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Category Archives: gun control
A Couple Of Thoughts From Last Week
What is a conservative? What about shooting victims that survive? We have gone through an absolute convulsion of media micro coverage on the Charlie Kirk shooting. One of the most interesting offshoots was the firing of Jimmy Kimmel for making … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, gun control, gun safety
Tagged conservative, cost of guns to society
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Itโs The GUNS!
The Much Misunderstood Second Amendment (13 minutes): Heather Cox Richardson Guy Zapoleon Posted on Facebook ย By Heather Cox Richardson ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐, ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒโ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ. by John Pavlovitz Sadly, this sentence is evergreen at this point, … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, gun control, gun safety
Tagged Minneapolis school shooting, school shootings, second amendment
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A Note On The Death Of Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman
The violent death of Minnesota Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman last week was a real shocker in Minnesota. It certainly reverberated in Iowa. The similarities of our cultures in the upper midwest has long been a source of friendly … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, gun safety
Tagged Gilbert, hate, Melissa Hortman, Mike Lee, Minnesota, violence
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12 Years Ago Today: Sandy Hook
Video of Sandy Hook survivors as they prepare to graduate high school last summer(9:10) I am sitting here trying to come up with some meaningful phrase to try to capture the continuing enormity of what happened 12 years ago today. … Continue reading
Posted in #trumpresistance, Children, firearms, gun control
Tagged children and guns, MAGA and guns, Sandy Hook murders
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ENOUGH!!!
David Hogg from Thursday (3 minutes): The school shooting in Georgia Tuesday was the 416th such shooting since the attack on Columbine on April 24th, 1999 some 25+ years ago. Four hundred sixteen shootings. Over 370,000 students have been exposed … Continue reading
Posted in #nevertrump, #trumpresistance, 2024 election, Children, gun control
Tagged school shootings
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Biden’s Oval Office Address July 14, 2024
Posted in gun control
Tagged gun violence, Joe Biden, politics
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What Does The Pennsylvania Shooting Mean?
Everytown, Moms Demand Action, Students Demand Action Responding to Shooting at Campaign Event for Former President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024 WASHINGTON, D.C. โ Everytown for Gun Safety and its grassroots networks, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, … Continue reading
Posted in gun control
Tagged #massshootings, gun control, mass shootings in America, Moms Demand Action
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Sandy Hook Was 11 Years Ago Last Thursday
1 minute: ย It is so incredible that in the eleven years since that horrible day MAGA Republicans and the National Rifle Association (NRA) have been able to totally stop any real action on the top killer in the country. … Continue reading
Posted in 2024 election, gun control, gun safety, Republican hypocrisy, Republican Obstruction, Republican Policy
Tagged engineering in safety, fraud, NRA
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Disconnected Thoughts On A Holiday Weekend
For some reason I just canโt concentrate this week on a single subject. As I start to think deeply on a subject, suddenly I am distracted and my mind starts to consider the new subject. That may be a pattern … Continue reading
Graduation 2023 In Iowa And Other Red States
A story that got a little bit of notice a couple of weeks ago had to do with young college graduate Iowans leaving the state to go elsewhere for employment. This is hardly a new trend. As we have noted … Continue reading