Will Bunch: Don't be 'horrified and heartbroken' at Uvalde. Get mad as hell and do something.

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What are you willing to risk when the present becomes intolerable? Some Dems like Beto O'Rourke are finally showing the unvarnished rage that millions feel over the carnage in Uvalde. It's time to join them, and do something.

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Don’t be ‘horrified and heartbroken’ at Uvalde. Get mad as hell and do something. | Will Bunch
While blood-soaked lawmakers were "horrified and heartbroken" at Uvalde, Beto O'Rourke and Ruben Gallego brought rage. Let's join them.
5:21 AM · May 26, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/uvalde-shooting-anger-beto-orourke-20220526.html

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It was starting to get obvious that “thoughts and prayers” weren’t really working — not with some 185 kids and teachers dead and 369 wounded in shootings at 331 American schools in the 23 years since the Columbine massacre birthed the catchphrase, used most often by lawmakers desperate to wash the NRA-sponsored bloodstains off their corrupt hands.

After learning late Tuesday that a troubled 18-year-old who celebrated his birthday by legally buying two semiautomatic murder machines had gunned down 19 fourth graders and their two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, leaving corpses so badly mangled they could only be identified with DNA, the best minds of today’s Republican Party and a few Democratic enablers needed a new approach.

Something sensible like raising the legal mass-killing-machine purchase age to 21 — like for a can of Bud Light? Heaven forbid.

Even the stuff we call “common sense” gun laws like stronger background checks were a bridge too far. (“Common sense” being America’s euphemism for tepid and only somewhat effective.) Instead, America’s Top Cowards™ used the Uvalde massacre to workshop a brand-new slogan: “horrified and heartbroken.”

At 5:17 p.m. Tuesday, Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Second Amendment zealot who won her seat in 2018 with a whopping $1.25 million in donations from the NRA, tweeted that she was “[h]orrified and heartbroken to learn of the significant loss of life” in Texas.

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1. until we have a clear dem majority....

nothing will happen. repubs are beyond hope....corrupt as hell...