poll<\/a> indicating that almost half the Republicans in this country say that America has to passively accept mass shootings and do nothing about them. That is both insane and suicidal. But it is consistent with being a true-believing member of the cult that is today\u2019s Republican Party.<\/p>\nThese people identify as members of the political party that has taken do-nothingism as its de facto platform. Today\u2019s Republican Party doesn\u2019t offer solutions. It opposes solutions and callously makes problems worse so it can use them to pit us against one another.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Republican Party never, ever, never <\/i>offers a solution for anything. When it gets in power, it uses that power to attack public education and dismantle our institutions, cut taxes for the rich, shuffle money to Republican apologist clergy and make life harder and more dangerous for the rest of us. Every single time today\u2019s Republicans get in power, we end up in a train wreck.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nTheir last time in power ended with them attempting to overturn a presidential election and install a psychopathic nut job as America\u2019s first dictator. They have not stopped fomenting unrest since. Mass shootings play into their strategy of tearing America apart so that they can convince people to put them in power.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe idea that we can\u2019t do anything about mass shootings except offer up our lives and the lives of our kids for slaughter is a Republican lie. It keeps the focused, guns-are-the-only-issue Republican base calm and feeds into the do-nothingism that helps the party keep its more sane faithful from revolting against its pathological destructiveness. Only an idiot, or someone who was afraid to let themselves think outside the Republican box, would believe it. But then, that\u2019s kinda the point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIt takes a lot of denial and fantastical thinking to stay inside this Republican box. But I would bet that not one of the Republicans who gave that answer to the pollster is so brainwashed that they are willing to give up their <\/i>lives to a mass shooter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThey won\u2019t let themselves consider that one day it could be them hiding under the table and praying for God to forgive their sins and take them to heaven if that shooter standing over the woman a few feet away and pumping bullets into her turns and starts firing at them. They block any thought that it could be them, waiting in a school gym for the coroner to identity the bodies and tell them that their child is dead, shot beyond recognition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThey know it\u2019s going to happen again. But they think it\u2019s going to happen to you. They think the carnage will stay on right wing media where the talking heads make up lies about how the whole thing was staged or it was really the victim\u2019s fault for not locking a door, or that abortion caused it or that the libs set it off with their gay marriage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThey believe that it\u2019s the victim\u2019s bad luck for praying at the wrong church, or attending the wrong school, or working at the wrong job or eating at the wrong MacDonald\u2019s or shopping at the wrong store or going to the wrong club or concert or movie or walking down the wrong street. It\u2019s just their bad luck, and yes, we feel sorry for the victims unless their families and the survivors decide to get annoying about it and start advocating for change, then they, not the shooter, become the enemy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAlmost half the registered Republicans in these United States are evidently fine with letting mass shootings continue. I would guess that these same Republicans would also tell you that they are pro life.<\/p>\n
The truth is, we can stop a lot of the shootings by simply making it illegal for anyone under 21 to purchase,\u00a0<\/span>own or have free access to a rifle or a gun. We can pass laws making it illegal for anyone under 21 to use a rifle or gun unless they are under the supervision of a licensed adult who has legal responsibility for what the minor does with the weapon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nWe can pass background checks and waiting periods to buy guns and limit open carry. We can use tax laws to limit weapons of war the same way this country stopped free access to machine guns in the 1930s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNobody wants to take away the detective special you carry in your purse for protection, or the hunting rifle you use once a year. Nobody wants to stop you from owning guns. I say that as a gun-owner who grew up with guns and who supports the 2nd<\/sup> Amendment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nBut we\u2019ve got to do something to stop these killings. And we can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe crazy nonsense that we can\u2019t do anything is just that. It\u2019s crazy nonsense. The fact that almost half the registered Republicans in this country are willing to accept repeated mass slaughter is an indictment of them as people and of the political party that taught them to think in such a fatalistic, passive, brainwashed way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 All you have to fear is being shot anywhere you go.\u00a0 Internet meme. Today\u2019s Republican Party is not the Republican Party of yesteryear. That Republican Party ended slavery, built the interstate highway system, organized the mass vaccination against polio, worked with Democrats to form a united front in the Cold War, backed the Equal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1155,"featured_media":40016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8220,2194,551,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","category-gqp","category-gun-control-2","category-gun-violence-2","category-pro-life","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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