Month: May 2022

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Donald Trump Jr. Gun Crime Gun Nuts WTF?!

Don Jr. Blames ‘Crazy Teachers’ As The ‘Actual Cause’ Of School Shootings

According to the always mentally unstable Donald Trump Jr., the real reason the United States is experiencing so many mass shootings at schools is because the teachers are “crazy.”

Also, Junior asserted, the Uvalde shooter could just have easily killed 21 people with a “bat.”

“It’s the gun, it’s not the sociopath wielding it, folks. If it wasn’t for the gun, this kid would be a well-adjusted, reasonable individual, he’d be a wonderful human being, right?

“He wouldn’t have done the exact same thing with a bat or a bomb or some sort of improvised device or a machete, he’s a great kid, don’t judge him.”

And then came the attack on teachers, two of whom lost their lives in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday:

“We can’t acknowledge what the actual causes are, it’s not a drug-addict mother and a missing father and a lack of religion, indoctrination programs in our schools, crazy teachers teaching some of the crap I’ve talking about in these videos. It’s none of those things. It never ends man.

“Our own stupidity, apathy, wokeness, laziness, that’s the problem, folks, and until we fix that, the rest is just talk and crap.”

Don Jr. ended his deranged rant by claiming that “no one can admit somebody is actually a piece of garbage and screwed up.”

Does that include you, Junior? Because you certainly qualify as garbage and the look of intoxication in your eyes suggests you’re screwed up beyond repair. And yet we should let a loser with borderline personality disorder like you legally own a gun? Seems like a bad idea.

Teachers are not the problem. Neither are the vast majority of the students. The problem is that it’s easier in this country to buy an AR-15 than it is for a kid to get a driver’s license. Oh, and you have to take a test to earn the right to drive. Isn’t it about time we had the same requirements for owning weapons of mass murder?

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Gun Crime Gun Nuts

WATCH CNN’s Jim Acosta Dismantle An NRA Board Member Who Mentions ‘Praying’ For Schoolchildren

CNN host Jim Acosta wasn’t buying the BS being peddled by a National Rifle Association (NRA) board member who tried to offer the worthless notion of thoughts and prayers for children who have been killed in mass shootings such as the one that took place Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Judge Phillip Journey of the 18th Judicial District Court in Kansas serves on the board of the NRA, which held its convention in Houston despite the horror that took place last Tuesday in the Lone Star State. He told Acosta that his court handles family law, and for children that feel terrified, “we all pray for you — lift you up in prayer, that we want to hope that you get through this without the consequences that we see so often in victims of domestic crime.”

That led Acosta to ask:

“Can they bring an AR-15 in your courtroom?”

Judge Journey admitted that guns aren’t allowed in his courtroom, adding that they aren’t allowed in schools, either, which led Acosta to retort:

“Well, people don’t seem to have much trouble if they want to unleash that kind of destruction to do just that. NRA supporters like yourself keep saying that the answer to all of this is good guys with guns. The 19 good guys with guns failed in Uvalde. The cops were there in the school. There was a resource officer that was apparently MIA and none of that helped.”

Journey suggested law enforcement might be to blame in Uvalde, to which Acosta noted:

“With these mass shootings, it keeps coming back to the AR-15 and similar models. Why do people need an AR-15 anyway?”

Journey was silent for a few seconds that seemed to last an eternity, finally responding:

“You know, it’s just a semiautomatic rifle. If you want to be prejudiced about the way it looks. I was aware of what happened in the ’94 semiautomatic firearms ban and there were rifles of similar function that just didn’t look as ugly. They weren’t black guns like a Ruger mini 14 and the Ruger mini 14 was appropriate and the other was not.”

Acosta countered:

“I do want to ask you about the assault weapons ban. How is it an 18-year-old can buy an AR-15 style rifle and have 16 rounds of ammo like we saw with him in Uvalde?”

The judge replied:

“Well, he did not have any prior convictions. He didn’t have any prior issues that would have kept him from purchasing one. It’s my understanding from the news that he purchased it through a firearms dealer, and passed the background check. He didn’t have any prior convictions.”

The host then asked:

“Right, but should an 18-year-old have an AR-15? What’s he going to do with it?”

The judge attempted to use a favorite line for those who think there should be no restrictions whatsoever on the right to own whatever gun a person wants:

“Should an 18-year-old have one in the Army?”

But Acosta was more than ready for that assertion, telling Journey:

“They have military training in the army. The 18-year-old in Uvalde did not. He turned 18 and he went out and bought an AR-15.”

Journey wandered off and began talking about mental health being the real issue, only to have Acosta note that there are mentally ill people all over the world, but only the United States has so many mass shootings, to which the judge weakly countered:

 

“There have been several other mass shootings all over the world.”

But Acosta shut the judge down cold:

“Not to the level that we have in the United States, come on.”

The NRA and the gun lobby have no answers, only excuses. Sensible gun reform is desperately needed in this country. How many more children have to die in hail of gunfire before something is done?

 

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GOP Gun Crime Viral Video

Viral Video Shows Man Yelling At Ted Cruz In Restaurant: ’19 Children Died! That’s On Your Hands!’

On Friday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) decided he’d have dinner at a Houston restaurant after he had given a speech at this year’s National Rifle Association (NRA) convention.

But if Cruz was hoping for a peaceful meal, he got the exact opposite, with a TikTok user named Hopey posting a video clip with this message:

“So I was having dinner and got to see a show. Ted Cruz being accosted literally the whole time, lmao.”

In the video, a man is shown screaming in Cruz’s face:

“Why did you come here to the convention? 19 children died! 19 children died! That’s on your hands! Ted Cruz, that’s on your hands!”

The video has since gone viral, and it has also received lots of comments on social media. Take a look at a few:

https://twitter.com/Deb8594444629/status/1530527671083474948?s=20&t=Ddx1yDrf-R1RPvK1Pjk4gQ
https://twitter.com/4everNeverTrump/status/1530563054613585921?s=20&t=Ddx1yDrf-R1RPvK1Pjk4gQ

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Donald Trump Gun Crime

Trump Stiffly Reads The Names Of Uvalde Victims As A Gong Sounds During Surreal NRA Speech

Speaking to the National Rifle Association (NRA) just days after a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, failed, one-term, twice-impeached former President Donald Trump insisted Friday that there is no need for sensible gun control legislation.

NBC News reports:

Trump described the Uvalde shooting as “a savage and barbaric atrocity” and called for a moment of silence as he read the names of the 21 victims. The former president said those killed “are now with God in heaven” while the shooter “will be eternally damned to burn in the fires of hell.”

Trump then laid into President Joe Biden for urging Congress to take up gun safety legislation, saying Biden’s criticism of the gun lobby was really directed at gun owners across the country.

As for possible solutions, Trump sounded like his speech had been written by the NRA, and he offered nothing in the way of actually preventing such mass shootings in the future, insisting that the issue is one of mental health:

“While we don’t yet know enough about this week’s killing, we know there are many things we must do. We need to drastically change our approach to mental health. There are always so many warning signs. Almost all of these disfigured minds share the same profile.

“Teachers, parents, school officials, and community members need to be recognizing and addressing these alarm bells promptly and very, very aggressively. And our school discipline systems, instead of making excuses and continually turning a blind eye, need to confront bad behavior head on and quickly. And clearly we need to make it far easier to confine the violent and mentally deranged into mental institutions.”

However, the strangest part of Trump’s address to the NRA was him reading the names of the victims (and mispronouncing nearly every one of them), followed by a gong that made it sound as if a game show was being conducted, HuffPost notes:

The names of the 19 children and two teachers, broken up into hardly recognizable syllables in Trump’s stumbling pronunciation, were interspersed with the funereal sound of a gong.

After reading the names, Trump then danced for the adoring NRA gun worshipers.

Twitter users had some thoughts.

https://twitter.com/bourgeoisalien/status/1530325776851251200?s=20&t=knxQRBhsMNacFt-6Apl7PA
https://twitter.com/citizenpi314/status/1530313814452981761?s=20&t=1QpwPqNJJ5q7gLRZzpbcHQ
https://twitter.com/fji002/status/1530323582454317058?s=20&t=z-hn3ZX55sg88aO9l8WwYg

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Gun Crime

Stephen King Explains Exactly What It Will Take To End Mass Shootings In The US

Novelist Stephen King has never been shy when it comes to saying what he thinks on any number of issues, and once again he’s using common sense to solve a problem that’s been on the minds of nearly every American this week: Mass shootings in the United States.

Uproxx notes that King calls his proposal “simple.”

King supplies a very “simple” take (he uses that word, too), one that cuts through all the deflecting from Texas Republicans like huffy Sen. Ted Cruz (who walked out of an interview while complaining that people are politicizing the inherently political issue of gun violence) and Gov. Greg Abbott (who couldn’t believe that Beto O’Rourke called him out for doing nothing to stop the madness). These confrontations, while necessary, will likely go nowhere. To that end, King appears to suggest that there’s no changing the minds of these public-facing representatives. Instead, transformation is only possible by pushing them out of office.

Here’s King’s recommendation:

“If the gun protectors in Congress are voted out, things may change. If they retain their seats, nothing will change. Pretty simple.”

King is absolutely correct. And it probably won’t surprise you when you see who has taken the most cash from pro-gun groups, with Aljazeera reporting:

The top recipients so far in 2022 in the US Congress were Republican Senators Rand Paul and John Kennedy, who each received over $38,000 from pro-gun groups, according to OpenSecrets. US House of Representatives Minority Whip Steve Scalise received $25,610 from pro-gun groups during that period.

In 2018, during his re-election bid, Texas Senator Cruz received $311,151 in direct contributions from pro-gun groups.

If every registered Democrat shows up at the polls this November, we can have sensible gun reform that will make all of us safer. We have the power in our hands, and now it’s time to use it.