If there were a Hell, I’d certainly be condemning those of SCOTUS who cut out the protection of the first clause of the 2nd amendment to spend time there. They have the deaths of THOUSANDS of people on their souls, and the blood of many more thousands who have been “merely” wounded in body or mind.
I would like to see Congress armed in the same permissive ways that the “unencumbered”states are … so they could feel the same sense of security that we do.
Here’s how right-wing media outlets kill people who take their advice
Everybody treats it like it’s a confounding question with no easy answer. The actual answer, though, is pretty straightforward: the psychopaths running the rightwing media ecosystem dominated by Fox “News” and social media, and echoed by 1500 radio stations across the country, have decided people dying and being disabled is both profitable and politically advantageous to them.
And now, as if to put a punctuation point on it, the headline at Raw Story warns: Fox News host uses Colin Powell’s death to launch anti-vax rant: “Fully-vaccinated are dying of Covid.”
Almost 750,000 Americans have died of Covid and recent research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that at as many as half of the 45 million Americans who’ve been diagnosed with the disease will suffer long term consequences, the main ones being dementia, exhaustion and damage to the heart and kidneys.
It used to be in American business that you knew where the psychopaths were: tobacco. It’s an industry producing a product that, when used as directed, kills around a half-million Americans every year.
The clinical terminology is that psychopaths “lack the ability to feel empathy.” Weirdly, this lack of empathy can make them more successful in big business and politics, as well as in criminal and prison environments.
Thus, the CEO of Fox “News” — the network that daily spreads vaccine misinformation leading to deaths that are tearing apart American families — tells the Hollywood Reporter that she sleeps “well at night.” Just like the tobacco CEOs.
When I confronted Scalia, decades ago at a breakfast sponsored by a branch of the Federalist Society, about why the courts ignored the the first five words of the Second Amendment since he was one of the first “originalists” I’d encountered, he first tried to ignore my question but eventually he said it was “settled law” as if that was a decent answer – which it wasn’t and still isn’t.
The authors of the Constitution had no idea for and didn’t WANT America to be saddled with a STANDING ARMY! Defense of the country was to be maintained by state militias – that’s what the Second Amendment was all about – the establishment of the American standing army threw the Second Amendment completely out and rendered it moot.
Guns are used in more senseless deaths in the hands of stupid people. A responsible gun owner can have an assortment of weaponry & never use it wrongly. For stupid people however, it seems a loaded gun must be fired at somebody, even the absolutely innocent. Perhaps we could put stupid violent people in a free for all zone & let stupid do what stupid does. No cops or anything, since it’s so cool to hate them anyway. Now remember nothing says anybody has to use their weapons, it’s free will in the free for all zone.
⇧ @SammySnyder — Every time guns come up I see some twit start squalling about Chicago. The problem isn’t the gun laws in Chicago, it’s the fact that you can go a relatively short distance to an area with virtually no gun laws whatsoever. That is the reason the city of Chicago has decided to file a lawsuit against a gun store in Indiana.
‘Eye-popping numbers’: Chicago sues Indiana gun store tied to 850 firearms recovered from crime scenes
TRat Premium Member over 2 years ago
Not if its Texas. No permit? No problem.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
If there were a Hell, I’d certainly be condemning those of SCOTUS who cut out the protection of the first clause of the 2nd amendment to spend time there. They have the deaths of THOUSANDS of people on their souls, and the blood of many more thousands who have been “merely” wounded in body or mind.
knutdl over 2 years ago
It’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound?
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
The obvious solution is more guns, of course.
The Republican Party of Trump celebrates death by gun violence.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Ele fink will do anything to keep guns, covid and election lies flowing all over the country.
superposition over 2 years ago
I would like to see Congress armed in the same permissive ways that the “unencumbered”states are … so they could feel the same sense of security that we do.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Here’s how right-wing media outlets kill people who take their advice
Everybody treats it like it’s a confounding question with no easy answer. The actual answer, though, is pretty straightforward: the psychopaths running the rightwing media ecosystem dominated by Fox “News” and social media, and echoed by 1500 radio stations across the country, have decided people dying and being disabled is both profitable and politically advantageous to them.
And now, as if to put a punctuation point on it, the headline at Raw Story warns: Fox News host uses Colin Powell’s death to launch anti-vax rant: “Fully-vaccinated are dying of Covid.”
Almost 750,000 Americans have died of Covid and recent research published by the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that at as many as half of the 45 million Americans who’ve been diagnosed with the disease will suffer long term consequences, the main ones being dementia, exhaustion and damage to the heart and kidneys.
It used to be in American business that you knew where the psychopaths were: tobacco. It’s an industry producing a product that, when used as directed, kills around a half-million Americans every year.
The clinical terminology is that psychopaths “lack the ability to feel empathy.” Weirdly, this lack of empathy can make them more successful in big business and politics, as well as in criminal and prison environments.
Thus, the CEO of Fox “News” — the network that daily spreads vaccine misinformation leading to deaths that are tearing apart American families — tells the Hollywood Reporter that she sleeps “well at night.” Just like the tobacco CEOs.
https://www.rawstory.com/here-s-how-right-wing-media-outlets-people-who-take-their-advice/
wellis1947 Premium Member over 2 years ago
When I confronted Scalia, decades ago at a breakfast sponsored by a branch of the Federalist Society, about why the courts ignored the the first five words of the Second Amendment since he was one of the first “originalists” I’d encountered, he first tried to ignore my question but eventually he said it was “settled law” as if that was a decent answer – which it wasn’t and still isn’t.
The authors of the Constitution had no idea for and didn’t WANT America to be saddled with a STANDING ARMY! Defense of the country was to be maintained by state militias – that’s what the Second Amendment was all about – the establishment of the American standing army threw the Second Amendment completely out and rendered it moot.
wsedrel Premium Member over 2 years ago
…& Sandy Hook was actors! (& the earth is flat: just look…)
Ken 2049 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Guns are used in more senseless deaths in the hands of stupid people. A responsible gun owner can have an assortment of weaponry & never use it wrongly. For stupid people however, it seems a loaded gun must be fired at somebody, even the absolutely innocent. Perhaps we could put stupid violent people in a free for all zone & let stupid do what stupid does. No cops or anything, since it’s so cool to hate them anyway. Now remember nothing says anybody has to use their weapons, it’s free will in the free for all zone.
Lyman Elliott Premium Member over 2 years ago
⇧ @SammySnyder — Every time guns come up I see some twit start squalling about Chicago. The problem isn’t the gun laws in Chicago, it’s the fact that you can go a relatively short distance to an area with virtually no gun laws whatsoever. That is the reason the city of Chicago has decided to file a lawsuit against a gun store in Indiana.
‘Eye-popping numbers’: Chicago sues Indiana gun store tied to 850 firearms recovered from crime scenes
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/27/chicago-sues-gun-store-tied-850-guns-recovered-crime-scenes/4854619001/
Gary Williams Premium Member over 2 years ago
In Houston they are shooting sheriff deputies with AR15’s, but I guess that is alright
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
Gonna need dem immigrants soon; running outta people.