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senseandsensibility

(20,256 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 06:58 PM Jan 2024

A sixth grader was killed today

in a mass shooting in Iowa, the same state where the party of "freedumb" is having a "townhall" tonight. It's on CNN.

Do you think anyone will ask these freaks about gun control? What they would have done to save this innocent sixth grader's life?

Or is that way too much to expect?

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A sixth grader was killed today (Original Post) senseandsensibility Jan 2024 OP
Here malaise Jan 2024 #1
While you're ALWAYS worth responding to, Malaise, senseandsensibility Jan 2024 #2
LOL - I just wanted you to know that the asshole malaise Jan 2024 #4
Thanks! senseandsensibility Jan 2024 #5
Of course no one is willing to address gun control. Diamond_Dog Jan 2024 #3
Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #6
Things were sick then, but much worse NOW. PTL_Mancuso Jan 2024 #18
"pro-lifers" do not care about gun carnage Skittles Jan 2024 #7
Gun humpers think dead kids are just part of the price "we" have to pay for the sacred "right to bear arms." ShazzieB Jan 2024 #13
To the gun industry, dead children are collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donati keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #20
At most, they will offer the obligatory, "Thoughts and Prayers." TheRealNorth Jan 2024 #8
Dreams and fantasies are nice but reality is a harsh master. elocs Jan 2024 #9
I'll bet we could do something about the gun problem in America. llmart Jan 2024 #10
Yes, I am choosing to enter 2024 with a positive attitude senseandsensibility Jan 2024 #11
I want to see a vast blue wave across this country! llmart Jan 2024 #12
A Democratic president and large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate will require the Left to turn out & vote elocs Jan 2024 #15
It's scary when you see a thread title... WarGamer Jan 2024 #14
Assault weapons have one purpose only, and that is to kill people. Lonestarblue Jan 2024 #16
These repukes will only care if it happens to one of their OWN family members kimbutgar Jan 2024 #17
Even then they would find a way to rationalize it. Demobrat Jan 2024 #19
Guns vs books keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #21
It's barely being discussed. We're desensitized. live love laugh Jan 2024 #22

malaise

(277,353 posts)
1. Here
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 07:02 PM
Jan 2024
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-offers-support-iowa-shooting-wouldnt-back-policy-changes-rcna132307


Ron DeSantis offers support after Iowa shooting, wouldn't back policy changes on gun violence
DeSantis spoke about Florida's mental health and school safety policies but declined to say if there was any federal policy change he'd back to address shootings.


Diamond_Dog

(34,353 posts)
3. Of course no one is willing to address gun control.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 07:07 PM
Jan 2024

They’re Republicans.

Maybe they’ll give schools money for a bulletproof hideaway in every classroom or something like that but heaven forbid we talk about a 17 year old who shot up the place. Wouldn’t any parent feel better about their kids’ school if all the classrooms had a bulletproof closet they could hide in ….

keithbvadu2

(39,778 posts)
6. Joe The Plumber: 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 07:27 PM
Jan 2024
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 in 2014.
 

PTL_Mancuso

(276 posts)
18. Things were sick then, but much worse NOW.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:39 PM
Jan 2024

The gunz cult/fetish is there for a reason - created by, and endlessly stoked and stroked by the weapons industry and fascist billionaires who want low-information, heavily-armed fanatics positioned between themselves and the small-d democratic Public as they scramble for the remainder of our Freedoms.

You might like to argue back against a bible-thumper or Amway salesperson, but I'd wager bigly that the average person would be much less likely to do so against a gun-humper, especially an open- or concealed-carry type who's packin'.

The only way out of this mess for the Voice of the People to be heard and acted upon, but there is a permanent short-circuit in place that will prevent that from being done anytime soon, what with regulatory capture, SCOTUS, gerrymandering, movies, video games, snuff videos on the news, and such, that serve to provide constant reinforcement for those in the cult and sexy and sensual appeals to those on the outside to slide on in and "be one of Us": The Strong, the Brave, the Protected!

The persistent demands of the vast majority of the U.S. Public, over many years, to stringently regulate the industry and gun ownership, is happily pissed upon by the REAL VOTERS™.

ShazzieB

(18,404 posts)
13. Gun humpers think dead kids are just part of the price "we" have to pay for the sacred "right to bear arms."
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 08:56 PM
Jan 2024

I've read statements to that effect. Imo, one dead (or even injured) kid is too high a price, but of course they don't see it that way.

keithbvadu2

(39,778 posts)
20. To the gun industry, dead children are collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donati
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 10:08 PM
Jan 2024

To the gun industry, dead children are collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.

TheRealNorth

(9,628 posts)
8. At most, they will offer the obligatory, "Thoughts and Prayers."
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 08:08 PM
Jan 2024

They may try to twist this into something that they can blame Biden or the Democrats for. Their reasoning does not have to have a basis in reality for that crowd.

elocs

(23,040 posts)
9. Dreams and fantasies are nice but reality is a harsh master.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 08:16 PM
Jan 2024

There will never be gun control here, at least not in the measure that those of us on the Left want to see it. The worshipers of the Second Amendment are never going to have a come to Jesus moment about guns, repenting and changing their minds.
If nothing was done after the massacre of young kids at Sandy Hook, nothing is going to be done.
So yes, the life of a six graders life is expecting too much when the slaughter of 20 first graders was not enough at Sandy Hook.

llmart

(16,301 posts)
10. I'll bet we could do something about the gun problem in America.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 08:28 PM
Jan 2024

All we need is to have a Democratic President and large majorities in the House and Senate. Oh, and more women in roles with the power to do something meaningful about it.

elocs

(23,040 posts)
15. A Democratic president and large Democratic majorities in the House and Senate will require the Left to turn out & vote
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:14 PM
Jan 2024

in record numbers which I'll believe when I see it with no pouting and voting for 3rd party candidates.

WarGamer

(14,926 posts)
14. It's scary when you see a thread title...
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:00 PM
Jan 2024

And don't know if it's a young Palestinian, Israeli... Ukrainian killed in war...

Or an American child. killed by gun violence.

Lonestarblue

(11,531 posts)
16. Assault weapons have one purpose only, and that is to kill people.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:16 PM
Jan 2024

Did our Founders really envision people using their guns to kill who ever they wanted? No. They envisioned a need for a you g nation to call on citizens o use their own guns to fight for and protect the nation because we had no standing army. Once we had a military, the issue of personal guns was moot. The Supreme Court has made a mockery of the Second Amendment, clearly ignoring the well-regulated militia part.

kimbutgar

(23,040 posts)
17. These repukes will only care if it happens to one of their OWN family members
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 09:38 PM
Jan 2024

Otherwise they don’t give shit about keeping kids safe only about hate and racism do they care.

Demobrat

(9,695 posts)
19. Even then they would find a way to rationalize it.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 10:06 PM
Jan 2024

They would say their kid died because of irresponsible gun owners or some shit. No way would they take responsibility - even if it was their own gun that killed the kid. It’s not what they do.

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