Gun Control 1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

[MissThundercat]

Yes, we know you worship guns and make excuses for them in our society

[MissThundercat]

Rep Dingell: let's take guns out of domestic abusers' hands.

https://gandernewsroom.com/2023/02/1...my-family-did/

and having worked with DV/SA survivors, can confirm that law enforcement is useless when it comes to enforcing orders where the abuser is no longer allowed to have a gun.

[Kepler]

Rep Dingell: let's take guns out of domestic abusers' hands.

https://gandernewsroom.com/2023/02/1...my-family-did/

and having worked with DV/SA survivors, can confirm that law enforcement is useless when it comes to enforcing orders where the abuser is no longer allowed to have a gun.

Didn't SCOTUS just specifically rule the right to murder your family is more fundamental than the privilege of not bring murdered by your abusive husband, and there's nothing anybody can do about it, because it's right there in the Bible?

[MissThundercat]

According to this specimen, the AR-15 should be the national gun of America.

https://www.al.com/politics/2023/02/...f-america.html

I get the feeling Republicans would designate an AR-15 as the Great Seal. And put assault rifles on our money instead of dead presidents.

[Scarlet]

Active shooter situation going on today at a high school in Boulder, CO.

[Kepler]

Active shooter situation going on today at a high school in Boulder, CO.

I thought it was a false call or, rather, several?

[Proud2baLaker]

I thought it was a false call or, rather, several?

From what I am hearing it was. And yes a cross several states. High school where I live in Idaho got one too.

[Handyman]

https://twitter.com/Stewartmoore/sta...fYjKZNoXA&s=19

Breaking news: A 20 year old woman, a News 13 employee, and a 9yo have all been shot and killed in Orlando's Pine Hills neighborhood. Mother of the 9yo and a second news 13 employee are in hospital fighting for their lives

[Swansong]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...sher-rcna71902

My god what a story that is

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

A 15 year old was fatally stabbed at Harding high school in St. Paul last week.

at his funeral today, three people were shot including children

[Spartanforlife4]

I have no idea why people keep going on Jon Stewart’s shows. When’s the last time it ended well for them? At least with Borat and the other SBC characters there’s a disguise. There’s 20 years of tape on what happens when you try to battle Stewart.

https://twitter.com/theproblem/statu...wZFJ8zBRgGpPbw

[WeAreNDHockey]

I have no idea why people keep going on Jon Stewart’s shows. When’s the last time it ended well for them? At least with Borat and the other SBC characters there’s a disguise. There’s 20 years of tape on what happens when you try to battle Stewart.

https://twitter.com/theproblem/statu...wZFJ8zBRgGpPbw

You try to put the bull5h!t past Jon Stewart and he simply grabs it and forces it right down your throat. That was a superb takedown. I don't think he could have done any better if it was scripted like that.

MAGA, GQP, republicans, whatever you wanna call them, they WANT this, people. They want mass shootings. They want people to go into a school and kill a dozen kids. They WANT THIS. If they didn't they too would be calling for the same reasonable things 99% of democrats are willing to do. They are evil. They are a cancer on civilization.

[ScoobyDoo]

I have no idea why people keep going on Jon Stewart’s shows. When’s the last time it ended well for them? At least with Borat and the other SBC characters there’s a disguise. There’s 20 years of tape on what happens when you try to battle Stewart.

https://twitter.com/theproblem/statu...wZFJ8zBRgGpPbw

Jon Stewart owns that clown. Jon Stewart took him out to the woodshed and beat him senseless.

[Kepler]

The amazing thing is these people walk away from these interactions thinking they won. They are that stupid.

I read something interesting today which I think helps explain the mental and moral decline of the Right over the last half century. It's from Karl Popper's Open Society and its Enemies, volume 2. He's talking about the early 20th century Neo-Thomist revival of anti-democratic authoritarianism and the fetishizing of the totalitarian church control of people's lives during the Medieval period. He cites as evidence that it was actually inhumane and terrible for human flourishing, rather than some golden age of unity, the epidemics of "St. Vitus' dance," which was a frenzied dancing mania that became common during that time. He sees it as the only coping mechanism left for a population that is at once oppressed and humiliated but which at the same time, due to its authoritarian ideology, has literally no hope or means of bettering itself:

(T)he dancing manias present none of the characteristics of which we associate with epidemic infectious diseases of the nervous system. They seem, rather, like mass hysteria, brought on by terror and despair, in populations oppressed, famished, and wretched to a degree almost unimaginable today. To the miseries of constant war, political and social disintegration, there was added the dreadful affliction of inescapable, mysterious, and deadly disease. Mankind stood helpless as though trapped in a world of terror and peril against which there was no defense. God and the devil were living conceptions to the men of those days who cowered under the afflictions they believed imposed by supernatural forces. For those who broke down under the strain there was no road of escape except to the inward refuge of mental derangement

Maybe that is what happened to the Right. A population already mentally and morally weak, of slavish devotion to the very forces which have ruined the lives of their families for generations, would either have to accept responsibility and face their culpability for destroying not just their but their children's futures, but paradoxically also without the tools or capacity of critical thought that would provide a way out. Their last resort is flight into the collective hallucination of the Echo Chamber's alternate reality. And any intrusion by actual reality is met with hatred and violence.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Just watched Stewart’s gun episode. Lol

too bad our village idiots are too stupid to understand what he’s saying