Tragic to lose both parents a day apart I feel for the 4 kids. Here is the tweet about a gofund me account
Two things can simultaneously true. Besides, many (if not most) Africans were tricked, not taken by force. In both cases, in Africa and in the US, the bad guys had more guns. Conversely, in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, and so far in Ukraine, having more guns wasn't the differentiator. Guns don't solve problems, usually. Guns usually just get you to a result faster, for better or worse (and often worse).
Just thinking if there is any event that could get the Republicans to do something about gun control. “Normal” mass shootings. Nope. Killing elementary school kids. Nope. what is next? What if some deranged lunatic goes into a hospital ward and starts shooting newborns? Republicans will offer thoughts and prayers and nothing more.
There's nothing in the Constitution about the current cloture rules. The modern cloture process was created in the 1970s. The founders have nothing to do with this. The founders imagined a system of checks and balances between the executive, the two houses and the judiciary. Frankly until relatively recently, cloture wasn't really used all that often. So a gun control bill could get to the floor and have a normal vote. Since 2008, the Republicans started a process of invoking cloture on every vote. So how does that have anything to do with the founders? And as for Trump having "full control" of everything, sure they might've passed some bad things but the flip side is that the current Congress could pass lots of legislation as well. This all works both ways. Only the US has this dumb system where a near supermajority is required to pass legislation in one of the houses because the Republicans decided to abuse the cloture rules.
I have no idea what cloture has to do with any of this. No it does not all work both ways, there is no guarantee congress changes hands and on party can start passing laws to make sure it gets harder and harder to get them out of power. This dumb system has worked pretty well over 200 years until Republicans started playing a zero sum game and ignoring all precedents and good faith. You are really looking at this from a surface level.
I doubt it. Guns are not their ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to cease control of the Federal government and remake it in their image, namely one of white supremacy. Guns are simply a tool, both literally and figuratively. If you look at the Republican set of principles, it changes over the years and decades. For example, Republicans supported abortion back in the 70s. There are only two principles that have remained consistent over the past 250 years, white supremacy and limited federal government. And it's easy to argue that limited federal government enables their sense of white supremacy. Said another way, it's hard to separate those two principles. A sub-bullet of the limited federal government principle is the sense of "don't tread on me" or what's mine is mine. (That is until I've lost mine, only then does the word fairness come back into play.) Democrats root principle is "all men are created equal" and otherwise everybody deserves a fair shot. /tangent
Heart wrenching. What these families all go through is heart wrenching. I am still without words to think how utterly heartless anyone must be to even think about going to that NRA convention after this. Those heartless greedy men who What hasn't been well thought out is the stupid ass NRA money loving stupid ass laws in this state. Why in the hell does anyone have the right to purchase a gun 3 years before being deemed old enough to drink a can of beer? Why is anyone able to purchase an an AR-15 without proof of knowing how to use it properly? Why is their no mandatory training, licensing, and insurance requirements? Why can anyone legally shoot a gun while drinking? The list goes on and on and on and on. I will never agree with you and your heartless, greedy NRA money Republicans. Never! It takes hearts of stone for Trump, Abbott, and Cruz to attend that NRA convention this weekend. They have no decency, no remorse. or care for anyone but themselves and their power. They all disgust me beyond words.
Cars You have to have a license Some training/pass a proficiency test Have car insurance. You use them in improper ways you get fined or imprisoned. Yea...can we treat guns like that?? Rocket River Did you know if you lend someone your car or even if your car is stolen. You might still be liable in some cases.
Honestly to god..... there are people alive today because someone left their gun at home And it was too much trouble to go get it Rocket River
the dumb system resulted in a civil war not 100 years from starting and basically a second "shadow" system for blacks after it for 100 years, and even then it didn't work that well. Now it's basically totally broken and you get openly malignant actors like Trumpr were even the "respectiable" ones end up reinforces pro-school shooting policies in the courts and in the legislatures. The system is broken, counterfactuals about "what if it was worse" don't hold much weight when things are this bad.
