Small comfort that the latest mass murderer was a U.S. Citizen

[UTUSN]

It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what wingnut hysteria would be unleashed if it had been an undocumented immigrant.

The seminal event for the U.S. wasn’t the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, it was ***SALEM, Massachusetts***. The unhinged, insane, malignant religiosity of mob hysteria that has popped up periodically ever since in different guises of hatred – towards “Others” of other beliefs, foreigners, or races, boogeymen.

So the Wingnuts are about nothing if not about demonizing outsiders and attempting to impose THEIR personal BELIEF systems and “choices” on everybody else. Whether on being anti-Choice or on their so-called “Second Amendment rights” they impose and dictate.

So RESOLVED: That any criminal shootings that happen be classified as WINGNUT killers, irrespective of race, ethnicity, ideology, or religion.

And what “solution” do the Texas wingnuts bandy about? Why, naturally, as their criminal “attorney general” Ken PAXTON immediately barfed out (again): To ARM teachers. They/wingnuts in Texas (Texas Texas Texas) have already set this up on the home front in legislation. If the shooter had been an Undocumented, their front would have been a nationwide SALEM hysteria.

A reporter asked PAXTON, “MORE guns (instead of FEWER)?”

A modest, common sense plan for gun management would be something like Drivers Licensing: Screening, training, testing, time-limited permits subject to review and renewal (or terminated, or not renewed).

Perhaps it could appeal to the Wingnut gun nuts if they realized a whole new industry of screeners and trainers would BOOM (so to speak). They love programs that have boondoggles attached (like "walls" or wars for enterprising contractors).

[Frustratedlady]

1. Add another responsibility to the load teachers already carry?

After the restrictions and additional responsibilities added to the local teaching staff, this year, there are now 35 teachers leaving the high school by either retirements, quitting education completely or moving on; all teachers but one on the 2nd floor of a local jr. high and 3 principals...so far.

Carry guns in school by teachers--those people the students trust the most? Talk about confusing to their young minds. Are guns OK or not? Hmmm!

There were 2 teachers in Uvalde who tried to protect their students with their bodies. Wasn't that a big enough target for you, Paxton? They can't be carrying/aiming guns and leading their children to safety at the same time. Have you ever been threatened by a madman carrying a monster killing machine?

Idiot!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Pretty much all of them have been...nt

[UTUSN]

6. But this one was near the wingnut-fabled*Border* -would have made their Border hysteria explode more

[Kid Berwyn]

3. The GOP bastards tried to blame "El Salvadoran"

[llmart]

4. Little innocent children are dead while this asshole is still allowed to breath?

This is why I'll never be able to believe in some pie-in-the-sky, loving "God".

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Makes no sense, unless life is some sort of test.

We get a chance to exist in a truly marvelous universe, on a planet that is ideally suited for our species, at the top of the food chain as human beings. What we do with that — a miracle or circumstance— is what counts. Do we try to make life better, help others, build a better world or do we live to grab all we can, whenever we can, no matter who we hurt and what we destroy?

Otherwise, for what purpose is all the suffering?

[llmart]

7. "or do we live to grab all we can, whenever we can"...

This has been our country's mantra since Reagan. Greed is good, every man for himself, damned the consequences.

As a very young woman, President Carter had a very strong influence on me when he talked about conservation and non-materialism, as did my parents. I have lived my life in voluntary simplicity, the key word being "voluntary". I am grateful for what I have and quite frankly, at 73 there is nothing more that I need in the way of "stuff". You would think people would finally understand that it's not the stuff you own that defines you. It's how you leave the world when you depart it.