Clay Bennett for May 17, 2022

It’s only a disaster if you’re not making money and power by manipulating it.

I believe this is the scum bag right wing’s recipe for the destruction of our democracy in favor of a totalitarian regime.

Seems to me the answer is obviously for folks to buy more guns….right? New York does not have the death penalty so guess the taxpayers will have to foot the bill for an 18 year old to have full care for the rest of his life.

CB…perfect observation. Spot on.

It’s all too accurate.

As long as congress keeps taking bribe money from NRA, big business, and pharm, Monsanto, etc, nothing will change!

Lobbyists should be banned..PERIOD!

Besides gun violence, you get a majority in Congress. Very nice for the oligarchy.

The Four Horsemen of the Republiclypse: Ignorance, Fear, Anger, Hatred.

@Brockie- Yep. That’s usually how it works here.

Remember “Fat Nichols” who supposedly ordered the hit on that police officer Edward Burne? He’s STILL in prison with his parole set to be in 2026.

Just remember they are NOT ASSAULT weapons!!! According to ASSHATS!!

The Republican political platform.

The Gun laws aren’t lax. They’re just unenforced.

But how are cops supposed to enforce the law with the whole “Defund the police” thing going on?

“Lax gun laws?” Don’t we already have pretty strict laws about murder?

I don’t know if trump planned it but that’s what he accomplished.

Faux stirred the pot for years by pushing “replacement theory” BS (cough cough Ftucker). Yet their reporting on the incident has been perfunctory at best as if to make people forget their complicity. Economic pressure needs to be put on advertisers who sponsors their shows promoting such hate and bias.

But there is some justice in having him spend the rest of his life in custody along with others who don’t appreciate the mass murderer of their people. I also think it ironic that he might think the Ayan groups will protect him

A plank in the GOP platform. Oh, wait. They no longer have a platform, other than whatever DJT wants.

As I read these comments I note the RW focus on the “lax gun laws” part of the 3 x5 card but are ….avoiding… the first two.

That silence tells me more than all of their text.

Get a quick draw holster too for your new gun, it might come in handy!

Guessing there was no room on that sheet to add religion.

Where’s the outrage from all those “All Life Matters” folks? Just asking. . . .

I think that step four of recipe should say “bring to a rolling boil”, instead of “let simmer”.

A study of the background of mass shooters:

It’s easy to focus on the hateful ideology underpinning these shootings. But our research has shown that hate and “terrorism,” as they are commonly understood, are not what drive most mass shooters.

These perpetrators aren’t subject-matter experts in politics, ideology or religion. Their understanding of the “cause” said to motivate their actions is typically shallow and contradictory, is simply convenient.

Our dozens of interviews with perpetrators and the people who knew them do reveal, however, that shooters often have the same motivation: to cause as much death and destruction as possible so that a world that had otherwise ignored them would be forced to notice them and feel their anguish. Thus, the Buffalo shooter live-streamed his actions.

Our research shows that mass shooters walk a common route to violence through early childhood trauma. If they fail to achieve what they’ve been socialized to believe is their destiny — material wealth, success, power, happiness — as they age, they reach an existential crisis point.

When they no longer feel connected to the people and places around them, this becomes a suicidal crisis — except the thought of merely taking their own lives leaves them unfulfilled. As the sister of one perpetrator told us, her brother went from asking, “What’s wrong with me?” to asking, “What’s wrong with them?”

Hate comes late along this pathway. Searching for answers, angry men comb through the words and deeds of other angry men who came before, including past mass shooters. In the darkest corners of the Internet, they eventually find someone or something else to blame for their despair.

(cont’d)

This is the exact recipe for what happened in Laguna Woods. There was one fatality. Two degrees of separation here…

Kinda mighty white of the Turd Reich trolls to downplay the number of domestic terrorism incidents that are committed by Caucasians.

Add Fox racist propaganda and racist republican lies and stir the pot.

Elect Joe Biden

Don’t forget one of the main ingredients; spineless legislators.

A recipe for Republicans.

Was this 18 yr old living with his parents? Were they involved in his life, or too busy/clueless/ ignorant? How many red flags were missed by everyone around him?

Initially, I thought it was Tucker Carlson’s todo list.

hate speech

NOUN

abusive or threatening speech or writing that expresses prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds

He will probably use “The Rittenhouse Defense” that is was threaten by all the Blacks and had to shoot them in Self Defense. With an all white jury he will be acquitted,

5) Stir (up) frequently.

And watch the conservatives blame everything on the Democrats.

Not all are ignorant bigots. Start with a marginalized and isolated adolescent. Give them a platform that makes them feel they have special knowledge and a group to belong to. Continue with steps 2-4.

90 million gun owners, 400 million guns, 12 trillion rounds of ammo… If American gun owners were a problem, Clay and everyone else would definitely know it..