The hateful weaponization of our language, our feelings and our actions

[Jitter65]

all began in Jan 2009 when GOP senators and congressmen sat at a DC restaurant and plotted a strategy to disrespect and obstruct the nations first black President and went on public record and bragged about doing so.

The NRA and the congress that they own have new blood ontheir hands

[lindysalsagal]

1. "Sticks and stones." Words eventually have real consequences. Passive bigotry kills.

We can't indulge our lowest impulses without sustaining losses.

What goes around...

[Eleanors38]

2. I think blaming everything lock, stock and barrel on the NRA is foolish...

I can't stand them, nor do I want to be a part of that group. It is a special interest/civil rights organization which is doing what is expected: Promoting the Second Amendment and steadfastly opposing those it sees as a threat to it. And they aim to Win.

As a party, the Democrats have pretty much given up on programmatic change and government activism, and that leads to the use of passing thin laws on prohibition and control, essentially what the GOP uses anyway. We have ceded the field, and the GOP allows us a play pen to operate in -- a pen of its own construction.