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NewHendoLib

(60,015 posts)
Thu May 26, 2022, 06:24 PM May 2022

White hot anger at what is happening with guns must be

Loud and sustained and greater than the money and power the NRA is holding over craven politicians.

The only way ahead is to find a way to end the so-called careers of the enablers. And that is going to be damn hard, if not impossible.

Sadness, grief, important but doesn't solve anything. It has to be sustained, action-causing anger

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Irish_Dem

(47,131 posts)
1. The GOP slaughter of children and telling us nothing can be done serves one purpose.
Thu May 26, 2022, 06:28 PM
May 2022

That purpose is to break the back of this country. To completely demoralize us into permanent submission.

It is the same thing Putin is doing by raping and murdering toddlers.

IcyPeas

(21,889 posts)
2. keep asking WHY IS THIS AN AMERICAN problem. Cruz couldn't answer THAT question. keep asking them
Thu May 26, 2022, 06:28 PM
May 2022

cruz disgusting piece of shit at 2:00 minutes. couldn't answer the question. call this a prosperous country. He is prosperous with all the NRA money he gets.

msongs

(67,413 posts)
6. foreign media particularly the brits are not as wimply as american media. they go for the throat nt
Thu May 26, 2022, 06:35 PM
May 2022

elleng

(130,970 posts)
4. LOTS of money has to be overcome.
Thu May 26, 2022, 06:30 PM
May 2022

Where Senate Republicans Stand on Gun Legislation

The New York Times reached out on Wednesday and Thursday to all 50 Republicans in the Senate to see whether they would support a pair of House-passed measures to strengthen background checks for gun buyers. Within hours of the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Senate Democrats moved quickly to clear the way for possible votes on the two bills.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/25/us/gun-control-republican-senators.html?

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