WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) released a statement on Sunday after multiple people were killed and injured in a shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas:
“The paralysis you feel right now – the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen – isn’t real. It’s a fiction created and methodically cultivated by the gun lobby, designed to assure that no laws are passed to make America safer, because those laws would cut into their profits. My heart sunk to the pit of my stomach, once again, when I heard of today’s shooting in Texas.
“My heart dropped further when I thought about the growing macabre club of families in Las Vegas and Orlando and Charleston and Newtown, who have to relive their own day of horror every time another mass killing occurs.
“None of this is inevitable. I know this because no other country endures this pace of mass carnage like America. It is uniquely and tragically American. As long as our nation chooses to flood the county with dangerous weapons and consciously let those weapons fall into the hands of dangerous people, these killings will not abate.
“As my colleagues go to sleep tonight, they need to think about whether the political support of the gun industry is worth the blood that flows endlessly onto the floors of American churches, elementary schools, movie theaters, and city streets. Ask yourself – how can you claim that you respect human life while choosing fealty to weapons-makers over support for measures favored by the vast majority of your constituents.
“My heart breaks for Sutherland Springs. Just like it still does for Las Vegas. And Orlando. And Charleston. And Aurora. And Blacksburg. And Newtown. Just like it does every night for Chicago. And New Orleans. And Baltimore. And Bridgeport. The terrifying fact is that no one is safe so long as Congress chooses to do absolutely nothing in the face of this epidemic. The time is now for Congress to shed its cowardly cover and do something.”
What has ‘church’ got to do with being armed?
If I’m up, I’m armed. If I go some place, I’m armed– and I don’t have enough education to understand what the signs on doors say. (If ya don’t believe me, just ask.)
Only a fool will encumber or entrust another with the lives of their self and loved ones.
The apparent bewilderment of the libtard chattering-classes is a good measure of the social isolation of the American bi-coastal culture where they live. Their mistake, and possibly the source of their bewilderment, comes from assuming that everyone else should think about guns and gun-ownership the way they do when, in fact, most Americans don’t think that way at all.
From a political standpoint, their constant blathering about guns reveals a curious combination of ignorance and arrogance that produces the phenomenon of “secondary-ignorance” —they simply don’t know that they don’t know. And, not knowing as much as they think they know, they end up answering questions nobody asked. Max Boot’s comments are redolent of this kind of ignorance.
Tell me more about the baseplates on those magazines please!
I am one of those single issue voters, in part because how a candidate stands on my gun rights largely tells me how he will support issues I care about. If my frequent missives on the subject stand to remind them how much my support for them depends on their support for gun rights, then so much the better!
This was a atheist motivated murder. He was a hate filled godless Christian hating bigot. And he was a socialist. He was like the Muslim terrorists. They both hate Christianity.
It is all software and electrons. The weak link will always be the user. A person may overlook the order to post something into a system, but the lack of communication between systems is inexcusable. It is possible to remove system errors to virtually nil. It is impossible ensure any human is 100% reliable at anything. The pro-gun argument seems to be, “It isn’t 100% efficient and effective, therefore it is hopelessly stupid to try to improve upon it.” I posit you will find that the communication problem was not that of human-error, but that two systems have not communication link. Of course, there was a considerable lack of capability in 1939, but the US and Russia somehow managed to overcome the deficiencies, and win The Great Patriotic War.
” Of course, there was a considerable lack of capability in 1939, but the US and Russia somehow managed to overcome the deficiencies, and win The Great Patriotic War.”
The Soviets were on Hitler’s side a the start moron
Of course the Russians were in a non-aggression compact at the start. Their military capability was atrocious at that time, remaining so until the Russians allied with western nations against Germany. My point was the two victors in WW2 had inferior capabilities to win, but motivated themselves to do the necessary to win. The point was motivation to accomplish, versus lack of motivation to do even the simplest of tasks to improve criminal reporting.
Perhaps I use too many complex concepts for you.
There’s more rotten than just that. How does a guy beat a woman and crack a two year old’s skull, both of which he admitted and pled guilty to, and only spend 12 months in the brig and avoid a dishonorable discharge?
The crimes against his wife and child had to have happened on post, otherwise the local cops would have arrested and tried him I would tend to think.
So now we know why background checks do not work. Making them mandatory for family or friends who sell/loan guns to each other will do nothing to reduce crime or violence.
Who is Dan Zimmerman?
I would like TTAG to clarify for me if the below is taken from another source, or they wrote it themselves—
“The 26-year-old dropped his Ruger assault rifle and climbed in an SUV to flee the scene.”
I’m pretty sure Ruger would like to know also. My bet is they are certain that they do not sell assault rifles to the public market.
If a TTAG employee/sub-contractor wrote this, not only is it a major fail, it should be considered extremely embarrassing and they need to beg forgiveness at a minimum.
Does Mr. Zimmerman consider rifles used in horrible mass shootings to be then-verified assault rifles? What if someone used a 10/22? Assault plinker?
Some of us are paying attention and this makes me doubt TTAG’s other articles and opinions. If I’m incorrect, apologies in advance. But then at the very least, you need to apologize for having such a lousy editor with an inability to catch an obviously glaring mistake or to more clearly state the origin of said mistake.
“If there is a provenance for these mass shootings in modern America it is Texas. ”
There have been way WAY more of both mass shootings and general homicide per capita in Maryland
“The paralysis you feel right now – the impotent helplessness that washes over you as news of another mass slaughter scrolls across the television screen”…
I did not feel paralyzed or helpless. I felt the opposite. I feel empowered because I have the correct equipment and training necessary to stop an event such as this. Maybe Senator blahblahblah should encourage others to obtain the same equipment and training.
Massachusetts’ own Seth Moulton is perhaps the biggest POS who ever wasted the Earth’s oxygen. He’s the Dem poster boy who hopes one day to be POTUS. If he succeeds, the US is doomed.
If you think that Elizabeth Warren is a lowlife, you don’t know Seth Moulton. Yeah, he’s that bad.
Oh no, he used a weapon of war. /sarc
Stephen Willeford – American hero. What a selfless and brave act to defend his fellow citizens and save other lives from being taken.
Not in Georgia. We have the right to carry in church. No questions asked. Everybody I know is packing all the time. Glad I don’t live in a slave state.
Good job, but how many lives could have been saved if the gun was ready? That is probably on Mr. Willeford’s mind which will require counseling. However, he should not blame himself, it was the POS who was responsible for those lost lives.