“It’s impossible not to read this news or see any of the footage without being heartbroken for all those people and for our beautiful country. Because this is the 130th mass shooting of 2023, and 2023 is only 87 days old.
Not doing anything about this is an insane dereliction of our collective humanity. And the obvious solution here is – an assault weapons ban, in place from 1994 to 2004, during which time the risk of dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower than it is today. That just makes sense. Fewer guns equals fewer shootings.
It might be hard, but it’s not complicated. That’s just math. It’s the same reason these days we have fewer strangulations with a landline. It’s a simple, common sense idea that Republicans are desperate to talk about anything else, a Fox News anchor claimed that a common denominator in school shootings was not an AR-15, which has been involved in every one, but a side door.
Yes, clearly we need common sense door reform. Folks, we can’t stop at side doors. Did you know that most people enter a building at the front door? So we clearly need to get rid of those, too.” —Stephen Colbert
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2022/08/1001-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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