Harris and Trump respond to the school shooting in Georgia, and Rep. Jamie Raskin delivers an accessible lesson for all Americans on the Second Amendment
It's both sickening and infuriating, as a UK citizen, to hear of yet another school shooting in the US. I was a kid in 1979 when the Boomtown Rats released their single "I Don't Like Mondays". I didn't know what it was about so my mum explained: there had been "another" school shooting. And the reason why? That's the title of the song. I learned that day it was "just one of those things" that could happen when you went to school in the States.
Who on Earth needs an AK in a civilian situation? They're built for wars, not everyday use. This pathetic need to be "alpha" - male OR female - doesn't make anyone look big. Real "alphas" have the intelligence to discuss things, deal with situations, without peppering others with hatred or bullets. When you have to bully people to get your way, you're simply a bully, not a tough guy.
Sending sincere condolences to anyone who has suffered at the hands of firearms, especially the loss of a child. It breaks my heart to know you have to face this, America - and has since that day in 1979.
If guns weren’t so accessible, people wouldn’t be able to kill masses of people in such a short time. Semi automatic weapons are not useful for hunting because they do too much damage to the animal for it to be used for food.
Active shooter drills traumatize young children, and an entire generation will be psychologically damaged by them.
Congress must remove the protections that have been placed on gun manufacturers. If a food item causes three or four deaths, it is removed from store shelves and the manufacturer can be sued for wrongful death. Guns are the only product that has protection from lawsuits in the country. That’s just plain sale of their souls to the NRA.
We can, and must, do better to protect our most precious resource, our children.
Too many guns. And get this: there are estimated some 400 million plus guns in the US. If 50,000 firearms were to be destroyed EVERY DAY, and no new ones added, it would take about 22 years to be rid of them.
Today I’ve read so many excellent comments about this and here’s one that has stuck with me. I’m sorry I don’t remember which Substack it was in. “Guns don’t kill people, people with guns do. Which one do you want to get rid of?”
Prompted by the the school shooting, what came to mind was Marianne Williamson a while ago saying, “Our society calls it a mental health crisis, but in fact it’s a spiritual one.” It's that school shootings are spiritual crises, too, where the fringy ends of a soulless humanity go beyond personal pain to hurt others. And how calling it like it is shows us what we need to work on, where it isn't just laws that would fix what soullessness creates.
It's both sickening and infuriating, as a UK citizen, to hear of yet another school shooting in the US. I was a kid in 1979 when the Boomtown Rats released their single "I Don't Like Mondays". I didn't know what it was about so my mum explained: there had been "another" school shooting. And the reason why? That's the title of the song. I learned that day it was "just one of those things" that could happen when you went to school in the States.
Who on Earth needs an AK in a civilian situation? They're built for wars, not everyday use. This pathetic need to be "alpha" - male OR female - doesn't make anyone look big. Real "alphas" have the intelligence to discuss things, deal with situations, without peppering others with hatred or bullets. When you have to bully people to get your way, you're simply a bully, not a tough guy.
Sending sincere condolences to anyone who has suffered at the hands of firearms, especially the loss of a child. It breaks my heart to know you have to face this, America - and has since that day in 1979.
If guns weren’t so accessible, people wouldn’t be able to kill masses of people in such a short time. Semi automatic weapons are not useful for hunting because they do too much damage to the animal for it to be used for food.
Active shooter drills traumatize young children, and an entire generation will be psychologically damaged by them.
Congress must remove the protections that have been placed on gun manufacturers. If a food item causes three or four deaths, it is removed from store shelves and the manufacturer can be sued for wrongful death. Guns are the only product that has protection from lawsuits in the country. That’s just plain sale of their souls to the NRA.
We can, and must, do better to protect our most precious resource, our children.
Amen!
Too many guns. And get this: there are estimated some 400 million plus guns in the US. If 50,000 firearms were to be destroyed EVERY DAY, and no new ones added, it would take about 22 years to be rid of them.
How old would your kids be in twenty-two years?
Today I’ve read so many excellent comments about this and here’s one that has stuck with me. I’m sorry I don’t remember which Substack it was in. “Guns don’t kill people, people with guns do. Which one do you want to get rid of?”
Prompted by the the school shooting, what came to mind was Marianne Williamson a while ago saying, “Our society calls it a mental health crisis, but in fact it’s a spiritual one.” It's that school shootings are spiritual crises, too, where the fringy ends of a soulless humanity go beyond personal pain to hurt others. And how calling it like it is shows us what we need to work on, where it isn't just laws that would fix what soullessness creates.