Archive for the ‘Guns & Violence’ Category
CALLING ALL CANDIDATES: Solving the Gun Crisis (part 3). Repeat: TAX GUNPOWDER.
The Constitution confers the right to a gun, but NOT an uninterrupted supply of cheap ammunition. The solution? TAX GUNPOWDER.
August 12, 2019
Posted in: Crime, Election, Guns & Violence, Party of Life, Politics, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me, Taxes, Unconstitutional
The Path to Hell: Trump Proposes Right Ideas in Worst Possible Way Making Things Worse
Be it tariffs without regard for country or origin, agreeing to talk to North Korea after threatening us with nukes, Gun Control that results in MORE guns in our schools, or an infrastructure plan that decimates our infrastructure, Trump has an uncanny ability to turn good intentions into disasters.
March 12, 2018
Posted in: Economy, General, Guns & Violence, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Jobs, Money, myth busting, Partisanship, Rants, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me, War
Listening to Gun-Rights Advocates Reveals Why They Oppose Denying Guns from the Mentally Ill
There is something seriously wrong when we allow paranoid “gun nuts” who think The Government is out to get them and believe starting a firefight in a classroom is a good idea, to set the nation’s Gun Policy.
February 26, 2018
Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, Party of Life, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me
“Now Is Not the Time to Talk About Guns.” Yes. Yes it is.
After every mass shooting, the Republicans say ‘Now is not the time to talk about guns’, a shamefully effective means of shutting down the debate. Weeks pass, nothing gets done, the urgency wanes, then the next mass shooting. Rinse/Repeat.
February 19, 2018
Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, National Security, Party of Life, Right-Wing Insanity
Discussion we’re having on sexual assault is the discussion we should of had about guns
“Why does this keep happening and what are we going to do about it?” Another mass shooting? No. Another man in power accused of sexual misconduct.
November 20, 2017
Tags: Anthony Weiner, Bill Cosby, guns, Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, rape, Roy Moore, sexual assaul · Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, mystery, Partisanship, Party of Life, Politics, Rants, Religion, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Scandals
Yet another mass shooting. 27 dead in a Texas Church. Conservatives send prayers, oblivious to irony
Time to get serious about gun control. If “thoughts & prayers” were enough of a response to every mass shooting, a church would be the safest place to be.
November 6, 2017
Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, Party of Life, Rants, Religion, Right-Wing Insanity
Self-Proclaimed Protectors of America Hold Everything it Stands for in Contempt.
One of the great ironies in this nation is that the people who claim to love it the most are the same people with the most contempt for it.
October 16, 2017
Tags: big business, Fascism, Fascists, flag waving, greed, guns, hate the poor, immigrants, love the rich, money, patriotism, power, rednecks, religion, second amendment, the poor · Posted in: Civil Rights, General, Guns & Violence, Healthcare, Immigration Reform, Money, mystery, myth busting, Partisanship, Racism, Rants, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me
Can’t ban guns? Try taxing gunpowder.
Any attempt to ban guns is an exercise in futility. Time to think more creatively.
October 9, 2017
Tags: assault weapons, ban, banned, bump stock, guns, Las Vegas, Newtown, shooter, shooting, slide fire · Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, Partisanship, Party of Life, rewriting history, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me, Taxes, Terrorism, Unconstitutional
The Subtle “Implied Racism” of Trump’s Presidency
Donald Trump’s entire rise to the presidency has been bore on the backs of racism. His remarks following the Charlottesville murders is but the latest example of a history of reluctance to condemn racism.
August 14, 2017
Posted in: Civil Rights, Crime, Guns & Violence, Racism, Right-wing Facism, Terrorism
Tell me how More Guns would have prevented crossfire shooting death of Wade’s cousin?
Over the weekend, Donald Trump was rightly excoriated for politicizing the death of Nykea Aldridge, cousin of Chicago Bulls superstar Dwyane Wade, after tweeting (natch) that such incidents would win him the African-American vote. Now, Trump rightly deserves condemnation for politicizing Aldridge’s death (and no, I’m not doing the same. I’m attributing no benefit/harm from this […]
August 29, 2016
Posted in: Crime, Election, Guns & Violence, myth busting, Racism, Right-Wing Hypocrisy, Right-Wing Insanity
Dallas and The Slippery Slope of Allowing Police to Play Executioner
Last week was another tragic week following the deaths of two black men at the hands of police under dubious circumstances and five police officers in Dallas by a disturbed black man using a #BlackLivesMatter protest as cover. But just as disturbing was the method used to “stop” the Dallas shooter… not “capture”, “arrest” or “subdue”, […]
July 11, 2016
Posted in: Civil Rights, Crime, Guns & Violence, Racism, Unconstitutional
Pro-Gun Supporters ALREADY Told Us They Don’t Need an Assault Weapon to Stop One
“If *I* had been in that (latest mass shooting location), *I* could have taken that guy out!” You’ve heard them too I’ll bet. Those chest-beating low-brow far Right gun nuts telling us how if THEY had been there with THEY would have taken their newly modified guns with the best upper parts for AR-15 rifles when […]
June 13, 2016
Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, myth busting, Right-Wing Insanity, Seems Obvious to Me, Terrorism