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Is Congress going to DO anything effective this time? | 2022-11-25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1596287118619594753 | 1596287118619594753 |
Arizona to take action against voter intimidation. | 2022-10-27 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1585493395903873025 | 1585493395903873025 |
Schools spending billions on high tech defense - | 2022-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1565192621391093760 | 1565192621391093760 |
How to make money off fear that you generate! | 2022-08-18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1560111746303422465 | 1560111746303422465 |
Supreme Court to invalidate all gun laws? | 2022-08-11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1557552893195980801 | 1557552893195980801 |
Free-fire enthusiasts are going after every gun law in | 2022-08-04 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1555190897608110080 | 1555190897608110080 |
The lame excuses of assault weapon manufacturers. | 2022-07-29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1552873810172334080 | 1552873810172334080 |
Fear of death has led men to seek immortality of some | 2022-07-11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1546318408001589248 | 1546318408001589248 |
The desire for immortality via celebrity is no stronger for | 2022-07-10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1546276093631401985 | 1546276093631401985 |
Sure, assault weapons create instant orphans and blow up | 2022-07-06 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1544680883537383424 | 1544680883537383424 |
Biden signed off on a gun safety bill that was weak and | 2022-06-25 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540725082313457670 | 1540725082313457670 |
Trumpist Supreme Court protects minority rule! Makes it | 2022-06-23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1540012596614443011 | 1540012596614443011 |
McConnell flinches - | 2022-06-23 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1539800315339296768 | 1539800315339296768 |
So much for bipartisanship. Looks like there won't be 10 | 2022-06-18 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1538005463991656449 | 1538005463991656449 |
GOP senators boldly stand firm to protect kids' rights | 2022-06-07 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1534153689409040385 | 1534153689409040385 |
Assault weapons are for assaults - killing as many people | 2022-06-06 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533831357167652864 | 1533831357167652864 |
The only way to stop a bad guy with a big bag of | 2022-06-06 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533824118562246659 | 1533824118562246659 |
Are you old enough to remember Charles Whitman? | 2022-06-05 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533255124272828416 | 1533255124272828416 |
Want to launch the next front-page massacre? | 2022-06-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1533086672266461185 | 1533086672266461185 |
"Fantasies of unlimited power and greatness and an intense | 2022-06-04 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532947048152018944 | 1532947048152018944 |
Guns make you less safe. | 2022-06-03 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532852679327641600 | 1532852679327641600 |
Conditional funding worked to increase the drinking age. | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532583346290642944 | 1532583346290642944 |
So much for the good guy with the gun. | 2022-06-03 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1532574697405095937 | 1532574697405095937 |
"no elected officials claim the only way to stop a bad | 2022-06-03 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532550681181028352 | 1532550681181028352 |
Federal gun safety research was banned for 20 years - | 2022-06-03 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1532529201726689280 | 1532529201726689280 |
How the AR-15 was sold to America | 2022-06-01 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531852449840959490 | 1531852449840959490 |
GOP embracing its destiny as the party of guns and | 2022-06-01 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531845433068122113 | 1531845433068122113 |
Four days are up. Nothing has changed. The country | 2022-05-30 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1531072243459010560 | 1531072243459010560 |
There's a reason McConnell is majority leader! He knows | 2022-05-30 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1531071237174153216 | 1531071237174153216 |
What does Haiti have to do with Uvalde? The Second | 2022-05-29 | 2742 | 160 | 40 | 44 | 44 | 23 | 1531042764892168192 | 1531042764892168192 |
It's true! Massacres are caused by Evil! | 2022-05-29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530917402677874690 | 1530917402677874690 |
The Uvalde shooter achieved his goal! He'll be | 2022-05-29 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530907139748728833 | 1530907139748728833 |
McConnell and Cornyn vow to search every avenue that won't | 2022-05-29 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1530797677947981824 | 1530797677947981824 |
You wouldn't expect objective FACTS from Trump or Cruz or | 2022-05-28 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530415934795657216 | 1530415934795657216 |
The connection between guns and segregation? It's the | 2022-05-28 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530353634436730881 | 1530353634436730881 |
GOP isn't going to cough up the money for arming teachers. | 2022-05-28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530344619883450368 | 1530344619883450368 |
Several Texas GOP thought it best to keep a low profile - | 2022-05-27 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530337439889272832 | 1530337439889272832 |
Permission granted to explore all possible dead ends! | 2022-05-27 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1530224090501394433 | 1530224090501394433 |
The show must go on! Gun manufacturers, gun voters, | 2022-05-27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1530187977074233344 | 1530187977074233344 |
Why GOP politicians always return calls from gun | 2022-05-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530186680329568256 | 1530186680329568256 |
More guns = more gun deaths. | 2022-05-27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530182490077286400 | 1530182490077286400 |
"I don’t fully understand this aversion to the basic | 2022-05-27 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530018411824046080 | 1530018411824046080 |
Nothing like a good massacre to generate insane ideas | 2022-05-27 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1530011539041767426 | 1530011539041767426 |
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is | 2022-05-27 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529992419025948672 | 1529992419025948672 |
The NRA is well into its death spiral, or at least | 2022-05-27 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529991353236541440 | 1529991353236541440 |
McConnell and Cornyn vos to search every avenue that won't | 2022-05-27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529978461355270144 | 1529978461355270144 |
Why WOULDN'T you have a gun show right after a gun | 2022-05-26 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529974281815224321 | 1529974281815224321 |
All the ways that Congress won't act against massacres. | 2022-05-26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1529680868582707200 | 1529680868582707200 |
Remember Charles Whitman? | 2022-05-26 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529679582957146112 | 1529679582957146112 |
The families of the massacre victims can take heart from | 2022-05-25 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1529338482685906944 | 1529338482685906944 |
Nothing ever happens about unlimited dark campaign money, | 2022-05-19 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1527343536672104450 | 1527343536672104450 |
If you believe the "well regulated militia" clause was | 2022-05-19 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1527102330784534528 | 1527102330784534528 |
Why mass murders persist - | 2022-05-18 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1526801419306561536 | 1526801419306561536 |
Need a machine gun? Got a 3D printer? | 2022-04-08 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1512219605661495303 | 1512219605661495303 |
American guns - better Ukraine than Mexico. But what | 2022-03-19 | 85 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1504975716810559488 | 1504975716810559488 |
Arming Mexican cartels is very profitable. They mostly | 2022-02-08 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1490858684435472385 | 1490858684435472385 |
The best self-defense is a home free of firearms. | 2022-02-04 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1489440730464489474 | 1489440730464489474 |
You have to have liability insurance to drive a car, | 2022-01-24 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1485708832743378946 | 1485708832743378946 |
More guns sold = more guns confiscated at airports. | 2022-01-01 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1477122625050533888 | 1477122625050533888 |
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========== Is Congress going to DO anything effective this time? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment Seems doubtful - the Freischütz-macht-Freiheit megadonors control too many GOP senators, and not a few Democrats. https://apnews.com/article/biden-gun-violence-colorado-shootings-f85b4b9a59e3852868950d797f79a351 #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-11-25 23:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1596287118619594753 ========== Arizona to take action against voter intimidation. https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-race-and-ethnicity-phoenix-fb2254ac13ca7f9153c3a802737ea6a1 Bullet holes are not legal methods for marking ballots. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/guns-dont-belong-at-polling-locations #PS1firearms ===== engage 2 engage-rate 13% expands 1 impress 16 time 2022-10-27 04:47 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1585493395903873025 ========== Schools spending billions on high tech defense - https://thebusinessnewspaper.com/2022/06/26/schools-are-spending-billions-on-high-tech-defense-for-mass-shootings/ How much cheaper it would be to just fund politicians that would ban assault weapons! #PS1firearms ===== impress 3 time 2022-09-01 04:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1565192621391093760 ========== How to make money off fear that you generate! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/us/firearm-gun-sales.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 3 time 2022-08-18 03:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1560111746303422465 ========== Supreme Court to invalidate all gun laws? https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-us-supreme-court-colorado-shootings-politics-f919b74dc95062f322389349f35c0e93 The court understands that gun enthusiasts are a bulwark of minority rule; their votes are cheaply bought by opposing all gun laws. Doesn't even cost anything; NRA does the publicity for free. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-08-11 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1557552893195980801 ========== Free-fire enthusiasts are going after every gun law in the country. https://apnews.com/article/gun-violence-us-supreme-court-colorado-shootings-politics-f919b74dc95062f322389349f35c0e93 #PS1firearms ===== impress 10 time 2022-08-04 13:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1555190897608110080 ========== The lame excuses of assault weapon manufacturers. https://apnews.com/article/gun-manufacturers-ar-15-461e6729bef5ef5f8af0f128fbfc40be But look how much money they made! #PS1firearms ===== impress 3 time 2022-07-29 04:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1552873810172334080 ========== Fear of death has led men to seek immortality of some kind - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/opinion/mass-shooters-motive.html Being forgotten is worse! No wonder some of the losers pick up guns. That's not insanity. The insanity is the celebrity culture around them. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1705818733095972 #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-07-11 02:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546318408001589248 ========== The desire for immortality via celebrity is no stronger for American mean than other men. The difference is that American men have the tools they need, and the senators to enable them, all for the sake of maintaining minority rule. https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/10/pitts-what-is-wrong-with-american-men/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 25% impress 4 likes 1 time 2022-07-10 23:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1546276093631401985 ========== Sure, assault weapons create instant orphans and blow up people beyond recognition. But there's a more important principle here - GOP senators getting the campaign funds to survive their next primary. https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/06/politics/gun-control-mass-shooting-weapons-analysis/index.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1702395206771658 #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-07-06 13:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1544680883537383424 ========== Biden signed off on a gun safety bill that was weak and ineffective enough to get 15 GOP senate votes. That means 35 voted against it. But those 15 will be hearing from the NRA at their next election. https://apnews.com/article/biden-signs-gun-violence-bill-c21249287f976c2c164d8753205c2e6d More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02U1UgqJqcnHw2TUAfaP83fGeS9JJ2dx77qW3VPYyZecqkbJnFBK3BWdgwJdZsHUQ8l #PS1firearms ===== impress 13 time 2022-06-25 15:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540725082313457670 ========== Trumpist Supreme Court protects minority rule! Makes it easier to smash small fry https://cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-miranda-rights/index.html but allows them to be shot https://cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-death-row-inmates/index.html and stands tall to protect everybody's right to shoot anybody anywhere anytime. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/politics/supreme-court-guns-second-amendment-new-york-bruen/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 6 time 2022-06-23 16:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1540012596614443011 ========== McConnell flinches - https://apnews.com/article/shootings-texas-new-york-violence-buffalo-df9202d5686880aab00559979d180e17 But McCarthy stands strong for your right to shoot up schools. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/politics/house-republicans-bipartisan-gun-bill/index.html Can McConnell keep 10 GOP senators in favor? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid027SuGsEaHdKgwMjspn97hUjP7iRPQsQcr9r77jkBaA3mkqVxX4Ady6baHceUgQWd3l #PS1firearms ===== impress 11 time 2022-06-23 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1539800315339296768 ========== So much for bipartisanship. Looks like there won't be 10 GOP votes for ANY gun control legislation. Keep on shooting - and getting campaign funds from the gun lobby. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/john-cornyn-booed-by-republicans/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-18 03:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1538005463991656449 ========== GOP senators boldly stand firm to protect kids' rights to shoot up their schools and GOP senators' rights to unlimited dark campaign money from gun industry! https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/politics/gun-negotiations-congress-republicans/index.html #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% expands 1 impress 10 time 2022-06-07 12:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1534153689409040385 ========== Assault weapons are for assaults - killing as many people as possible as fast as possible. They're not much help for defense. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/05/opinions/guns-ar-15-uvalde-school-shooting-fanone/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-06 15:21 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533831357167652864 ========== The only way to stop a bad guy with a big bag of dark campaign cash is a good guy with a bigger bag. Nothing will happen until senators fear more from gun safety supporters than gun safety opponents. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/05/senators-say-gun-deal-is-within-reach-without-bidens-wish-list/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid09ujvucEYjas5mPpkCfahQ3ty2Zp6LrY2u9uivB8YpQKA27bnaWBLAt71ChuMhJvel #PS1firearms ===== impress 12 time 2022-06-06 14:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533824118562246659 ========== Are you old enough to remember Charles Whitman? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/06/03/university-texas-tower-charles-whitman-shooting/ He set a precedent - partly. His pride in marksmanship was irrelevant once anybody could obtain an assault rifle. Now, massacres of strangers are hardly news. #PS1firearms ===== impress 9 time 2022-06-05 01:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533255124272828416 ========== Want to launch the next front-page massacre? Everything you need to know is on the internet! https://apnews.com/article/technology-gun-politics-shootings-race-and-ethnicity-2d37c8ede6135eca9f0b2150e7927a92 #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-04 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1533086672266461185 ========== "Fantasies of unlimited power and greatness and an intense desire for admiration" Why shouldn't adolescent males mimic the unrestrained behavior and obsession with celebrity modeled by their political leaders? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/06/03/why-so-many-mass-shooters-young-angry-men/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 10 time 2022-06-04 04:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532947048152018944 ========== Guns make you less safe. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/live-with-a-gun-owner-researchers-say-that-makes-you-less-safe/ar-AAY025A If they are there, they get used. #PS1firearms ===== impress 2 time 2022-06-03 22:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532852679327641600 ========== Conditional funding worked to increase the drinking age. Why not to increase the shooting age? https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/02/opinions/gun-reform-backdoor-congress-solution-rangappa/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-03 04:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532583346290642944 ========== So much for the good guy with the gun. https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/leonard-pitts-so-much-for-the-good-guy-with-a-gun/article_2918de74-e1dc-11ec-a99e-2305a9a4d5cf.html The bad guys always get to choose when and where and get the first shots. Many don't care if they live or die. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 likes 1 time 2022-06-03 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532574697405095937 ========== "no elected officials claim the only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb is a good guy with a bomb" https://richmond.com/opinion/columnists/louis-klarevas-sonali-rajan-and-charles-branas-column-why-our-response-to-school-shootings-is/article_8d609bd8-4046-5247-810d-9e0ba185720a.html The 2nd amendment just says "arms". No distinction between guns and bombs. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 21 replies 1 time 2022-06-03 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532550681181028352 ========== Federal gun safety research was banned for 20 years - so we are well behind the curve. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-26/why-there-isn-t-more-research-on-how-to-stop-school-shootings #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-06-03 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1532529201726689280 ========== How the AR-15 was sold to America https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/31/uvalde-shooting-ar-15-interview-ryan-busse/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 8 time 2022-06-01 04:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531852449840959490 ========== GOP embracing its destiny as the party of guns and violence. It's not just about hunting animals any more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/31/republicans-guns-ads-posts/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-06-01 03:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531845433068122113 ========== Four days are up. Nothing has changed. The country will have to wait for another massacre. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/26/uvalde-school-shooting-emotions-guns/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-30 00:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531072243459010560 ========== There's a reason McConnell is majority leader! He knows what keeps his donors and his members and his voters happy - preserving minority rule. And that requires keeping the freefire advocates engaged and voting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/28/mcconnell-guns-mass-shootings/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 10% impress 10 likes 1 time 2022-05-30 00:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531071237174153216 ========== What does Haiti have to do with Uvalde? The Second Amendment was inspired by fear of the Haitian slave revolution. Not about protecting the people from tyranny - about protecting tyranny from the people. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02k4G4pBR93nhj1Q9ma8Bm2WRFAhjpGZWoixii51wHzHMbo2HyHKefuPZZ1MXbL1rfl #PS1firearms ===== engage 160 engage-rate 6% expands 40 impress 2742 likes 44 replies 3 retweets 23 time 2022-05-29 22:40 +0000 urlclicks 44 userclicks 6 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1531042764892168192 ========== It's true! Massacres are caused by Evil! https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-issues-statement-on-uvalde-shooting The Evil Tempter tells politicians "Nothing good can be accomplished if you don't get the votes and the donors. So do what it takes to get the donors." More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0ninzxBGQ893JV4MwPECNsdJg1hxfhc1M3fBNNYdhcixrKCsUBnQXSo6GPhZJRvR2l #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-29 14:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530917402677874690 ========== The Uvalde shooter achieved his goal! He'll be remembered far longer than all the thoughts and prayers of the NRA and its accomplices in Congress. https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-schools-security-0be46be6a91f113912dcc8f2a52ee75e #PS1firearms ===== impress 22 time 2022-05-29 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530907139748728833 ========== McConnell and Cornyn vow to search every avenue that won't lead to a solution, until the clock runs out. Again. https://cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/mcconnell-cornyn-democrats-bipartisan-effort-gun-violence/index.html #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 22 retweets 1 time 2022-05-29 06:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530797677947981824 ========== You wouldn't expect objective FACTS from Trump or Cruz or the NRA would you? Why would they change now? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/politics/fact-check-trump-cruz-nra.html Instead they talk about their subjective FEELINGS - that's all they know for sure anyway! And it polls well with their audience. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-05-28 05:09 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530415934795657216 ========== The connection between guns and segregation? It's the same kinds of politicians acting for the same reason - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html preserving minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-guns-senate-republicans.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-28 01:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530353634436730881 ========== GOP isn't going to cough up the money for arming teachers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/27/newt-gingrich-offered-one-worst-school-shooter-plans-yet/ Or for any of their other lame suggestions in response to massacres. It's just what they say to distract and divert. #PS1firearms ===== impress 4 time 2022-05-28 00:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530344619883450368 ========== Several Texas GOP thought it best to keep a low profile - away from the NRA - but not Trump! Or Cruz or Noem. https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-nra-convention-212dfd1b57474f1ab208d4a72521a010 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0Yzym26sbFspzMMmES6MciQbssJFctaYpFVDFzY1ESy6jBFJaktAanfYTEy7Vv1KHl #PS1firearms ===== impress 20 time 2022-05-27 23:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530337439889272832 ========== Permission granted to explore all possible dead ends! https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/27/politics/mitch-mcconnell-gun-control/index.html Mental health is a sure dead end. And anyway, what's insane about wanting to be immortal in infamy if the alternative is to be a forgotten loser? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02Ja6ogboMtNqYCZBSCHW3evmmiZbFz7cyDsj1ZugiCjHsRKNSLQ8hDdcYgVWmsts9l #PS1firearms ===== engage 2 engage-rate 29% impress 7 likes 1 time 2022-05-27 16:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530224090501394433 ========== The show must go on! Gun manufacturers, gun voters, and gun politicians need to refresh their bonds when they're under attack. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/nra-trump-texas-guns.html All the Trump men will be there! #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 20% impress 5 time 2022-05-27 14:03 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530187977074233344 ========== Why GOP politicians always return calls from gun manufacturers. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/27/texas-shooting-gun-manufacturer-donations/ Even if they never return calls from reporters about campaign funding! It's all about keeping "open the door of access" - because "money is the mother's milk of politics". #PS1firearms ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-27 13:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530186680329568256 ========== More guns = more gun deaths. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/gun-violence-data-what-matters/index.html Especially in former slavery-rebellion states and in modern sagebrush-rebellion states. Guns let a man know what it means to be free - free to kill strangers, free to kill family members, free to kill himself. #PS1firearms ===== impress 8 time 2022-05-27 13:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530182490077286400 ========== "I don’t fully understand this aversion to the basic rules of a civilized society" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/26/opinion/republicans-guns-uvalde.html It's red state politics - if you waver one millimeter, you'll lose the next primary, in favor of somebody with a huge campaign fund from the gun lobby. #PS1firearms ===== impress 6 time 2022-05-27 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530018411824046080 ========== Nothing like a good massacre to generate insane ideas from GOP politicians. Definitely sounds like a mental health crisis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/republican-deceitful-dodges-gun-control-man-traps-ballistic-blankets-more-guns/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02bpuGGcYwdQ75YTPMK8Mz3u1m5t9yJszu63rjezEyxuFTD9AXEqyopF8C7FQMHUXXl #PS1firearms ===== impress 5 time 2022-05-27 02:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1530011539041767426 ========== Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it. https://mobile.twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1529277794794053640 If he gets to grow up to be old. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/26/daniel-defense-uvalde-shooting-rifle-photo-tweets/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 10 time 2022-05-27 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529992419025948672 ========== The NRA is well into its death spiral, or at least irrelevance spiral. But "NRA" is a handy abbreviation for its successors, just as "KGB" is a shortcut for its successors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina who incidentally support the NRA. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/26/nra-uvalde-shooting-trump-cruz-gop/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 9 time 2022-05-27 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529991353236541440 ========== McConnell and Cornyn vos to search every avenue that won't lead to a solution, until the clock runs out. Again. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/mcconnell-cornyn-democrats-bipartisan-effort-gun-violence/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-27 00:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529978461355270144 ========== Why WOULDN'T you have a gun show right after a gun massacre? The massacres are getting so frequent, you'd never be able to have a gun show! https://apnews.com/article/politics-texas-violence-shootings-af5b4e62e51370da14381018e1ad46da Trump will be there to congratulate NRA on all it has done. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid0bBfNCj5xV44TZUCeVMBGbfwDd9HLnHxwe7qdiqdWHWUZULs3pMAGWaJRD8D5dHhLl #PS1firearms ===== impress 15 time 2022-05-26 23:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529974281815224321 ========== All the ways that Congress won't act against massacres. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/politics/gun-laws-us-congress/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 7 time 2022-05-26 04:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529680868582707200 ========== Remember Charles Whitman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman He lives on in infamy. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/25/opinions/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-guns-moore/index.html But for lots of men, living on in infamy is better than living a life of failure and then being forgotten. That's a big part of the appeal of being a mass murderer. #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 11% impress 9 likes 1 time 2022-05-26 04:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529679582957146112 ========== The families of the massacre victims can take heart from the thoughts and prayers of GOP politicians - thoughts of switching the subject to inflation, prayers that nobody learns who funds their campaigns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/pfbid02jmL9JbEZxQ9cPvdzYMPzJMq2EkwMNg4k8sSGwTcrPPsFjwdddb4spz87wGudjKUQl #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 8% impress 12 likes 1 time 2022-05-25 05:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1529338482685906944 ========== Nothing ever happens about unlimited dark campaign money, a pillar of GOP minority rule, and not a few Democratic politicians too. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations Isn't a massacre each month a cheap price to pay to fund campaigns? https://arcamax.com/politics/opeds/s-2677464 #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 24 time 2022-05-19 17:40 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527343536672104450 ========== If you believe the "well regulated militia" clause was meaningless window dressing, then "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" must be absolute - any person of any age may bear any arms in any place at any time for any purpose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/18/gun-rights-assault-weapons-teenagers/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 18 time 2022-05-19 01:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1527102330784534528 ========== Why mass murders persist - https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-technology-shootings-b2291cdeb1645f4c37025dff36617fc2 It's the celebrity - how else can a loser get to be front page news? Trump sets the example - nothing matters but the ratings - are spending the rest of one's life as a loser or in prison equally bad? #PS1firearms ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 23 likes 1 time 2022-05-18 05:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1526801419306561536 ========== Need a machine gun? Got a 3D printer? https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/07/we-have-a-problem-on-our-hands-handguns-turned-automatic-weapons-a-growing-concern/ #PS1firearms ===== engage 3 engage-rate 11% impress 28 time 2022-04-08 00:03 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1512219605661495303 ========== American guns - better Ukraine than Mexico. But what happens to all those weapons when the war is over? Not all the volunteers want to defend democracy. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-american-gunmakers-3c5fa03742ebc5806293a84a0e2b73cd #PS1firearms ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 85 likes 1 time 2022-03-19 00:19 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1504975716810559488 ========== Arming Mexican cartels is very profitable. They mostly use American firearms. The firearms manufacturers are well aware of that, but strenuously evading responsibility. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/06/us/mexico-lawsuit-us-gun-manufacturers/index.html #PS1firearms ===== impress 38 time 2022-02-08 01:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1490858684435472385 ========== The best self-defense is a home free of firearms. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/02/03/opinion-thinking-of-buying-a-gun-for-self-defense-dont-do-it/ #PS1firearms ===== impress 15 time 2022-02-04 03:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1489440730464489474 ========== You have to have liability insurance to drive a car, so why not to own a firearm? You're liable for all damages caused by your vehicle, so why not your firearm? https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/01/24/san-jose-to-officially-adopt-new-gun-control-laws-to-force-firearm-owners-to-pay-for-gun-violence/ Freefire enthusiasts vow to block even the watered-down ordinance. #PS1firearms ===== impress 56 time 2022-01-24 20:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1485708832743378946 ========== More guns sold = more guns confiscated at airports. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-30/despite-lower-travel-demand-firearms-recovered-at-airports-set-20-year-record #PS1firearms ===== impress 24 time 2022-01-01 03:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1477122625050533888