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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Control’
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, &[...]
July 5th, 2022 - 9:30 am § in Politics
Western Colorado elected an idiot to Congress
Gun freak Lauren Boebert (R-CO) made a ridiculous remark about mass shootings, and got a swift education in gun facts. Read story here. But if she’s stupid, check out this Illinois candidate. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
How Texas plans to prevent more school shootings
“Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a ‘mental health challenge’ and the state needed to ‘do a better job with mental health,'” NBC News reported on Monday, June 20, 2022. Then added, “— yet in April he slashed $211 million from t[...]
June 16th, 2022 - 1:07 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Poll shows Uvalde is changing Texas voters’ minds
Was the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting the straw that broke the camel’s back? In Congress, it may finally stir GOP senators to end their blockade of even modest gun legislation. Meanwhile, the murder of 19 elementary students by an angry youth with an AR-15 appears to be causing a discernible [...]
June 9th, 2022 - 2:28 pm § in Politics
Nearly all House Republicans vote “no” on red-flag gun law
The House passed a bill today with almost no Republican votes “to nationalize red flag laws, which seek to keep guns away from individuals deemed a threat to themselves and others,” The Hill reported on Thursday, June 9, 2022 (read story here). This one seems like a no-brainer; 19 states[...]
June 7th, 2022 - 1:37 am § in Politics
Assault rifle age to stay 18
GOP Senate gun bill negotiators refuse to raise age limit on assault rifles. Read story here Related story: A post-Uvalde poll here says 44% of Republicans believe their “freedom” to own guns requires us to accept mass shootings as a part of daily life. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
June 6th, 2022 - 2:18 pm § in Politics
Representative democracy in Texas, mass shootings edition
In a representative democracy, you elect someone to represent you. Not in Texas. Following the 2019 mass shootings in El Paso and Santa Fe, and the 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, the GOP-controlled legislature has decided to study gun violence. The lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, has appointed a [...]