate and foist on the American people...let's see what gun manufacturing profits provide when military grade weapons are sold to the general public...
...if a people's Constitution guarantees such carnage, then the people need a new Constitution...
...if a people's government tolerates such carnage, then the people need a new government...
...if people want to go to war to continue such carnage, so be it...wars have been fought for far less significant reasons...
...we are being slaughtered and we have a right not to be slaughtered...
...the first order of government is to protect...
...ask the parents of gun-slaughtered little children if they or their loved-ones feel protected...
...do you feel protected?...
Violence and gore (simulated and sometimes real) are rampant in media, have been LITERALLY forever, so people generally tune it out.
And the nutcases get their thrills from seeing it.
As I've posted before, look for the "average person" to be revulsed by some gore.
Don't look to legislators, nor think that people can influence legislators. Pols are completely in the grasp of the gun industry and the Republicult bosses.
But people vote and the most likely improvement is in November.
Just my two cents worth.
GOTV like your life and hundreds and thousands of others depended on it.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216380145
Campaign financing reform? It ALMOST happened.
AWB happened and ended.
FLUSH THE ASSHOLES.
I think of all this as 1939 Germany.
Stop it now.
I just ran out of ideas how to, this morning.
Yes, I'd like something on the order of the Civil Rights and Vietnam War protests.
Who's the leader? Right now, I see only courageous Beto O'Rourke standing up.
If you think that something more powerful and effective than billions in lobbying and cult-like hypnosis can work,
SIGN ME UP.
These are the times when we need dynamic young leaders.
I am thinking of an ad campaign (more general than gun control) that we can PAC.
I am the last to be in the "it's over with" camp.
