A Word on Mass Shootings: For the Right, mass shootings are a feature, not a bug.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://medium.com/ctrlaltrightdelete/a-word-on-mass-shootings-6dd5cbe18bb8

For the Right, mass shootings are a feature, not a bug.

I’m tired of dancing around this. Because it’s true of the people in power and the MAGA base that supports them. Mass shootings are a tactic of the Right. Deployed to terrorize Americans. Priming America for authoritarianism. The Right doesn’t stop mass shootings or work to curb gun culture.

I’ve seen the polling showing that most American voters support gun control. But I’ve also seen the local activists and parents on the Right terrorize school boards and local communities for the past couple of years over masks, trans students, and critical race theory. These same folks could easily organize a similar response on gun safety. They choose not to. Because they don’t want it to stop.

America generally doesn’t value human life much these days. Both the Associated Press and the New York Times have covered our country’s indifference to mass death as straight news and questioned if we as a nation value human life at all. These articles acknowledge the reality that there’s no moral outrage or social movement that’s come from these tragic, preventable deaths. The Right chooses to let mass death continue, and frankly, the rest of us haven’t put up as much of a fight as we should.

I’ve known this about America since Sandy Hook. But as a parent, I feel it so much more intensely. Last week parents across the US were reminded, yet again, that there’s no system in place to keep their children or their teachers safe at school. That the best schools can offer are active shooter drills that don’t actually help. That law enforcement won’t enter the building to stop an active shooter loose in an elementary school. That Congress is fully aware of how many mass shootings there are in the US and how other countries don’t have this problem but still does nothing.

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[ck4829]

1. K&R

[usonian]

2. A feature? Nay, part of a PLAN.

Chaos means weak government, and that means little or no regulation of oligarchs. Period.
It's exactly the Nazi Germany playbook

Normalize hate and violence.
Stochastic terrorism.
Bring down elected government.

IT CAN BE STOPPED.

THIS IS NOT 1938 GERMANY.

I posted the above in response to Umair Haque's apocalyptic article (I think they all are), noted here:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16762019

My longer response:
https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16762063
Things Have Causes

And in it, I give some excellent references, including the series in DailyKos
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/6/2044226/-America-2021-The-Good-the-Bad-the-Ugly
“Democracy in Crisis: We’ve Been Headed Here for Decades.” Part 1of 8
Read all 8 to get the "plan" in detail.
I strongly recommend doing so.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[IngridsLittleAngel]

4. A feature, not a bug... exactly right

I've been saying this for a long time, too. Why not? The QOP is now a terrorist organization. One that uses threats or actual violence (assaults, riots, guns, bombs) to try to bully us and get what they want. A so-called "party" that speaks of "second amendment solutions."

What we're seeing in 2022? Everything going as the QOP wants it to. And why I was far more scared of Republicans 20 years ago than I was of Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein.