"A vote for Trump is a vote for more gun violence. It got lost in the coverage, but Trump promised the NRA that he would repeal all of Biden's gun safety actions. …
Trump promised, 'In my second term, we will roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment.'
@RememberUsAlways Indeed. I want to get better at thinking ahead.
I recently read that historical inflection points aren't dependent on a person, but are stochastic inevitabilities. If that's so, an environment can be cultivated to facilitate desirable outcomes, which provides resiliency against these worrisome "tides" sweeping this way and that. Just as the debt of tfg's chaotic hypocrisy is inescapable, the fruits of virtuous action are always at hand.
“When a #police department upgrades its #guns, what happens to the old ones? A CBS #News investigation found #law enforcement agencies routinely resold or traded in their used duty #weapons, a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.
In a 16-year period ending in 2022, the ATF identified more than 52,000 guns recovered from #crime scenes that were once used by police agencies. It took a federal court order for the ATF to release that data”
Woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A Maryland woman admitted to scheming with a neo-Nazi leader from Florida to destroy electrical substations surrounding Baltimore in an attack that she told a confidential FBI source would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”
John Pavlovitz rightly compares the (selective) outrage many Republicans are now expressing at Kristi Noem's braggadocious story about shooting a dog and a goat with the meh, thoughts-and-prayers response of these same folks to yet another school shooting.
"The cognitive dissonance required to rightly rail against the assassination of a puppy, while simultaneously ignoring or explaining away the nearly daily mass shootings of mothers, spouses, brothers, children, and best friends here is a sick marvel to behold."
@GottaLaff I feel like this bill is a half measure. Don't just arm the teachers, arm the students, too! And the guidance counselors, obviously. And the janitors. Heck, arm the crossing guards while you're at it. And not just handguns, either; to keep our schools safe, we need fully automatic weapons in every classroom. And school principals should have access to rocket-propelled grenades. You know, for the kids.
@GottaLaff
Yes, our GOP supermajority controlled legislature in Tennessee is super awful, but I want to point out that with the help of a few great journalists and a lot of grassroots activists that we were just able to stop their attempted theft of public school money with the latest DeVos private school voucher scheme here.
Just wanted to post some hopeful news to go along with this sad news about the gun industry winning another round.
"I believe that to minimize mass shootings, we must move the question of the gender of the shooter from the periphery to the center of a long overdue national conversation."
"Change how we talk about the issue. That means refusing to speak out against generic 'gun violence.' Until we’re willing to say, men’s gun violence, we’ll continue to miss the mark, falling short of any campaign to prevent mass shootings."
Going to try creating a sci-fi gun in MagicaCSG. I'm not very experienced in detailed hard-surface modeling, so it's going to be an interesting challenge.
Disclaimer: I hate real-life guns. My sci-fi gun will emit a peace beam. ✌️😉
I don't know yet which direction this will go, but I notice more and more that adding details is a fine balance between "No, this doesn't work" and "Yeah, I like it!" 🙂
RW Media hosts (like #Hannity) are pushing #RFKJr HARD as a "Liberal Hero" who "champions the 'nutty' #liberal causes the Far Left adores" in hopes of him siphoning votes away from #Biden.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has told us – US, not herself, if you can imagine – that we all need to repent and her god, who's aching to hurt someone Marjorie dislikes, is unleashing earthquakes and eclipses to warn us of the wrath that's coming for us (not for Marjorie) if we (not Marjorie) don't repent.
"Greene’s name should never be uttered on television or published online or in paper without a link to the video of her harassing David Hogg, a teen survivor of the Valentine’s Day 2018 school shooting that killed 17 people. In the video, Greene, carrying a large beige tote bag and a single-use plastic bottle of water, is stalking Hogg on a sidewalk near Capitol Hill, where he was lobbying for gun reforms in March 2019. Here is the video."
"Think about this: A congresswoman got her start in politics harassing a teenager, and not just any teenager, but the traumatized survivor of a school shooting. She accused him of being funded by George Soros. She called him 'a coward.' She even warned him that she had her own gun in her purse.
(See link below to the video Burleigh is referencing.)
Little Bruce Smith was the last of the great gangsters. Back when they really knew how to do it. When guys were guy and dolls were dolls.
Sure times were changing. Sure no one had talked like that for thirty years, but damn it, if the age of the fedora was coming to an end, Joe would get one last great heist.
He assembled his crew. The was Slick Bruce, Fast Bruce, Bruce Blue Eye, Bruce, and New Bruce. The operation was going to take crackerjack timing. They planned the heist for days.
They were ready.
They burst into the lobby of the S&L and were stunned to find the lobby empty.
“What the hell!” Bruce exclaimed.
“Exactly,” came the deep, rumbling voice of Satan.
The crew stood in shock and fear as an angelic voice floated into the room, “You thought you could steal from us?” asked Lucifer.
Bruce stammered, “S&L?”
Satan and Lucifer replied in unison, “Welcome to hell.”
@VisualInspiration
The gang planned this heist for months. It was going to be their last. With less people using actual money every day, robbing banks wasn't a good business anymore. This was going to be their last gig and it would be memorable. They'd give the police a reason to purse them up to the end of their lives. For the first time in their careers they'll use real ammunition. And they'll left a trail of blood, from here to Texas, and beyond. "Okay, 3, 2, 1, let's jam" #WritingPrompt
Pointing to a tweet Ohio right-wing Senate candidate Josh Mandel has just made featuring a MAGA hat and a gun, Ruth Ben-Ghiat writes,
"Perhaps it was always going to come down to this. A MAGA hat and a gun. Two emblems of Trumpism, a movement fueled by capitalist glamour and thuggery, the former providing cover for the latter, as in this tableau."
"Communities around the U.S. have seen shootings carried out with weapons converted to fully automatic in recent years, fueled by a staggering increase in small pieces of metal or plastic made with a 3D printer or ordered online."
