Wow…. this last week was a doozy. Between the mass shootings, Trump’s visits to El Paso and Dayton, Andrew McCabe suing the FBI and DOJ, and Epstein’s suicide my head is spinning. Throw in the Dem candidates campaigning (still too many of them!) and I wish for some peace right about now. The sign above says it all. The RWNJs said president Obama was going to confiscate all the guns when he was elected. Obviously is was a GOP scare tactic because it never happened. Like this boy above….. I wish he did.
I think Democrats need to start calling AR-15s and these 100 round clips “weapons of mass destruction”. Because that is what they are. When a person can take one of these guns and a 100 round clip and mow down 100s people in minutes, if not seconds, it’s not a gun. It’s meant only for one thing. Killing people. No one needs this firepower unless they are in the military in a war zone. The police don’t even have it. Ironic, since the GOP is so pro-police, but they don’t care if ordinary people have more fire power than them??? So yes, I believe Democrats should start talking this way. Then when the GOPers scream “they want to take away your guns!” we can say “no, we just want the weapons of mass destruction …. you can keep your handgun for protection and your hunting rifle… we just want the killing machines off the streets.”
It can be done. We had a ban on these in the 90s and mass shootings nose dived. Then GW Bush ended the ban and mass shootings went up 200%.
Do not get me started on the violent video games trope being thrown out there…. I’ll just get angry at the stupidity. We’ve all seen that graph of all the industrialized countries with heavy video game usage. We’re the only ones that have the mass shootings through the roof. You know why…. access to guns.
Well, that’s all for now. I’m off my soapbox for today. I sure hope something is done. I’m tired and I’m sure you are too. We have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And we can not do any of this when we live in constant fear of being shot at school, in church, at the movies, at a concert, at a festival, at the mall, at the big box store …… the list sadly goes on.
Hope I wasn’t too much of a downer for a Monday morning and gave you all something to think about.
Here’s some tweets:
I’m kind of getting tired of the “I support Trump, but I’m not a racist!” crowd:
This is really terrifying:
His “suicide” gets fishier and fishier:
Exactly…..
Let’s end with something nice:
So cute!
Let’s chat!