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If mass shootings are a mental health issue,
why did Republicans defund mental health?
The NRA and gun manufacturers certainly do “add value” to society
by contributing tens if not hundreds of millions to the campaign chests of unprincipled Republicans. How can little children compete with that? We’re all waiting for an explanation from the Quickly “Add Value” troll.
Probably 99% of these shooters were “law-abiding citizens”
up until the moment when they started pulling the trigger.
Some people are more concerned with legislation for same-sex couples filled with love, than they are about legislation for gunmen filled with hate. Someone please explain.
Many federal and state law enforcement agencies are pleading with Congress to ban military assault weapons because police are often outgunned by mass shooters with body armor and assault weapons. Republicans, you claim to support law enforcement. So put your money where your mouth is. Support law enforcement. Ban military assault weapons. Now.
I know how we can solve or at least get our minds from being preoccupied
with these inflationary times. We complain about high food and gas prices. We claim that we can barely make it from paycheck to paycheck. Pass the tissue. Apparently, we just had a one-day cure for our stress. During the Memorial Day holiday, we ate, traveled, partied and shopped like there would be no tomorrow! In fact, the airlines could not handle all of their ticket sales. This is significant because the price of tickets were almost double from two years ago. Perhaps, inflation would have no meaning if we could declare a national holiday on a weekly basis throughout the year! Sounds silly but you can’t deny what we just witnessed!
P-T, thanks for the excellent columns by Paul Krugman and David Brooks.
But could you run them more often? Krugman is a Nobel prize winning professor of economics and a Democrat. Brooks is a New York Times columnist and a Republican. Neither are radicals. Both men are highly intelligent, but most of all, honest in their opinions. Neither just parrots party talking points. They tell the truth in a thoughtful way.
They both use reason and common sense to address their topics. If you read both frequently, you will get an intelligent perspective from the Republican and Democrat point of view. Remember, truth strengthens democracy, lies undermine it.
Since we can’t ban mental illness,
we’ll have to ban assault weapons.
It’s become a pattern of Republican behavior.
Two Republican House members, one from Texas and one from Florida, have been accused by the Office of Congressional Ethics of flaunting the “Stock Act,” which requires that members of Congress report security trades of more than $1000 within 45 days of the transaction. The House member
from Florida is in fact a member of the Congressional Ethics Committee! The one from Texas has a record of doing this repeatedly, even after having been warned, and has refused to cooperate with any investigation. A third GOP member, this one from New York, was also accused of the same transgression, but his case was dismissed when a tie
vote (the committee is half Democrat, half Republican) meant that his case could not move forward. Madison Cawthorn, you might recall, is also being investigated currently for possible corruption in a Bitcoin scam. And these are just cases that have come to light.