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Botany

(70,502 posts)
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 08:35 AM Mar 2021

Why do so many Americans have to die needlessly?

Guns & Republicans.

Our gun laws are insane and because of Trump and the Republicans who let Russia install him
we are closing in on 30,000,000 case of C-19 and 550,000 deaths from C-19.

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Botany

(70,502 posts)
3. Sometimes "the madness" is too much for me.
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 08:45 AM
Mar 2021

I have hunted and owned guns for years, our gun laws are crazy, and "their" misreading of the
2nd amendment is twisted and if HRC hadn't had the Presidency stolen from her the world wide
C-19 global pandemic would not have happened. Under President Obama we had a total of 2
deaths from ebola.

rampartc

(5,407 posts)
6. we may have had a few coronavirus cases if sec clinton fad been elected
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 11:30 AM
Mar 2021

but if 5 amereicans had died of covid the hearings would still be going on.

i am a gun owner, and i certainly would not mind safety classes and licensing requirements as a minimum. "red flag" laws seem like common sense as well.

"they" will not be happy unless they can buy fully automatic firearms at the convenience store near the school.

Botany

(70,502 posts)
7. Under Obama we had a total of 2 people who died of Ebola.
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 11:54 AM
Mar 2021

President Obama left the people, the protocols, and the materials in place to deal with a
future pandemic but Trump fired the people, throw away the protocols, and sent 18 tons
of PPE to China in early 2020.

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)
2. Ronald Reagan. Started so many "wars" on the middle and lower classes.
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 08:42 AM
Mar 2021

Primarily the war on education, and control of the media.

People don't know they are voting against their own interest if they are fed bullshit by the media outlet of their choice, and they don't have critical thinking skills to determine it's bullshit.

Failure to regulate guns is one part of that bigger problem.

Botany

(70,502 posts)
4. One of the many bad things Reagan did was his getting rid of the fairness doctrine really hurt ...
Tue Mar 23, 2021, 08:49 AM
Mar 2021

... and so for the past 2.5 + generations we have had millions and millions of Americans
bathed in Fox News type of bullshit.

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