Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

After Parkland, @SenRickScott & a GOP-led state leg-- not usually candidates for a profile in courage award-- passed a red flag law + raised the age of purchase to 21. Nobody paid a price. A more instructive case study for Dems than ballot initiatives. https://t.co/DQDihLnCQE

— Carlos Odio (@carlosodio) May 25, 2022

xp I had the same thought tbh

I might be wrong but I think the man swearing about not making this political is the mayor of Uvalde, a past Tucker Carlson guest: https://www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/mayor-returns-to-national-tv-to-decry-illegal-immigration/

earth was a mistake.

sorry i'm so incensed by this i forgot to make that a link.

earth was a mistake.

suddenly, i remembered the existence of the 1994 tv show Earth 2

xp

That’s a real Boss Hogg-style line reading on “You’re a sick son of a bitch.” It’s going to stick with me.

quick question, why does Abbott wear lone ranger style shirts all the time? I didn't realize there was a gubernatorial uniform

I recognize that flavor of angry white upstanding citizen energy, and it makes my blood run cold. Impressed by Beto, who surely realized there was a very good chance he'd get his ass kicked or get shot by doing that.

I'm glad he ruined their fake ass solemn photo-op

Good on Beto. Harness that anger.

These poor guys can't even sit on a stage covered in child blood without some Antifa dude attacking them

yeah "wackadoo no respect for authority-having loose cannon left" take 3. . 2. .

it's all basically theater and sports teams, right?

not to dump on you, pk. sorry.

just blurting out frustrations.

it was nice to see Beto do this, these assholes deserve direct confrontation. I hope people in Texas are taking note.

Wish he had an IED strapped to him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muo5o2xeq0w

CA Gov Newsom is saying that his TX-style civil enforcement of assault weapon crimes will definitely survive SCOTUS scrutiny, because they upheld the TX law and there's just no way this court could be that inconsistent and disingenuous

I mean, Newsom is an idiot, to be fair.

As in, I think he has the right idea about guns, sure, but if he still holds out hope for the SC, uh…

oh my god

Amerie Jo Garza, 10

She was killed in her Texas school hours after this photo was taken pic.twitter.com/PLHXzmUGT7

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) May 25, 2022

It breaks your heart into shards.

Signed by her late teacher... jesus

teacher(s)

that just hits me in a way words never could. :(

A lot of the pictures today have been punches in the gut, especially with a 10 year old in the house.

Robb Elementary teaches second through fourth grades and had 535 students in the 2020-21 school year, according to state data. About 90% of students are Hispanic and about 81% are economically disadvantaged, the data shows. Thursday was set to be the last day of school before the summer break.

unverifiable accounts of requiring parents to provide dna swabs because some of the children's bodies were so maimed unidentifiable by bullets.

remove "so"

Curt responses to Cruz's 'arm the teachers' remarks:

"Fuck you Ted Cruz you care about a fetus but you will let our children get slaughtered. Just get your ass to Cancun. You are useless," tweeted Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, in response to the "politicize it" remark.

Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota posted: "I'm a gun owner. Do not tell me our Founders conceived of this carnage when they wrote the Constitution.

"Do not tell me they would have tolerated this madness. Do not tell me that teachers must be armed. And do not tell me your AR-15 is worth more than another 14 children's lives," he wrote, before the death toll at Uvalde rose..

i bet ted is feeling really and right now, coming to terms with what he said, what he needs to do repair the damage to the trust he had with his constituents

another long night of the soul for ted cruz

Sam, 20, started posting photos to build confidence after she transitioned. Yesterday, those photos were used against her trolls falsely claimed she was the Uvalde Texas shooter. She spoke to NBC News in an article from me, @JoYurcaba and @oneunderscore__ https://t.co/sD8VOwqgcH

— Benjamin Goggin (@BenjaminGoggin) May 25, 2022

whenever I see Ted, I'm forever reminded of the simpleton manchild from the original Mad Max:

https://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/F/5468.jpg

It forever hurts my soul that I share a nickname with Cruz.

can’t believe you let people call you lyin’ ted

or weaselface

table is the Zodiac too?!?!?

"biggest assface in Texas" is a weird nickname for somebody in Philly but whatever

Flyin' Ted

Texas Public Radio reporter on "All Things Considered" just now, saying Texas in ln last place (among states) in providing mental health care, "rural areas are especially bad."
As for arming teachers, I know somebody who did background checks for a state education dept., can tell you about a lot of crazy teachers, esp. from Florida--they tend to move around, since there's a teacher shortage in a lot of states, background checkers apparently not always as picky as my friend.

gonna be a lot easier for these godless teachers to indoctrinate our precious angels with a gun in hand I tell you what

xp

Beto making that exact point here

After getting booted, Beto went outside and kept going pic.twitter.com/2gCystHOr7

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 25, 2022

Nothing safer than having a dozen unsecured handguns floating around the school, what could go wrong

weird how the good guys with guns didn't stop the shooting. almost as if it's years too late to stop a shooting if you wait until the shooter is on your doorstep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHQhQnJcqA

they'll shoot unarmed people when they feel threatened, won't shoot armed people when hundreds of people are actually threatened

so glad that the only two things were allowed to spend public funds on are the two most useless institutions filled with the dumbest people this country ever produced

I get the 'fog of war' angle, etc., but that video pretty much sinks the 'good guy with a gun' thing, at least in this case. If armed law enforcement agents are reluctant to rush in, why should the PE coach?

this was the Beto clip that got to me

Good for @BetoORourke

pic.twitter.com/Ld75IawG5X

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 25, 2022

Latest rumor is the cops went in to get their own kids before helping take down shooter

pls no rumors, pls