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NanceGreggs

(27,819 posts)
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 12:31 AM Nov 2022

Rinse & Repeat

Republicans allow firearms to be sold to anyone who wants them - including the emotionally unstable, the mentally unfit, right-wing whack-jobs, and the easily-led.

Republicans then incite violence through hateful rhetoric, encouraging citizens to see each other as enemies.

Yet another mass shooting occurs.

Republicans offer 'thoughts and prayers' to the victims' families - OR demonize the victims if they are brown, non-Christian, and/or gay.

Republicans then go on a tirade about the rise in violent crime, which is somehow the fault of Democrats - as always.

Yet another mass shooting occurs.

Rinse & repeat ...

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Rinse & Repeat (Original Post) NanceGreggs Nov 2022 OP
If they didn't allow... StarryNite Nov 2022 #1
That's who they are Sister! OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2022 #2
Spot on and to the point. The cycle repeats itself over and over. brush Nov 2022 #3
K&R for viz Blue Owl Nov 2022 #4
Same As It Ever Was DET Nov 2022 #5
If you keep bouncing on a tree limb, in sync with its resulting motion, it will eventually break. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2022 #6

StarryNite

(9,460 posts)
1. If they didn't allow...
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 12:36 AM
Nov 2022

"emotionally unstable, the mentally unfit, right-wing whack-jobs, and the easily-led" to buy guns no Republicans would have firearms.

brush

(53,896 posts)
3. Spot on and to the point. The cycle repeats itself over and over.
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 01:16 AM
Nov 2022

Australia rid itself of its gun problem in the '90s and the mass shootings just about stopped.

It's not that hard, but the will is not there as firearms industry, republican clients, can't afford to lose sells into a nation already awash with guns.

There are 120 guns for every 100 Americans, according to the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey (SAS). No other nation has more civilian guns than people.


Hermit-The-Prog

(33,449 posts)
6. If you keep bouncing on a tree limb, in sync with its resulting motion, it will eventually break.
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 08:28 AM
Nov 2022

The Gangsters Of Putin and the U.S. Taliban, directed by Fascist Oligarch eXtremists, seek to break democracy.

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