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I guess people are trying to find the appropriate response, which is that no one should get assassinated for political dialogue. However, it almost feels too late for that, and it all goes back to the President and his supporters, who have been preaching violence since way back when Donald Trump was suggesting that Hillary Clinton should be assassinated in 2016. So you can't fault the people who now see the connection between the rhetoric and the actions of a sick country.

"It's not the guns, it's the people shooting the guns." Political Translation: "It's okay to restrict personal freedom, as long as the individual retains access to deadly weapons."

It is terrorism to shoot schoolchildren. It is the extreme of cowardice. For it to continue as it has year after year, shows a lack of (real) concern for our most valuable and most vulnerable citizens. I'm tired of the excuses, because there is no excuse.

I'm not sure that this will ever sink in for those people who love their guns more than life itself. Perhaps if they had to witness the bloody aftermath that those who were first on the scene now have emblazoned into their memories... I'm not sure that would help, but it might be a good place to start. It's too easy to fall back on the stale excuse of taking away the "rights of the good people." If you actually had to witness a class full of elementary school students being gunned down, I think that might change some minds... If it wouldn't, then those people have lost all sense of what is good.

I'd like to send a message to my conservative Republican friends. You know who you are. If you could refrain from posting pictures of "beautiful 20-week-old, unborn children," then I won't have to post photos of 9 and 10-year-old children who are dead and full of holes from an AR-15 Assault Rifle. Your desire to protect the unborn, is overshadowed by your desire for guns that kill the living. Thanks for your understanding.

Seven years ago a guy having a road rage attack, chased my car for several miles while pointing a gun at me. Had I pulled into a dead-end alley rather than a police station parking lot, I might be dead. When the police caught up to the guy, they found the Glock 9mm I had described on the seat of the truck. It had a high-capacity clip. There was also a filet knife in the door of his truck. He told the officer that I was (his words written in the police report) a "raghead from Pakistan." He also had a small amount of marijuana. They released him because he had a permit to carry a gun; and he said he never pulled the gun out. Last year I needed to see a medical specialist. It took two months to get in. After a scan, it took two more months to get in for the follow-up. Fortunately, the doctor said I was okay. But it took four months to find that out. I've been told that we can't have national health insurance in the U.S. because in countries where they do have it, it tak...

A lot of time and effort is going into reforming police. Today, a school bus driver was shot in the head in Minneapolis. Perhaps more time and effort should be spent on the reason police are out pursuing criminals--like why are people shooting each other and also killing and maiming innocent bystanders in the city and streets? Police reform is a byproduct... an effort to fix a symptom of the true problem. It's easy to yell and scream about police brutality, but that doesn't address the crime that necessitates the reason police are deployed in the first place. If you can fix the crime problem, the police won't even be needed. It was a while ago, but when I grew up in Richfield, and bought my first house in Minneapolis (both have had shootings already this month), there wasn't continuous shootings like there is now. So ask yourself, what has changed? If we focus on the cause of the dysfunction rather than reacting to the results, perhaps real solutions are possible. Be...

Imagine living in a world where guns are valued more than children. Where the news media only tells half the story. Where the truth is made up by whoever is loudest. Where the biggest criminals are set up as the biggest victims. Where everything is made into race whether it is or not. Where good and bad are judged by politics and not by individual circumstances. Where violence is sanctioned in entertainment and on the streets in real life. And where people are afraid to speak the truth for fear of the backlash. Then you will know what our society has become.

No Compromise By Kevin J. Curtis Johnny was trying to understand why the people in the United States were always arguing and fighting. It didn’t make sense! They were all just people living in the same big country. Why did they fight all of the time? He decided to talk to his dad about it. “It’s because somebody is always trying to take our guns away!” shouted Donald, as he finished loading the clip of his 9mm Glock. “But if nobody had guns,” began Johnny, “we wouldn’t need to have lockdown drills in our school for active shooters!” “You watch your mouth young man!” shouted Donald. “That kind of talk is dangerous! We need to be able to defend ourselves if someone else pulls a gun on us!” “But yesterday,” began Johnny, “you pulled a gun on that other car in traffic while driving us home. Nobody pulled a gun on you first.” “You shut your yap young man,” growled Johnny’s father. “That guy was looking for a slug in his head!” Johnny decided to ask his mom for h...

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As encouraging as it is that people are outraged by excessive force used by police, Americans seem to have a huge amount of apathy regarding gun violence in general, and innocent children getting shot.

Americans gathered today to mourn the tragic loss of life after two mass shootings over the weekend.

Alabama state Sen. Clyde Chambliss ushered the abortion bill through the chamber. "Even if its origins are in very difficult situations, that life is still precious," the Republican said in explaining his support for the bill. https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/alabama-abortion-bill/h_8f3c684e00c1788009169368efe3b1f0 ---------------------------------------------------------- Alabama is an open carry state as well. This means that a person can openly carry a handgun without any type of permit or license. Places that are prohibited by state law still apply as "off limits" to any person who is open carrying a handgun. However, you can't open carry in a vehicle without a permit.  - Apr 29, 2015 I was going to list the shootings in Alabama's recent history, but the list was quite lengthy. Here are the "Mass Shootings" so far in 2019   Today is May 15, 2019 Remember everyone, life is precious in Alabama.

If you own a car, you have to have a title for it. It doesn't matter if it is new from a dealer, or you bought a 12-year-old-beater from uncle Frank, you have to have a title. But with a gun (i.e. a tool created exclusively to kill or simulate killing—as in target practice), I can buy one from anyone's uncle Frank; no questions asked. This seems odd to me. I don't believe for a minute, that a law making titles mandatory would be able to account for all of the privately owned (or possessed) firearms. Nor do I believe that a title would be the first step in the government taking anyone's guns away. It would, however, make people accountable for their own guns. Yes, I agree we should keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. But how are you going to do that when they can buy one from a private party with no background check? So far, Doing Nothing has only resulted in continued and increasing gun violence and death . Isn't it time to at least try to do somethin...

Trying to make a point, someone recently said that if guns kill, then spoons make people fat. That's hilarious. What else if funny is that the USA has more civilian owned guns than any other country (also per capita), it leads the world in mass shootings, it also leads other high-income countries in gun homicides, and half of its citizens still care more about their guns than children being shot to death in their schools. How US gun culture compares with the world in five charts