Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
You shouldn’t need to read an article or do “research.” Just pay attention over time and know a little bit about current demographics and the differences between a planned, mass shooting and a random outburst of gun violence that gets classified as a mass shooting because of multiple victims (I go by the definition of four or more victims, not including the shooter).
Don't research or look at data, just use my feelings? Okay.
Pay attention to the world around you, okay?
I actually do. I think thats why it annoys me when I see the race card being played. We had a lot of school shootings in Colorado, one reason we moved. We had a school shooting every day the week before Thanksgiving last year, it was incredibly sad. Most wouldnt make the news beyond a brief local evening news then goes away. Comments that some others make that I must not care bother me, because I do, its why I didnt respond to that one. I've had a former student get killed in a school shooting the following year after I taught him. I had tears when I learned that. Its hard. A lot of those local shootings that dont make national news, aren't all white shooters. Look at the most recent school shooting in national news, the one in Denver from last week, just a few miles from our old house. He doesn't fit the white narrative, I never heard race brought up once. But if its a white shooter, its all some people want to talk about. Race doesn't matter. Gun violence is a problem. Its a growing problem in our schools. Lets fix it and not play the race card and blame white people again.
But white people are the problem. It isn't minority GOP that keep gun legislation from happening. It's whitey.
the white guilt is deeeeep with this one. He cannot touch the bottom, he is in too deeeeep. Good god, man....
Yeah if minorities were stockpiling AR-15s and blocking gun legislation you would be pooping your thong
if minorities were stockpiling any of those things they would be illegal yesterday.
Particularly thongs.
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Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
What makes you think he thinks the headline is inaccurate Linda?
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Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,446
You shouldn’t need to read an article or do “research.” Just pay attention over time and know a little bit about current demographics and the differences between a planned, mass shooting and a random outburst of gun violence that gets classified as a mass shooting because of multiple victims (I go by the definition of four or more victims, not including the shooter).
Don't research or look at data, just use my feelings? Okay.
Pay attention to the world around you, okay?
I actually do. I think thats why it annoys me when I see the race card being played. We had a lot of school shootings in Colorado, one reason we moved. We had a school shooting every day the week before Thanksgiving last year, it was incredibly sad. Most wouldnt make the news beyond a brief local evening news then goes away. Comments that some others make that I must not care bother me, because I do, its why I didnt respond to that one. I've had a former student get killed in a school shooting the following year after I taught him. I had tears when I learned that. Its hard. A lot of those local shootings that dont make national news, aren't all white shooters. Look at the most recent school shooting in national news, the one in Denver from last week, just a few miles from our old house. He doesn't fit the white narrative, I never heard race brought up once. But if its a white shooter, its all some people want to talk about. Race doesn't matter. Gun violence is a problem. Its a growing problem in our schools. Lets fix it and not play the race card and blame white people again.
But white people are the problem. It isn't minority GOP that keep gun legislation from happening. It's whitey.
the white guilt is deeeeep with this one. He cannot touch the bottom, he is in too deeeeep. Good god, man....
Yeah if minorities were stockpiling AR-15s and blocking gun legislation you would be pooping your thong
if minorities were stockpiling any of those things they would be illegal yesterday.
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
What makes you think he thinks the headline is inaccurate Linda?
incomplete. surely since they were a former student . infers it was targeted because it was a church run school. perhaps inaccurate as the only reported reference of being trans is some pronoun posting on antisocial media.
fact is we dont know enough definitively to say one way or another.
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This is how bullets from an AR-15 blow the body apart
continues with article and 3d modeling
These guns are chosen because it’s the most compassionate of all the guns out there. Puts them out of their misery real quick like. They don’t want to be accused of being inhumane so gotta get rid of them fast. Gotta be compassionate about your mass killings.
And I thought prisons were full of some sick mother fuckers.
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s week is going from bad to worse. One day after a now-deceased gunman opened fire in a Nashville private Christian school, killing six, Twitter has silenced the Georgia representative over her dangerous and transphobic remarks about the Covenant School shooting. Greene has also subsequently invited an onslaught of memes accusing her of being “weaponized stupidity.”
Prior to what has now turned into a full-on suspension of her congressional account, Greene took to her Twitter page, where she shared a series of dubious posts in which she claimed that “in the wake of a transgender shooter targeting a Christian school ad murdering kids, every American should know the threat of Antifa driven trans-terrorism.”
The far-right conservative also boldly advised the platform, now run by billionaire investor Elon Musk, “not to whitewash the incitement of politically motivated violence.” Soon after, the post was removed, but Greene was not done yet. The controversial congresswoman returned, this time vehemently calling to “STOP WHITE-WASHING TRANS-TERRORISM.”
Related video: Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds to 'Digital Blackface' Discussion (Newsweek)
However, what appeared to really put the nail in the coffin for Greene was when she repeatedly posted an image of a poster about a rally called “Trans Day of Vengeance.” The poster highlighted an event on Saturday, April 1, and appears to be organized by Our Rights DC, whose Twitter account was locked on Tuesday.
After initially sharing the poster, it was removed by Twitter before Greene reuploaded it, claiming that the American people needed to be aware of the threats they faced from “Antifa & trans-terrorism.” However, the actual danger could not be confirmed.
It wasn’t long before critics on social media flooded the politician’s comment section with some advice, including journalist Russ Bengtson who asked the 48-year-old, “have you considered learning your lesson once in your life.”
The question was seemingly referring to Greene’s Twitter ban early this year, when her account was permanently suspended after she violated the platform’s policy on COVID misinformation. Another frustrated Twitter shared a photo of Greene with bold lettering that read “WEAPONIZED STUPIDITY.”
Greene’s account will reportedly remain suspended for seven days.
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
You shouldn’t need to read an article or do “research.” Just pay attention over time and know a little bit about current demographics and the differences between a planned, mass shooting and a random outburst of gun violence that gets classified as a mass shooting because of multiple victims (I go by the definition of four or more victims, not including the shooter).
Don't research or look at data, just use my feelings? Okay.
Pay attention to the world around you, okay?
I actually do. I think thats why it annoys me when I see the race card being played. We had a lot of school shootings in Colorado, one reason we moved. We had a school shooting every day the week before Thanksgiving last year, it was incredibly sad. Most wouldnt make the news beyond a brief local evening news then goes away. Comments that some others make that I must not care bother me, because I do, its why I didnt respond to that one. I've had a former student get killed in a school shooting the following year after I taught him. I had tears when I learned that. Its hard. A lot of those local shootings that dont make national news, aren't all white shooters. Look at the most recent school shooting in national news, the one in Denver from last week, just a few miles from our old house. He doesn't fit the white narrative, I never heard race brought up once. But if its a white shooter, its all some people want to talk about. Race doesn't matter. Gun violence is a problem. Its a growing problem in our schools. Lets fix it and not play the race card and blame white people again.
But white people are the problem. It isn't minority GOP that keep gun legislation from happening. It's whitey.
the white guilt is deeeeep with this one. He cannot touch the bottom, he is in too deeeeep. Good god, man....
Yeah if minorities were stockpiling AR-15s and blocking gun legislation you would be pooping your thong
You shouldn’t need to read an article or do “research.” Just pay attention over time and know a little bit about current demographics and the differences between a planned, mass shooting and a random outburst of gun violence that gets classified as a mass shooting because of multiple victims (I go by the definition of four or more victims, not including the shooter).
Don't research or look at data, just use my feelings? Okay.
Pay attention to the world around you, okay?
I actually do. I think thats why it annoys me when I see the race card being played. We had a lot of school shootings in Colorado, one reason we moved. We had a school shooting every day the week before Thanksgiving last year, it was incredibly sad. Most wouldnt make the news beyond a brief local evening news then goes away. Comments that some others make that I must not care bother me, because I do, its why I didnt respond to that one. I've had a former student get killed in a school shooting the following year after I taught him. I had tears when I learned that. Its hard. A lot of those local shootings that dont make national news, aren't all white shooters. Look at the most recent school shooting in national news, the one in Denver from last week, just a few miles from our old house. He doesn't fit the white narrative, I never heard race brought up once. But if its a white shooter, its all some people want to talk about. Race doesn't matter. Gun violence is a problem. Its a growing problem in our schools. Lets fix it and not play the race card and blame white people again.
But white people are the problem. It isn't minority GOP that keep gun legislation from happening. It's whitey.
the white guilt is deeeeep with this one. He cannot touch the bottom, he is in too deeeeep. Good god, man....
Yeah if minorities were stockpiling AR-15s and blocking gun legislation you would be pooping your thong
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
That’s really up to you, but perhaps you should start by getting off the computer, go outside and have some REAL human interaction . We try to live a majority of our life outside, it’s fabulous.
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
That’s really up to you, but perhaps you should start by getting off the computer, go outside and have some REAL human interaction . We try to live a majority of our life outside, it’s fabulous.
New message please…you’ve used this one a little too often and yes we all know about where you live and what you do outside…
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
That’s really up to you, but perhaps you should start by getting off the computer, go outside and have some REAL human interaction . We try to live a majority of our life outside, it’s fabulous.
New message please…you’ve used this one a little too often and yes we all know about where you live and what you do outside…
You buy that troll's bullshit about living in Hawaii?
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
That’s really up to you, but perhaps you should start by getting off the computer, go outside and have some REAL human interaction . We try to live a majority of our life outside, it’s fabulous.
New message please…you’ve used this one a little too often and yes we all know about where you live and what you do outside…
You buy that troll's bullshit about living in Hawaii?
I don't.
You know you’re probably correct. stupid me, I don’t run into many adults who would lie about such things….santos comes to mind though
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Seriously how many fucking guns do you people need? Mental issues but legally owning 7 guns…..this is madness people. Even if you’re pro gun you have to admit this is totally fucked up.
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Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
That’s really up to you, but perhaps you should start by getting off the computer, go outside and have some REAL human interaction . We try to live a majority of our life outside, it’s fabulous.
New message please…you’ve used this one a little too often and yes we all know about where you live and what you do outside…
You buy that troll's bullshit about living in Hawaii?
I don't.
You know you’re probably correct. stupid me, I don’t run into many adults who would lie about such things….santos comes to mind though
I mean... I could be wrong, maybe Linda is sitting there in Hawaii at 2:00 on a Wednesday morning trolling libz on the the pearl jam forum, but I'm skeptical.
Today’s NY Post cover is spectacular. Twice they mention the trans aspect, targeting / attacking Christians, a manifesto and young victims… all TWICE, but zero mention of the how it was carried out.
*chef’s kiss*
You go, Rupert Murdick, you go boy! How long before these "christian" militias start defending "freedumb?"
What part of that headline is inaccurate?
Gee Linda, I’m not sure. Hmmmmm? Maybe you could help me out?
That’s really up to you, but perhaps you should start by getting off the computer, go outside and have some REAL human interaction . We try to live a majority of our life outside, it’s fabulous.
You couldn’t answer the question or help me out? With all that kamanawannalayu bronze body chill vibe and time, you couldn’t help a fellow ‘Murican out? Sad.
You shouldn’t need to read an article or do “research.” Just pay attention over time and know a little bit about current demographics and the differences between a planned, mass shooting and a random outburst of gun violence that gets classified as a mass shooting because of multiple victims (I go by the definition of four or more victims, not including the shooter).
Don't research or look at data, just use my feelings? Okay.
Pay attention to the world around you, okay?
I actually do. I think thats why it annoys me when I see the race card being played. We had a lot of school shootings in Colorado, one reason we moved. We had a school shooting every day the week before Thanksgiving last year, it was incredibly sad. Most wouldnt make the news beyond a brief local evening news then goes away. Comments that some others make that I must not care bother me, because I do, its why I didnt respond to that one. I've had a former student get killed in a school shooting the following year after I taught him. I had tears when I learned that. Its hard. A lot of those local shootings that dont make national news, aren't all white shooters. Look at the most recent school shooting in national news, the one in Denver from last week, just a few miles from our old house. He doesn't fit the white narrative, I never heard race brought up once. But if its a white shooter, its all some people want to talk about. Race doesn't matter. Gun violence is a problem. Its a growing problem in our schools. Lets fix it and not play the race card and blame white people again.
But white people are the problem. It isn't minority GOP that keep gun legislation from happening. It's whitey.
the white guilt is deeeeep with this one. He cannot touch the bottom, he is in too deeeeep. Good god, man....
Yeah if minorities were stockpiling AR-15s and blocking gun legislation you would be pooping your thong
You shouldn’t need to read an article or do “research.” Just pay attention over time and know a little bit about current demographics and the differences between a planned, mass shooting and a random outburst of gun violence that gets classified as a mass shooting because of multiple victims (I go by the definition of four or more victims, not including the shooter).
Don't research or look at data, just use my feelings? Okay.
Pay attention to the world around you, okay?
I actually do. I think thats why it annoys me when I see the race card being played. We had a lot of school shootings in Colorado, one reason we moved. We had a school shooting every day the week before Thanksgiving last year, it was incredibly sad. Most wouldnt make the news beyond a brief local evening news then goes away. Comments that some others make that I must not care bother me, because I do, its why I didnt respond to that one. I've had a former student get killed in a school shooting the following year after I taught him. I had tears when I learned that. Its hard. A lot of those local shootings that dont make national news, aren't all white shooters. Look at the most recent school shooting in national news, the one in Denver from last week, just a few miles from our old house. He doesn't fit the white narrative, I never heard race brought up once. But if its a white shooter, its all some people want to talk about. Race doesn't matter. Gun violence is a problem. Its a growing problem in our schools. Lets fix it and not play the race card and blame white people again.
But white people are the problem. It isn't minority GOP that keep gun legislation from happening. It's whitey.
the white guilt is deeeeep with this one. He cannot touch the bottom, he is in too deeeeep. Good god, man....
Yeah if minorities were stockpiling AR-15s and blocking gun legislation you would be pooping your thong
Reagan signed the Mulford act to specifically target the black panthers whom were open carrying.
So, does race matter or not? Mace told us in the context of mass shootings, school shootings or shootings in general, I’m not really sure, it doesn’t matter. Does it?
In this case it does. That was what it was meant to do.
I agree with him though on now. The math suggests that race doesn't matter. If an AR15 was used it seems to get more press.
If you really want to understand the fucked up nature of firearms in 'Murica and have ever wondered why nothing changes as it relates to gun violence, take a looksy below. And what was the repub congress scheduled hearing that was canceled on the morning that three 9 year olds and 3 folks in their 60s were gunned down in their school and place of employment? Thoughts and prayers.
Some excerpts from:
The Gun Industry in America
The Overlooked Player in a National Crisis
The national debate over gun violence rarely focuses attention on the role of the gun industry in enabling this public health crisis.
Introduction and summary
The national conversation about gun violence in the United States focuses primarily on the harms caused by the misuse of firearms—the details of the incidents that take the lives of 40,000 people every year and grievously injure tens of thousands more.1 This debate often occurs in the aftermath of specific gun-related tragedies and tends to focus on the individual who pulled the trigger and what could have been done to intervene with that person to prevent the tragedy.
But largely absent from the national conversation about gun violence is any mention of the industry responsible for putting guns into our communities in the first place.
The gun industry in the United States is effectively unregulated. The laws governing the operation of these businesses are porous and weak. The federal agency charged with oversight of the industry—the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)—has been historically underfunded and politically vulnerable, making it nearly impossible for the agency to conduct consistent, effective regulatory oversight activities. Adding insult to injury, Congress has also imposed restrictions on how ATF can perform this regulatory work through restrictive policy riders on the agency’s budget. Congress has also eliminated some of the most useful tools for ensuring that gun industry actors operate their businesses in the best interests of consumers and are held accountable for harm caused by their products.
The result of this constellation of weak laws, lack of resources, and dearth of political will to support gun industry regulation is that the industry that produces and sells deadly weapons to civilian consumers has operated for decades with minimal oversight from the federal government and almost no accountability in the U.S. legal system.
This is not an idle concern. The United States experiences rates of gun violence that no other high-income nation comes even close to matching.2 This violence persists, even as the number of Americans who choose to own guns has steadily declined.3
Efforts to reduce gun violence that focus solely on the demand side of the problem ignore the role of the gun industry—manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, and retail gun dealers—in manufacturing and distributing the guns that are the instruments of this violence. These supply-side actors make decisions that directly affect the kinds of guns and ammunition that are manufactured and sold, the safety features included on those guns, the commercial channels in which they are sold, and the safeguards in place at the point of sale to prevent gun trafficking and theft.
A crucial component of a comprehensive plan for reducing gun violence in the United States is robust regulation and oversight of the gun industry. It is not enough to simply focus on the individuals who use guns to commit acts of violence—an approach that has contributed to overcriminalization and targeting of communities of color as part of a “tough on crime” approach to criminal justice.4 To truly address all aspects of the gun violence epidemic in this country, policymakers must focus on the role the gun industry plays in enabling and exacerbating this violence.
This report discusses the gaps in the current law regarding gun industry regulation and oversight. It then offers a series of policy solutions to address these gaps, including: (they list them)
The number of gun dealers doesn’t necessarily make clear the scope of the retail market in guns in the United States because dealers are not required to report to ATF about the volume of their sales. Indeed, ATF is prohibited under current federal law from maintaining any type of comprehensive list of gun sales that would provide insight into the true breadth and scale of this industry. One of the proxy measures available to assess the number of gun sales in the country is the number of background checks conducted using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Background checks have increased significantly in recent years, suggesting a rise in gun sales. While, on average, 7.7 million background checks for gun sales were conducted per year from 1999 to 2008, this number rose to 13 million from 2009 to 2018.61 Again, however, these numbers likely fail to paint the full picture, as they do not capture every gun sale through a dealer or any sales facilitated by unlicensed sellers.
The following are covered:
Gaps in gun industry oversight
ATF resource limitations
Legal restrictions on ATF activities
Restrictive budget riders
Heightened regulation of certain types of firearms and accessories
A looming public safety crisis: Short-barreled long guns
Underground gun-makers
Ghost guns (Back the Blue? Sure you Do)
The dangers associated with ghost guns are not theoretical. In 2013, a shooter opened fire in Santa Monica, California, shooting 100 rounds, killing five people and injuring several others at a community college using a homemade AR-15 rifle.183 Reporting indicates the shooter had previously tried to purchase a firearm from a licensed gun dealer and failed a background check, potentially indicating why he opted to order parts to build a gun instead.184 In 2017, in Northern California, a man prohibited from possessing firearms ordered kits to build AR-15-style rifles.185 On November 13, he initiated a series of shootings that began with fatally shooting his wife at home, followed by a rampage the next day during which he fired at multiple people in several different locations, including an elementary school, killing five people and injuring dozens more.186 In 2019, a shooter used a homemade gun kit to build a .223-caliber firearm used in a bar in Dayton, Ohio, to fire 41 shots in 32 seconds, shooting 26 people and killing 9.187 These kits create an easy way for individuals who are prohibited from buying a gun and could not pass a background check, such as the Dayton shooter, to easily evade that law and build a gun at home.188
Law enforcement has grown increasingly concerned about the proliferation of ghost guns. In 2019, District of Columbia police recovered 115 ghost guns, a 360 percent increase from 2018, when they recovered 25 ghost guns, and a 3,733 percent increase from 2017, when only three such firearms were recovered.189 In California, federal law enforcement reports that 30 percent of all guns recovered from crime scenes are blank, without a serial number, and are therefore untraceable.190 The untraceable nature of these weapons makes them highly desirable for firearm traffickers and criminal organizations. In 2015, the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman authorized the Organized Crime Task Force and the New York State Police to conduct Operation Ghostbusters, focused on identifying a ghost guns trafficking ring.191 The outcome resulted in officers discovering a ghost gun construction operation that built fully functional firearms using unfinished receivers and firearm parts and then transferred them to firearm traffickers.192 The two men responsible for the ghost gun operation received sentences of nine and 11 years, respectively, for the criminal sale of firearms in the first degree, among other charges.193 In 2018, the Los Angeles Police Department and ATF conducted an operation that found criminal organizations were relying on building arsenals using homemade firearm kits.194 In addition, a new spike in online purchasing of ghost gun kits was reported when much of the country was staying at home during the onset of the coronavirus crisis as part of a larger surge in gun buying during this period.195
Homemade ammunition
Homemade silencers
Delegating safety to the industry itself
Holding the industry accountable
Policy recommendations to better regulate the gun industry
Increase oversight of gun manufacturers, importers, exporters, and dealers
Improve data collection and reporting
Increase resources for ATF to bolster gun industry oversight activities
Eliminate restrictive riders that hamper ATF’s regulatory oversight activities
Update the law to provide sufficient tools to address violations by licensed gun dealers
Reverse regulatory change that weakened oversight of small arms exports
Fully enforce the assault weapon import ban
Require licensed gun dealers to implement security measures to prevent theft
Strengthen the NFA review and determination process
Strengthen oversight of homemade guns, ammunition, and silencers
Regulate unfinished receivers like completed firearms
Enforce the law against homemade silencers
Regulate homemade ammunition manufacturing
Give the CPSC authority to regulate guns and ammunition for safety
Repeal PLCAA
Conclusion
The gun industry is a primary player in the public health epidemic of gun violence yet receives very little attention in the national debate over how to address the problem. As a result of powerful lobbying efforts, for decades this industry has been effectively unregulated due to a constellation of weak laws, restrictive caveats on ATF’s authority, and an overall lack of political will to seriously address the glaring problems with how gun manufacturers, importers, and dealers are allowed to operate. The gun industry has a tremendous responsibility to take affirmative steps to help ensure that the weapons it puts into communities in the United States and abroad do not continue to cause devastating harm. And it is far past time for our laws and administrative policies to catch up to that reality.
“I would say we’ve gone about as far as we can go,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), a key negotiator of a bipartisan gun control package that passed last year.
After a shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, on Monday, lawmakers on Capitol Hill indicated there was little support for addressing gun violence through legislation.
While President Biden on Tuesday called upon Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, Republicans in the GOP-controlled House reiterated their objection to any actions that would restrict access to guns, instead stressing that mental health issues remain the root cause of the country’s gun violence problem. And Democrats, who narrowly control the Senate, said they were reluctant to push gun-related legislation unless they have significant support from the chamber’s Republicans.
“I’m a realist,” said Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Judiciary Committee, about the possibility of moving gun legislation through his committee without enough Republican support to overcome the 60-vote filibuster. “I know what’s going to happen on the floor.”
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
Marjorie Taylor Greene silenced by Twitter and referred to as ‘weaponized stupidity’ all in one day (msn.com)
Marjorie Taylor Greene silenced by Twitter and referred to as ‘weaponized stupidity’ all in one day
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s week is going from bad to worse. One day after a now-deceased gunman opened fire in a Nashville private Christian school, killing six, Twitter has silenced the Georgia representative over her dangerous and transphobic remarks about the Covenant School shooting. Greene has also subsequently invited an onslaught of memes accusing her of being “weaponized stupidity.”
Prior to what has now turned into a full-on suspension of her congressional account, Greene took to her Twitter page, where she shared a series of dubious posts in which she claimed that “in the wake of a transgender shooter targeting a Christian school ad murdering kids, every American should know the threat of Antifa driven trans-terrorism.”
The far-right conservative also boldly advised the platform, now run by billionaire investor Elon Musk, “not to whitewash the incitement of politically motivated violence.” Soon after, the post was removed, but Greene was not done yet. The controversial congresswoman returned, this time vehemently calling to “STOP WHITE-WASHING TRANS-TERRORISM.”
Related video: Marjorie Taylor Greene Responds to 'Digital Blackface' Discussion (Newsweek)
However, what appeared to really put the nail in the coffin for Greene was when she repeatedly posted an image of a poster about a rally called “Trans Day of Vengeance.” The poster highlighted an event on Saturday, April 1, and appears to be organized by Our Rights DC, whose Twitter account was locked on Tuesday.
After initially sharing the poster, it was removed by Twitter before Greene reuploaded it, claiming that the American people needed to be aware of the threats they faced from “Antifa & trans-terrorism.” However, the actual danger could not be confirmed.
It wasn’t long before critics on social media flooded the politician’s comment section with some advice, including journalist Russ Bengtson who asked the 48-year-old, “have you considered learning your lesson once in your life.”
The question was seemingly referring to Greene’s Twitter ban early this year, when her account was permanently suspended after she violated the platform’s policy on COVID misinformation. Another frustrated Twitter shared a photo of Greene with bold lettering that read “WEAPONIZED STUPIDITY.”
Greene’s account will reportedly remain suspended for seven days.
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necessary component to have good guys with guns do good guy with guns things. trust the plan.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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duh. how else will we create those good guy with a gun opportunities?
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I don't.
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I agree with him though on now. The math suggests that race doesn't matter. If an AR15 was used it seems to get more press.
Some excerpts from:
The Gun Industry in America
The Overlooked Player in a National Crisis
The national debate over gun violence rarely focuses attention on the role of the gun industry in enabling this public health crisis.
Introduction and summary
The national conversation about gun violence in the United States focuses primarily on the harms caused by the misuse of firearms—the details of the incidents that take the lives of 40,000 people every year and grievously injure tens of thousands more.1 This debate often occurs in the aftermath of specific gun-related tragedies and tends to focus on the individual who pulled the trigger and what could have been done to intervene with that person to prevent the tragedy.
But largely absent from the national conversation about gun violence is any mention of the industry responsible for putting guns into our communities in the first place.
The gun industry in the United States is effectively unregulated. The laws governing the operation of these businesses are porous and weak. The federal agency charged with oversight of the industry—the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)—has been historically underfunded and politically vulnerable, making it nearly impossible for the agency to conduct consistent, effective regulatory oversight activities. Adding insult to injury, Congress has also imposed restrictions on how ATF can perform this regulatory work through restrictive policy riders on the agency’s budget. Congress has also eliminated some of the most useful tools for ensuring that gun industry actors operate their businesses in the best interests of consumers and are held accountable for harm caused by their products.
The result of this constellation of weak laws, lack of resources, and dearth of political will to support gun industry regulation is that the industry that produces and sells deadly weapons to civilian consumers has operated for decades with minimal oversight from the federal government and almost no accountability in the U.S. legal system.
This is not an idle concern. The United States experiences rates of gun violence that no other high-income nation comes even close to matching.2 This violence persists, even as the number of Americans who choose to own guns has steadily declined.3
Efforts to reduce gun violence that focus solely on the demand side of the problem ignore the role of the gun industry—manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, and retail gun dealers—in manufacturing and distributing the guns that are the instruments of this violence. These supply-side actors make decisions that directly affect the kinds of guns and ammunition that are manufactured and sold, the safety features included on those guns, the commercial channels in which they are sold, and the safeguards in place at the point of sale to prevent gun trafficking and theft.
A crucial component of a comprehensive plan for reducing gun violence in the United States is robust regulation and oversight of the gun industry. It is not enough to simply focus on the individuals who use guns to commit acts of violence—an approach that has contributed to overcriminalization and targeting of communities of color as part of a “tough on crime” approach to criminal justice.4 To truly address all aspects of the gun violence epidemic in this country, policymakers must focus on the role the gun industry plays in enabling and exacerbating this violence.
This report discusses the gaps in the current law regarding gun industry regulation and oversight. It then offers a series of policy solutions to address these gaps, including: (they list them)
The number of gun dealers doesn’t necessarily make clear the scope of the retail market in guns in the United States because dealers are not required to report to ATF about the volume of their sales. Indeed, ATF is prohibited under current federal law from maintaining any type of comprehensive list of gun sales that would provide insight into the true breadth and scale of this industry. One of the proxy measures available to assess the number of gun sales in the country is the number of background checks conducted using the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Background checks have increased significantly in recent years, suggesting a rise in gun sales. While, on average, 7.7 million background checks for gun sales were conducted per year from 1999 to 2008, this number rose to 13 million from 2009 to 2018.61 Again, however, these numbers likely fail to paint the full picture, as they do not capture every gun sale through a dealer or any sales facilitated by unlicensed sellers.
The following are covered:
Gaps in gun industry oversight
ATF resource limitations
Legal restrictions on ATF activities
Restrictive budget riders
Heightened regulation of certain types of firearms and accessories
A looming public safety crisis: Short-barreled long guns
Underground gun-makers
Ghost guns (Back the Blue? Sure you Do)
The dangers associated with ghost guns are not theoretical. In 2013, a shooter opened fire in Santa Monica, California, shooting 100 rounds, killing five people and injuring several others at a community college using a homemade AR-15 rifle.183 Reporting indicates the shooter had previously tried to purchase a firearm from a licensed gun dealer and failed a background check, potentially indicating why he opted to order parts to build a gun instead.184 In 2017, in Northern California, a man prohibited from possessing firearms ordered kits to build AR-15-style rifles.185 On November 13, he initiated a series of shootings that began with fatally shooting his wife at home, followed by a rampage the next day during which he fired at multiple people in several different locations, including an elementary school, killing five people and injuring dozens more.186 In 2019, a shooter used a homemade gun kit to build a .223-caliber firearm used in a bar in Dayton, Ohio, to fire 41 shots in 32 seconds, shooting 26 people and killing 9.187 These kits create an easy way for individuals who are prohibited from buying a gun and could not pass a background check, such as the Dayton shooter, to easily evade that law and build a gun at home.188
Law enforcement has grown increasingly concerned about the proliferation of ghost guns. In 2019, District of Columbia police recovered 115 ghost guns, a 360 percent increase from 2018, when they recovered 25 ghost guns, and a 3,733 percent increase from 2017, when only three such firearms were recovered.189 In California, federal law enforcement reports that 30 percent of all guns recovered from crime scenes are blank, without a serial number, and are therefore untraceable.190 The untraceable nature of these weapons makes them highly desirable for firearm traffickers and criminal organizations. In 2015, the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman authorized the Organized Crime Task Force and the New York State Police to conduct Operation Ghostbusters, focused on identifying a ghost guns trafficking ring.191 The outcome resulted in officers discovering a ghost gun construction operation that built fully functional firearms using unfinished receivers and firearm parts and then transferred them to firearm traffickers.192 The two men responsible for the ghost gun operation received sentences of nine and 11 years, respectively, for the criminal sale of firearms in the first degree, among other charges.193 In 2018, the Los Angeles Police Department and ATF conducted an operation that found criminal organizations were relying on building arsenals using homemade firearm kits.194 In addition, a new spike in online purchasing of ghost gun kits was reported when much of the country was staying at home during the onset of the coronavirus crisis as part of a larger surge in gun buying during this period.195
Homemade ammunition
Homemade silencers
Delegating safety to the industry itself
Holding the industry accountable
Policy recommendations to better regulate the gun industry
Increase oversight of gun manufacturers, importers, exporters, and dealers
Improve data collection and reporting
Increase resources for ATF to bolster gun industry oversight activities
Eliminate restrictive riders that hamper ATF’s regulatory oversight activities
Update the law to provide sufficient tools to address violations by licensed gun dealers
Reverse regulatory change that weakened oversight of small arms exports
Fully enforce the assault weapon import ban
Require licensed gun dealers to implement security measures to prevent theft
Strengthen the NFA review and determination process
Strengthen oversight of homemade guns, ammunition, and silencers
Regulate unfinished receivers like completed firearms
Enforce the law against homemade silencers
Regulate homemade ammunition manufacturing
Give the CPSC authority to regulate guns and ammunition for safety
Repeal PLCAA
Conclusion
The gun industry is a primary player in the public health epidemic of gun violence yet receives very little attention in the national debate over how to address the problem. As a result of powerful lobbying efforts, for decades this industry has been effectively unregulated due to a constellation of weak laws, restrictive caveats on ATF’s authority, and an overall lack of political will to seriously address the glaring problems with how gun manufacturers, importers, and dealers are allowed to operate. The gun industry has a tremendous responsibility to take affirmative steps to help ensure that the weapons it puts into communities in the United States and abroad do not continue to cause devastating harm. And it is far past time for our laws and administrative policies to catch up to that reality.
The Gun Industry in America - Center for American Progress
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In Congress, little urgency to address gun violence with legislation
After a shooter killed three children and three adults at a private Christian school in Nashville, on Monday, lawmakers on Capitol Hill indicated there was little support for addressing gun violence through legislation.
While President Biden on Tuesday called upon Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, Republicans in the GOP-controlled House reiterated their objection to any actions that would restrict access to guns, instead stressing that mental health issues remain the root cause of the country’s gun violence problem. And Democrats, who narrowly control the Senate, said they were reluctant to push gun-related legislation unless they have significant support from the chamber’s Republicans.
“I’m a realist,” said Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Judiciary Committee, about the possibility of moving gun legislation through his committee without enough Republican support to overcome the 60-vote filibuster. “I know what’s going to happen on the floor.”
In Congress, little urgency to address gun violence with legislation - The Washington Post
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