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(3,194 posts)msongs
(67,413 posts)DFW
(54,403 posts)And dare not say.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Bette's tweet: 27,600 likes; 9,564 people are talking about it
McTurtle's tweet: 849 likes; 5,446 people are talking about it (and I'm guessing 90% of those are Putin's bots).
Go to Hell, old man!
edit: corrected Bette's likes upward by 300!
OhNo-Really
(3,985 posts)".....In November 1993, the proposed legislation passed the U.S. Senate. The bill's author, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and other advocates said that it was a weakened version of the original proposal.[7] In May 1994, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan, wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of banning "semi-automatic assault guns". They cited a 1993 CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll that found 77 percent of Americans supported a ban on the manufacture, sale
Efforts to create restrictions on "assault weapons" at the federal government level intensified in 1989 after 34 children and a teacher were shot and five children killed in Stockton, Calif. with a semi-automatic AK-47 rifle.[1][2][3] The Luby's shooting in October 1991, which left 23 people dead and 27 wounded, was another factor.[4] The July 1993 101 California Street shooting also contributed to passage of the ban. The shooter killed eight people and wounded six. Two of the three firearms he used were TEC-9 semi-automatic handguns with Hellfire triggers.[5] The ban tried to address public concerns about mass shootings by restricting firearms that met the criteria for what it defined as a "semiautomatic assault weapon", as well as magazines that met the criteria for what it defined as a "large capacity ammunition feeding device....."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban
dlk
(11,567 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)Let the impishly ignorant turtle have it!
logosoco
(3,208 posts)And Bette is right on with the part about the money. It is ALLLLLLL about the money with these f*(^#^s!
LAS14
(13,783 posts)Cha
(297,277 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)about ten years ago in Las Vegas. Her presentation included high praise for both Obama and Reid. She's a solid Democrat.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)I think we can all agree that McConnell can go fuck himself along with the entire GOP forever and for always.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Thank you Bette!
malaise
(269,035 posts)quite often
TNLib
(1,819 posts)we are all going to have to get mad and tough with the politicians.
But we need to also get tough with the gun nutters that vote them into office. I've already unfriended one person on FB and have been arguing with my Husband about his gun nut friends. Quite frankly I'm sick of it.
Maybe we need to start putting a stigma on "gun enthusiasts" Next time some gun nut at work starts talking about guns I'm going to my manager and complaining.
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)could take some of the drugs they smuggle down there to help people forget.
mgardener
(1,816 posts)Especially those who offer "prayers".
Faith without works is dead.
James : 2 14-26
I assume that prayers are faith.
These sanctimonious, holy then thou republicans, they are killing our children. And our citizens.
spanone
(135,844 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)That got him right on the chin.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)You actually could find his chin?
keithbvadu2
(36,819 posts)To the gun industry, dead children are acceptable collateral damage for gun industry profits and political donations.
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)That is outstanding!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)rurallib
(62,420 posts)what sanctimonious horseshit.
Hope the planes won't let those Florida congress members on because those prayers they are carrying are so fucking toxic!
Good job, divine Miss M!
Egnever
(21,506 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,176 posts)but she sure let him have it
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Because this is not about safety or sanity, it is about profits.
cp
(6,634 posts)Thank you!
Hassler
(3,379 posts)We need authentic people like Better Midler.
calimary
(81,304 posts)That's a most intriguing idea. I wonder if she's ever considered it?
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)They suck up the money and when the death toll rises, hide behind "thoughts and prayers".
A well-regulated milita doesn't need assault rifles in homes.
We don't need "ghost guns".
We don't need the NRA.
We don't need McConnell and his corrupt comrades.
yardwork
(61,634 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,594 posts)I've seen a lot of shows, I'll never forget how hard I laughed at hers.
She's a national treasure.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)And she is so right...again!
lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)Cons... republicons.
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Demit
(11,238 posts)first responders out of it? I'm seeing this trend of including first responders in the thoughts & prayers statements put out by Republican elected officials, and it makes me uneasy. They're not exactly suffering the trauma the victims' families and the survivors are.
Thank them later, if you must, for doing their jobs. Mentioning them here doesn't belong.
DemoTex
(25,397 posts)"Pray in one hand, shit in the other. See which hand fills up first."
Harry Crews - "The Gospel Singer"
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Maybe he's praying to the wrong god.
betsuni
(25,537 posts)ecstatic
(32,707 posts)disgusting tweets blaming the victims & and tying DACA into it. I felt bad but then I noticed hundreds (thousands?) of tweets saying the exact same thing to him today. tRump and the GOP are so vile. I have zero respect for them at this point.
Lady_Chat
(561 posts)Don't hold back!
pressbox69
(2,252 posts)just increased tenfold.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)niyad
(113,329 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)McConnell puts out his usual vomitous, oily perfectly worded political propaganda and along comes a real human being to force feed his slime back into his mouth.
Thank you dearest Bette!