“After years of demoralizing gridlock, Congress is set to pass gun control legislation with some bipartisan support. The deal includes enhanced background checks for people between the ages of 18 and 21, bars romantic partners convicted of domestic violence from buying guns, directs funds for states to implement their own plans to address gun violence, and provides billions for school security and mental health services. The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, called the bill a ‘commonsense package of popular steps that will help make these horrifying incidents less likely while fully upholding the second amendment’.
Sometimes I feel like Americans want to protect the constitution more than they want to protect the Americans the constitution is supposed to protect. I’ll tell you now, if the second amendment was in that classroom in Uvalde, the cops would have busted the door down with Mitch McConnell right behind them.
I know for a lot of people, it can be hard to know how to feel about this deal, as it doesn’t include many popular and commonsense measures such as banning assault weapons, raising the age limit or even universal background checks. So for some, this kinda thing feels like trying to stop Godzilla by dropping a few mouse traps around the city.
But on the hand, after three decades of nothing happening, this deal is something. Please remember that. It is something. It’s not going solve everything, but it’s something, and something is always better than nothing. That’s the entire philosophy behind the handjob.” —Trevor Noah
http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/03/1001-ways-to-make-america-great-and.html
“A magisterial collection. A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth
and Orwell’s 1984.”
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