@Oma_Trisha
Sounds like a plan.

Big Business lobbying of Congress has been out of control since the 1970s, when a consumer-protections bill was defeated after a small number of paid-off Democrats defected.

Afterward, House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass) said “I have never seen such extensive lobbying.”

That was in the wake of the 1971 "Powell memo," a blueprint for corporate domination of American democracy, which prompted the corporatists to move to DC from NY.

The left needs to organize better. Infighting hasn't worked.

Happy Indigenous People day from the EAST. COAST.

@JohnAustin
Almost by definition, someone who commits a mass shooting has to have reached the point of psychosis. The 4chan/8chan shooters seem like they were sort of willfully trolled into it by transgressive eggers-on, but it's hard to say for sure. Every case is so unique. It's never just-this or just-that, it's a volatile mixture of things. True psychosis usually involves hallucinations, delusions etc. which may even, per experts like Thomas Szaz, be "normal" within dysfunctional families.

@Sandywb14 - I really figured Sandy Hook was going to be the catalyst for sensible legislation. But a handful of Democrats chose to side with the NRA-owned Republicans to kill the ensuing gun bill. The NRA always buys off enough politicians to get their ends accomplished.

@JohnAustin
Well, the word could have also been invented off the cuff by someone who was being chased by a guy holding a live chicken in each hand.
I'd say the human condition compels some gray level of narcissism in everyone, at least toward meeting basic needs. The energy required to commit a mass shooting is assuredly psychopathic, whether owing to bad wiring or ongoing personal despair and misery; usually some combination of both.

@Darthbonn
Whatever keeps the normies guessing. When a salesperson starts asking me questions at Best Buy I usually push over an entire display of color TVs.

Every day, 110 people are shot to death in the US. That's more than the *combined* daily number of US military deaths during the wars in Vietnam (11), Korea (30), the American Revolutionary War (11), the Mexican–American War (29) and the War of 1812 (15).

All of this - the mass shootings, the sense that gun owners are all crazy (or wise, depending on your beliefs) is driven by the NRA. Once a gun safety organization, it's now the marketing arm of gunmakers who want to sell as many as possible.

@metaAnnelies
Supposedly the War On Drugs. They just never shut the flow off. Either that or nobody read the memo.

Boy, Elon Musk's midlife crisis has been pretty epic, wouldn't you say? 🤔

It's no wonder the Pentagon is still supplying police with military equipment that they barely know how to use. It started with the War On Drugs, and now that free market capitalism is failing, it's the War On Poor People.

The NYC police are so flush with military equipment that they donated some of it to the Ukrainians, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD's.

You suppose they bring their rocket launchers when they have to evict families?

If it's insane, someone's made a custom Lego set of it.

@ButtergirlNH - And that's about it really.

The liberal media never goes after the right wing with any aplomb when the divide between the GOP's libertarian and Christian fundamentalist wings is exposed for all to see. For example when Caitlyn Jenner was pelted with transphobic abuse from a bible thumper at the 2021 CPAC, I was a bit surprised that the MSM didn't point out that such behavior is incompatible with libertarian beliefs about their beloved free market being an "open tent."

Maybe the MSM wants the culture wars to continue?

@Darthbonn - I actually don't indulge in such shit.

@th3j35t3r
Good luck man.

@LlamaMountainStudioArts -

@danialexis
Or a family pack of original flavor Slim Jims.

@Madken65 - By all means. 😜 We're going to be good friends.

@Madken65

How could I have forgotten? 😺