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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Mon May 16, 2022, 10:50 PM May 2022

After the first-graders were slaughtered, after the Congresswoman was shot in her forehead at [View all]

point-blank range, after the klansmen wannabe murdered the people who had just prayed with him, after we learned what "bump-stocks" were when the Vegas madman sprayed death down on dozens, ----------------after each one of these and literally countless other senseless atrocities, we thought "Surely, this will do it! Surely this will be the tragedy that compels our government to protect us with stricter gun laws!"

After Buffalo, ---------------------------------------------------sigh-------.

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After the first-graders were slaughtered, after the Congresswoman was shot in her forehead at [View all] Atticus May 2022 OP

Columbine shocked me. CrackityJones75 May 2022 #1

What Alex Jones and his goons did to the Sandy Hook parents is unforgiveable. Initech May 2022 #9

Agreed. CrackityJones75 May 2022 #13

He's been charged with a crime? MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #40

More thoughts and prayers from the GQP! Ziggysmom May 2022 #2

Heck, a Republican Congressman got shot, and still nothing. I bet Hoyt May 2022 #3

Madness... Bluethroughu May 2022 #4

If Sandy Hook wasn't enough to effect real change... TDale313 May 2022 #5

It won't happen until one of THEM is cut down in the street. Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #6

It's already happened. Act_of_Reparation May 2022 #18

Yup, they just double down each time, claiming more guns to shoot back would have stopped it Amishman May 2022 #21

Oh, PULEEEEZE. Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #25

Scalise wasn't "nicked." Jedi Guy May 2022 #26

He LIVED didn't he ? Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #27

Yes, he did. Jedi Guy May 2022 #28

My point was that comparing what happened to Scalise Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #31

Your point is irrelevant when you're using a demonstrable falsehood to make it. Jedi Guy May 2022 #33

Let me try to explain this to you one last time. Haggis 4 Breakfast May 2022 #34

Again, Scalise wasn't "nicked," your assertion to the contrary notwithstanding. Jedi Guy May 2022 #35

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"Are you visually impaired as well ?" Jedi Guy May 2022 #37

It's really hard for some to admit they were wrong isn't it? MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #41

Yes. "It" happens to Republican supporters as well, Hortensis May 2022 #43

+100. MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #44

Conservative's one of the two big personality types, after all; Hortensis May 2022 #51

Evidently, yes. Jedi Guy May 2022 #52

You are saying Scalise deserved to be shot because you don't like his ideas? alphafemale May 2022 #45

Jesus Dorian Gray May 2022 #48

I didn't compare the outcomes. Act_of_Reparation May 2022 #39

It's hard to tell Dorian Gray May 2022 #49

I still remember the quote, "My 2nd Amendment trumps your dead kid." 3Hotdogs May 2022 #7

I believe the true arsenal against the Second Amendment is unfettered use of the First . . . Journeyman May 2022 #8

I agree Leith May 2022 #10

Matthew Brady and Alexander Gardner were censored when they took pictures . . . Journeyman May 2022 #12

This! (Leith's post) Boxerfan May 2022 #24

There was Buffalo and on the same weekend lees1975 May 2022 #11

and then protestors showed up onethatcares May 2022 #14

US is a nation that loves death and violence dwayneb May 2022 #15

So "Die Hard" is part of a plot to establish a police state? Dial H For Hero May 2022 #16

Cool story, bro. Act_of_Reparation May 2022 #19

As someone with a Master's in media studies, Cuthbert Allgood May 2022 #20

Our national religion is the High Church of Redemptive Violence gratuitous May 2022 #32

Wow!!!! MarineCombatEngineer May 2022 #42

Sandy Hook cemented that there will never be change Johnny2X2X May 2022 #17

Absolutely correct. beaglelover May 2022 #30

Sadly Dorian Gray May 2022 #50

Perhaps when a black man shoots up a white church? BWdem4life May 2022 #22

Remember when Dannemeyer read gay sex practices into the congressional record? dickthegrouch May 2022 #23

Republicans are against gun control even though... BlueCheeseAgain May 2022 #29

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Don't urge this type of violence here. alphafemale May 2022 #47

rightwing radio nuts: "boys need fathers", "they took religion out of the schools" Demovictory9 May 2022 #46

Nothing will ever do it in the US, ever Meowmee May 2022 #53