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Post by bbbearsmom on May 24, 2022 22:53:14 GMT
amyrs, Yes, that is terrible news. We are watching the news now.
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Post by finreporter on May 24, 2022 23:33:01 GMT
Republicans will give us crocodile tears and the usual "thoughts and prayers." The wild west that Abbott fancies he runs doesn't believe in preventing people from shooting up innocent children. Don't take my guns! Protect the unborn! Don't care one iota about the already born!
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Post by DotRen on May 24, 2022 23:58:53 GMT
All these "something needs to be done" - stop saying that and DO something. Politicians, media people, even the sports stars and celebrities that have the clout and $$ to maybe help just pay lip service. Start putting up ideas instead of empty words.
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Post by finreporter on May 25, 2022 1:24:45 GMT
Not sure sports stars and celebrities have any powers to enact laws that the politicians can. A lot of them do speak out on gun violence though. I follow several on instagram who have been vocal on gun reform for years. Since columbine and sandy hook and parkland etc.
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Post by amyrs on May 25, 2022 5:56:00 GMT
Steve KERR was very upset 19 children 2 ar 15s what a horror. The governor spoke and the asked which weapons said he did not know. He did. Beto does at the right time now I think.
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Post by DotRen on May 25, 2022 14:55:34 GMT
finreporter, I'd like to see Bezos and Musk put some of their experts on this. I can imagine with their resources and think tank people they could come up with somehting.
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Post by DotRen on May 25, 2022 15:06:11 GMT
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Post by birdgal on May 25, 2022 15:51:17 GMT
Why? Because he is a two faced coward. Who knows? Maybe some bleeding heart Liberal with a plastic nose and BIG black glasses on his face could be in the crowd with evil on his mind. You know how gun crazy those Libs are.
The first time I heard trump blabbering on about how he was going to run for president, I told my spouse he will never, ever, go away. Never. Ever.
He is one of the worst things, perhaps the absolute worse, to come from my state.
I can not understand how reasonable and sane people, especially women, can support such a thing. Can you?
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Post by lani on May 25, 2022 17:12:34 GMT
How about passing the bill Kerr talked about: HR8? Closes loophole in gun sale background checks, requiring a BGC for all gun sales. Don't need a think tank for that one.
Repubs in Senate won't even allow a vote on it. Our ol' buddy Manchin wants to exempt sales and transfers between "friends and family members". Oh sure, that guy is my friend, so no background check required. Puleeze!
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Post by birdgal on May 25, 2022 17:41:07 GMT
Lani, I don't have any faith in a background check. Especially now that we shouted from the rooftops that's what we are planning to do.
No problem. I'll just have a relative or friend with a clean background pick me up a gun or rifle. Easy peasy.
Our love affair with guns appears to be stronger than our love for our children. Or, better yet, our love affair with money and support from the NRA. Money talks so loud it drowns out the cries, fears, frustration, and hope for any chance that sanity and reason will prevail.
Nope. Not gonna happen. We will continue to babble on about anything and everything until it happens again. What will we do then? More thoughts and prayers of course. Until the next time, and the next, and the next...
We must look like big, foolish jerks to the rest of the world. I can see other countries pointing and laughing at us. Can you?
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Post by finreporter on May 25, 2022 18:53:33 GMT
I saw the pictures of all the victims. I couldn’t even get through it without crying. Those children look like my twins. Just going to school like any other day and Waddleneck McConnell, Abbot, Cruz, Manchin and the countless others who care more about lining their pockets with lobbyists money than the lives of actual human beings have their blood on their hands. I’m sickened and disgusted.
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Post by surfgirl on May 25, 2022 20:37:47 GMT
I saw the pictures of all the victims. I couldn’t even get through it without crying. Those children look like my twins. Just going to school like any other day and Waddleneck McConnell, Abbot, Cruz, Manchin and the countless others who care more about lining their pockets with lobbyists money than the lives of actual human beings have their blood on their hands. I’m sickened and disgusted. Fin, it's not just congresspeople who have blood on their hands. ANYone who votes for any GoP candidate in any state at any level has blood on their hands and has for years now. It's like my moronic uncle (by marriage not blood, thank god for that at least) used to go on about how he votes GoP but he is pro-choice, pro-environment, etc. No, you're not pro those things if you vote GoP nowadays. The GoP has become a fetid cesspool of old/aging/deluded white men and a few crazy white women who want the USA to go back to the 1950's, the 'good old days', which is code for when white folks ruled everything and people of color and women knew their place and kept their mouths shut. I'm so disgusted living here that I think about emigrating elsewhere. Last night on Colbert the NZ Prime Minister was on, what a sane, normal person she is! They fixed the gun issue as soon as they had one massacre. They closed the country as soon as they saw what COVID was doing to other countries. They are normal and sane and pragmatic and they care about others. Here, the GoP only cares about themselves and what money they can grub for as long as they can hold their power. It's so broken that I don't even have an adjective for it at this point.
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Post by finreporter on May 25, 2022 20:48:01 GMT
Surfgirl, you’re exactly right!
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Post by amyrs on May 25, 2022 20:57:58 GMT
I appreciate Beto bargain gin on that awful governor
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Post by lani on May 25, 2022 21:22:17 GMT
I don't have any faith in a background check. I just want One.Fricking.Step. forward. Something, anything.
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