A Sad Premise Being Realized

[Taichiliberal]

We're coming up on 7 years since 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL. The shooter used an AR-15 style assault weapon.

What followed were some of the surviving students of that tragedy becoming public political advocates. Their message was simple: any politician who votes against improving the gun laws that go towards preventing such tragedy (i.e., reviving the 1994 AWB) would be targeted in a voting campaign to remove them from office.

This resulted in various characters in the public eye actually criticizing and trying to throw shade on the young advocates. From TV to radio to print, the right wing machine that's in the pocket of the gun lobby went of the defensive. Most notable was Congress rep Greene (R-GA) doing a video of her harassing survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Her complaint was that he was getting audience with congressmen and committee members that she could not. (no joke, it's on record).

Now I thought this was going to be the tipping point that would bring about final confrontation among Americans about doing the right thing "to promote the general welfare". I wrote on my FaceBook page that people will have to make choices, lose friends and family and social status because sides would be taken BECAUSE PROFIT BY A CORPORATION/BUSINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.

But sadly, America did not learn it's lesson.

Now we have the major step by various factions to once and for all destroy any and everything FDR's "New Deal" has given America, along with gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

It's no longer debatable .... the Christo-Fascist agenda is now embolden and quickly taking off the mask of civility. People who fear confrontation will soon have a choice .... capitulate, leave or fight back.

What form this will take is to be determined. But an indication is the public reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO by an Ivy league educated, inherently wealthy young white man. People from both right and left are agreeing .... based on how his business screws over the general public, he had it coming. The caveat being "While I don't condone violence, I understand the motivation". I call that BS civility.

And now it begins.

 

[Into the Night]

The AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle. It is not a 'machine gun'. It is not an 'assault rifle' (there's no such thing!).

The Parkland shooting took place in a Gun Free Zone.

 

[Hawkeye10]

We're coming up on 7 years since 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL. The shooter used an AR-15 style assault weapon.

What followed were some of the surviving students of that tragedy becoming public political advocates. Their message was simple: any politician who votes against improving the gun laws that go towards preventing such tragedy (i.e., reviving the 1994 AWB) would be targeted in a voting campaign to remove them from office.

This resulted in various characters in the public eye actually criticizing and trying to throw shade on the young advocates. From TV to radio to print, the right wing machine that's in the pocket of the gun lobby went of the defensive. Most notable was Congress rep Greene (R-GA) doing a video of her harassing survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Her complaint was that he was getting audience with congressmen and committee members that she could not. (no joke, it's on record).

Now I thought this was going to be the tipping point that would bring about final confrontation among Americans about doing the right thing "to promote the general welfare". I wrote on my FaceBook page that people will have to make choices, lose friends and family and social status because sides would be taken BECAUSE PROFIT BY A CORPORATION/BUSINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.

But sadly, America did not learn it's lesson.

Now we have the major step by various factions to once and for all destroy any and everything FDR's "New Deal" has given America, along with gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

It's no longer debatable .... the Christo-Fascist agenda is now embolden and quickly taking off the mask of civility. People who fear confrontation will soon have a choice .... capitulate, leave or fight back.

What form this will take is to be determined. But an indication is the public reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO by an Ivy league educated, inherently wealthy young white man. People from both right and left are agreeing .... based on how his business screws over the general public, he had it coming. The caveat being "While I don't condone violence, I understand the motivation". I call that BS civility.

And now it begins.

You were well warned about this dark age.

Now you bend over and take it.

My sympathy tanks R dry.

I did my part.

 

[Yakuda]

We're coming up on 7 years since 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL. The shooter used an AR-15 style assault weapon.

What followed were some of the surviving students of that tragedy becoming public political advocates. Their message was simple: any politician who votes against improving the gun laws that go towards preventing such tragedy (i.e., reviving the 1994 AWB) would be targeted in a voting campaign to remove them from office.

This resulted in various characters in the public eye actually criticizing and trying to throw shade on the young advocates. From TV to radio to print, the right wing machine that's in the pocket of the gun lobby went of the defensive. Most notable was Congress rep Greene (R-GA) doing a video of her harassing survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Her complaint was that he was getting audience with congressmen and committee members that she could not. (no joke, it's on record).

Now I thought this was going to be the tipping point that would bring about final confrontation among Americans about doing the right thing "to promote the general welfare". I wrote on my FaceBook page that people will have to make choices, lose friends and family and social status because sides would be taken BECAUSE PROFIT BY A CORPORATION/BUSINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.

But sadly, America did not learn it's lesson.

Now we have the major step by various factions to once and for all destroy any and everything FDR's "New Deal" has given America, along with gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

It's no longer debatable .... the Christo-Fascist agenda is now embolden and quickly taking off the mask of civility. People who fear confrontation will soon have a choice .... capitulate, leave or fight back.

What form this will take is to be determined. But an indication is the public reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO by an Ivy league educated, inherently wealthy young white man. People from both right and left are agreeing .... based on how his business screws over the general public, he had it coming. The caveat being "While I don't condone violence, I understand the motivation". I call that BS civility.

And now it begins.

What will "prevent" the next school shooting? Be specific

 

[Guno צְבִי]

You were well warned about this dark age.

Now you bend over and take it.

My sympathy tanks R dry.

I did my part.

Your part?? LOL drinking a quart of vodka?

 

[Hawkeye10]

Your part?? LOL drinking a quart of vodka?

Get Bent.

 

[leaningright]

What will "prevent" the next school shooting? Be specific

Good try…

 

[Into the Night]

What will "prevent" the next school shooting? Be specific

Nothing. Shoot back. You very well could save innocent lives that way!

 

[Yakuda]

Nothing. Shoot back. You very well could save innocent lives that way!

they never seem to have an answer to that question do they? have you ever noticed these nutjobs never shoot up a police station or an NRA convention?

 

[Taichiliberal]

Your part?? LOL drinking a quart of vodka?

I have that idiot troll on the ignore list. He knows I can't read his blather to me, nor (on this format) his response to others. Yet he persists. As usual, when I get tired of their BS I put all of his ilk on the ignore list for a few months or until the end of the year. So until next year, I just watch the tags of all the right wing wonks & mooks keep harping on the posts & threads they eventually claim are not worthy of consideration or response. Classic!

 

[SmarterthanYou]

I have that idiot troll on the ignore list. He knows I can't read his blather to me, nor (on this format) his response to others. Yet he persists. As usual, when I get tired of their BS I put all of his ilk on the ignore list for a few months or until the end of the year. So until next year, I just watch the tags of all the right wing wonks & mooks keep harping on the posts & threads they eventually claim are not worthy of consideration or response. Classic!

usually, when people put one or two people on ignore, it makes sense because there are some real loons on this forum. However, when someone creates an ignore list of more than three, it's usually because they are not intelligent enough to debate real facts or that their argument is shit to begin with, that they know it, and just don't want to be blasted for being a moron. I'm putting you in the second category.

 

[Litmus]

We're coming up on 7 years since 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL. The shooter used an AR-15 style assault weapon.

What followed were some of the surviving students of that tragedy becoming public political advocates. Their message was simple: any politician who votes against improving the gun laws that go towards preventing such tragedy (i.e., reviving the 1994 AWB) would be targeted in a voting campaign to remove them from office.

This resulted in various characters in the public eye actually criticizing and trying to throw shade on the young advocates. From TV to radio to print, the right wing machine that's in the pocket of the gun lobby went of the defensive. Most notable was Congress rep Greene (R-GA) doing a video of her harassing survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Her complaint was that he was getting audience with congressmen and committee members that she could not. (no joke, it's on record).

Now I thought this was going to be the tipping point that would bring about final confrontation among Americans about doing the right thing "to promote the general welfare". I wrote on my FaceBook page that people will have to make choices, lose friends and family and social status because sides would be taken BECAUSE PROFIT BY A CORPORATION/BUSINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.

But sadly, America did not learn it's lesson.

Now we have the major step by various factions to once and for all destroy any and everything FDR's "New Deal" has given America, along with gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

It's no longer debatable .... the Christo-Fascist agenda is now embolden and quickly taking off the mask of civility. People who fear confrontation will soon have a choice .... capitulate, leave or fight back.

What form this will take is to be determined. But an indication is the public reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO by an Ivy league educated, inherently wealthy young white man. People from both right and left are agreeing .... based on how his business screws over the general public, he had it coming. The caveat being "While I don't condone violence, I understand the motivation". I call that BS civility.

And now it begins.

people want guns.

go fuck off now, thanks.

 

[Litmus]

You were well warned about this dark age.

Now you bend over and take it.

My sympathy tanks R dry.

I did my part.

wtf are you talking about.

you thought trump would lose.

good is winning, you're confused again, CCP.

 

[Litmus]

We're coming up on 7 years since 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL. The shooter used an AR-15 style assault weapon.

What followed were some of the surviving students of that tragedy becoming public political advocates. Their message was simple: any politician who votes against improving the gun laws that go towards preventing such tragedy (i.e., reviving the 1994 AWB) would be targeted in a voting campaign to remove them from office.

This resulted in various characters in the public eye actually criticizing and trying to throw shade on the young advocates. From TV to radio to print, the right wing machine that's in the pocket of the gun lobby went of the defensive. Most notable was Congress rep Greene (R-GA) doing a video of her harassing survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Her complaint was that he was getting audience with congressmen and committee members that she could not. (no joke, it's on record).

Now I thought this was going to be the tipping point that would bring about final confrontation among Americans about doing the right thing "to promote the general welfare". I wrote on my FaceBook page that people will have to make choices, lose friends and family and social status because sides would be taken BECAUSE PROFIT BY A CORPORATION/BUSINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.

But sadly, America did not learn it's lesson.

Now we have the major step by various factions to once and for all destroy any and everything FDR's "New Deal" has given America, along with gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

It's no longer debatable .... the Christo-Fascist agenda is now embolden and quickly taking off the mask of civility. People who fear confrontation will soon have a choice .... capitulate, leave or fight back.

What form this will take is to be determined. But an indication is the public reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO by an Ivy league educated, inherently wealthy young white man. People from both right and left are agreeing .... based on how his business screws over the general public, he had it coming. The caveat being "While I don't condone violence, I understand the motivation". I call that BS civility.

And now it begins.

transing kids is not the black struggle or the gay struggle.

you don't understand what's actually happening.

you're stuck in a semi-real delusion of partisan hyperbole.

 

[MAGA]

Yet our schools filled with our most treasured assets mostly remain soft targets.

Some have hardened their security. No school shootings at those places. Weird

Pretty fucking sad.

 

[Into the Night]

I have that idiot troll on the ignore list. He knows I can't read his blather to me, nor (on this format) his response to others. Yet he persists. As usual, when I get tired of their BS I put all of his ilk on the ignore list for a few months or until the end of the year. So until next year, I just watch the tags of all the right wing wonks & mooks keep harping on the posts & threads they eventually claim are not worthy of consideration or response. Classic!

 

[Walt]

It is not an 'assault rifle' (there's no such thing!).

The term assault rifle has been used since World War II. Hitler used it in its German form: sturmgewehr. The term assault weapon has been used since the 1970's.

More importantly, we can not bring back the dead by undefining terms. We can hide deaths that way, but the dead will still be dead. The same basic concept applies to the mass self killing of the alt right. We can hide their suicides through bad decisions by keeping terms from being defined, but that does not keep them from dying.

In fact, by hiding the deaths, the alt right is keeping us from coming up with a solution, and saving those lives.

 

[Walt]

Some have hardened their security. No school shootings at those places. Weird

Imagine that, the Columbine children are going to come back to live. Mag says it is so, because Columbine had an armed security guard, those children are magically going to come back to life. It will be weird.

 

[Walt]

What will "prevent" the next school shooting? Be specific

Hmmm...

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens​

ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said North Carolina resident Samuel Wipper, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

We're coming up on 7 years since 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL. The shooter used an AR-15 style assault weapon.

What followed were some of the surviving students of that tragedy becoming public political advocates. Their message was simple: any politician who votes against improving the gun laws that go towards preventing such tragedy (i.e., reviving the 1994 AWB) would be targeted in a voting campaign to remove them from office.

This resulted in various characters in the public eye actually criticizing and trying to throw shade on the young advocates. From TV to radio to print, the right wing machine that's in the pocket of the gun lobby went of the defensive. Most notable was Congress rep Greene (R-GA) doing a video of her harassing survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Her complaint was that he was getting audience with congressmen and committee members that she could not. (no joke, it's on record).

Now I thought this was going to be the tipping point that would bring about final confrontation among Americans about doing the right thing "to promote the general welfare". I wrote on my FaceBook page that people will have to make choices, lose friends and family and social status because sides would be taken BECAUSE PROFIT BY A CORPORATION/BUSINESS WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN CHILDREN'S LIVES.

But sadly, America did not learn it's lesson.

Now we have the major step by various factions to once and for all destroy any and everything FDR's "New Deal" has given America, along with gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.

It's no longer debatable .... the Christo-Fascist agenda is now embolden and quickly taking off the mask of civility. People who fear confrontation will soon have a choice .... capitulate, leave or fight back.

What form this will take is to be determined. But an indication is the public reaction to the murder of a health insurance CEO by an Ivy league educated, inherently wealthy young white man. People from both right and left are agreeing .... based on how his business screws over the general public, he had it coming. The caveat being "While I don't condone violence, I understand the motivation". I call that BS civility.

And now it begins.

What a prescient post, given the recent school shooting since you wrote it. We value fucking guns more than we do our children. This is not a good species survival mode.