Charles Pierce re: Today's Shooting

[kpete]

@CharlesPPierce
The NRA argument boils down to a belief that massacres are part of the price of constitutional liberty.
This implies that the Founders were all psychopaths.

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[LW1977]

1. K&R

Spot F’ing on!

[mcar]

2. Yep

[dhill926]

3. so right, it hurts......

[Takket]

4. an assumtion supported by literally zero real life examples out in the world.

[AmericanActivist]

5. "Our problems are man made, therefore they can be solved by man." JFK nm

[dchill]

6. Founders were not all psychopaths, of course...

But a sizeable portion of the Republican Party is.

[Upthevibe]

7. Kick...n/t

[BigmanPigman]

8. This song has been in my head all day...

Actually it has been in my mind even before it was written (ever since I could legally vote for the first time and voted I for Carter). Reagun won.

[Gabi Hayes]

20. Haaaaaaa. I post that song more than anything I ever link! Never seen this great version

Nobody ever responds

Sad!

They are beyond rehabilitation

Incarceration is the only solution, STS

[world wide wally]

9. And that they aren't

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. Fuck the NRA!

[Botany]

11. It's the guns

End of story

[rockfordfile]

12. It's the fault of the Republican Gov and Republican AG of Florida

The Sheriff of Broward County, Republican AG, and the Gov Rick Scott are idiots. They are at fault for this tragedy. The NRA and Trump are at fault. The "press conference" was just bs. Republican AG on the TV wearing a cross? The NRA has giving to both.

[bagimin]

13. Is it asking too much

to ban these fucking automatic weapons?
How many massacres is enough for the NRA?
Doesn't anybody have a conscience?

[TNNurse]

14. Don't you want to look Wayne LaPierre in the face

and ask him how many dead children is too many?? Does he have children or grandchildren? I do not want anything to happen to them. But if it did, if they were shot, I would have no trouble telling him he shared the blame.

[Old Enough 2]

15. Why Kid Our Selves the NRA are BIZ-MEN Money Whores

The NRA are lobbyist paid by domestic and international gun manufacturers. Their mission, sell guns, sell more guns, keep the money rolling in! Watch gun sales over the next week or so.....bet the number of murderous weapon sales increases at a prodigious rate.
These bastards thrive on notoriety; mass killings are their bread and butter, morality be damned. The GOP spreads its collective legs to receive an infusion of filthy NRA money, they are an immoral cancer on decency.

[Olafjoy]

16. Where have all the students gone?

Killed by gunmen every one
When will we ever learn?
Best statement I heard today: “The second amendment has become a suicide pact for America”
I sent my son to school with a bulletproof insert in his backpack. They recommended a training video that demonstrated how to run away while lifting the backpack keeping the head and heart area covered.
Tactical evasion skills, spelling words, multiplication tables, and the alphabet. Important school things you go over with your children.

[colsohlibgal]

17. Enough Is Enough

Australia had a mass shooting years ago and they did something about it. So now they do not have the problem we have, because of the republicans and the NRA. It’s sickening.

I see the NRA as a terrorist organization at this point, they, and the gutless politicians who run interference for them, have blood all over their hands.

And oh, where were the good guys with guns?

The 2nd Amendment was written well over 200 years ago in a different country, it should not mean that in 2018 every mental defective should arm themselves to the teeth.

How long, how long, how many more kids blown away will it take?

[Mountain Mule]

18. Government of the psychopaths for the psychopathic pursuit of money

Congress has become bought and sold by monied special interest groups. God damn the NRA to the darkest circle of hell and all its followers along with it!

[Gabi Hayes]

19. Anybody who owned slaves WAS a psychopath. Fuck the temporal context. Would auschwitz have

ever been acceptable, “given the times?”

What a moral load

[Hekate]

21. Kick and Rec for Chaz Pierce

[pansypoo53219]

22. 2nd amendment says WELL REGULATED.

[duforsure]

23. Good comment Charlie

They can no longer hide behind the Constitution to justify these mass murders any longer for any reason. Voting them out to protect our children is the only way things will get better. Sensible guns laws aren't stepping on anyone's rights, like they want to claim, its killing innocent people and kids. Talk is cheap from these people, they lie a lot too. We'll probably start hearing republican/russians say more people need to be in schools carrying guns.

[Pepsidog]

24. Yea and even an attempted massacre of Republican congressmen didnt make them reconsider gun

laws. Does anyone think that another 17 students brutally gunned down while in class will have any affect on Republicans? Hell a shooter last summer tried to take out Republicans while practicing for a softball game. These sociopaths could care less about more dead kids. Watch the brutal videos taken by the students. The sound of the gun shots is terrifying and allows us in the public to experience a fraction of the fear those kids must have suffered. Those videos of the gun shots and the kids screaming should be played over and over again by Democrats on the House and Senate floor and a demand for action. Shame on you Republicans. Shame on you NRA. Shame, shame,shame