OMG!
What just happened with the Abbott news conference!
I just watched Beto stand up approach Abbott and chew him out?
OMG! That was unexpected!!
Did anyone else see : https://sports.yahoo.com/enough-steve-kerr-gives-emotional-004229304.html
I was moved to tears by his truths.
This is not original to me, I am quoting someone on Twitter. "The survivors of the Robb Elementary School massacre will be scarred for life, not because of a book that they read in school or from wearing masks. It's because they saw their classmates' dying from a gunshot wound on the floor of their classroom." So true. I feel for you educators who are trying to make a difference in children's lives while risking your own.
I teach 6th grade, and today I broke down crying thinking about the situation we are currently in. My kids are the cutest and sweetest in the world, and I can’t imagine- like my mind just can’t go there, but tears were flowing thinking about how our society keeps allowing this. Over and over. My hope is that they will be the change.
How many people think that all of the outrage over school shootings will finally change things?
Not me.
Why should Republicans ever stand up to the gun totting fanatics in their ranks? They didn't do it with Sandyhook, so why should young children in Texas mean anything? Already, I am hearing about how Democrats are "politicizing" the issue and that limiting guns will not stop the fanatics, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Honestly, this latest tragedy won't change anything. Why should it? Democrats will try desperately to rally support for some sort of common-sense gun control (ban of assault rifles, age limits and background checks on those who buy guns, etc.). Republicans will simply block it.
Personally, I believe that one of the reasons that Republicans are so "anti-abortion" is because they want a population of people who are so poor and uneducated that they become accustomed to any abuses imposed on them by the wealthy white male patriarchal society. A large population of uneducated and poor girls would make fine targets for them to abuse and rape at their leisure. After all, a poor, uneducated girl is often the best target for these predators to target, because they have the least power and are taught early to believe that any misery inflicted on them is somehow their fault. And frankly, looking at people like Trump, Roy Moore, and Gaetz, some on them simply like them young. But in order to protect their power, they gain the affection of these violent, gun totting domestic terrorists and continue to stir them up to threaten Democrats, but sometimes innocent people are caught in the crossfire because an entire generation has been bred to believe that gun violence is acceptable so long as liberals don't take guns away.
In all honesty, there is only one that the situation in this country will ever change. One, Democrats win a supermajority and destroy the abuses that Republicans have imposed on us for decades. But that won't happen due to the gerrymandering and because Democrats are not willing to use Republican tactics against them. Democrats need to start calling Republicans "baby-shooters" to counter Republicans calling Democrats "baby killers" for so many years. They need to say Republicans are the "Pro-Rape" party as opposed to the "pro-life" party. But Democrats still act civil to those who don't deserve civility. So I don't see this happening.
I wish Democrats would get mean or, at the very least, smart. Democrats can point out that business and property owners have a right to say whether or not they want guns or gun carriers on their property. Courts can do this, so why can't home and business owners do this? What about our rights to live and work in a gun-free zone. You want to keep your guns, then keep them at home! Why do you need to carry them around everywhere? If you want a right to carry a gun outside your home, you should get a license!
ARRRH!!!! Why am I even getting worked up? Nothing is ever going to change. So long as Republicans can go to sleep and cradle their assault rifles with them, what do they care about a million or so dead children?
@allyn I feel you and what you said is salient. I do want to disagree by saying that things will change, we just have to keep working toward it. When I get anxious I keep reminding myself of Jeanne's predictions from years ago that 2028 is when things really settle down. It is a process and I am also frustrated at the pace, but we cannot lose faith in it. That said I also agree we need to fight back more, the other cheek has been turned too much.
@lovendures Wow that was really good. As was the press conference right after. I hope it gets news. The bs on "why are you making it political" when it is political by its very nature is appalling. So yeah that was awesome. Good on him and I hope he wins election.
From Twitter https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1529419158236155905
Some of the NRA $ on the Republican side of the US Senate: (tho I'd like to see Dems as well)
Mitt Romney - $13,647,676
Joni Ernst - $3,124,773
Rob Portman - $3,063,327
Todd Young - $2,897,582
Tom Cotton - $1,968,714
Pat Toomey - $1,475,448
Marsha Blackburn - $1,306,130
MoscowMitch - $1,267,139
@maggieci Congress members with the most contributions from gun rights groups / NRA contributions to Sen Ted Cruz (R) Tx $442k ,Rep.Steve Scalise (R) LA ,$396k, Sen John Cornyn (R)Tx $340k, Sen Lindsey Graham (R) SC 284k, Sen Mitch McConnell (R) Ky 247k , Rep Devin Nunes (R)CA 228k, Sen Ron Johnson (R) WI 223k, Rep Kevin McCarthy (R) CA 220k
This is comprised of Lifetime contributions to members' campaign or leadership PAC for the 117th Congress as of May 25, 2022
I awaken today to learn that the cops waited 40 minutes - 40 minutes - almost an entire class period.
I didn’t think my heart could be in any more pieces but here we are. The “good guys with guns” did not in fact save lives.
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683
Broken. Fractured. Numb. Angry. Terrified. Exhausted. Pick a word - add to the list. I’m all of it.
what is wrong with us?