Jeff Tiedrich tweet of the morning:

[tblue37]

Jeff Tiedrich
@itsJeffTiedrich
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that "are children's lives more important than guns" is even a topic of debate in America, holy fucking shit, no wonder the rest of the world thinks we've lost our fucking minds

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

1. It's worse than that

guns propagate exponentially faster than kids

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. Fortunately guns can't make more guns.

Yet.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Regretfully

the mass of this breed of gun owners can and do propagate and produce many many more generations of gun owning fanatics.....

[calimary]

11. Don't worry. They'll find a way.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Indeed! nt

[KS Toronado]

4. "are children's lives more important than guns"

That's a good question to ask gun humpers.

[calimary]

12. Well, Game ON, then.

Maybe we should make a habit of referring to guns as DEATH TOYS. And MASSACRE MACHINES. The word “guns” is much too tidy and doesn’t fully illustrate the monstrousness of them.

Guns aren’t designed to plow fields.
Guns aren’t designed to start cars.
Guns aren’t designed to shed light.
Guns aren’t designed for transport.
Guns aren’t designed for building.
Guns aren’t designed for designing.
Guns aren’t designed for engineering.
Guns aren’t designed for piloting.
Guns aren’t designed for dancing.
Guns aren’t designed for feeding.
And despite what the gun fetishists out there would try to convince you,
Guns aren’t designed for raising children.
They ARE, however, designed for MURDERING children. And rather efficiently, too.

Guns are designed FOR KILLING.

[KS Toronado]

14. Noticed you're doing what I've been saying for awhile now

ie: MASSACRE MACHINES, been saying we should quit using the term "school shooting" and instead
use "SCHOOL MASSACRE", every mass shooting should use the term MASSACRE, "shooting" kinda
whitewashes it. When is the next "WALMART MASSACRE" gonna happen?

[calimary]

15. Yep. WORDS can be our weapons.

And you can take words EVERYWHERE, including places where guns are supposedly banned.

And you can write them down ON something - to be seen by and have influence on many others after you’re long gone.

I once heard a gunner tell me that it wasn’t a gun he was holding. It was “an attitude-adjustment device.”

Well, true that. But so are words. And words do it without death, maiming, crippling, widowhood or orphaning.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Wrong, Jeff. The world is disgusted because the US had already decided.

Kids are to be slaughtered with impunity and we will do nothing about it.

[ananda]

6. This has been true at least since Sandy Hook (maybe Columbine).

Gawd we're fucked!

[Irish_Dem]

7. Yep. Truely fucked.

[calimary]

17. Sad, and sadly true.

I’m not used to feeling embarrassed about being an American.

But right now, it’s something I’m not proud of. And especially not proud of myself, for my inability to do anything about it. Except maybe to rant, and maybe thereby offering even just a measly bit of solidarity to others who feel the same way I do. And to try to think up ways to sharpen the messaging.

But I’m not the President. And hell, even the guy who IS President can’t do much of anything either. Even when his heart and mind are both in the same place.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Yes a time of deep, profound American shame and disgrace.

I can only hang my head and feel disgusted.

There is really no difference between us and the Germans in WWII who full well knew about the concentration camps in their towns and did nothing.
(The concentration camp crematoriums smokestack blew out pieces of skin
which covered the town occupants.)

We have had a million covid deaths due by GOP deliberate plan, thousands of deaths per year due to gun violence, poverty, inadequate health care etc.
All occurring in the richest country in the history of the world.

POTUS works for the American people who choose to do nothing.

[Leith]

8. Gun humpers have a ready made answer to that question

"My 2nd amendment rights trump your dead kid."

That's it - the words they live by and the children die by. How freakin' sicko is that?

America HAS lost its mind and we're stuck in the asylum with them.

[towerbum]

13. gut , it can be repealed!

[calimary]

18. And they're reading it wrong.

They willfully sidestep the “well-regulated militia” part.

They ignore even the “well-regulated” part.

And they WAY misunderstand the “militia” part.

[czarjak]

9. Inevitable injustice inflicted intentionally. They expect us to "relax and enjoy it".

[Orrex]

16. A FB friend posted something to prove that she totally didn't get the point

"I own guns to keep my babies safe."

Great, but that's not the question, is it? The first question is "if you had to give up your children in order to keep your guns?"

And the second question is "would you give up your children so that somebody else can keep their guns?"

[Martin68]

19. The rest of the world would be right.

[spanone]

21. ...K&R...

[Skittles]

22. indeed

it is sickening

[modrepub]

23. Slightly Off The Mark

IMO it should be "Are gun manufacture's profits more important than children's lives?" (And I changed the order to reflect the priority being emphasized)

After all, that's what this is all about. More guns don't make it safer, if anything, more guns equate to more civilian casualties. But, more gun sales mean more profits for gun manufacturers and gun merchants.