“School had just started for the year on Monday,” the CNN story begins (here). “A suspect approached the victim, 17, during dismissal. The encounter became heated, and the suspect … also 17, shot at the victim multiple times …. School police performed CPR on the studen[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Control’
August 30th, 2022 - 7:06 pm § in Law and Courts
What America can do about guns right now
I’m not talking about overcoming the very difficult hurdles of the Supreme Court and Senate filibuster to pass new laws. I’m saying enforce the laws we already have. “The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed,” CNN says. “Inci[...]
August 28th, 2022 - 1:24 pm § in Politics
Texas lets anyone have a gun
No state is more gun-crazy, or less restrictive on guns, than Texas. In the wake of the Uvalde school massacre, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, ignored calls by victims’ families for gun reforms (see story here). Now there’s another Texas gun carnage to talk about. A Houston man whoR[...]
Ron DeSantis’s hypocrisy
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis (photo, left), who wants to be president, suspended Tampa’s twice-elected Democratic prosecutor on Thursday, August 4, 2022, “for pledging not to enforce the state’s new 15-week abortion ban and for supporting gender-affirming treatments for minorsR[...]
August 4th, 2022 - 2:36 pm § in Law and Courts
A sociopath’s right to bear arms shall not be infringed
Michael Morgan isn’t unique; sociopaths like him are the bread-and-butter of New York tabloids. Two years ago, Morgan, then 18 years old, came out of an apartment building shooting. He missed the intended victim, but killed the victim’s companion. He got away with that crime at the time,[...]
July 27th, 2022 - 4:36 pm § in Politics
This was bound to happen
On Thursday, July 21, 2022, a Michigan Home Depot customer “reached for his wallet and accidentally grabbed his gun,” and shot himself “in the rear end.” (Story here.) When this hit the news, a debate raged on the HorsesAss.org blog (more or less here) about whether this is f[...]
July 27th, 2022 - 12:13 pm § in Misc.
Guns are now a driving accessory in Texas
Police say the victim, who had a 2-year-old toddler in his car, may have cut off the other driver. Be that as it may, the other driver followed the victim, then when the vehicles stopped got out of his truck and assaulted the victim while his passenger shot into the back window. Her second shot [&he[...]
July 20th, 2022 - 10:18 pm § in Politics
America’s crazy gun culture
A customer at a McDonald’s in Midvale, Utah, pulled a gun on an employee at the drive-through window “over an issue regarding his order.” When police came to arrest him, he didn’t comply with their orders to exit his car, so they opened the door and pulled him out. That’[...]
July 18th, 2022 - 9:41 pm § in Politics
Gun safety lesson
“On the same day four people were killed in a mass shooting at an Indiana mall, and less than two months after a mass shooter at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, slaughtered 19 children and two teachers,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) tweeted his opinion of any renewed effort to regul[...]
Had enough of this yet?
Republicans talk about responsibility; let’s make them practice it. They had a chance to ban assault weapons, or at least raise the age for buying them. They refused. Solution? Vote against them until they straighten out. (Note: Conservatives are explicit about why they, as private citizens, &[...]