Covenant parents learn that leopards will eat your face.

[Swede]

A group of parents reeling from a mass shooting at their children’s private Christian school believed no one was in a better position to persuade the G.O.P. to enact limited gun control.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/us/politics/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I00.wUwc.ILleLNpJKpWa&smid=url-share

Wayback archive (free) https://web.archive.org/web/20231226221447/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/us/politics/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I00.wUwc.ILleLNpJKpWa&smid=url-share

[Hekate]

1. Paywall

[Swede]

2. Wayback has it

https://web.archive.org/web/20231226221447/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/us/politics/nashville-school-shooting-covenant-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I00.wUwc.ILleLNpJKpWa&smid=url-share

[Hekate]

3. Thanks!

[Raven123]

4. Sounds like some of these folks had an epiphany.

[IcyPeas]

5. Dear Covenant Parents: they dont care about your kids. The 2nd amendment is more important

Snips from the article:

It was demoralizing, some of the mothers said, to be talked down to, to see lawmakers who had sympathized with their pain in private still vote against them in public. To be told that it was too soon for such serious changes, or that any change at all would threaten the Second Amendment.

Did you know, the parents asked one another, that it was like this? How did I not know?

....

“When is it going to be the right group of people that gets affected for someone to listen?” Ms. Joyce asked on the final day, adding, “I thought we were close enough to their children.”

[TygrBright]

6. This is what happens when you keep voting for Republicans.

I'm so sorry for the pain and shock these families have endured.

I hope that what they learned from their experience with the legislature is that voting for Republicans will always mean that the well-being of actual people will never matter when there are lobbyist contributions to earn with shitty votes.

wearily,
Bright

[stopdiggin]

7. and leopards eating face - - is absolutely the perfect description here! -(nt)-

[Probatim]

8. Perfect Republican Mindset

If it happens to you - no big deal. Get over it.

If it happens to me - we have to do something about this!!!

[AverageOldGuy]

9. BFD

So the Covenant parents whose children were murdered or traumatized by the shooting at their school were VERY disturbed and upset by the reception they got at the hands of the Tennessee Republican lawmakers who essentially showed them the door.

BFD.

I'll bet every one of these Covenant parents will vote Republican in November 2024.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights’ To Have Guns

Ironic how he chose that verb back in 2014.