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Rhiannon12866

(258,780 posts) Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:33 AM Oct 2023

A call to action: What Americans can do to end the gun violence epidemic - Symone - MSNBC

Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has said now is not the time to talk about gun safety legislation even after the deadliest mass shooting on American soil this year. Symone Sanders Townsend answers the question: When is the right time, then? - Aired on 10/29/2023.

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A call to action: What Americans can do to end the gun violence epidemic - Symone - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 OP

I agree with Symone, but unfortunately she is singing to the choir. brer cat Oct 2023 #1

Agreed, what's happened just this year, especially this week, is truly as bad as it gets Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 #3

We have been here before. Aussie105 Oct 2023 #2

We've experienced this horror show over and over, but it's never "the right time" for Republicans Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 #4

I'm so weary of the hackneyed pleas for protection, and no_hypocrisy Oct 2023 #5

And no one need a "weapon of war" for any reason unless they're active duty fighting a war. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2023 #6

brer cat

(27,684 posts)

1. I agree with Symone, but unfortunately she is singing to the choir.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:49 AM

Oct 2023

Republicans are not moveable on the gun issue. Their own children could be gunned down and they would still cry "2nd Amendment."

Rhiannon12866

(258,780 posts)

3. Agreed, what's happened just this year, especially this week, is truly as bad as it gets

Reply to brer cat (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:59 AM

Oct 2023

But if now's "not the right time," same as Sandy Hook, Uvalde - and the rest of the record number of mass shootings just this year, it'll never be - for the Republicans.

Aussie105

(8,173 posts)

2. We have been here before.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 04:55 AM

Oct 2023

During previous shootings.

The 'now is not the right time' line precedes peoples' memories fading so that nothing happens to prevent the next one.

And I agree - now is not the right time.
A few other things have to happen first, like getting the gun lobby neutered permanently.

Rhiannon12866

(258,780 posts)

4. We've experienced this horror show over and over, but it's never "the right time" for Republicans

Reply to Aussie105 (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 05:10 AM

Oct 2023

Considering that this mass shooting took so many lives, paralyzed a state and was breaking news all over the country, nothing can move the Republicans. Even Steve Scalise who was critically wounded in a shooting himself has spoken out in opposition to gun control. So nothing will be done and and the conversation will fade away until we confront the next one.

no_hypocrisy

(55,374 posts)

5. I'm so weary of the hackneyed pleas for protection, and

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 05:16 AM

Oct 2023

hence unbridled sales of guns and weapons are necessary.

Last time I looked, there wasn't chaos in the street, lootings, indiscriminate violence en masse.

Rhiannon12866

(258,780 posts)

6. And no one need a "weapon of war" for any reason unless they're active duty fighting a war.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 30, 2023, 05:20 AM

Oct 2023

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