Today’s cover of The New York Times Sunday Review

Just watched Heather Cox Richardson be interviewed on Amanpour. Very Interesting perspective on how we came to allow ourselves to be ruled by a “radical extremists minority”. Hint: things are not going to change until the majority of Americans stand up and insist upon change.
#politics #guns
https://youtu.be/AoMvvKuw2oQ

Tristan Snell wrote:

'Fewer than 20% of Americans oppose background checks for gun purchases.
Fewer than 20% of Americans want to make abortion illegal.
How the hell are we letting this radical 20% control the 80% majority?!?
Get angry. Get active. Vote the bastards out and keep up the pressure.'

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@grapho I highly suspect if they can make a teacher or member of the school faculty as the scapegoat they will. The door will in the end be the issue, not the military weapon in the hands of a person who isn't in the military.

@NightOwl2024 Scary that voters will base their selection of candidate on a single issue even though the issue is bogus.

My youngest son is a high school history teacher and a member of the U.S. Army Reserve. He shared this on Facebook.

“No diatribe here. Just a picture that encapsulates the crap that myself and co-workers have had to deal with first-hand.

Enjoy.“

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Police stood outside while the Uvalde kids were murdered: https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-44a7cfb990feaa6ffe482483df6e4683

“The NRA for years, for decades, has pushed for the most relaxed rules possible in this country and that’s why we have mass shooting after mass shooting,” he said. “Please if you could answer the question that I asked you at the beginning of the interview. Isn’t this blood on your hands?”

#childrenoverguns ffs

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-jim-acosta-nra-board-member_n_6293f76ce4b0933e73753793/amp

Jordan Klepper doing Jordan Klepper things on guns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHuA0BEsUzI

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Rebecca Solnit on #uvalde.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/28/uvalde-texas-gunman-online-threats/

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This is such BS! Even if a teacher agrees to be armed with a gun in school , there is STILL NO EFFING WAY that teacher could do a damn thing against anyone that comes to their school with an AR-15 and a boat load of ammunition. Even the 19 police officers at ROBB Elementary could do not a damn thing about that SOB that had that AR-15!!!

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French say America is killing itself while Republicans look the other way; Canadian, Mexican and German leaders express grief and awareness that nothing will ever change in the US https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/05/25/texas-shooting-america-is-killing-itself-as-the-republican-party-looks-the-other-way_5984629_23.html