tweet of the morn: it's been less than a day since a baby was shot in the face with an assault rifle

[Demovictory9]

Link to tweet

Good morning America. Just a reminder that it’s been less than a day since a baby was shot in the face with an assault rifle.
7:01 AM · Sep 1, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

[oasis]

1. That something for everyone to think very hard about. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Moscow Mitch, NRA and Benedict Donald...

...should think about this every second of every minute of their remaining time.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. Trouble is they will probably all get hard-ons.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Oh, come on!!!!!!!

You know their answer:


"It's too soon bullshit bullshit bullshit.............."

[Scarsdale]

12. "Thoughts and prayers"

There, that'll help, won't it? That has helped so very much before with all the other massacres. Besides, it is all the gop has in their arsenal.

[aeromanKC]

20. And some technical loophole B.S. as to why this wasn't an actual assault rifle

They seem to get off describing the technical aspects of the firearm.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

24. The distraction of word games

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. Russiapublicans will say more guns will solve the gun problem

[cstanleytech]

33. Don't be to hard on Moscow Mitch. After all its not easy being Putin's Bitch.

[CrispyQ]

5. The anti-choice crowd is out in force in the comments.

Because a clump of tissue in my uterus is the same as a living, breathing baby. ~ insert flip-the-bird smilie here

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I missed that story.

So many shootings, so little time to read them all.

On edit: That was one of those shot in Odessa yesterday. I had missed that specific detail. Still, it's hard to keep up.

[erronis]

7. I'm sure there's a factory making hopes and prayers for all the bereaved families.

It may be in China or in the NRA basement. I'm sure they offer discounts if you need to buy a lot of them.

[keithbvadu2]

11. Delivered

[Scarsdale]

13. No doubt

Iwanka tRump has the trademark for that expression.

[VOX]

21. Perfect.

Choice graphic for the never-ending cycle.

[rzemanfl]

8. Yes, now the little tyke is departed. I hope one DUer reads this.

Random murder has to be stopped.

[MontanaMama]

28. The little girl died?

Are you sure? I read that she’s badly wounded but not dead...oh I hope she’s not gone...

[Mike 03]

9. It's very powerful when physicians and health professionals speak on this issue.

Remember that "stay in your lane"/"This is our lane" exchange?

Surgeons: THIS IS OUR LANE.

When doctors speak it is the real deal; it falls like a ton of bricks into reality.

[yaesu]

10. I bet the US is responsible for shooting hundreds if not thousands of babies in the face with

assault rifles while carrying on 2, probably 3 illegal wars over the last 15 years.

[Scarsdale]

14. Yeah, but brown

and black ones do not seem to count with this gop. If they were wealthy donors, THEN would be the time for action.

[PatrickforO]

16. The shareholder primacy system of capitalism we've embraced

these last few decades is responsible for much of the carnage.

All the horrors we've inflicted on other nations, refugees, our own children, consumers, workers and the world itself - all these are directly attributable to our doctrine that shareholder profits are more important than life itself.

End this abusive form of capitalism by expanding the responsibility of corporations to include other stakeholders, and we won't cure the problems completely, but we'll all be a hell of a lot better off.

If you are interested, I recommend the 2012 Shareholder Value Myth, written by the late Lynn Stout, a Cornell University Law Professor. Also, the Roosevelt Institute in DC has some great papers about how shareholder primacy has driven up the prices of lifesaving drugs, resulted in busted unions, and put this planet on the path of uninhabitability.

The other thing this doctrine has given us is way more anxiety, depression and addictive behaviors, because humans aren't made to be 'rugged individualists pulling themselves up by the bootstraps' in a brutal dog-eat-dog world. That is a perverted and twisted way to even live. Humans are wired to help one another, to take care of their vulnerable, to act together for the common good.

So you end up with all this escapism: video games, porn, alcohol, opioids (capitalists making lots of PROFITS off those), sex, gambling and so on.

The sooner we grow up as a species and realize that since we are mortal, the lust for wealth and power is basically meaningless, so we're better off organizing ourselves around helping each other rather than greed, the better off this planet and ALL of its life will be.

[yaesu]

17. very true. nt

[PatrickforO]

15. I always like to look at the replies.

Just a couple of anti-abortion fanatics. And you know what?

They don't EVER get to take the moral high ground, ever again. Not after what we've seen in the Trump concentration camps. Babies ripped from their parents, lost in our foster system, put up for adoption and all the people housed in filthy cages. If these fanatics consider themselves at war with all other cultures, then these are WAR CRIMES.

As to the subject of this tweet, only three words - assault weapon ban.

[ZZenith]

27. Thank you for using the proper terminology of "anti-abortion"

instead of their self-chosen misnomer “pro-life.”

I have taken to calling them “anti-choice” to be even more descriptive.

[MadDAsHell]

18. The Cons will just default to abortion statistics. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Are you safer than you were 4 years ago?

It's very simple. Trump has failed at everything, and safety is the most basic thing.

[uponit7771]

22. +1

[aikoaiko]

26. I don't know if I'm any less safe.

I know homicides by shooting are still way down from the 1990s.

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Maybe they've moved from big cities to random burb targets

plus they are mass murders instead of Sat Night Specials often involving drugs. Maybe?

[HopeAgain]

23. Pledge: I will not vote for anyone

not in favor of banning assault weapons... regardless of party. Period.

[aikoaiko]

25. Yes, and its tragic, but would it be less tragic if it were from a shotgun or revolver?

Answer me that Dr Gu.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. shotguns and revolvers are not the weapons of choice for mass shootings

[aikoaiko]

36. Actually, I believe handguns are the weapon of choice of mass shootings.

Remember, the most deadly school shooting is Virginia Tech and the shooter used 2 handguns with 10 and 5 round magazines.

[hack89]

42. Handguns are in fact the choice of mass shooters

remember that mass shooting = 4 or more victims. Most workplace violence involves handguns.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. ...

Poway: AR-15
Aurora: AR-15
Dayton: AR-15
Odessa: AR-15
Orlando: AR-15
Parkland: AR-15
Las Vegas: AR-15
Tree of Life: AR-15
Sandy Hook: AR-15
Umpqua CC: AR-15
Waffle House: AR-15
Texas Church: AR-15
San Bernardino: AR-15

[hack89]

44. A very small portion of the total. Nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. Not less tragic, duh. Less likely to happen in the first place. . . . nt

[aikoaiko]

35. There is no reason to think that mass shooters won't switch to the next available weapon.

Remember, the most deadly school shooting is Virginia Tech and the shooter used 2 handguns with 10 and 5 round magazines.

Assault Weapons Bans is the least effect laws for reducing gun violence. But they make for great culture war battles.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. Forcing mass shooters to use less powerful weapons does some good.

At least it tends to reduce casualties.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. Banning assault weapons won't solve the problem. No single action will solve it. But that is no reason for inaction.

There is no rational reason action can't be taken on multiple fronts.

[aikoaiko]

39. I agree that reducing gun violence requires action on multiple fronts.

My issue is that an assault weapons ban that forces 20+ millions firearms to be turned in to save a few lives may be one of the least effective, most costly means of doing so. And by costly I mean at the expense of more productive laws, losing the Executive and Legislative branches.

Clinton, in his memoir, talked about how his AWB helped reorganize the NRA and cost the Democratic party.

[Paladin]

40. "action on multiple fronts"

I thought of asking you about that, but I've decided it's just not worth it. Carry on.

[aikoaiko]

41. I'll make it worth your while.

1. Universal background checks
2. Red flag laws
3. Raise age on some or all weapons to 21 of 25
4. Cap magazines at 30, maybe 25
5. Strengthen existing NICS check data processing
6. Safe storage laws

If something had to be done about so-called assault weapons, then allow an open and free NFA-like registration process.

[DeminPennswoods]

37. FTR, I believe it's now been

reported the baby was hit by a bullet fragment, not the whole bullet.