We need to stop saying stand up to the gun lobby and start naming the names owned by the NRA

[onecaliberal]

The Texas Governor and Senator will speak at the NRA convention in two days. Republicans love guns more than children. They are not pro life and we need to start calling a spade a spade.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Steve Kerr named Moscow Mitch

[underpants]

4. The PA announcer at the Dallas Golden State game

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216723115

NBA PA announcer just about broke a few minutes ago.

The PA announcer at the Dallas-Golden State game was clearly breaking up.
He asked for a moment of silence for a teacher killed in a car wreak driving two students to an event. Then he started mentioning the shooting today.
You could hear it very clearly. Several times his voice cracked and there were noticeable pauses.
The game is in Dallas.


It just happened so I don’t know if there’s video of it yet.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Watching the game now, will look for that.

It is time for people to become ENRAGED

[underpants]

7. Lots of comments on twitter but I haven't seen a video of it yet.

[underpants]

9. Here you go. 1:19 in length

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Thanks, he means well but he lumped the NON TRAGEDY in with actual tragedies

As in something that is unpreventable is a tragedy, these are preventable.

Language is important, we need George Carlin.

[RockRaven]

2. The amount of money most of these Repukes who vote against gun control get from the NRA

is a pittance. Lots of these fuckers do the NRA's bidding without even being bought off properly. It's the whole fucking party. Sick murderous bastards.

[Frasier Balzov]

3. It's entirely possible that the American People believe that tragedies are worth the risk.

Ask every candidate to answer yes or no, do guns and ammunition belong in the hands of the public.

See how their answers affect their chances.

Those who answer no probably won't do so well!

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. This is NOT a tragedy, a tragedy is an unpreventable event like a hurricane or fire started

by lightning.

These are 100% preventable and are NOT tragedies. We need to say that over and over.

[onecaliberal]

8. I agree, I said it earlier. It's not a tragedy.

[Frasier Balzov]

11. So substitute the word atrocity for tragedy. Does it change the electoral result?

If the American People believe that guns and ammunition belong in the hands of the public, then politicians who oppose that concept are not long for public life.

Perhaps not long for life itself if any such politician were ever elected, because they would probably get shot by a paranoid gun lover!

If the gun lobby is effective, it's only because the majority of voters agree that their "freedom" to bear arms is worth the occasional atrocity.

There is no other way to explain the lack of effective pushback.

Grieve and move on is the consensus view.