May 30, 2022

Question for the GOP

In the past week, we have listened to your claims that mass shooters are from single-parent homes, are addicted to violent video games, are mentally disturbed, etc.

Being that you have now (allegedly) identified those prone to the violent behaviour that leads to killing innocent citizens - particularly school children - why have you not rushed to pass legislation that would prevent these "likely suspects" from acquiring the weapons that enable them to commit mass murder?

Why have you not even discussed passing laws that require extensive background checks on the millions of teens and young adults who play video games, and/or grew up in single-parent homes? Why are you not investigating their social media postings to look for 'red flags' indicative of mental instability?

If you've already determined who is most likely to open fire on a classroom full of kids, why are you not ensuring that this dangerous demographic is stopped from having access to any weapons - no less weapons of war that even well-armed police officers are afraid to confront?

"We know who the criminals are, but we're not going to stop them" is even more pathetic than just shutting the fuck up in the hope that no one notices what hypocritical wimps you really are.

May 30, 2022

Spare Us the Bullshit, Gun-Humpers

Those of you who claim that you need to exercise your Second Amendment rights in order to defend yourselves and your fellow citizens against tyranny, please be advised that no one puts any credence in your ability to do so.

The sane among us have no desire to be 'protected' by a bunch of yahoos who are too cowardly to go to the grocery store without packing heat, too intimidated by grandma walking her dog to drive down the street without displaying your weapons in the gun-racks of your pickup, and too god-damned stupid to comprehend that your Confederate-flag festooned vehicles are a symbol of the losing side of a war lost long ago.

'Tyranny' has come, over and over, in the form of mass shooters who have mowed down mall shoppers, concert attendees, nightclub partiers, county fair participants - and schoolrooms full of defenseless children.

And through it all, your ability to combat this tyranny has been non-existent. In fact, your response has invariably been to persist in your claims that you and your weapons are at-the-ready to protect the already dead.

Please understand that no one of sound mind believes they are being "protected" by people who attend NRA conventions where firearms are prohibited out of fear of the very firearms they claim are safe in the hands of law-abiding citizens.

No one with a functioning brain believes that they are being "protected" by people who can't trust their fellow NRA members not to slaughter them in an auditorium full of "good men with guns".

If you can't protect schoolchildren from mass murderers, it's pretty fuckin' obvious that your claims of protecting anyone are nothing more than the useless cries of flaccid-dicked, mentally-deficient idiots who believe that being gutless while children are slaughtered is a sure sign of manhood.

May 28, 2022

A question, Governor Abbott ...

Texas police officers in Uvalde refused to enter a school where a gunman was killing children because they feared they were out-gunned by the weapon he was wielding.

That begs the question: Why are you selling guns that literally render someone "police-proof"?

Why are you selling weapons that your own police officers are too afraid to confront?

Why are you selling guns that make their possessor a one-man army, capable of keeping even the best-equipped, well-trained police forces from coming anywhere near him?

You've said a lot about protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens to own weapons. That apparently includes weapons that protect them from being apprehended - even after they've proven themselves to be not so law-abiding after all.

How many schoolchildren need to die because you're too fucking stupid to realize that you are allowing sadistic, mentally unstable criminals to purchase weapons that bring your own police to their knees, too fearful to do a damned thing to stop them.

But hey, thanks again for proving that there is nothing dumber than a Republican, and nothing more dangerous than a dumb Republican in office - especially one who is willing to hand over control of his state to an AR-15-weilding teenager who legally obtained the weapon he used to bring down the idiot who insisted he had a "right" to own it.

BTW, good luck with that re-election campaign!

May 27, 2022

Just curious

There have been many posts over the past few years by DUers considering relocating to other countries as a result of what's going on in the US.

I'm just wondering how many DUers are contemplating relocating to "bluer states" based on anti-choice laws and/or tighter gun restriction laws.

I realize that not everyone is free to just pack up and leave states where they currently reside - but I do wonder how many here are planning to relocate due to the political positions of their state representatives.

May 27, 2022

ICYMI ...

Here's an interesting news story that got lost among more pressing matters of late.

I think we can reasonably assume that the "valuable information" that Joel Greenberg has been providing goes well beyond Matt Gaetz's possible involvement in sex-trafficking - waaaay beyond the transgressions of a single individual.

As I've posted several times (as have others), the GOP's playbook invariably includes projection - accusing others of what they are guilty of, i.e. a pre-emptive strike launched as a defense against what they know is about to be revealed.

I have posted my belief that all of the recent "Democrats are pedophiles/groomers" bullshit is proof positive that Republicans are about to be exposed as "pedophiles/ groomers" themselves - and I believe that Greenberg's information is confirming exactly that.

As scummy as Greenberg is, he has nothing to lose - and everything to gain - by naming names, and providing info that can be corroborated.

I think that a LOT of shit is going to hit the fan very soon - and Republicans are going to be covered in it.

May 26, 2022

When you vote for a Republican ...

... you are voting for a politician who is putting a lethal weapon into the hands of a potential murderer.

If you're okay with that, you're okay with your own child potentially being slaughtered in their classroom.

Think about that before you cast your next ballot. It may be the last vote you cast before your own child's funeral.

May 26, 2022

Don't Look Now, Republicans ...

... but your hypocrisy is showing - and it's being broadcast all over the country.

All of your blathering about how women shouldn't have the right to an abortion because every baby's life is precious - well, in case you haven't noticed, that's going to be a hard sell now, isn't it?

Have your think-tank geniuses come up with a marketing plan to promote the idea that life begins at conception - but ends in an elementary school classroom?

Have you figured out a way to explain to your voters that while you're deeply committed to "precious children", that shouldn't prevent you from putting automatic weapons into the hands of criminals, the mentally unstable, and every other whack-job who shouldn't suffer the inconvenience of a background check?

I'm sure Republican politicians are hesitant to put a price on a child's life. But we've all actually seen the number you've attached to children's lives - and it directly correlates to the number of dollars that flow into your campaign coffers from the NRA and other gun advocates.

The nation has had to face up to a few cruel realities in the past few days - the most glaring of which is the fact that when you vote for a Republican, you are putting a gun into a potential murderer's hands.

So you have to wonder how many parents are willing to put a gun into the hands of someone who might use that weapon to slaughter their own children.

I'm not seeing a lot of takers - do you?

Yes, Republicans - your hypocrisy is on full display. And I doubt that "Spare the the automatic weapon and spoil the child" will be a winning campaign slogan come November.

May 26, 2022

About arming teachers ...

This sounds like a great idea. Why inconvenience child murderers by forcing them to bring their own weapons when you can simply ensure that they're already on site?

If you're not lugging around a rifle or an automatic weapon, you don't have to deal with being spotted with one before you get into a school building - you can simply waltz in the front door, with no one being the wiser.

Besides, having guns stashed all over a building full of school kids - well, come on, what could possibly go wrong?

May 25, 2022

Name them.

I invite anyone who has posted that Republican parents are willing to have their own children slaughtered because gun ownership is more important than the lives of their own children to name them.

Name the parents who have expressed such sentiments, and provide the statements they made in support of the idea that their children's lives was a sacrifice they were willing to make to uphold the right to bear arms regardless of the consequences.

Then tell me how accusing Republican parents of being willing to have their own children gunned-down in their classrooms is any different than Republicans saying that Democrats drink the blood of dead babies.

I am truly appalled by some of the rhetoric being posted here tonight

Republicans grieve the loss of their children in the same way any parent would, regardless of political affiliation.

To suggest otherwise is beyond despicable.

May 25, 2022

Okay, Republican voters - let's talk

Millions of you have children - children that you love, that you cherish, that you hope to see grow up and have children of their own.

I've no doubt that most of you are horrified by today's events. You wonder how any parent can bear the grief of losing a child in such a horrific way. You look at your own children and think, there but for the grace of God ...

But the reality is that the grace of God has nothing to do with it. If your children came home from school today safe and sound, it's because someone with a gun showed up at someone else's school, instead of theirs.

The simple fact is that every time you vote Republican, you are putting a gun in someone's hand. You are supporting a party that doesn't care if that person will act responsibly, or will open fire in your child's classroom.

Today it was some other parent's child whose life ended in a hail of bullets. Tomorrow it could be your child.

I'm sure the grief-stricken parents who lost a child today appreciate your thoughts and prayers. What they'd appreciate more is your support for sensible gun-control legislation.

Think about that the next time you cast a ballot. Are you voting for someone who wants to keep your children safe - or are you voting for someone who is going to arm the gunman that eventually slaughters them?

You can do something to stop the carnage. But if you choose not to, you're putting your own child in the cross-hairs.

I hope your children come home from school tomorrow safe and sound. But if they don't, you'll have to live with the fact that you support the party that led to their deaths.