The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

it's been 2 months since the Parkland mass shooting, 6 months since the Las Vegas mass shooting at the country festival, and the 2 year anniversary of the Pulse mass shooting is coming up this June.

the national conversation has been had several times, everyone agrees that something needs to be done, and a few states and localities are starting to make changes. virtually nothing on the national level. is the strategy to just wait for the mid-terms and make it an litmus test issue then?

My guess is that so many national politicians have been burned by the NRA over hte years that getting any of them to make a forthright stand on gun violence is going to require a massive demonstration of strength by gun control advocates, plus some staying power across multiple elections, before incumbents get on board in large numbers.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nra-financial-trouble-706371/

Aw, maybe they shouldn't have spent all that money on that presidential campaign.

4chan nerds are photoshopping David Hogg to look female, calling him Daisy, and then having sexual fantasies about their Daisy Hogg memes. I feel like this is some... new, uncharted form of self-own pic.twitter.com/UkbYERuhan

— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) August 28, 2018

nuke earth

https://jezebel.com/the-story-of-a-gun-1828629575

^ from that article I learned, among other things, that the CEO or Ruger is named Chris Killjoy, which may be taken in several apt senses. Astounding!

of Ruger

how much worse could this guy be? This much worse: https://www.sfgate.com/news/local/crime/article/Controversial-Austin-man-behind-3-D-printed-gun-13241265.php

Worse than whoever runs "sugardaddymeet.com?"

hey let's not quibble about who deserves to fall where on the Dante-levels-of-Hell scale

$500? damn

he escaped to asia, because of course

https://www.statesman.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-austin-man-center-printed-gun-debate-faces-sex-assault-charge/AnteUx5fI7LpNg6yg0Z1JN/

what a scumbag

not that it matters all that much in the scheme of things but why was he charged with sexual assault instead of solicitation or statutory rape?

https://i.imgur.com/JPOEj0z.png
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dammn that's cold work MAD

good for them.

also nice inclusion of the fucking useless metal detector

A kid was shot and killed at school this morning and they’re continuing on with classes like nothing happened. We’re completely desensitized to violence. This is the new normal in America. https://t.co/2pDfxiOwna

— Dylan (@dyllyp) October 29, 2018

fucking awful.

This NYMag piece was tears this morning. I don't know how fix America. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/school-shooting-survivors.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/bump-stocks-ban/index.html

congrats on doing the bare minimum

NRA’s presences is remarkably low-key to absent at #CPAC2019

No Wayne LaPierre — a CPAC mainstay — or Dana Loesch, fixture in recent years. Ollie North spoke earlier, but he has different public image, not so associated w/NRA.

Panel right now on guns, no one from NRA.

— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) February 28, 2019

Laying low, waiting for all the Russian collusion stuff to blow over and be forgotten.

An active-shooter training exercise at an Indiana elementary school in January left teachers with welts, bruises and abrasions after they were shot with plastic pellets by the local sheriff’s office conducting the session.

The incident, acknowledged in testimony this week before state lawmakers, was confirmed by two elementary school teachers in Monticello, who described an exercise in which teachers were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning.

“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” said one of the two teachers, both of whom asked IndyStar not to be identified out of concern for their jobs. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times.

“It hurt so bad.”

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/21/active-shooter-training-for-schools-teachers-shot-with-plastic-pellets/3231103002/

Ban pellet guns.

Ban small town Hoosier law enforcement imo and ime.

A sad tribute to Jeremy Richman, who lost his daughter at Sandy Hook:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/31/sandy-hook-shooting-suicide-parents-fake-news-conspiracy

the statement from his wife... I can't imagine

“My champion and the love of my life is the person who had every tool in the toolbox at his disposal … he succumbed to the grief that he could not escape. To parent our children without my champion shatters my heart and I will love my best friend forever.”

what hurt was reading how much he and his wife suffered every time there was another shooting, and how many people must be in their same shoes. there just isn't any escape with the frequency that shootings occur.

some pig fucking troll was walking around the national mall this weekend wearing a t-shirt that said "MY 30-ROUND MAG IDENTIFIES AS A 10 - I'M OKAY RIGHT?" and I have to live the rest of my days with the knowledge that I didn't spot him soon enough to grab his belt and chuck him into the tidal basin

you all know without my saying that he was bald, white, late 40s, and the shirt was black with white IMPACT lettering

wtf "bald" is this a murderous characteristic

yes obviously it goes right along with everything else I said everyone becomes a twat when they turn 46, lose their melanin and start wearing black t-shirts

there but for the grace of god

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/supreme-court-allows-families-of-sandy-hook-shooting-victims-to-sue-gunmaker-remington/2019/11/12/7f6a3afe-055a-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down an appeal from the gun industry intended to block a lawsuit from families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.
The decision lets stand a groundbreaking ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court that said the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle can be sued and potentially held liable for the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn.

that's very good news. now if we can just luck out so the next few mass shootings are clustered around the same day or two, and at least one of them can involve an especially tragic group of victims, we might start to get some movement on this in congress as well

let's see, maybe an orphanage and a convent would do the trick, but only if the shooters were aiming for the world record.

this is slightly orwellian but slightly.... awesome?

https://www.shotspotter.com/technology/

Apparently this came into play at that party in Chicago.

What an innovative way to deal with the problem of too many guns! Granted, it does nothing to reduce the number of guns or shootings or victims or deaths or wounding, but it sure does solve that other major problem of figuring out where all that gunfire is coming from!

Yes too little too late probably.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/feds-publish-info-on-arizona-lead-contamination-from-shooting-11438893

what a shitty fucking hobby. (there's also the noise pollution. I was out on an otherwise lovely hike by Prescott Saturday, marred only by the near constant sound of gunfire from an unofficial range on public land 5 miles away.)

hmm, interesting. the trump admin should issue a revised rule to exempt Table Mesa from lead contamination regulations. that would make the problem go away

I’m sure this can only turn out well.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/texas-unlicensed-handgun-carry-bill

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/05/california-assault-weapons-ban-overturned/

California’s longtime assault weapon ban overturned

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California said the ban was unconstitutional and warmly praised such firearms: “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.”

get me out of heeeeeeeeeere

the swiss army knife is a perfect combo of "home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment"?? what?! even before the AR-15 is mentioned, what? i have a swiss army knife - it is a perfect combo of NEITHER of those things.

god this country is creepy