Jeff Stahler for April 24, 2024

Well, yes. Because we’ve been having more than two mass shootings (per DAY) in the US. We’re probably okay to talk about Columbine by now… almost everyone has forgotten it. But there’s ALWAYS another shooting within less than 24 hours.

NOT sarcastic: Simply channeling the gun-manufacturers lobby.

Go bowling.

What’s the big deal?

Everyone knows more guns make us safer. What’s a little collateral damage?

Good luck getting people to remember what happened 25 years ago. Too many of them can’t remember what happened 25 seconds ago.

And yesterday “Tennessee Passes Bill to Allow Teachers to Carry Concealed Handguns” – NYT.

According to RepubliCONS yes, it is still too soon and always will be.

I’ll never forget the tragedy. See Gus Van Sant’s essential movie Elephant.

If someone is bound and determined to take lives, he’ll mow people down at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin, or slash riders on the train in New York with a knife.

And more importantly ammunition … without which guns are useless. My hope is that people will realize that gun culture is not helping and that both guns and ammo should be destroyed as their use is only to kill other humans, and no one has a right to take a life…no one.

If all students were armed and wearing Kevlar, school shootings would disappear. Right?

Way too soon.

C’mon! What’s a few senseless killings by guns amongst friends??

The GOP tells us that we do not have a gun problem, we have a mental health problem.

So then, why is America the most mentally ill country on the planet, and what are Republicans doing to provide affordable mental health care?

Hey kids, wanna become famous? Have your name and face on national TV news and cable news channels for weeks! Do a school shooting. We in the media love school shootings because it gets us more viewers which mean more ad dollars, so we highlight them to death (clever, huh). Sure, if we did not mention them and left the reporting to boring old newspapers and local stations, there might be fewer ones, but we’re in the entertainment business and school shootings are great entertainment!

By the numbers:

Number of people in the United States: 333.3 Million

Number of guns in the United States: 393.0 Million

Number of guns per person in the United States: 1.2. (Counting every man, woman and child)

Number of troops in an infantry division: 15,000

Number of infantry divisions that could be equipped with 393 M guns: 26,200.

Number of divisions Hitler used to attack the Soviet Union in the largest land battle in history: 150.

We have almost 175 times the guns we need to attack the world’s largest country. Do we have enough weaponry for “self defense?”

Republicans do nothing about guns, vote the vicious lying anti abortion dictators out of office in Roevember.

PS. With over 3 Million soldiers we have enough guns to give every Chinese GI 124 guns.

No, now it’s “ancient history” and irrelevant.

More rationalization from fjb — in that case, we should make personal possession of hand grenades and “bouncing betty” mines legal, because someone will just find another way otherwise.

If more guns make you safer, uh, when’s that going to happen?

Too soon to talk about sanity, IMHO.

Apparently it’s still too soon to talk about the state of mental health care in the US.

It takes more than a MAGA hat, an AR-15 and a set of WalMart BDUs to be a “well regulated militia.” And with logic like this, you know why I will never be on the Supreme Court.

Republicans prefer moving targets!

It’s way too early to speak of restriction on firearm ownership, but it’s never too early to talk of ways to get more guns into more homes – according to republicans…

It’s like their ridiculous arguments on “trickle-down” economics, which even their own leaders (George H.W. Bush) labeled as “voo-doo” economics at one time, their arguments that the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun was with a good guy with a gun – the FALLACY of that argument has been proven over and over and over again…

Their totally insane idea that, somehow, the constitution’s second amendment gives blanket permission for every American to carry a gun evidently CAN’T be questioned – unlike, say “Roe v Wade” – I once questioned Scalia at a republican breakfast event about that (yes, I’m that old) and his response to me was essentially to shut up about it – it was “settled law” – so “settled law” evidently ONLY works for republicans…

Yup… it will bring back memories of more recent shootings.

But at least now parents are being held accountable!

And I am sure that the criminals will follow gun laws any day now.

That day changed my life.