badlatitude
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and another mass shooting
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How many dead kids are you willing to accept. Seems like "All of them"
Warbird answer - no one. They can all die. He keeps his precious.
Sol Rosenberg
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That wouldn't work here. Would the Best Americans be in the streets? Nope. Do the best Americans suffer from the carnage? Nope. Do they benefit from it? Some undoubtedly do.
Does the issue divide the masses? Clearly.
This would just result in large groups of
On another topic from this, now that we have seen the bodycam footage from the police officers who ended this slaughter, those men can never be paid enough for that task. I do not understand why they should have to face a weapon with power that exceeds the capacity of their protective gear to stop it. That will never make sense to me. I have no problem criticizing police who cross the line and do wrong; the flip side of that is acknowledging the professionalism and heroism with which those men protected so many other people. Unreal.
Remington Arms, the nation’s oldest gunmaker, also previously had a major presence in Rockingham County, in neighboring Madison, but began laying off employees at the facility around the end of September 2020 and closed by the end of the year amid bankruptcy filings. Remington manufactured and marketed the AR-15 used in the Sandy Hook massacre and faced criticism and legal ramifications afterward. In February 2022 it settled with families of nine of the Sandy Hook victims for $73 million.
Marty Gingras
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More than usual, events this week outed the worst of the RWNJs here and my ignore list got beefed up. It's nice. Near as I can tell, only V3 and the Aussie chicken guy are left. V3 is darn close and that would be a shame.
badlatitude
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How did the Triangle shirtwaist protest change safety laws?
Suffrage?
The Civil Rights march on Washington that changed civil rights?
The Selma march?
The 1968 bra burning at the Miss America contest?
Did The Stonewall riot help the gay movement?
The Vietnam War protests?
The equal rights amendment marches?
The 1 million people who showed up for nuclear disarmament in Central park?
Did the Watts riots effect change?
Iraq War protests?
And dozens of other protests in U.S. history have forced change upon this country, all it takes is for people to get mad enough about something, and they will take to the streets. I have a feeling we are not far from that now.
badlatitude
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I've had personal conversations with V3 and have found him most likable. He has a pointed head about some subjects, and I'm not too fond of his use of memes to speak for himself, but there are far worse posters out there.
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badlatitude
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March 2, 2018
In the two weeks since the Florida school massacre, state lawmakers around the country have introduced bills to ban bump stocks, ban assault weapons, and expand background checks — and also to arm teachers, lighten penalties for carrying without a permit, and waive handgun permit fees.
If history foretells, the gun-rights bills will have a better chance at success. In the years since Sandy Hook, when 26 were slain in 2012, states have enacted nearly 600 new gun laws, according to data compiled separately by the National Rifle Association and the Giffords Law Center to Reduce Gun Violence.
Nearly two-thirds of those were backed by the NRA.
www.pbs.org
In the two weeks since the Florida school massacre, state lawmakers around the country have introduced bills to ban bump stocks, ban assault weapons, and expand background checks — and also to arm teachers, lighten penalties for carrying without a permit, and waive handgun permit fees.
If history foretells, the gun-rights bills will have a better chance at success. In the years since Sandy Hook, when 26 were slain in 2012, states have enacted nearly 600 new gun laws, according to data compiled separately by the National Rifle Association and the Giffords Law Center to Reduce Gun Violence.
Nearly two-thirds of those were backed by the NRA.
NRA has backed most state gun laws passed since Sandy Hook
In the years since Sandy Hook, when 26 were slain in 2012, states have enacted nearly 600 new gun laws, and nearly two-thirds of those were backed by the National Rifle Association.
www.pbs.org
Sol Rosenberg
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I get it, but those were different times. That was pre Citizens United. Now, the Best Americans can make sure that the Speaker of the House walks past the microphones after a school slaughter without so much as a murmur. This is a profitable wedge issue now, and as to the others, we see many of them popping up again post - Citizens United.
MagentaLine
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Lol... bet you fuckers all wanted the canadian truckers to suck start a 12 gauge a few months ago.
badlatitude
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LOL, yourself. The Canadian truckers didn't have to suck a shotgun; they had very little brainpower of their own in the first place.
d'ranger
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Effectiveness of protests: PBS ran a doc on the Vietnam War protests in the summer and fall of 1969 - hundreds of thousands in DC for weeks and months and in the end it accomplished nothing - Nixon continued the war for years.
BUT: recently released information revealed that Nixon and Kissinger planned to escalate the war including using nukes on the North. The size and length of the protests convinced them that doing so would kill them politically so they backed down. Turns out all those many hours, time and money were valuable more than they could have imagined.
I protested at the NRA in Houston, seemed futile as those attending were either hostile or ignoring us. Won't stop me, I did my little part for Vietnam and will continue as every vote and opinion counts.
BUT: recently released information revealed that Nixon and Kissinger planned to escalate the war including using nukes on the North. The size and length of the protests convinced them that doing so would kill them politically so they backed down. Turns out all those many hours, time and money were valuable more than they could have imagined.
I protested at the NRA in Houston, seemed futile as those attending were either hostile or ignoring us. Won't stop me, I did my little part for Vietnam and will continue as every vote and opinion counts.
badlatitude
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Those are good points, but if America gets mad enough, I really think they can effect change.
Sol Rosenberg
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I hope so. If not, the great experiment is effectively over. We are already at the point where a substantial amount (hopefully less than a plurality) of one party believes that any election which they do not win is fraudulent. We don't have a hell of a lot more wiggle room.
