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October 3, 2017

Nice guy I used to work with died today because his health insurance wouldn't cover treatment for..

A nice guy I used to work with died today because his health insurance wouldn't cover treatment for his diabetes. Our healthcare system is immoral beyond words. RIP Scott.

the rest:
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/45944-focus-the-most-important-legislation-of-my-lifetime
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/914955156856373248

October 3, 2017

What Happened In Vegas.....

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Guns are a right.

Food, shelter, health care are privileges.

What is wrong with that picture?

October 3, 2017

EDITORIAL: If we continue to do nothing on guns, our tears are a fraud

The president offers his condolences. For what it’s worth. And there will be prayers and funeral services. For what they’re worth.

And politicians in the pocket of the gun lobby, tons of them, will stand on the floor of the House and the Senate and say how tragic this shooting was and how something must be done — but don’t punish the law-abiding gun owner because guns are American freedom, guns are apple pie, guns are the flag, guns are the national anthem.

And they won’t tell you that every honest opinion poll for a generation in this country shows Americans are sick to death of the carnage.

The National Rifle Association hates those polls. Guns are money for them. Gun-makers make them rich.

MORE:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/editorial-if-we-continue-to-do-nothing-on-guns-our-tears-are-a-fraud/amp/

October 3, 2017

Black or white?

When you’re a white adult & committed the worst massacre in American history vs. when you’re a black child and did nothing wrong

https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/914907409700802561

October 3, 2017

Do Something!

October 3, 2017

Gabby Giffords Speaks For Me!

Gabby Giffords turns to shake her fist at Congress during presser with husband Mark Kelly at the Capitol on the Las Vegas shooting

https://twitter.com/billclarkphotos/status/914911859735760897

October 3, 2017

Eugene Robinson: 'We know, beyond the slightest doubt, that it will happen again."

The carnage will continue

We will never know why. We already know how, but we don’t care about that. And we know, beyond the slightest doubt, that it will happen again.

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Sound from cellphone videos taken during the Las Vegas massacre clearly indicates that Paddock was using a fully automatic rifle — meaning that squeezing and holding the trigger unleashed a long, continuous burst of gunfire. Such machine guns were supposedly outlawed in 1986, but there are two huge loopholes: In some states, it is legal to buy and sell machine guns that were made before 1986; and Internet merchants sell kits that convert semiautomatic rifles into fully automatic killing machines.

No deer hunter or target-shooting enthusiast needs a weapon intended for war zones — a weapon designed and optimized for use by soldiers against enemy forces. But if the Newtown, Conn., massacre of 6-year-olds and 7-year-olds didn’t even lead to universal background checks for gun purchasers, let alone a ban on assault weapons, I don’t see why anyone should believe things will be different this time around.

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A mass shooting or a terrorist rampage, on the other hand, rivets the nation. Television networks shift into continuous “breaking news” coverage. Newspapers rush to profile the shooter, then the victims. The president makes a statement expressing the nation’s grief. Gun-rights advocates pre-emptively declare that this is not the time to talk about gun control, accusing anyone who does of politicizing tragedy. Gun-control proponents ask: If not now, then when? Everyone agrees we should do something about mental health, but we end up doing nothing. A long series of funerals ends the ritual.

We go back to our routines as if there won’t be a next time. But there will. And we all know it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-carnage-will-continue/2017/10/02/59e51d62-a7ab-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html?utm_term=.e7a0a3ab4406

October 3, 2017