SarahSorlien, MD
Molly WoodGuy kills five neighbors including a child because they ask him to stop scaring the kids with his machine gun. My brother is at Safeway yesterday and a guy pulled a gun on another guy inside the store because of a parking lot beef. Like. This is terrorism. I am terrified. No one wants to live like this!!!!
Adam Lipkin@mollywoodpro When all the folks try to say this is actually a mental health crisis, it's so obvious that gun fetishism itself is a huge mental health issue.
joe•iuculano 
@mollywoodpro
America has lost its mind!
America has lost its mind!
Airis Damon@iuculano @mollywoodpro I certainly feel like I'm losing mine.
Tang_Fish@mollywoodpro this country is so weak and its legislators so feckless, the United States of America is helpless to do anything about this epidemic of gun violence. All we can do is provide empty thoughts and prayers to grieving families. Abstinence and family values might help too.
@mollywoodpro @jeffjarvis How long before these perpetrators come up with some sort of "twinkie defense"? Psychologists can term it 'Fox Frenzy" or 'NRA Neurosis' to excuse their actions. The only upside I see is more of this will end up leading to taking away the guns. It has to.
E. Chang@SarahSorlien @mollywoodpro @jeffjarvis No, it doesn’t have to lead to taking away the guns. Today, they wouldn’t be able to get away with building ovens to march us all into. They’ll just declare open season and legally define us as fair game. Their guns will mow us down by the millions.
Will@mollywoodpro it's been really pleasant at night recently, and I keep wanting to take walks. But I've seen the 3 percenter and 2A bumper stickers here, too, and I keep thinking, "what if some responsible gun owner decides I'm casing the neighborhood?"
I'm a middle aged white guy in a Los Angeles suburb, probably the least at-risk demo in the world. But it's up in my head, because it absolutely feels like terrorism. Like the gun nuts decided the second amendment is a right to inflict terror.
PatRepublicans do
Eva Canitano@mollywoodpro I am beginning to find myself nervous in public and I start looking for a place to hide. This is pathetic!
Darwin Woodka@mollywoodpro Republicans do.
Buster McNutt@mollywoodpro
The US is definitely a terrorist state.
Republicans are scum for creating this.
Eric MacKnight@mollywoodpro Let the gun manufacturers know what you think of them: https://ericmacknight.com/wordpress/2023/04/29/companies-producing-ar-15s-and-ar-15-knock-offs/
RowinSpeez@mollywoodpro and somehow allowing and promoting all this violence is not “soft on crime”.
@mollywoodpro Apparently, gun-loving Americans just love this. Otherwise they would vote for gun control Congress persons. They don't.
Ron DeSantis's BDE@MikeWaghorne @mollywoodpro
They do. Overwhelmingly. See "gerrymandering."
>80% of Americans want stricter gun control.
It can't pass because democracy here is a farce.
Kevin Karhan 
@mollywoodpro Reports don't indicate any select-fire capable gun nor any info regarding the type used.
Needless to say people shoudln't fire around in a residential area - there are gun ranges for that.
Also people who literally draw a gun on someone other than a life-or-death threat situation should face jailtime and get their shit confiscated as they've proven themselves to be negligent and dangerous for everyone else.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with these people?
@mollywoodpro I mean it's pretty obvious what is the problem:
#ViolenceCulture that praises #PropagandaOfTheDeed and rewards #StochasticTerrorism with #mainstream #MassMedia attention...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3VQULyT390
How the American Media Fuels A Cycle of Violence
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 
@mollywoodpro
As long as people vote Republican, murder will be America's companion.
As long as people vote Republican, murder will be America's companion.
J$@Oldfartrant @mollywoodpro long after. The “well-regulated militia” have stocked up. Aplenty-plenty.
WesDym@mollywoodpro Gun nuts are of course dead wrong (sometimes literally) about all their nonsense. 2A does NOT confer the rights they demand, and its (possibly deliberate) misinterpretation, together with our nation's sick love of killing, is what's behind all this insanity.
Kevin Hardiman@mollywoodpro there is a segment of the population that fetishizes guns and sees every interaction with others as a “potential threat” - this is *exactly* how they want to live.
MxhradNo one wants to live like this, but half the country has been convinced that being able to easily murder lots of people is a "freedom." 30 years ago, it wasn't the case, but the right made being able to murder a wedge issue to get idiots to vote against their own self interests. There is no turning back now. #guns
@mollywoodpro Everyone is allowed to be armed but cops shoot to kill anyone they see holding anything with no warning. Makes perfect sense.
Kashif Shah
NeveranR@mollywoodpro In America we do, since we keep electing R’s that will not support any form of banning assault weapons! IT’S THE GUNS!!
Nicole ParsonsRepublican billionaire donors, foreign & domestic, want everyone to live like this.
In hopes it'll trigger a meltdown of American democracy.
Then they can put in place a docile compliant figurehead to "restore order".
Reminder that the NRA is Russian funded.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62359884
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/nra-russians-ties-president-2016-election/index.html
Wade Wainio@mollywoodpro Even the most hardened news watcher can be scared by what's going on in the world. Unfortunately, I think it'll get worse before it gets better, too.
BkkGreg@mollywoodpro Those of us who live overseas sometimes get asked to explain what’s going on, as token foreigners. At this point it’s beyond explaining, we just shake our heads. “Man, I dunno.”
Greg Stolze@mollywoodpro
It makes a lot more sense if you think of the mass shooters as an invading army -- one to which America immediately surrendered at the urging of a fifth column that has made sure the government stays around 50% quisling.
It makes a lot more sense if you think of the mass shooters as an invading army -- one to which America immediately surrendered at the urging of a fifth column that has made sure the government stays around 50% quisling.
Nick@mollywoodpro People have lost their everloving minds and it's getting worse.
Michael RothI think it's all because of the......H O U S I N G......C R I S I S
if everyone had a secure sleeping place, there would be virtually no violence
Susan is Surfeited on Politics@mollywoodpro, au contraire. Vast swathes of the nation want to live like this. It IS terrifying!
British Tech Guru1. It was not a machine gun.
2. You don't know the reason for the shootout. It could have been drug related. Same for the Safeway thing - you don't know the reason. Could have been drug related.
If you quit sounding so dramatic and started a reasonable debate about how to improve people's mental health and how to reduce the unfairness and disparity in America then you'd look far more reasonable and would get a constructive debate started.
Morten Bay@britishtechguru @mollywoodpro
Are you a parody account?
@britishtechguru @mollywoodpro We do know the cause of the shooting. The neighbors asked the shooter to please not shoot his weapons while their newborn was sleeping. His response was to go try to kill everyone in the house. 1 child is dead, and the two mothers who were in the residence died protecting three toddlers and infants.
Because they asked him to please not wake their babies. Babies, which conservatives are supposed to want to protect? I guess not.
@knottedthreads @mollywoodpro No. That's a symptom, not the cause. Don't get causes and symptoms confused. Too many people can't tell the difference.
@britishtechguru @mollywoodpro You're quibbling over semantics while 5 people are dead. The shooter was asked not to wake an infant. His response was to slaughter the household of the people who made the request. This isn't a "symptom," like a stuffy nose.
@knottedthreads @mollywoodpro That IS a symptom. He was shooting in his backyard. We have no way of knowing the manner of the "asking". An arrogant demand of threat could have been made. But you are missing the point that nobody will normally go from neighbor to neighbor killer unless there is something that went on before. THAT is your cause. The rest is NOT a cause.
@mollywoodpro Domestic Terrorism!
Jemez Stargazer@mollywoodpro Nobody? As far as I can tell 90% of the GOP elected officials & GOP voters do want to live like this. If they didn’t they would do something about it. Instead they shrug & claim nothing can be done because of 2A rights.
@Jemez22 @mollywoodpro GOP elected officials want the rest of us to live like this, not themselves. If we’re all worried about being slaughtered at the supermarket, we’ll leave them alone to do whatever they want to consolidate more money and power. They won’t have to actually govern, because we won’t be able to pay them any attention.
Old Man Mike@mollywoodpro ok sure but what about ALL THE FREEDOM? 🇺🇸☠️
lefty 
@mollywoodpro yeah sorry bout that those neighbors annoyed me
Juml@mollywoodpro come to Germany, we have better Wespen laws and we Control them. Leave that country of murderers.
@mollywoodpro I think every country’s equivalent to the State Dept needs to issue an urgent travel advisory to avoid any travel to the US due to extreme danger.
BlueintheSouth@mollywoodpro a LOT of republicans seem to.
Bestfootforward@mollywoodpro I live in Australia. Australia isn't perfect, there is crime, knife crime is increasing. But gun crime is very small. Simply because access to guns is now limited.
There was a massacre in a historic building of Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996. 35 people lost their lives.
The government of the time created very strict gun laws, people were allowed to hand in their guns without punishment.
Now, gun ownership requires police checks and permits. Guns are not easily available.
But I think America has gone so far into gun ownership and crime, that it's at war within itself.
There was a massacre in a historic building of Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996. 35 people lost their lives.
The government of the time created very strict gun laws, people were allowed to hand in their guns without punishment.
Now, gun ownership requires police checks and permits. Guns are not easily available.
But I think America has gone so far into gun ownership and crime, that it's at war within itself.
Voron@mollywoodpro @Turntwo363 unless you have several million to buy some politicians with your opinion means as much as the rest of us…meaning, it doesn’t which really sucks. Money is all that really changes things, hell cities on fire didn’t even get police reform to happen 🤷♂️
Big Head Tales@mollywoodpro
It’s a decision, a policy decision.
The American #GunSlaughter will continue as long as #Republicans hold any power.
The #GOP will perpetuate the mass #slaughter in sole service of #GunIndustry profits and the fat envelopes delivered by the NRA.
James Glueck@mollywoodpro hug a Repugnant Republican
@mollywoodpro Republicans want to live like this. They consistently vote for it.
@mollywoodpro “It’s not the guns” they say. I have news for them…..It’s the damned guns. No other first world nation on earth has this problem.
CheriSwears@mollywoodpro keeping people terrified is the goal, it benefits the GOP
@mollywoodpro
Republicans are creating this chaos so Americans will be willing to give up their Freedom to stop it.
Republicans are creating this chaos so Americans will be willing to give up their Freedom to stop it.
Tony Novak@mollywoodpro This is why I moved to New Jersey where we do not tolerate this BS. In 62 years, I have never seen a gun except hunting or in a policeman’s holster.
Albert Kinng 
@mollywoodpro where this is happening?
BadWoof
MugsysRapSheet Blog ☑️@mollywoodpro Before 2000, both instances of brandishing a weapon to threaten people would have been a crime. #GunControlNow