Jesus, Guns, Babies

[ER]

Certain people HAVE to carry firearms, AHD.

I do love you.  Shut up. 

Guns were designed to kill.  Now I am stating the obvious as you had.  Any discussion that was taking place was between ER and myself.  Wading in stating a reality check is "rude".  You have a double standard.  You have a double standard about suffering.  You have a double standard about Christianity.  That does not change the deep respect I have for you, a good man, though you can be self-righteous. 

Between us, John? Only conversations carried on in private meet that description. I think Indy made a good point, and I think your replies here have been impolite as well as lacking in constructive ideas. They've just been criticism of the posters.

[Allhallowsday]

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So if I "disarm" and "disavow the firearm" shooting murders will end?
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It must start somewhere. 

[LilCerberus]

Disarming the police isn't a solution...
Seriously, you should google what Obama had to say about this tragedy.

[Allhallowsday]

Britain ended the horror of school shootings after one single massacre 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/m/a540e8b2-5a44-323a-9138-5255fb06fd51/britain-ended-the-horror-of.html

[Alex]

Britain ended the horror of school shootings after one single massacre 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/m/a540e8b2-5a44-323a-9138-5255fb06fd51/britain-ended-the-horror-of.html

The thing I remember most from this is hearing one of the surgeons operating to save the wounded already knew that his own child was amongst the dead.

[RCMerchant]

This is not about drugs. Or mental health. It's also not just disavowing guns. Guns are so deeply ingrained into some parts of American...culture. That's never going to happen. Outlawing certain guns might.
Background checks, so lunatics like the 18 year old in Buffalo can't buy assault rifles, and had a history of mental health problems. Simple fix- a better backround check would have stopped him from buying them. If he's nut's- well then he's f**king nuts. Just don't give him a f**king gun!

Another thing- blaming this on drugs. How many of the people who did these school shootings were high?
I can guarantee nobody who is high on pot will go on a shooting spree. Might watch hours of cartoons- but not go shoot somebody. Drug dealers are not walking into schools shooting kids.

The availability of combat firearms to anybody off the street is madness.
Like I said, I'm no loud mouth in office with a pocket full of NRA money.

[Allhallowsday]

Britain ended the horror of school shootings after one single massacre 

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/m/a540e8b2-5a44-323a-9138-5255fb06fd51/britain-ended-the-horror-of.html

The thing I remember most from this is hearing one of the surgeons operating to save the wounded already knew that his own child was amongst the dead.

The article also mentions the tennis player you had mentioned earlier in the day as having been from that town. 

[claws]

[Allhallowsday]

^ Cool.

[Rev. Powell]

The Jesus, guns, babies lady shows up in this John Oliver segment. She was polling at less than 5% in the Republican primary, she's even crazier than she looks, and the story takes a weird turn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEa3sK1iZxc&t=2s

[FatFreddysCat]

When I first heard of Kandiss Taylor (the "Jesus, Guns, Babies" airhead) I thought she was an actress playing a character (ala Elvira), parodying ultra right wing conservatives. When I found out she wasn't, I was like "Wait, she's serious? This lady is for real?  Good grief."

Her campaign for Governor in Georgia's Republican primary flamed out spectactularly, by the way (thank goodness). She pulled in a hair over 3 percent of the total votes (by way of comparison, incumbent Brian Kemp raked in more than 73 percent.)  So the only way Kandiss will get near the Governor's Mansion anytime soon is if she's part of a tour group and buys a ticket.

I don't even live in Georgia, but I follow her on Facebook anyway, cuz quite frankly, she's f**king hilarious. As soon as the primary was over, she predictably started making noises that the election was "rigged" (gee, that sounds familiar, wonder where we've heard that before?) and demanding a recount.  I kinda hope she gets one, and that the new results show that she got even LESS than 3 percent, just to see her head explode. 

The comment sections on her posts are comedy gold, they're about a 50/50 split between Jesus freaks telling her "Never give up, you got this, girl!" and people with common sense telling her "Please stop, you lost, you're only embarrassing yourself and our state."