The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

Hmm. Maybe these kids who are mostly under the voting age, instead of organizing enormous rallies to effect change, should employ these guns you champion so mindlessly and deal with some problems. How about that, you massive fucking fecal spray?

They took action to ask someone to pass a law," Santorum said.

this is literally democracy you dipshit

Former GOP representative in failing to understand how representative government works shocker.

CPR rilly rilly helpful for gunshot wounds I guess

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/0n0B1F1k0u2J2n380Q26/my%20gun%20smells%20like%20cat%20food.jpg

There are worse people to have opening your Overton window:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/27/17167700/john-paul-stevens-second-amendment

would love to hear more and more of this

As the debate over arming teachers in schools reverberates across the country, Kansas is doubling down on the idea.

A new bill would not only authorize the arming of Kansas school staff, it would hold schools responsible if a shooting were to occur and the teachers and staff present were not allowed to be armed.
Here's the exact wording from House Bill 2789:

"In any action against a unified school district arising out of acts or omissions regarding the possession or use of firearms on the premises of such school district, there shall be a rebuttable presumption of negligence on the part of such school district when it is shown by evidence that such school district did not authorize any employee of such school district, other than school security officers, to carry concealed handguns..."

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/28/us/kansas-house-bill-arming-teachers-school-shooting-trnd/index.html

I'm pretty sure the verbiage quoted there would net you a psych eval if you said it aloud.

I mean just what the raging fuck.

Fucking christ

a good way to help schools that just suffered a gun attack would be to punish them somehow, sure

The Vermont House has passed a bill to make background checks mandatory for all gun sales, ban high-capacity magazines, ban bump stocks, and raise the purchase age for rifles to 21; GOP Gov. Phil Scott, a gun owner, says he'll sign it: https://t.co/F8t4Px5V28

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 29, 2018

Nice!

The NRA will likely challenge it in federal court as unconstitutional, at least in part, but that's to be expected these days.

way to put a bullseye on yourself for tyrants, Vermont!

I swear if I see a single more "Actually, Bank of America is good now #welcometotheresistance" post/tweet/whatever I am going to burn down a building or something.

Very excited to share this project: "The Gun Studies Syllabus," which I created with the wonderful Caroline Light.

Gun Studies Syllabus https://t.co/pFRYghk0e8 via @publicbooks

— Lindsay Livingston (@lindsayli) April 12, 2018

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
https://i.imgur.com/faHvgSF.png
https://i.imgur.com/dMIS3rj.png
https://i.imgur.com/t23jKEZ.png

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