When Politics defies logic
The current epidemic of avoidable gun fatalities in the USA is set to worsen, as Alan Austin reports.
Tag: Gun Control
Washington: In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defence, a ruling likely to lead to more people legally armed in cities and beyond. The ruling on Thursday (US time) came with recent mass shootings fresh in the nation’s mind and gun control being debated in Congress and states.
About a quarter of the US population lives in states expected to be affected by the ruling, which struck down a New York gun law. The high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade came on a 6-3 split with the court’s conservatives in the majority and liberals in dissent.
Source: Gun rights expanded in US after Supreme Court overturns NY handgun law
Does this make any sense?
While 88% of Americans want Strict Gun Control Fox News and Murdoch Media to speak and broadcast to less than the 12% to insure the 88% aren’t heard. Who is paying? The corporate gun manufacturers behind the NRA
“Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job and keep us safe from gun violence.”
Source: At March for Our Lives, A Call for a Nationwide Strike of Schools
Would this political moron have been Morrison’s LNP captain’s pick In Australia’s election 2022? Would Murdoch be running her gun campaign here?
In a chaotic, but absolutely riveting, Twitter rant Tuesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s proposed gun laws could result in a Russian invasion.
Source: Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Justin Trudeau’s Gun Laws Invite Russian Invasion
The MAGA promise
21 are dead in another mass shooting, including 19 schoolchildren. The white slavers of the Old South used to call US slavery our “peculiar institution.” Nowadays we have another peculiar institution, the gun culture.
Source: When it comes to Guns, the US is a Third World Country run by Corporate Lobbyists for a Profit
At least four major shootings took place this past weekend, leaving dozens injured and thirteen dead in four cities across the country.
Source: Americans reeling after major shootings rock 4 U.S. cities in 1 weekend | Salon.com
Biden called on lawmakers in the House and Senate to pass new gun reform measures in brief remarks Tuesday morning following a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado Monday that claimed 10 lives. The shooting took place a week after a separate shooting in Atlanta killed 8 people.
Biden Calls on Senate to Immediately Pass Gun Reform Laws in Wake of Mass Shootings – Mother Jones
The shooting happened weeks after police in northern California killed Stephon Clark, an unarmed father who was standing in his family’s back yard. Though Yarber’s killing has not prompted massive rallies, both shootings have shone a harsh light on the way police continue to aggressively use lethal force in black communities, even in a liberal state where the Black Lives Matter movement has long protested against police violence and racism.
What is remarkable is mass shootings in the United States are no longer truly shocking. Sadly, they have become as commonplace as the platitudes rolled out by the politicians who aren’t acting on gun control.
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