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Over the past decade, the odds of an American dying by gunshot vs. Islamic extremist terrorist attack is over 2,000 to 1. Yet we cower in fear and give up our civil liberties over the 1, and do nothing about the 2,000.
Until a high-ranking politician loses a loved one by one of these school shootings, don’t expect anything to ever change.
As a society, our first priority should not be to keep our prison population low, but to keep dangerous felons behind bars.
I wonder what color the sky is on Trumpworld. I also wonder what’s different there that allows a growing pile of evidence that Donald Trump and his entourage engaged in illegal campaign activities with a foreign government that has already been found to have meddled with our election constitutes a witch hunt. Final question to Trump supporters: what will it take to get you to finally wake up to the fact that that man is a criminal? And please note, answers with ” Clinton ” or ” Obama ” won’t be accepted.
It looks like the first casualties from the Russian witch hunt are going to be Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. I don’t think this is what the Democrats had in mind when they created the endeavor!
Americans now completely accept random acts of mass gun violence as the price they must pay so that they can own guns and carry them anywhere, anyplace and at anytime. All to protect them against other people with guns. This is what you call “Free-dumb”
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the Lake Michigan shoreline is open to everyone. Really, the audacity of some of these homeowners thinking that because they have a home on the beach, they can restrict anyone from using the shoreline. Go buy a private island.
During an appearance before the House Budget Committee, Mick Mulvaney estimated the price tag for a military parade in the nation’s capital would fall between $10 million and $30 million, depending on the size, scope and length of the affair. Are these people nuts? Clearly they are.
There was $104 million left over in the inaugural fund. Nobody knew what has happened to that money. Now Trump claims that $26 million was paid to an adviser pal of Mrs. Trump that runs an event planning service. Oh, how convenient!
Deeper even than the gun problem is this — boys are broken. Until we fix men, we need to fix the gun problem.
Someday, we will have a Congress that doesn’t want us to get gunned down at a concert, in our schools, or in our churches. But it won’t be this one. Not with this bunch of cowards. They won’t stand up to the NRA .
A member of the NRA invited Trump to the Kremlin on behalf of Putin right before the election. Right before that, the NRA sent a delegation to meet with Putin allies in Russia before spending $42.6 million in support of Trump. Coincidence?
Only members of our military need military grade weapons. Insecure, inadequate people use these big weapons to fill a big void in their lives.
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