'We Can't Endure This': Surge in U.S. Shootings Shows No Sign of Easing

[billh58]

On Friday night in Louisiana, a seven-month-old baby was shot in the head, caught in the crossfire during a drive-by shooting. In Norfolk, Va., an argument early Saturday over a spilled drink escalated into gunfire outside a pizzeria, killing two people, including a young reporter for the local newspaper.

Later that same day in the Arkansas farming town of Dumas, an annual car show and community event to promote nonviolence became a bloody crime scene after a gunfight broke out, killing one and injuring more than two dozen people, including several children.

And in Miami Beach, where spring break revelers have descended, officials this week declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew after a pair of weekend shootings.

All told, in a single weekend when the calendar turned to spring, there were at least nine mass shooting events — defined by at least four people shot — across the country, as well as many more with fewer victims. It was an ominous harbinger for the warmer summer months ahead, which is typically America’s most violent time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-cant-endure-this-surge-in-us-shootings-shows-no-sign-of-easing/ar-AAVoNrV?li=BBnb7Kz

And yet, right wing gun worshipers around the country continue to make it easier to obtain and publicly carry the very guns that are then used to maim and kill our children, family, and neighbors. The blood money paid to corrupt politicians to pass legislation legalizing vigilantism and mass murder so the gun industry can reap obscene profits is the root of the problem. The gun lobby, and its Republican puppets, promote a domestic arms race by perverting the actual meaning of the U.S. Constitution and use it as a marketing ploy: "they're coming for your guns."

As long as we're being accused of "coming for their guns," why not make their false claims come true? A gun roundup modeled on Australia's solution sounds about right.

[Blues Heron]

1. An armed society is an ultra-violent society

this is just nutty what we have here. Somehow we have to dig ourselves out of this pit the humpers have dug for us.

[Chainfire]

2. "Coming for their guns" is the best pro-gun marketing tool ever invented.

No one has the courage to institute meaningful gun control. It can only happen after the SC rules on the meaning of the term "Militia."
Until then, we can stay at home or buy bulletproof vests to wear with our masks. States are knocking down, what little sensible gun laws that were on the books, and they are doing it every day.

Right wingers are convinced that they need guns to take the government and the country back from non-Christians, people of color and liberals. That is why they have closets full of guns and thousands or rounds of ammo. All that they need to begin a purge is a Reichstag fire and charismatic leader who will call them to arms to save the country. Perhaps that was what Trump had in mind. The right wingers will come for you and your family with a bible in their pocket a flag in one hand and an AR in the other. I know these people, I spent a career in construction; I have lived in earshot of them long enough to know how they think.

Contrary to what the "Good Book" says, the meek shall not inherit the earth.

[The Jungle 1]

3. "A well regulated militia"

The NRA refuses to even acknowledge that the 2nd amendment says that.

[AndyS]

4. IT TAKES MONEY

Bitchin' and moanin' ain't gettin' us nowhere.

Fight by their rules, buy a congresscritter. I can't do it by myself and neither can any one of us but with a little help for tens of thousands of friends it happens.

Stand up. If not us, who? Fight back.

[billh58]

5. Great link!

Thanks Andy...